The song was written by Dimitrije "Mita" Popovic, a Serbian lawyer and poet born in Hungary. He was in 1841 in Baja (Austrian Empire) and died in Budapest in 1888 (Austria-Hungary).
Dimitrije "Mita" Popovic, a Serbian lawyer and poet born in Hungary, wrote the song. He was located in Baja (Austrian Empire) in 1841 and later died in Budapest (Austria-Hungary) in 1888.