Oja ninenata, oja ninena naj,
Oja ninenata, oja nini naj.
Oj, Marice, Mara,
See your mother scolds you.
You should take no presents,
From that sailor boy.
For the sailor's faith
Is unfaithfulness.
He will betray you, beautiful girl.
Oj, Mara, my white dove,
For whom do you dress up?
It's neither for yourself,
Nor for somebody else.
Oj, Marice, Mara,
Tell me honestly.
My white dove, Mara,
My heart's desire.
For the sailor's faith
Is unfaithfulness.
He will betray you, beautiful girl.
Oja ninenata, oja ninena naj,
Oja ninenata, oja nini naj.

See liner notes and track 6 of Music from the Island of Krk, Yugoslavia, Ethnic Folkways Records FE 4060, 1975.
The recordings was made in 1961 by Wolfgang and Dagmar Laade, and song text transcribed by Veseljka Baksic.
Nonsense syllables like the first line, "Oja ninenata, oja ninena naj" are frequently added to song lyrics
in this region of Croatia, namely, Krk island and Istria, the neighboring peninsula.