POLISH LYRICS

Jeszcze Polska nie zginela,
Kiedy my zyjemy.
Co nam obca przemoc wziela,
Szabla odbierzemy. 

CHORUS:
Marsz, marsz, Dabrowski,
Z ziemi wloskiej do Polski,
Za twoim przewodem
Zlaczym sie z narodem.

Przejdziem Wisle, przejdziem Warte,
Bedziem Polakami,
Dal nam przyklad Bonaparte,
Jak zwyciezac mamy. 

CHORUS 

Jak Czarniecki do Poznania
Po szwedzkim zaborze,
Dla ojczyzny ratowania
Wracal sie przez morze. 

CHORUS

Juz tam ojciec do swej Basi 
mowi zaplakany: 
"Sluchaj jeno, pono nasi 
bija w tarabany!"

CHORUS 

Na to wszystko jedne glosy:
"Dosyc tej niewoli!
Mamy raclawickie kosy,
Kosciuszko, Bog pozwoli."

CHORUS
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ENGLISH TRANSLATION

Poland has not yet succumbed. 
As long as we remain, 
What the foe by force has seized, 
Sword in hand we'll gain. 

CHORUS:
March! March, Dabrowski! 
March from Italy to Poland! 
Under your command 
We shall reach our land. 

Cross the Vistula and Warta 
And Poles we shall be; 
We've been shown by Bonaparte 
Ways to victory. 

CHORUS 

As Czarniecki Poznan town regains, 
Fighting with the Swede,
To free our fatherland from chains,
We shall return by sea. 

CHORUS 

Father, in tears, 
says to his Basia: 
"Just listen, it seems that our people 
are beating the drums."

CHORUS

Let us all chant in one voice:
"Do away with this enslavement!
We have our scythes from Raclawice,
God permitting,Kosciuszko is with us."

CHORUS

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Poland
"Mazurek Dabrowskiego" (Dabrowski's Mazurka)

Words by: Jozef Wybicki
Music by:traditional
Adopted:1927

The National Anthem of the Republic of Poland, also called "Jeszcze Polska nie
zginela" ("Poland has not yet perished", from the first line of the lyrics) or
"Piesn Legionów Polskich we Wloszech" ( "Song of the Polish Legions in Italy"),
was written in July 1797 in Reggio near Bolonia by Jozef Wybicki, one of the
organisers of general Jan Henryk Dabrowski's Polish Army in Italy. The author
of the melody is less clear; it is usually ascribed to Michal Kleofas Oginski,
but this has not been determined with certainty. It is most likely based on an
anonymous fok song, due to the unusual mazurka tempo (which is often played at
a faster rate than most anthems.)

The opening line "Jeszcze Polska nie zginela" refers to the partitions of
Poland between Russia, Prussia and Austria in 1795. The chorus "March,
Dabrowski, from Italy to Poland" refers to the Polish legions, who were all
wiped out in the Caribbean while members of Napoleon's troops.

Its familiar mazurka melody and its message - a call to join the fight for
independence - inspired numerous 19th century patriotic songs and national
hymns of the Slavonic nations under foreign rule (some of which would later
become Yugoslavia, which could explain the similar melody of the former
Yugoslav anthem.) The opening line of the lyrics were also borrowed by Ukraine
(which, of course, speaks of the Ukraine not perishing rather than Poland.) In
the early years after Poland's revival in 1918, during the debate about the
choice of the national anthem, several candidates were considered. On February
28th 1927 the choice of "Dabrowski's Mazurek" as the national anthem was
officially announced. The official anthem has only four verses, the original
six verse poem, with English translation, can be found here.

Special thanks to:Anthony Zacharzewski and Michal Matyjewicz for some of this
information, to Gord Law for providing the fourth verse of the lyrics, and
Federico Vicini for the original poem.

