Awaken thee, Romanian, shake off the deadly slumber
The scourge of inauspicious barbarian tyrannies
And now or never to a bright horizon clamber
That shall to shame put all your nocuous enemies.

It’s now or never to the world we readily proclaim
In our veins throbs and ancestry of Roman
And in our hearts for ever we glorify a name
Resounding of battle, the name of gallant Trajan.

Do look imperial shadows, Michael, Stephen, Corvinus
At the Romanian nation, your mighty progeny
With arms like steel and hearts of fire impetuous
It’s either free or dead, that’s what they all decree.

Priests, rise the cross, this Christian army’s liberating
The word is freedom, no less sacred is the end
We’d rather die in battle, in elevated glory
Than live again enslaved on our ancestral land.


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Romania
"Desteaptate, romane" (Wake up, Romanian)

Words by:Andrei Muresianu
Music by:Anton Pann
Adopted:1990

During the fall of the Communist government in the last days of 1989, the
popular song "Desteaptate, romane" was prevalent in the streets and quickly
became a kind of "second anthem"; it was officially declared as the anthem in
April, 1990, and was also used for a time by Moldova. Written during the 1848
revolution, it has been used by Romanians in their many struggles for freedom,
such as from the Nazis in 1944, and during the end of communism, thus becoming
the logical choice as a new anthem. The original work has eleven verses, but
only four (verses 1, 2, 4, and 11) are the official lyrics.

See also: Romania_(1881-1947), Romania_(1948-1953), Romania_(1953-1977),
Romania_(1977-1990).

MUSIC
