Zār is part of an underground culture so the music and songs have survived with little interference from outside influences.

This song survives in two manuscripts, which each give separate and unrelated melodies.

The song survived only one week in Finland, debuting at number twenty.

Other songs composed by or about residents of the island survive.

This song may have survived because of its clever composition, but there is more.

While some of his plays call for music, no songs or texts survive.

Many songs do not survive whole; what lyrics survive have only been published in part.

Of the first period of activity, only a single song has survived, although many of the words they sang have been recorded.

About a quarter of his roughly 600 songs survive.

The idea was later scrapped, but this song survived and was later released as a single.