ALBANIAN LYRICS

Rreth flamurit tė pėrbashkuar,
Me njė dėshirė dhe njė qėllim,
Tė gjithė Atij duke iu betuar,
Tė lidhim besėn pėr shpėtim. 

CHORUS 
Prej lufte veē ay largohet,
Qė ėshtė lindur tradhėtor,
Kush ėshtė burrė nuk frikėsohet,
Po vdes, po vdes si njė dėshmor.

Nė dorė armėt do t'i mbajmė,
Tė mbrojmė Atdheun nė ēdo vend,
Tė drejtat tona ne s'i ndajmė,
Kėtu armiqtė s'kanė vend.

CHORUS
Se Zoti vetė e tha mė gojė,
Qė kombe shuhen pėrmbi dhč,
Po Shqipėria do tė rrojė,
Pėr tė, pėr tė luftojmė ne.

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ENGLISH TRANSLATION
 
United around the flag,
With one desire and one goal,
Let us pledge our word of honour
To fight for our salvation

CHORUS
Only he who is a born traitor
Averts from the struggle.
He who is brave is not daunted,
But falls - a martyr to the cause.

With arms in hand we shall remain,
To guard our fatherland round bout.
Our rights we will not bequeath,
Enemies have no place here.

CHORUS
For the Lord Himself has said,
That nations vanish from the earth,
But Albania shall live on,
Because for her, it is for her that we fight.

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Albania
"Hymni i Flamurit" (Hymn to the Flag)

Words by:Aleksander Stavre Drenova
Music by:Ciprian Porumbescu
Adopted:1912

Back when Albania first gained independence as a monarchy in 1912 from Italy,
"Hymni i Flamurit" was adopted, and has been kept as the anthem through it's
period as a Communist/Marxist state and now as a democratic nation. The
original title of the hymn was "Betimi mi flamur," or "Pledge to the Flag." The
hymn was first published as a poem in Liri e Shqipėrisė (Freedom of Albania),
an Albanian newspaper in Sofia, Bulgaria, in its issue of 21 April 1912. Later
that year it appeared in a volume of collected poems by Drenova, under the
title ėndra e lot (Dreams and Tears), which was published in Bucharest. The
official anthem is two verses shorter than the original poem. The music was
composed by the same person (a Romanian) who wrote the Romanian anthem in use
from 1977-1990.

Special thanks to: Zein al-A'bideen Ayyoubi for the lyrics.
