CORSICAN LYRICS

Diu vi salvi Regina
E madre universale
Per cui favor si sale
Al paradisu
  
Voi siete gioia è risu
Di tutti i scunsulati
Di tutti i tribulati
Unica speme

A voi suspira è geme
Il nostru afflittu core
In un mar di dulore
E d'amarezza
 
Maria, mar di dulcezza
I vostri ochji pietosi
Materni ed amurosi
A noi vulgete
  
Noi miseri accuglite
Nel vostru santu velu
Il vostru figliu in celu
A noi mustrate
  
Gradite ed ascultate
O vergine Maria
Dolce è clemente è pia
Gli affetti nostri
      
Voi dai minici nostri
A noi date vittoria
E poi l'eterna gloria
In paradisu

---
FRENCH LYRICS

Dieu vous sauve Reine
Et Mère de l'infini
Dont les grâces nous mènent 
Au paradis

Vous êtes rire et joie
De tous les inconsolés
De tous les tourmentés
L'unique foi
 
Pour vous soupire et gémit
Notre tendresse qui s'écoule
Dans un océan de peines
Et d'amour
 
Marie, océan de douceur
Que vos yeux si pieux 
Maternels et amoureux  
Se posent sur nous
 
Accueillez nos misères
Sous votre saint voile
Et votre fils qui est au ciel
Montrez-nous
 
Agréez et écoutez aussi
Ô vierge Marie
Douce et généreuse
Nos tendresses unies
 
Sur nos ennemis
Donnez-nous la victoire
Et aussi l'éternelle gloire
Au paradis
  

-------------------------

Corsica
"Dio vi Salve Regina" (Hymn to the Virgin Mary)

Words by:Francesco de Geronimo
Music by:Adhémar de Monteil
Adopted:1735

Corsica is a French island in the Mediterranean and a province of France (as
such the French_anthem is the official anthem). On January 30, 1735, it became
an independent country and adopted "Dio vi Salve Regina" as its anthem
(interestingly, several decades before France adopted its current anthem!) When
Corsica was made a part of France roughly 30 years later, the anthem remained
as an unofficial regional anthem (France, not being a federalist country, does
not have official anthems for its regions.)

Special thanks to:Ben Cahoon for informing me about this anthem, PaweB Ciupak
for the music file and James Mercier for some of this information.
See also: France.

MUSIC
