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National Anthem of Cantusia (Fictional Country)

Forte Republic 2026-09-29 | National Anthem of Cantusia (Fictional Country)

Smuglyanka – Marimba Instrumental Version (Смуглянка-Молдаванка)

Forte Republic 2025-09-26 | Hello! This is a marimba instrumental version of "Smuglianka" (Смуглянка).

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"Smuglianka" was composed in 1940 by choral conductor Anatoliy Grigorevich Novikov (1896-1984), with lyrics by Yakov Shvedov (1905-1985). It was written in the style of a Moldovan folk song and was commissioned by the political office of the Kiev Military District to commemorate the leader of two Moldovan rebellions against the Russian Empire. The song celebrates female partisans of the Russian Civil War.

The picture shown in the video is an illustration from a postcard titled "Girl-Partisan."

Lyrics, transliteration, and translation below:

Lyrics:
Как-то летом, на рассвете,
Заглянул в соседний сад.
Там смуглянка-молдаванка
Собирает виноград.
Я краснею, я бледнею,
Захотелось вдруг сказать:
— Станем над рекою
Зорьки летние встречать!

Припев × 2:
Раскудрявый клён зелёный – лист резной.
Я влюблённый и смущённый пред тобой.
Клён зелёный, да клён кудрявый,
Да раскудрявый, резной!

А смуглянка-молдаванка
Отвечала парню в лад:
— Партизанский, молдаванский
Собираем мы отряд.
Нынче рано партизаны
Дом покинули родной.
Ждёт тебя дорога
К партизанам в лес густой.

Припев × 2:
Раскудрявый клён зелёный – лист резной.
Здесь у клёна мы расстанемся с тобой.
Клён зелёный, да клён кудрявый,
Да раскудрявый, резной!

И смуглянка-молдаванка
По тропинке в лес ушла.
В том обиду я увидел,
Что с собой не позвала.
О смуглянке-молдаванке
Часто думал по ночам …
Вдруг свою смуглянку
Я в отряде повстречал!

Припев × 2:
Раскудрявый клён зелёный – лист резной.
Здравствуй, парень, мой хороший, мой родной!
Клён зелёный, да клён кудрявый,
Да раскудрявый, резной!

English Translation:
Once a summer, at dawn,
I glanced at the next garden.
There a swarthy woman, a Moldovan
was picking grapes.
I blushed, I grew pale,
I suddenly wanted to say
"Let's go greet summer dawns
over the river!"

Chorus × 2:
The maple all curly and green, its leaves as if carved!
I'm in love and abashed in front of you.
The maple is green and curly,
and curly and carved!

But the swarthy woman, the Moldovan
Said in mood:
"We Moldovan partisans
are forming a squad.
Early the partisans
left their homes.
The road awaits you,
to join them in the dense forest."

Chorus × 2:
The maple all curly and green, its leaves as if carved!
Here, under the maple, we will part.
The maple is green and curly,
and all curly and carved!

Then the swarthy, the Moldovan
took the path into the forest.
I was hurt that she left me
without inviting accompany
About the swarthy, the Moldovan
I thought often in the nights …
Then in the forest, of a sudden,
I found my swarthy one in the ranks!

Chorus × 2:
The maple is curly and green, its leaves as if carved!
Hello, my dear, my darling!
The maple is green and curly,
all curly and carved!

Latin Transliteration:
Kak-to letom, na rassvete,
Zagljanul v sosednij sad.
Tam smugljanka-moldavanka
Sobirajet vinograd.
Ja krasneju, ja bledneju,
Zahotelos' vdrug skazat':
— Stanem nad rekoju
Zor'ki letnije vstrečat'!

Chorus × 2:
Raskudrjavyj kljon zeljonyj – list reznoj.
Ja vljubljonnyj i smuščjonnyj pred toboj.
Kljon zeljonyj, da kljon kudrjavyj,
Da raskudrjavyj, reznoj!

A smugljanka-moldavanka
Otvečala parnju v lad:
— Partizanskij, moldavanskij
Sobirajem my otrjad.
Nynče rano partizany
Dom pokinuli rodnoj.
ždjot tebja doroga
K partizanam v les gustoj.

Chorus × 2:
Raskudrjavyj kljon zeljonyj – list reznoj.
Zdes' u kljona my rasstanemsja s toboj.
Kljon zeljonyj, da kljon kudrjavyj,
Da raskudrjavyj, reznoj!

I smugljanka-moldavanka
Po tropinke v les ušla.
V tom obidu ja uvidel,
Čto s soboj ne pozvala.
O smugljanke-moldavanke
Často dumal po nočam ...
Vdrug svoju smugljanku
Ja v otrjade povstrečal!

Chorus × 2:
Raskudrjavyj kljon zeljonyj – list reznoj.
Zdravstvuj, paren', moj horošij, moj rodnoj!
Kljon zeljonyj, da kljon kudrjavyj,
Da raskudrjavyj, reznoj!

This music was made using Logic Pro.

Anthem of the Republic of China – Anthemwave (Taiwan)

Forte Republic 2025-08-22 | Hello! This is an electronic instrumental of the national anthem of the Republic of China (Taiwan).

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The national anthem of the Republic of China (中華民國國歌) is informally called "San Min Chu-i" (三民主義) from its opening line, which cites the "Three Principles of the People," a central political philosophy of the Kuomintang. The text for the anthem was adapted from a 1924 speech by Sun Yat-sen, who was the first head of state of the Republic of China. The Kuomintang party held a contest for the accompanying music, and Cheng Maoyun's composition was chosen for the national anthem.

The "Three Principles of the People" was adopted in 1930 as the national anthem of China (then the Republic of China). Following its defeat by the Chinese Communist Party in the Chinese Civil War in 1949, the government of the Republic of China was relegated to the Island of Taiwan, where "San Min Chu-i" remains the national anthem. The war ended with Communist control of mainland China, and the ROC anthem was replaced by the "March of the Volunteers" in Mainland China.

The image shown in the video is a 1930 photograph of the Bund in Shanghai.

Lyrics and Transliterations:

Lyrics:
三民主義，吾黨所宗，
以建民國，以進大同，
咨爾多士，為民前鋒，
夙夜匪懈，主義是從，
矢勤矢勇，必信必忠，
一心一德，貫徹始終。

Transliteration:
San-min-chu-i, Wu-tang so tsung;
i-chien min-kuo, i-chin ta-t'ung.
Tzu erh to-shih, wei min ch'ien-feng;
su-yeh fei-hsieh, chu-i shih ts'ung.
Shih ch'in shih yung, pi hsin pi chung;
i-hsin i-te, kuan-ch'e shih-chung.

Literal English Translation:
Three people's principles
The foundation of our party.
Using this, we establish the Republic;
Using this, we advance into a state of total peace.
Oh, you, righteous men,
For the people, be the vanguard.
Without resting day or night,
Follow the Principles.
Swear to be diligent; swear to be courageous.
Obliged to be trustworthy; obliged to be loyal.
With one heart and one virtue,
We carry through until the very end...

Official English Version (Poetic Translation):
San Min Chu-i
Our aim shall be:
To found a free land,
World peace, be our stand.
Lead on, comrades,
Vanguards ye are.
Hold fast your aim,
By sun and star.
Be earnest and brave,
Your country to save,
One heart, one soul,
One mind, one goal...

Korean Transcription:
삼민주의, 오당소종,
이건민국, 이진대동,
자이다사, 위민전봉,
숙야비해, 주의시종,
시근시용, 필신필충,
일심일덕, 관철시종!

Japanese Transcription:
さんびんしゅぎ, ごとうしょしゅう
いけんびんこく, いしんだいどう
しじたし, いびんぜんほう
しゅくやひけ, しゅぎぜじゅう
しきんしゆう, ひっしんひっちゅう
いっしんいっとく, かんてっししゅう

Vietnamese Transcription:
Tam Dân Chủ nghĩa, ngô đảng sở tông;
Dĩ kiến Dân Quốc, dĩ tiến đại đồng.
Tư nhĩ đa sĩ, vì dân tiền phong;
Túc dạ phỉ giải, Chủ nghĩa thị tòng.
Thỉ cần thỉ dũng, tất tín tất trung;
Nhất tâm nhất đức, quán triệt thủy chung.

The music in this video was made using Logic Pro.

Anthem of the East Primistan (Fictional Country)

Forte Republic 2025-06-16 | Hello! This is a national anthem I made for the fictional country of East Primistan. I hope you enjoy it!

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The image shown in the video is a variant of the East Primisian flag.

In the lore, Primistan existed first as the unified Republic of Primistan, following its secession in 1865 from the Velarian Confederation, of which it had been a principality since 1813. In the aftermath of a coup carried out in 1941, Primistan fractured into three states: West Primistan, East Primistan, and the Primisian State (Central Primistan).

Other Primisian Songs:
Primistan Forever: youtu.be/RV-RE5B-Yb4
Over the Plains of Primistan (folk song): youtu.be/EJ3iMyZGEZw
National Anthem of West Primistan: youtu.be/uVER-84ms7I

This music was made using Logic Pro.

15 US Civil War Songs on Piano

Forte Republic 2025-05-10 | Hello! This video contains piano instrumentals of fifteen songs of the American Civil War. I hope you enjoy it! Timestamps below:

0:05 The Battle Cry of Freedom
2:41 The Battle Hymn of the Republic
5:12 Marching Through Georgia
7:01 Kingdom Coming (Year of Jubilo)
8:25 Dixie
9:59 The Bonnie Blue Flag
12:02 When This Cruel War is Over (Weeping, Sad, and Lonely)
14:13 Just Before the Battle, Mother
16:54 The Vacant Chair
20:43 Tenting on the Old Camp Ground
22:29 The Yellow Rose of Texas
24:08 Lorena
26:40 The Southern Soldier Boy
28:55 Somebody's Darling
31:01 Oh, Freedom

Listen to all of these songs on Spotify or Apple Music:
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The Patriotic Song – Sovietwave Version (Glinka)

Forte Republic 2025-05-03 | Hello! This is an electronic version of the "Patriotic Song" (Патриотическая Песня), the Yeltsin-era anthem of Russia.

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The piece was composed by Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka in 1833 and was originally entitled “Motif de chant national.” In November of 1990, the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR approved the song as the national anthem of the RSFSR. After December of 1991, the piece continued to be used as the anthem of the Russian Federation until 2000. The anthem had no official lyrics; unofficial lyrics were proposed but were never adopted.

The image in the video is a photo of pro-Yeltsin barricades at the House of Soviets of Russia (White House) during the 1991 Soviet coup attempt.

Unofficial lyrics:
Славься, славься, родина-Россия!
Сквозь века и грозы ты прошла
И сияет солнце над тобою
И судьба твоя светла.

Над старинным московским Кремлём
Вьётся знамя с двуглавым орлом
И звучат священные слова:
Славься, Русь – Отчизна моя!

English Translation:
Be glorious, be glorious, Mother Russia!
You passed through the centuries and the thunderstorms
And the sun shines above you
And your destiny is bright.

Above the ancient Moscow Kremlin
Waves the banner with the two-headed eagle
And the sacred words resound:
Be glorious, Russia – my Fatherland!

The song is also used with the following lyrics as an ode to Moscow:
Здравствуй, славная столица,
Сердце Родины - Москва!
Вся страна тобой гордится,
Городов родных глава.

Русь великую сплотила
Ты вокруг твердынь Кремля,
И окрепла наша сила
Да прославилась земля.

Ты как воин отражала
Каждый вражеский набег.
Ты Отчизну отстояла
от захватчиков навек!

И когда народ встречает
Дни побед и торжества,
Взор и сердце обращает
Он всегда к тебе, Москва!

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The Battle Hymn of the Republic – Piano Instrumental

Forte Republic 2025-04-19 | Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/0Gt38YT4AQDg4xRLFH5xuD?si=BNV8P5WQTlqoVoj8rlwA6A
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Hello! This is a piano instrumental of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” one of the most famous songs of the American Civil War. This is the last of my 15 favorite Civil War songs that I wanted to make instrumentals of!

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The lyrics to the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” were written in 1861 by Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) during the American Civil War. Howe’s lyrics were adapted from the marching song “John Brown’s Body,” which was written about the abolitionist John Brown (1800-1859), who was executed after inciting a slave rebellion.

The tune of the song came from a folk hymn known as “Glory Hallelujah” or “Say, Brothers, Will You Meet Us,” which developed in Protestant camp meetings in the 1700s.

The image in the video is an 1887 painting titled “Battle of Antietam,” by Thule de Thulstrup. It depicts the charge of the Iron Brigade near the Dunker Church on September 17, 1862.

Lyrics:
I
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord;
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.

Chorus:
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

II
I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps:
His day is marching on.

Chorus

III
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
"As ye deal with My contemners, so with you My grace shall deal";
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel,
Since God is marching on.

Chorus

IV
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat;
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! Be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.

Chorus

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me.
As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free,
While God is marching on.

Chorus

Lyrics for “John Brown’s Body”
Old John Brown's body lies a moldering in the grave,
While weep the sons of bondage whom he ventured all to save;
But though he sleeps his life was lost while struggling for the slave,
His soul is marching on.

Chorus:
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His soul is marching on.

John Brown was a hero, undaunted, true and brave,
And Kansas knew his valor when he fought her rights to save;
And now, though the grass grows green above his grave,
His soul is marching on.

(Chorus)

He captured Harper's Ferry, with his nineteen men so few,
And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled through and through
They hung him for a traitor, themselves a traitor crew,
But his soul is marching on.

(Chorus)

John Brown was John the Baptist of the Christ we are to see—
Christ who of the bondmen shall the Liberator be,
And soon throughout the Sunny South the slaves shall all be free,
For his soul is marching on.

(Chorus)

The conflict that he heralded he looks from heaven to view,
On the army of the Union with its flag red, white and blue.
And heaven shall ring with anthems o'er the deed they mean to do,
For his soul is marching on.

(Chorus)

Ye soldiers of Freedom, then strike, while strike ye may,
The death blow of oppression in a better time and way,
For the dawn of old John Brown has brightened into day,
And his soul is marching on.

(Chorus)

Lyrics for “Say, Brothers”
I
Say, brothers, will you meet us (3x)
On Canaan’s happy shore.

Chorus:
Glory, glory, hallelujah! (3x)
Forever, evermore!

II
By the grace of God we’ll meet you (3x)
Where parting is no more.

Chorus

III.
Jesus lives and reigns forever (3x)
On Canaan’s happy shore.

Chorus

This music was made with Logic Pro.

Ein Heller und ein Batzen – Piano Instrumental (Heidi, heido, heida)

Forte Republic 2025-03-22 | Hello! This is a piano instrumental of the song "Ein Heller und ein Batzen." I hope you enjoy it!

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"Ein Heller und ein Batzen," also known as "Heidi, heido, heida," is a German folk song. The lyrics were written as a student drinking song by Albert von Schlippenbach (1800-1886) in the 1820s, while he was studying law at the Georg-August University of Göttingen.

Several melodies have been composed for Schlippenbach's lyrics. The authorship of the most well-known melody, featured in this video, is unknown.

The Heller and Batzen were historical coins used by German states from the Middle Ages until the 19th and 20th centuries, respectively. The song's chorus consists of the words "heidi," "heido," and "heida." These are all modifications of the name "Adelheid."

The image in the video depicts the ground-floor beer halls of the Royal Brewery in Munich.

Lyrics:
Ein Heller und ein Batzen,
die waren beide mein,
der Heller ward zu Wasser,
der Batzen ward zu Wein.
Refrain:
𝄆 Heidi, heido, heida, 𝄇
heidi, heido, heida, la la la la la la la,
𝄆 Heidi, heido, heida, 𝄇 (3×)

Die Wirtsleut und die Mädel,
die rufen beid: Oh weh!
Die Wirtsleut, wenn ich komme,
die Mädel, wenn ich geh.
Refrain

Meine Strümpfe sind zerrissen,
meine Stiefel sind entzwei,
und draußen auf der Heide,
da singt der Vogel frei.
Refrain

Und gäb's kein Landstraß nirgends,
da säß ich still zu Haus,
und gäb's kein Loch im Fasse,
da tränk ich gar nicht draus.
Refrain

War das 'ne große Freude,
als ihn der Herrgott schuf;
ein Kerl, wie Samt und Seide,
nur schade, daß er suff.
Refrain

English Translation:
A heller and a batzen,
they were both mine,
the heller went for water,
the batzen went for wine.
Refrain

The innkeepers and the girls,
both shout: Oh no!
The innkeepers when I come,
the girls when I leave.
Refrain

My socks are ripped,
my boots have come apart,
and out in the brush
the bird sings freely.
Refrain

And were there no country roads,
I'd be sitting quietly at home,
and were there no hole in the barrel,
I wouldn't be drinking from it.
Refrain

Wasn't it a great joy
when the Lord God created him,
a guy like velvet and silk;
just a pity that he drank.
Refrain

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Hymn of the Estonian SSR – Piano Instrumental

Forte Republic 2025-03-08 | Hello! This is a piano instrumental of the State Anthem of the Estonian SSR.

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The State Anthem of the Estonian SSR (Eesti NSV hümn/Гимн Эстонской ССР) was composed by Gustav Ernesaks (1908-1993), with lyrics by poet Johannes Semper (1892-1970). The lyrics were revised in 1956 during the de-Stalinization period.

The anthem was relinquished on 8 May 1990, when the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR passed a law that changed the official name of the Estonian state and discontinued the usage of Soviet state symbols. The flag of the Estonian SSR is shown in the video.

1956 Lyrics (Estonian):
Jää kestma, Kalevite kange rahvas,
ja seisa kaljuna, me kodumaa!
Ei vaibund kannatustes sinu vahvus,
end läbi sajanditest murdsid sa
ja tõusid õitsvaks sotsialismimaaks,
et päikene su päevadesse paista saaks.

Nüüd huuga, tehas, vili, nurmel vooga,
sirp, lõika, alasile, haamer, löö!
Nõukogu elu, tuksu võimsa hooga,
too õnne rahvale, me tubli töö!
Me Liidu rahvaste ja riike seas
sa, Eesti, sammu esimeste kindlas reas!

Sa kõrgel Leninlikku lippu kannad
ja julgelt kommunismi rada käid.
Partei me sammudele suuna annab
ja võidult võitudele viib ta meid.
Ta kindlal juhtimisel kasva sa
ja tugevaks ning kauniks saa, me kodumaa!

English Translation of the 1956 Lyrics:
Endure, heroic people of Kalevs
And stand like a boulder, our homeland!
Your courage did not subside in the sufferings,
You broke yourself through the centuries,
and became a flourishing socialist country,
For the sun could shine in your days.

Now roar! O factories, waves and cornfields!
Reap! O sickle! And strike! O hammer!
May the Soviet life throb in mighty swing;
May happiness be brought to the folks through good labor!
Among the nations and states of our Union,
You, Estonia, march at the firm forefront!

You're bearing Lenin's banner high,
And boldly following the path of Communism.
Our Party will give us direction
And will lead us from victory to victory.
You will grow under its firm leadership
And become strong and beautiful, our Homeland!

Original 1945 Lyrics (Estonian):
Jää kestma, Kalevite kange rahvas,
ja seisa kaljuna, me kodumaa!
Ei vaibund kannatustes sinu vahvus,
end läbi sajanditest murdsid sa.
Ja tõusid töötajate vabaks maaks,
et päikene su päevadesse paista saaks.

Nüüd huuga, tehas, vili, nurmel vooga,
sirp, lõika, alasile, haamer, löö!
Nõukogu elu, tuksu võimsa hooga,
too õnne rahvale, me tubli töö!
Me Liidu rahvaste ja riike seas
sa, Eesti, sammu esimeste kindlas reas!

Kui kants-nii seisavad su kodurannad,
su ees vaid lainetavad laiad veed.
Sa kõrgel Leninlikku lippu kannad
suur Stalin juhtimas su tõusuteed.
Käi kindlalt, saatmas sind su õnneteel
me võitlusvaim ja kohkumatu mehemeel!

English Translation of the Original Lyrics:
Endure, heroic people of Kalevs
And stand like a boulder, our homeland!
Your courage did not subside in the sufferings,
You broke yourself through the centuries,
And arose a socialist country in blossom,
For the sun could shine in your days.

Now roar! O factories, waves and cornfields!
Reap! O sickle! And strike! O hammer!
May the Soviet life throb in mighty swing;
May happiness be brought to the folks through good labor!
Among the nations and states of our Union,
You, Estonia, march in the firm forefront!

Your home beaches stand like a castle,
Wide waters only wave before you.
You're bearing Lenin's banner high,
Great Stalin's leading your ascent.
March steadily with our fighting spirit
And bold manly mind guiding you!

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Deutschlandlied – Lullaby Version

Forte Republic 2025-02-22 | Hello! This is a lullaby instrumental version of Deutschlandlied.

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Deutschlandlied (officially titled "Das Lied der Deutschen") is the national anthem of Germany. Its tune, originally called "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser," was composed by Joseph Haydn in 1797 as a personal hymn for Francis II, who was the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and later the emperor of Austria. After the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, the Austrian Empire adopted the tune as its national anthem, changing the words from "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser" to "Gott erhalte, Gott Beschütze." Austro-Hungarian Empire used the tune as its national anthem until its dissolution in 1918.

The lyrics to the German national anthem were written by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben in 1841, prior to German unification. The first verse includes the words "Deutschland über alles in der welt," meaning "Germany, above all in the world." These words were intended to be a call to prioritize a united Germany over the sovereignty of the small German states. The geographical boundaries of Germany included in the first verse do not fall within modern Germany but were within the German Confederation when the lyrics were written. However, due to Germany's history in the first half of the twentieth century, the first verse is often criticized for having an imperialistic tone. Hoffmann von Fallersleben also intended for the lyrics to be used as a drinking song, and the second verse includes mentions of German women, wine, and music. Only the third verse, which calls for unity, justice, and freedom, has been used in Germany since the end of the Second World War.

The English hymn "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken" is sung to the tune of Deutschlandlied, as is the alma mater of Columbia University, "Stand Columbia."

The image in the video is a photograph of crowds at the Reichstag building on October 3, 1990.

Lyrics:
Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,
Über alles in der Welt,
Wenn es stets zu Schutz und Trutze
Brüderlich zusammenhält;
Von der Maas bis an die Memel,
Von der Etsch bis an den Belt:
Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,
Über alles in der Welt!

Deutsche Frauen, deutsche Treue,
Deutscher Wein und deutscher Sang
Sollen in der Welt behalten
Ihren alten schönen Klang,
Uns zu edler Tat begeistern
Unser ganzes Leben lang:
Deutsche Frauen, deutsche Treue,
Deutscher Wein und deutscher Sang!

Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
Für das deutsche Vaterland!
Danach lasst uns alle streben
Brüderlich mit Herz und Hand!
Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
Sind des Glückes Unterpfand;
Blüh im Glanze dieses Glückes,
Blühe, deutsches Vaterland!

Original lyrics:
Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser,
Unsern guten Kaiser Franz!
Lange lebe Franz der Kaiser,
In des Glückes hellstem Glanz!
Ihm erblühen Lorbeerreiser,
Wo er geht, zum Ehrenkranz!
Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser,
Unsern guten Kaiser Franz!

Later Austrian lyrics:
Gott erhalte, Gott beschütze
unsern Kaiser, unser Land!
Mächtig durch des Glaubens Stütze
führ' Er uns mit weiser Hand!
Lasst uns Seiner Väter Krone
schirmen wider jeden Feind;
Innig bleibt mit Habsburgs Throne
Österreichs Geschick vereint.

Anthemwave – The Star Spangled Banner

Forte Republic 2025-02-08 | Hello! This is an electronic instrumental of "The Star-Spangled Banner."

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"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics of the anthem are a poem titled "Defence of Fort McHenry," written by Francis Scott Key after the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the Royal Navy. The anthem uses the tune of the British song "To Anacreon in Heaven," composed by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a men's social club in London. "The Star-Spangled Banner" was adopted as the national anthem of the United States on March 3, 1931, under President Herbert Hoover. The anthem has four verses, though only the first verse is commonly sung.

Lyrics:
O! say can you see by the dawn's early light,
⁠What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
⁠O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the Rockets' red glare, the Bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our Flag was still there;
⁠O! say does that star-spangled Banner yet wave,
⁠O'er the Land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
⁠Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
⁠As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream,
'Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
⁠That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more?
⁠Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave,
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
O'er the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.

O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand,
⁠Between their lov'd home and the war's desolation,
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n rescued land,
⁠Praise the Power that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto—"In God is our Trust;"
⁠And the star-spangled Banner in triumph shall wave,
O'er the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.

Lyrics of "To Anacreon in Heaven"
1
To Anacreon in Heav'n, where he sat in full Glee,
A few Sons of Harmony sent a Petition,
That he their Inspirer and Patron would be;
When this answer arriv'd from the Jolly Old Grecian
"Voice, Fiddle, and Flute,
"no longer be mute,
"I'll lend you my Name and inspire you to boot,
"And, besides I'll instruct you, like me, to intwine
"The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's Vine."

2
The news through Olympus immediately flew;
When Old Thunder pretended to give himself Airs.
"If these Mortals are suffer'd their Scheme to persue,
"The Devil a Goddess will stay above Stairs.
"Hark! already they cry,
"In transports of Joy,
"Away to the Sons of Anacreon we'll fly,
"And there, with good Fellows, we'll learn to intwine
"The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's Vine.

3
"The Yellow-Hair'd God and his nine fusty Maids,
"From Helicon's banks will incontinent flee,
"Idalia will boast but of tenantless Shades,
"And the bi-forked Hill a mere Desart will be
"My Thunder no fear on't,
"Shall soon do it's Errand,
"And dam'me! I'll swinge the Ringleaders, I warrant.
"I'll trim the young Dogs, for thus daring to twine
"The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's Vine."

4
Apollo rose up, and said, "Pry'thee ne'er quarrel,
"Good King of the Gods, with my Vot'ries below:
"Your Thunder is useless"—then shewing his Laurel,
Cry'd "Sic evitabile fulmen, you know!
"Then over each head
"My Laurels I'll spread;
"So my Sons from your Crackers no Mischief shall dread,
"Whilst snug in their Club-Room, they jovially twine
"The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's Vine."

5
Next Momus got up with his risible Phiz,
And swore with Apollo he'd chearfully join—
"The full Tide of Harmony still shall be his,
"But the Song, and the Catch, and the Laugh shall be mine.
"Then, Jove, be not jealous
"Of these honest fellows."
Cry'd Jove, "We relent, since the Truth you now tell us;
"And swear by Old Styx, that they long shall intwine
"The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's Vine."

6
Ye Sons of Anacreon, then join Hand in Hand;
Preserve Unanimity, Friendship, and Love!
'Tis your's to support what's so happily plann'd;
You've the sanction of Gods, and the Fiat of Jove.
While thus we agree,
Our Toast let it be.
May our Club flourish happy, united, and free!
And long may the Sons of Anacreon intwine
The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's Vine.

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Smuglyanka – Piano Instrumental (Смуглянка-Молдаванка)

Forte Republic 2025-01-25 | Hello! This is a piano instrumental version of "Smuglianka" (Смуглянка). I hope you enjoy it!

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"Smuglianka" was composed in 1940 by choral conductor Anatoliy Grigorevich Novikov (1896-1984), with lyrics by Yakov Shvedov (1905-1985). It was written in the style of a Moldovan folk song and was commissioned by the political office of the Kiev Military District to commemorate the leader of two Moldovan rebellions against the Russian Empire. The song celebrates female partisans of the Russian Civil War.

The picture shown in the video is a painting called "Sister of Mercy," by Marat Samsonov (1925-2013).

Lyrics, transliteration, and translation below:

Lyrics:
Как-то летом, на рассвете,
Заглянул в соседний сад.
Там смуглянка-молдаванка
Собирает виноград.
Я краснею, я бледнею,
Захотелось вдруг сказать:
— Станем над рекою
Зорьки летние встречать!

Припев × 2:
Раскудрявый клён зелёный – лист резной.
Я влюблённый и смущённый пред тобой.
Клён зелёный, да клён кудрявый,
Да раскудрявый, резной!

А смуглянка-молдаванка
Отвечала парню в лад:
— Партизанский, молдаванский
Собираем мы отряд.
Нынче рано партизаны
Дом покинули родной.
Ждёт тебя дорога
К партизанам в лес густой.

Припев × 2:
Раскудрявый клён зелёный – лист резной.
Здесь у клёна мы расстанемся с тобой.
Клён зелёный, да клён кудрявый,
Да раскудрявый, резной!

И смуглянка-молдаванка
По тропинке в лес ушла.
В том обиду я увидел,
Что с собой не позвала.
О смуглянке-молдаванке
Часто думал по ночам …
Вдруг свою смуглянку
Я в отряде повстречал!

Припев × 2:
Раскудрявый клён зелёный – лист резной.
Здравствуй, парень, мой хороший, мой родной!
Клён зелёный, да клён кудрявый,
Да раскудрявый, резной!

English Translation:
Once a summer, at dawn,
I glanced at the next garden.
There a swarthy woman, a Moldovan
was picking grapes.
I blushed, I grew pale,
I suddenly wanted to say
"Let's go greet summer dawns
over the river!"

Chorus × 2:
The maple all curly and green, its leaves as if carved!
I'm in love and abashed in front of you.
The maple is green and curly,
and curly and carved!

But the swarthy woman, the Moldovan
Said in mood:
"We Moldovan partisans
are forming a squad.
Early the partisans
left their homes.
The road awaits you,
to join them in the dense forest."

Chorus × 2:
The maple all curly and green, its leaves as if carved!
Here, under the maple, we will part.
The maple is green and curly,
and all curly and carved!

Then the swarthy, the Moldovan
took the path into the forest.
I was hurt that she left me
without inviting accompany
About the swarthy, the Moldovan
I thought often in the nights …
Then in the forest, of a sudden,
I found my swarthy one in the ranks!

Chorus × 2:
The maple is curly and green, its leaves as if carved!
Hello, my dear, my darling!
The maple is green and curly,
all curly and carved!

Latin Transliteration:
Kak-to letom, na rassvete,
Zagljanul v sosednij sad.
Tam smugljanka-moldavanka
Sobirajet vinograd.
Ja krasneju, ja bledneju,
Zahotelos' vdrug skazat':
— Stanem nad rekoju
Zor'ki letnije vstrečat'!

Pripev × 2:
Raskudrjavyj kljon zeljonyj – list reznoj.
Ja vljubljonnyj i smuščjonnyj pred toboj.
Kljon zeljonyj, da kljon kudrjavyj,
Da raskudrjavyj, reznoj!

A smugljanka-moldavanka
Otvečala parnju v lad:
— Partizanskij, moldavanskij
Sobirajem my otrjad.
Nynče rano partizany
Dom pokinuli rodnoj.
ždjot tebja doroga
K partizanam v les gustoj.

Pripev × 2:
Raskudrjavyj kljon zeljonyj – list reznoj.
Zdes' u kljona my rasstanemsja s toboj.
Kljon zeljonyj, da kljon kudrjavyj,
Da raskudrjavyj, reznoj!

I smugljanka-moldavanka
Po tropinke v les ušla.
V tom obidu ja uvidel,
Čto s soboj ne pozvala.
O smugljanke-moldavanke
Často dumal po nočam ...
Vdrug svoju smugljanku
Ja v otrjade povstrečal!

Pripev × 2:
Raskudrjavyj kljon zeljonyj – list reznoj.
Zdravstvuj, paren', moj horošij, moj rodnoj!
Kljon zeljonyj, da kljon kudrjavyj,
Da raskudrjavyj, reznoj!

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Pontifical Anthem – Piano Instrumental (Marcia Pontificale)

Forte Republic 2025-01-10 | Hello! This is a piano instrumental of the Pontifical Anthem, the national anthem of the Vatican City.

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The Pontifical Anthem was composed in 1869 by French composer Charles Gounod (1818-1893). It was adopted as the papal anthem in 1949 by Pope Pius XII, with Italian lyrics by organist Antonio Allegra (1905-1969).

Latin lyrics were written in 1991 by Raffaello Lavagna of Savona (1918-2015). The more common Latin lyrics differ from those written by Raffaello Lavagna; they are seemingly unattributed. The flag of the Vatican City is pictured in the video. Though it is often depicted as a square, there are no official dimensions for the flag.

Most Common Latin Lyrics:
𝄆 O felix Roma, Roma felix Roma nobilis. 𝄇
Sedes es Petri, qui Christi vicem gerit,
Sedes es Petri, qui apostolus est pacis.

𝄆 Pontifex tecum erimus omnes nos
Pontifex es magister qui tuos confirmas fratres. 𝄇

Pontifex fundamentum ac robur nostrum,
Hominumque piscator pastor es gregis ligans terram et coelum.

𝄆 Petre, tu es Christi es Vicarius super terram,
Rupes inter fluctus, tu es pharus ac veritas.
Tu Christi es caritas, tu es unitatis custos,
Promptus libertatis defensor; in te auctoritas. 𝄇

O Roma nobilis – O Roma felix nobilis.

Most Common Latin Lyrics– English Translation:
O happy Rome, O happy noble Rome.
O happy Rome, Happy Rome, noble Rome.
You are the seat of Peter, who takes the place of Christ,
You are the seat of Peter, who is an apostle of peace.

𝄆 Pontiff, we will all be with you.
Pontiff, be the teacher who confirms your brethren. 𝄇

Pontiff, our foundation and our strength,
Fisher of men, shepherd of the flock, binding earth and heaven.

𝄆 Peter, you are the vicar of Christ on earth,
A rock amidst the waves, you are a beacon and the truth.
You are the love of Christ, you are the guardian of unity,
Ready defender of liberty; authority is in you. 𝄇

O happy Rome, O noble happy Rome.

Original Italian Version:
Roma immortale di Martiri e di Santi,
Roma immortale accogli i nostri canti:
Gloria nei cieli a Dio nostro Signore,
Pace ai Fedeli, di Cristo nell'amore.

A Te veniamo, Angelico Pastore,
In Te vediamo il mite Redentore,
Erede Santo di vera e santa Fede;
Conforto e vanto a chi combatte e crede,

Non prevarranno la forza ed il terrore,
Ma regneranno la Verità, l'Amore.

Salve Salve Roma, patria eterna di memorie
Cantano le tue glorie, mille palme e mille altari
Roma degli Apostoli, Madre guida dei redenti
Roma luce delle genti, il mondo spera te!

Salve Salve Roma la tue luce non tramonta
Vince l'odio e l'onta lo splendor di tua beltà
Roma degli Apostoli, madre guida dei redenti
Roma luce delle genti, il mondo spera te!

English Translation of Original Italian Version:
O Rome immortal of Martyrs and Saints,
O immortal Rome, accept our praises:
Glory in the heavens to God our Lord,
And peace to men who love Christ!

To You we come, Angelic Pastor,
In You we see the gentle Redeemer,
The Holy Heir of true and holy Faith;
Comfort and refuge of those who believe and fight.

Force and terror will not prevail,
But Truth and Love will reign.

Hail, Hail Rome, eternal homeland of memories
Your glories sing, a thousand palms and a thousand altars
Rome of the Apostles, Mother guide of the redeemed
Rome, the light of the people, the world hopes for you!

Hail, Hail Rome! your light does not go down
Hatred and shame overcomes the splendor of your beauty
Rome of the Apostles, guiding mother of the redeemed
Rome light of the people, the world hopes for you!

1991 Latin Version:

Chorus:
O felix Roma – o Roma nobilis:
Sedes es Petri, qui Romae effudit sanguinem,
Petri cui claves datae sunt regni caelorum.
Pontifex, Tu successor es Petri;

Pontifex, Tu magister es tuos confirmans fratres;
Pontifex, Tu qui Servus servorum Dei,
hominumque piscator, pastor es gregis,
ligans caelum et terram.

Pontifex, Tu Christi es Vicarius super terram,
rupes inter fluctus, Tu es pharus in tenebris;
Tu pacis es vindex, Tu es unitatis custos,
vigil libertatis defensor; in Te potestas.

Vox acuta, vox altera ab acuta:
Tu Pontifex, firma es petra, et super petram
hanc aedificata est Ecclesia Dei.

Chorus

O felix Roma – O Roma nobilis

English Translation of the 1991 Latin Version:

Chorus:
O happy Rome – O noble Rome
You are the seat of Peter, who shed his blood in Rome,
Peter, to whom the keys of the kingdom of heaven were given.
Pontiff, You are the successor of Peter;

Pontiff, You are the teacher, you confirm your brethren;
Pontiff, You who are the Servant of the servants of God,
and fisher of men, are the shepherd of the flock,
linking heaven and earth.

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Auferstanden aus Ruinen – Christmas Version (Anthem of East Germany)

Forte Republic 2024-12-24 | Good day! This is a holiday-themed instrumental version of the national anthem of East Germany, "Auferstanden aus Ruinen" (Risen from Ruins). Merry Christmas and enjoy the holidays!

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The anthem was composed by Hanns Eisler (1898-1962), an Austrian composer who fought in a Hungarian regiment during the Great War. "Auferstanden aus Ruinen" was the national anthem of East Germany (the German Democratic Republic) from 1949 until 1990. When German reunification occurred, the East German anthem was relinquished and "Deutschlandlied" became the national anthem of unified Germany.

Lyrics:
I
Auferstanden aus Ruinen
und der Zukunft zugewandt,
laßt uns Dir zum Guten dienen,
Deutschland, einig Vaterland.
Alte Not gilt es zu zwingen,
und wir zwingen sie vereint,
denn es muß uns doch gelingen,
daß die Sonne schön wie nie
𝄆 Über Deutschland scheint. 𝄇

II
Glück und Friede sei beschieden
Deutschland, unserm Vaterland.
Alle Welt sehnt sich nach Frieden,
reicht den Völkern eure Hand.
Wenn wir brüderlich uns einen,
schlagen wir des Volkes Feind!
Laßt das Licht des Friedens scheinen,
daß nie eine Mutter mehr
𝄆 Ihren Sohn beweint. 𝄇

III
Laßt uns pflügen, laßt uns bauen,
lernt und schafft wie nie zuvor,
und der eignen Kraft vertrauend,
steigt ein frei Geschlecht empor.
Deutsche Jugend, bestes Streben,
unsres Volks in dir vereint,
wirst du Deutschlands neues Leben.
Und die Sonne schön wie nie
𝄆 Über Deutschland scheint. 𝄇

English Translation:
I
Risen from the ruins
and turned toward the future,
Let us serve you for the common good,
Germany, united Fatherland.
Our task is to overcome old distress,
and we shall overcome it together,
and we shall surely succeed,
so that the sun, more beautifully than ever before,
𝄆 Shines over Germany. 𝄇

II
May happiness and peace be granted
to Germany, our Fatherland.
The whole world longs for peace,
extend your hand to all peoples.
If we unite fraternally,
we will defeat the enemy of the People.
Let the light of peace shine,
so that a mother never again
𝄆 Mourns her son. 𝄇

III
Let us plough, let us build,
learn and achieve as never before,
That, trusting in our own strength,
a free generation shall arise.
German youth, the best striving
of our people united in you,
Will revitalise Germany
And the sun, more beautifully than ever before
𝄆 Shines over Germany. 𝄇

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Primistan Forever! – Patriotic Song (Fictional Country)

Forte Republic 2024-11-08 | Hello! This is a patriotic song I made for the fictional country of East Primistan. I hope you enjoy it!

Listen to an East Primisian folk song: youtu.be/EJ3iMyZGEZw

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The image shown in the video is a stylized version of the East Primisian battle standard.

In the lore, Primistan existed first as the unified Republic of Primistan, following its secession in 1865 from the Velarian Confederation, of which it had been a principality since 1813. In the aftermath of a coup carried out in 1941, Primistan fractured into three nation states: West Primistan, East Primistan, and the Primisian State (Central Primistan).

Other Primisian Songs:
Over the Plains of Primistan (folk song): youtu.be/EJ3iMyZGEZw
National Anthem of West Primistan: youtu.be/uVER-84ms7I

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We Are the Army of the People – Haunting Version (Мы армия народа)

Forte Republic 2024-10-26 | Hello! This is an instrumental version of “We Are the Army of the People” (Мы армия народа).

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"We Are the Army of the People" was composed by Georgi Movsesyan (1945-2011) with lyrics by Robert Rozhdestvensky (1932-1994). The song was created in 1975 for the 30th anniversary of the Allied victory in World War II.

The image in the video is a photograph of the center of Stalingrad following the German retreat from the city.

Lyrics:
I.
Стоим мы на посту
Повзводно и поротно
Бессмертны, как огонь
Спокойны, как гранит.
Мы - армия страны.
Мы - армия народа.
Великий подвиг наш история хранит

Припев:
Не зря в судьбе алеет знамя.
Не зря на нас надеется страна.
Священные слова «Москва за нами!»
Мы помним со времён Бородина

II.
Вручили нам отцы всесильное оружье.
Мы Родине своей присягу принесли
И в жизни нам дана единственная служба:
От смерти заслонить грядущее Земли

Припев

III.
Не надо нас пугать, бахвалиться спесиво.
Не стоит нам грозить и вновь с огнём играть.
Ведь, если враг рискнёт проверить нашу силу
Его мы навсегда отучим проверять

Припев

English Translation:
I.
We are standing on duty
In platoons and by company
Immortal, like fire
Impassive, like granite.
We are the army of the country.
We are the army of the people.
Our history preserves a great, heroic deed

Chorus:
The banner is reddening for a reason.
The country depends on us for a reason.
We remember the sacred words “Behind us is Moscow!”
From the time of Borodino
II.
Our fathers presented powerful weapons to us.
We were under an oath of allegiance to the homeland
And a unique duty was given to us in life:
Shield the Earth's future from death

Chorus

III.
It is not necessary to intimidate us or boast arrogantly.
It is not worth threatening us and playing with fire again.
After all, if the enemy dares to test our strength
We will make him lose his liking for testing forever

Chorus

Latin Transliteration:
I.
stoim my na postu, povzvodno i porotno
bessmertny, kak ogonʹ spokoyny, kak granit
my armiya strany my armiya naroda
velikiy podvig nash istoriya khranit

Chorus:
ne zrya v sudʹbe aleyet znamya
ne zrya na nas nadeyet sya strana
svyashchennyye slova moskva za nami
my pomnim so vremyon borodina

II.
vruchili nam ottsy vsesilʹnoye oruzhiye
my rodine svoyey prisyagu prinesli
i v zhizni nam dana yedinstvennaya sluzhba
ot smerti zashchishchatʹ gryadushcheye zemli

Chorus:
ne zrya v sudʹbe aleyet znamya
ne zrya na nas nadeyet sya strana
svyashchennyye slova moskva za nami
my pomnim so vremyon borodina

III.
ne nado nas pugatʹ, bakhvalitʹsya spesivo
ne stoit nam grozitʹ i vnovʹ s ognyom igratʹ
vedʹ, yesli vrag risknyot proveritʹ nashu silu
yego my navsegda otuchim proveryatʹ

Chorus

Marching Through Georgia – Piano Instrumental

Forte Republic 2024-10-12 | Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/0Gt38YT4AQDg4xRLFH5xuD?si=BNV8P5WQTlqoVoj8rlwA6A
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Hello! This is a piano instrumental of the American Civil War song "Marching Through Georgia."

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"Marching Through Georgia" was written in 1865 by American songwriter and composer Henry Clay Work (1832-1834). It is written from the perspective of a Union soldier who was part of Sherman's March to the Sea, a campaign conducted through Georgia by General William Tecumseh Sherman. As a side note, the famous M4 Sherman tank is named after General Sherman.

"Marching Through Georgia" quickly became popular upon its release and remained popular after the end of the Civil War, becoming a symbol of the state of Georgia. General Sherman became annoyed with the song after hearing it repeatedly at every event he attended. The tune was also adopted as marching music by the Japanese and British.

Lyrics:
- Most commonly, the first, third, and fifth verses are sung.
I.
Bring the good old bugle, boys, we’ll sing another song
Sing it with a spirit that will start the world along
Sing it as we used to sing it, fifty thousand strong
While we were marching through Georgia.

Chorus:
Hurrah! Hurrah! we bring the jubilee!
Hurrah! Hurrah! The flag that makes you free!
So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea
While we were marching through Georgia.

II
How the people shouted when they heard the joyful sound
How the turkeys gobbled which our commissary found
How the sweet potatoes even started from the ground
While we were marching through Georgia.

Chorus

III
There were Union men who wept with joyful tears,
When they saw the honored flag they had not seen for years;
Hardly could they be restrained from breaking forth in cheers,
While we were marching through Georgia.

Chorus

IV
“Sherman’s dashing Yankee boys will never reach the coast!”
So the saucy rebels said and ’twas a handsome boast
Had they not forgot, alas! to reckon with the Host
While we were marching through Georgia.

Chorus

V
So we made a thoroughfare for freedom and her train,
Sixty miles in latitude, three hundred to the main;
Treason fled before us, for resistance was in vain
While we were marching through Georgia.

State Anthem of Ukraine – Lullaby Version (Music Box)

Forte Republic 2024-09-28 | Hello! This is a lullaby instrumental of the national anthem of Ukraine.

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"Ще не вмерла України і слава, і воля" (Shche ne vmerla Ukrainy i slava, i volia) is the state anthem of Ukraine. It was formerly the national anthem of the Ukrainian People's Republic, the West Ukrainian People's Republic, and Carpatho-Ukraine. Following Ukraine's secession from the Soviet Union, the song was officially adopted as Ukraine's national anthem in 1992.

The current lyrics to the anthem are a modified version of the first stanza of a patriotic poem written in 1862 by Ukrainian poet Pavlo Chubynsky. Ukrainian composer Mykhailo Verbytsky composed the musical setting for Chubynksy's text in 1863.

Official Lyrics:
Ще не вмерла України і слава, і воля,
Ще нам, браття молодії, усміхнеться доля.
Згинуть наші воріженьки, як роса на сонці.
Запануєм і ми, браття, у своїй сторонці.

𝄆 Душу й тіло ми положим за нашу свободу,
І покажем, що ми, браття, козацького роду. 𝄇

Transliteration:
Shche ne vmerla Ukrayina, ni slava, ni volya,20
Shche nam, brattia ukrayint'si, usmikhnet'sia dolia.
Zhynut' nashi vorozhen'ky, yak rosa na sontsi,
Zapanuyem i my, brattia, u svoyiy storontsi.

𝄆 Dushu y tilo my polozhym za nashu svobodu,
I pokazhem, shcho my, brattia, kozats'koho rodu. 𝄇

English Translation:
The glory of Ukraine has not yet perished, nor the will.
Still upon us, young brothers, fate shall smile.
Our enemies shall vanish, like dew in the sun.
We too shall rule, brothers, our country.

𝄆 Soul and body shall we lay down for our freedom,
And we will show, brothers, that we are of the Cossack nation! 𝄇

The Lore Countries 🔥 #fictionalworld #worldbuilding

Forte Republic 2024-09-21 | Hello! This is an edit containing some of the flags of nations and other entities in the fictional continent of Greater Persoria.

I have made national anthems for a few of these nations and plan on making more anthems for the rest.

Die Wacht am Rhein – Electronic Version [Anthemwave]

Forte Republic 2024-09-14 | Hello! This is an electronic instrumental version of "Die Wacht am Rhein." I hope you enjoy it!

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This video is not intended to carry any political meaning.

"Die Wacht am Rhein" is a German patriotic song popular during the Franco-Prussian War and both World Wars. Its lyrics were written as a poem by Max Schneckenburger during the Rhine Crisis of 1840, which stoked fears of French expansionism. The musical setting to the poem was composed by Karl Wilhelm in 1854. Though the song calls for the defense of the Rhine, the fighting in the aforementioned wars that followed took place instead in France, to the west of the Rhine.

"Die Wacht Am Rhein" has been adapted for use as an alma mater for several institutions, most notably "Bright College Years," the alma mater of Yale University since 1881. During the Great War, the use of a German tune was questioned, and the Yale College Council proposed a ban on the song. Most alumni clubs voted in favor of keeping it, and it has since remained as the university's alma mater.

The image shown in the video is a painting of the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress.

Lyrics of both the original song and the Yale University alma mater are provided below.

Lyrics
Es braust ein Ruf wie Donnerhall,
wie Schwertgeklirr und Wogenprall:
Zum Rhein, zum Rhein, zum deutschen Rhein,
wer will des Stromes Hüter sein?

Refrain:
Lieb Vaterland, magst ruhig sein,
lieb Vaterland, magst ruhig sein,
Fest steht und treu die Wacht, die Wacht am Rhein!
Fest steht und treu die Wacht, die Wacht am Rhein!

Durch Hunderttausend zuckt es schnell,
und aller Augen blitzen hell;
der Deutsche, bieder, fromm und stark,
beschützt die heil'ge Landesmark.

Refrain

Er blickt hinauf in Himmelsau'n,
wo Heldenväter niederschau'n,
und schwört mit stolzer Kampfeslust:
Du Rhein bleibst deutsch wie meine Brust!

Refrain

Solang ein Tropfen Blut noch glüht,
noch eine Faust den Degen zieht,
und noch ein Arm die Büchse spannt,
betritt kein Feind hier deinen Strand!

Refrain

Und ob mein Herz im Tode bricht,
wirst du doch drum ein Welscher nicht.
Reich, wie an Wasser deine Flut,
ist Deutschland ja an Heldenblut!

Refrain

Der Schwur erschallt, die Woge rinnt
die Fahnen flattern hoch im Wind:
Am Rhein, am Rhein, am deutschen Rhein
wir alle wollen Hüter sein.

Refrain

Yale Alma Mater
Bright College years, with pleasure rife,
The shortest, gladdest years of life;
How swiftly are ye gliding by!
Oh, why doth time so quickly fly?

The seasons come, the seasons go,
The earth is green or white with snow,
But time and change shall naught avail
To break the friendships formed at Yale.

In after years, should troubles rise
To cloud the blue of sunny skies,
How bright will seem, through mem’ry’s haze
Those happy, golden, bygone days!

Oh, let us strive that ever we
May let these words our watch-cry be,
Where’er upon life’s sea we sail:
“For God, for Country and for Yale!”

English Lyrics:
The cry resounds like thunder's peal,
Like crashing waves and clang of steel:
The Rhine, the Rhine, our German Rhine,
Who will defend our stream, divine?

Chorus:
Dear fatherland, no fear be thine,
Dear fatherland, no fear be thine,
Firm stands the Watch along, along the Rhine!
Firm stands the Watch along, along the Rhine!

They stand, a hundred thousand strong,
Quick to avenge their country's wrong,
With filial love their bosoms swell
They shall guard the sacred landmark well.

Chorus

He casts his eyes to heaven's blue,
From where past heroes hold the view,
And swears pugnaciously the oath,
You Rhine and I, stay German, both.

Chorus

While still remains one breath of life,
While still one fist can draw a knife,
One gun still fired with one hand,
No foe will stand on this Rhine sand.

Chorus

If my heart ne'er survives this stand,
You'll never fall in foreign hand,
Much, as your waters with no end,
Have we our heroes' blood to spend.

Chorus

The oath resounds, on rolls the wave,
The banners fly high, proud, and brave,
The Rhine, the Rhine, the German Rhine
We all shall stand to hold the line!

Italian Lyrics:
Sopra l’Alpe d’Oulx, ai venti,
sta l’Alpino in sentinella:
come scroscio di torrenti,
come rombo di procella,
giunge un grido “ Al Reno, al Reno! „
Fratel mio, tu veglia al Reno;
io sull’Alpe itala sto.

Russian Lyrics:
Призыв — как громовой раскат,
Как звон мечей и волн набат:
«На Рейн, на Рейн, кто станет в строй
Немецкий Рейн закрыть собой?»

Refrain:
Спокоен будь, край отчий наш:
Спокоен будь, край отчий наш:
Твёрд и надёжен страж, на Рейне страж!
Твёрд и надёжен страж, на Рейне страж!

Звучит присяга, плещет вал,
Знамёна ветер полоскал:
На Рейн, на Рейн, готов любой
Немецкий Рейн закрыть собой!

Refrain

This music was made using Logic Pro.

Quezon National High School – QNHS Alma Mater Song (Piano Instrumental)

Forte Republic 2024-08-31 | This one sounds oddly familiar...

Hello! This is a piano instrumental of the QNHS Alma Mater, a modified version of "Giovinezza." "Giovinezza" was the unofficial anthem of the Kingdom of Italy, the anthem of the Republic of Salo, and originally a graduation hymn from the University of Turin.

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Lyrics:
Hear the call of Alma Mater
Bidding us to be together
Let her name stand forever
Symbol bright of shining luster

Hear the ardent call of duty
Give her loyalty eternal
Show your courage, everybody
Hail and Cheer the Quezon High!

Chorus:
Altogether, win the battle
Of our dear old Alma Mater
Altogether, we will conquer
All the foes of Quezon High!

Over the Plains of Primistan – Folk Song (Fictional Country)

Forte Republic 2024-08-25 | Hello! This is a traditional/folk-style song I made. I hope you enjoy it!

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This song is intended to be a folk song from the fictional country of Primistan.

Pictured in the video is the coat of arms of the East Primisian People’s Republic (EPPR). The EPPR arose in East Primistan after a coup relegated the old government to the West and established a military junta in central Primistan.

In the background in the video is the painting “Winter Landscape with Figures and a Dog on a Track, Cottages Beyond,” by flemish painter Jacques d’Artois (1613-1686).

This music was made using Logic Pro.

The Battle Cry of Freedom – Piano Instrumental

Forte Republic 2024-08-11 | Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/0Gt38YT4AQDg4xRLFH5xuD?si=BNV8P5WQTlqoVoj8rlwA6A
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Hello! This is a piano instrumental of the “Battle Cry of Freedom,” an American Civil War song.

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The “Battle Cry of Freedom” was a song about Unionism and abolitionism written in 1862 by George Frederick Root (1820-1895). It became incredibly popular among Union soldiers, and the song was adapted into a “Southron’s Battle Cry of Freedom” in the South. A modified version of the song was also used as a campaign song for Abraham Lincoln’s reelection campaign in 1864.

The image in the video is “The Twentieth Maine,” painted by Dominic D’Andrea.

Lyrics:
Oh we'll rally round the flag, boys,
We'll rally once again,
Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom ;
We will rally from the hill-side,
We will gather from the plain,
Shouting the battle-cry of freedom.

(Chorus)

The Union forever! Hurrah, boys, hurrah!
Down with the Traitors, up with the Stars;
While we rally round the flag, boys,
Rally once again,
Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom!

We are springing to the call
Of our brothers gone before,
Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom ;
And we'll fill the vacant ranks
With a million freemen more,
Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom.

(Chorus)

We will welcome to our number
The loyal, true and brave,
Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom.
And although he may be poor,
He shall never be a slave,
Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom!

(Chorus)

So we're springing to the call
From the East and from the West,
Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom ;
And we'll hurl the Rebel crew
From the land we love the best,
Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom.

(Chorus)

We are marching to the field, boys,
Going to the fight,
Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom ;
And we'll bear the glorious Stars
Of the Union and the Right,
Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom.

(Chorus)

We'll meet the Rebel host, boys,
With fearless hearts and true,
Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom ;
And we'll show what Uncle Sam
Has for loyal men to do,
Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom.

(Chorus)

If we fail amid the fray, boys,
We will face them to the last,
Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom ;
And our comrades brave shall hear us,
As we are rushing past,
Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom.

(Chorus)

Yes, for Liberty and Union,
We are springing to the fight,
Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom ;
And the victory shall be ours,
Forever rising in our might,
Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom.

(Chorus)

1864 Lincoln Campaign Song:
For Lincoln and Johnson, hurrah, boys, hurrah!
Down with the rebellion and on with the war,
While we rally round the cause, boys, we'll rally in our might,
Singing the holy cause of freemen.

Southron’s Battle Cry of Freedom:
Our flag is proudly floating on the land and on the main,
Shout, shout the battle cry of Freedom!
Beneath it oft we've conquered, and we'll conquer oft again!
Shout, shout the battle cry of Freedom!

(Chorus)
Our Dixie forever! She's never at a loss!
Down with the eagle and up with the cross
While we rally 'round the Bonnie flag, we'll rally once again,
Shout, shout the battle cry of Freedom!

Our gallant boys have marched to the rolling of the drums.
Shout, shout the battle cry of Freedom!
And the leaders in charge cry out, "Come, boys, come!"
Shout, shout the battle cry of Freedom!

(Chorus)

They have laid down their lives on the bloody battle field.
Shout, shout the battle cry of Freedom!
Their motto is resistance – "To the tyrants never yield!"
Shout, shout the battle cry of Freedom!

(Chorus)

While our boys have responded and to the fields have gone!
Shout, shout the battle cry of freedom!
Our noble women also have aided them at home!
Shout, shout the battle cry of freedom!

(Chorus)

This music was made using Logic Pro.

National Anthem of Japan – Lullaby Version

Forte Republic 2024-07-28 | Good day! This is a lullaby instrumental of “Kimigayo,” the national anthem of Japan.

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The lyrics are from a poem by an unknown writer in the Heian period (794-1185). A melody for the anthem was composed in 1869 by John William Fenton, an Irish musician who led a Japanese military band in the early Meiji period. Fenton’s melody was unpopular, and the current melody was chosen in 1880.

“Kimigayo” served as the national anthem of the Japanese Empire from 1888 to 1945. During the allied occupation of Japan, there was no official anthem of Japan, but “Kimigayo” remained in use as there was no effort to restrict it. In 1999, “Kimigayo” became the official national anthem of Japan again with the passing of The “Act on National Flag and Anthem” (国旗及び国歌に関する法律), which also ratified the national flag of Japanese.

Lyrics, translation, and transliteration:

Lyrics:
きみがよは
ちよにやちよに
さざれいしの
いわおとなりて
こけのむすまで

Transliteration:
Kimigayo wa
Chiyo ni yachiyo ni
Sazare-ishi no
Iwao to narite
Koke no musu made

English Translation:
May your reign
Continue for a thousand, eight thousand generations,
Until the tiny pebbles
Grow into massive boulders
Lush with moss

Poetic English Translation:
Thousands of years of happy reign be thine;
Rule on, my lord, until what are pebbles now
By ages united to mighty rocks shall grow
Whose venerable sides the moss doth line.

The music in this video was made using Logic Pro.

National Anthem of Belarus – Piano Instrumental (Мы, беларусы)

Forte Republic 2024-07-07 | Hello! This is a piano instrumental of the national anthem of Belarus, "We, Belarusians" (Мы, беларусы).

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"We, Belarusians" was originally composed in 1944 by Niescier Sakalouski (1902-1950) and was adopted in 1955 as state anthem of the Byelorussian SSR, with lyrics by poet Mikhas Kilmkovich (1899-1954). It remained in use as the anthem of the Republic of Belarus after the dissolution of the USSR, with new official lyrics written in 2002 by Uladzimir Karyzna (1938-present).

Belarusian Lyrics:
I
Мы, беларусы – мірныя людзі,
Сэрцам адданыя роднай зямлі,
Шчыра сябруем, сілы гартуем
Мы ў працавітай, вольнай сям’і.

Прыпеў:
Слаўся, зямлі нашай светлае імя,
Слаўся, народаў братэрскі саюз!
𝄆 Наша любімая маці-Радзіма,
Вечна жыві і квітней, Беларусь! 𝄇

II
Разам з братамі мужна вякамі
Мы баранілі родны парог,
У бітвах за волю, бітвах за долю
Свой здабывалі сцяг перамог!

Прыпеў

III
Дружба народаў – сіла народаў –
Наш запаветны, сонечны шлях.
Горда ж узвіся ў ясныя высі,
Сцяг пераможны – радасці сцяг!

Прыпеў

Latin Transliteration:
I
My, bjelarusy – mirnija ljudzi,
Sercam addanyja rodnaj zjamli,
Ščjra sjabrujem, silj hartujem
My w pracavitay, voľnay sjam'i.

Prypjew:
Slawsja, zjamli našaj svjetlaje imja,
Slawsja, narodaw braterski sajuz!
𝄆 Naša ljubimaja maci-radzima,
Vječna žyvi i kvitnjej, bjelarus! 𝄇

II
Razam z bratami mužna vjakami
My baranili rodny paroh,
U bitvach za volju, bitvach za dolju
Svoj zdabyvali scjah peramoh!

Prypjew

III
Družba narodaw – sila narodaw –
Naš zapavjetny, sonječny šljach.
Horda ž uzvisja w jasnyja vysi,
Scjah pjeramožny – radasci scjah!

Prypjew

English Translation:
I
We, Belarusians, are peaceful people,
Wholeheartedly devoted to our Motherland.
We are faithful friends, growing up
Living in a hardworking and independent family.

Chorus:
Glory to the blessed name of our land,
Glory to the brotherly union of peoples!
𝄆 Our dearly beloved Motherland,
May you live long and prosper, Belarus! 𝄇

II
Together with our brothers, we for centuries
Courageously defended our home's threshold.
In battles for freedom, and battles for our lot
We have won our banners of victory!

Chorus

III
Friendship of peoples is the strength of peoples
And it is our sacred sunlit path.
Proudly we fly in the clear blue skies,
The banner of victory is the flag of sunshine!

Chorus

Russian Lyrics:
I
Мы, белорусы – мирные люди,
Сердцем преданные родной земле.
Искренне дружим, силы закаляем,
Мы в трудолюбивой, свободной семье.

Припев:
Славься, земли нашей светлое имя,
Славься, народов братский союз!
𝄆 Наша любимая мать-Отчизна,
Вечно живи и цвети, Беларусь! 𝄇

II
Вместе с братьями храбро веками
Мы защищали родной порог,
В битвах за волю, битвах за долю
Своё добывали знамя побед!

Припев

III
Дружба народов – сила народов –
Наш заветный, солнечный путь.
Гордо ж возвейся в ясные выси,
Знамя победное – радости флаг!

Припев

Anthem of the BSSR:
Мы, Беларусы, з братняю Руссю,
Разам шукалі к шчасцю дарог.
Ў бітвах за волю, ў бітвах за долю
З ёй здабылі мы сцяг перамог!

Прыпеў I:
Нас аб’яднала Леніна імя,
Партыя к шчасцю вядзе нас ў паход.
𝄆 Партыі слава! Слава Радзіме!
Слава табе, Беларускі народ! 𝄇

Сілы гартуе, люд Беларусі,
Ў братнім саюзе, ў мужнай сям’і.
Вечна мы будзем, вольныя людзі,
Жыць на шчаслівай, вольнай зямлі!

Прыпеў II:
Нас аб’яднала Леніна імя,
Партыя к шчасцю вядзе нас ў паход.
𝄆 Партыі слава! Слава Радзіме!
Слава табе, наш свабодны народ! 𝄇

Дружба народаў – сіла народаў,
К шчасцю працоўных сонечны шлях.
Горда ж узвіся ў светлыя высі,
Сцяг камунізму – радасці сцяг!

Прыпеў III:
Нас аб’яднала Леніна імя,
Партыя к шчасцю вядзе нас ў паход.
𝄆 Партыі слава! Слава Радзіме!
Слава табе, наш савецкі народ! 𝄇

BSSR Anthem English Translation:
We, Belarusians, together with fraternal Russia,
Together we looked for roads to fortune.
In struggles for freedom, in struggles for fate,
We have gained our banner of victories.

Chorus I:
The name of Lenin united us,
The Party leadeth us in quest to joy.
𝄆 Glory to the Party!
Glory to the Motherland!
Glory to ye, our Belarusian people! 𝄇

People of Belarus, gathering strength,
In a fraternal union, in a powerful family.
We shall forever be a free people,
To live on a happy, free land!

Chorus II:
The name of Lenin united us,
The Party leadeth us in quest to joy.
𝄆 Glory to the Party!
Glory to the Motherland!
Glory to ye, our free people! 𝄇

The friendship of peoples – the strength of peoples,
The happiness of the workers is the sunny path.
We proudly raise to the high skies,
Communism's banner – the flag of joy!

Chorus III:
The name of Lenin united us,
The Party leadeth us in quest to joy.
𝄆 Glory to the Party!
Glory to the Motherland!
Glory to ye, our Soviet people! 𝄇

This music was made using Logic Pro.

Yugoslav National Anthem — Sovietwave Version (Hej, Slaveni)

Forte Republic 2024-06-16 | Hello! This is an electronic instrumental of “Hey Slavs,” the national anthem of Yugoslavia.

Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/4otkgnEHLsdAt9QEw8rkM6?si=X58HeR9TSjO6RiOlxGK3kQ&nd=1&dlsi=e8ab398abd6f4ded
Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/album/anthemwave-electronic-anthems-and-marches-vol-1/1757810868
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“Hej Slaveni” (Hey, Slavs) is a pan-slavic anthem popular int he 19th and 20th centuries. Its lyrics originate from an 1834 poem by Slovak writer Samo Tomášik. It uses the tune of the current Polish national anthem, Dabrowski’s Mazurka (Mazurka Dabrowskiego), with some variations.

As a pan-slavic anthem, “Hey, Slavs” became the national anthem of the First Slovak Republic, Yugoslavia, and Serbia and Montenegro.

Before the Second World War, Yugoslavia was a monarchy, and the Yugoslav anthem at the time included mentions of the king. When Yugoslavia fell to the Axis powers, Josip Tito's anti-royalist resistance chose not to use the anthem of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, instead adopting “Hey, Slavs.” This song became the de facto national anthem of the provisional Democratic Federal Yugoslavia during its existence from 1943 to 1945.

Following this period, it remained in use as the unofficial anthem of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFR Yugoslavia), as the kingdom’s anthem had been officially discarded and there was no official replacement for it. A 1977 law officially named “Hey, Slavs” a temporary state anthem until another piece was chosen, but no new anthem was ever adopted. After the break-up of SFR Yugoslavia, the new Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, consisting of Serbia and Montenegro, continued to use this anthem from 1992 until its dissolution in 2006 (FR Yugoslavia became the union state of Serbia and Montenegro in 2003, though it was still commonly called Yugoslavia).

After the final dissolution of Yugoslavia, “Hey Slavs” has been mistakenly played at sporting events involving Serbian teams.

The image in the video is of Yugoslav team at the 1980 Winter Olympics, flanked by the Soviet and American teams.

Lyrics:

Serbo-Croatian Lyrics (Latin):
Hej Slaveni, jošte živi
R[ij]eč (duh) naših d[j]edova
Dok za narod srce bije
Njihovih sinova
Živi, živi duh slavenski
Živjet će v[j]ekov'ma
𝄆 Zalud pr[ij]eti ponor pakla
Zalud vatra groma 𝄇
Nek se sada i nad nama
Burom sve raznese
St[j]ena puca, dub se lama
Zemlja nek se trese
Mi stojimo postojano
Kano klisurine
𝄆 Proklet bio izdajica
Svoje domovine! 𝄇

Serbo-Croation Lyrics (Cyrillic):
Хеј Словени, јоште живи
Р[иј]еч (дух) наших д[ј]едова
Док за народ срце бије
Њихових синова
Живи, живи дух словенски
Живеће в[ј]еков'ма
𝄆 Залуд пр[иј]ети понор пакла,
Залуд ватра грома 𝄇
Нек' се сада и над нама
Буром све разнесе
Ст[ј]ена пуца, дуб се лама,
Земља нек' се тресе
Ми стојимо постојано
Кано клисурине,
𝄆 Проклет био издајица
Своје домовине! 𝄇

English Translation:
Hey, Slavs, there still lives
the word (spirit) of our grandfathers
While for the nation beats the heart
of its sons!
There lives, there lives the Slavic spirit,
It will live for ages!
𝄆 In vain threatens the abyss of Hell
In vain the fire of thunder! 𝄇
Let now everything above us
be blown away by the bora.
The stone cracks, the oak breaks,
Let the earth quake!
We stand firm
like the big cliffs,
𝄆 May he be damned, the traitor
of his homeland! 𝄇

Slovene Lyrics:
Hej Slovani, naša reč
slovanska živo klije
dokler naše verno srce
za naš narod bije
Živi, živi, duh slovanski,
bodi živ na veke,
𝄆 grom in peklo, prazne vaše
proti nam so steke 𝄇
Naj tedaj nad nami
strašna burja se le znese,
skala poka, dob se lomi,
zemlja naj se strese
Bratje, mi stojimo trdno
kakor zidi grada,
𝄆 črna zemlja naj pogrezne
tega, kdor odpada!}} 𝄇

Macedonian Lyrics:
Еј, Словени, жив е тука
зборот свет на родот
штом за народ срце чука
преку син во внукот!
Жив е вечно, жив е духот
словенски во слога.
𝄆 Не нѐ плашат адски бездни
ниту громов оган! 𝄇
Пустошејќи, нека бура
и над нас се втурне!
Пука даб и карпа сура,
тлото ќе се урне:
Стоиме на стамен-прагот
- клисури и бедем!
𝄆 Проклет да е тој што предал
Родина на врагот! 𝄇

Macedonian Lyrics (Latin Transliteration):
Ej, Sloveni, živ e tuka
zborot svet na rodot
štom za narod srce čuka
preku sin vo vnukot!
Živ e večno, živ e duhot
slovenski vo sloga.
𝄆 Ne nè plašat adski bezdni
nitu gromov ogan! 𝄇
Pustošejḱi, neka bura
i nad nas se vturne!
Puka dab i karpa sura,
tloto ḱe se urne:
Stoime na stamen-pragot
- klisuri i bedem!
𝄆 Proklet da e toj što predal
Rodina na vragot! 𝄇

English Translation:
Hey, Slavs, herein lives on
the sacred word of our lineage
as long as the heart beats for our nation
from son to grandson!
The Slavic spirit lives on
forever in unity.
𝄆 Infernal abysses do not frighten us,
nor the blazes of thunder. 𝄇

This music was made using Logic Pro.

Za císaře pána – Chill Electronic Version (For the Emperor!)

Forte Republic 2024-05-25 | Hello! This is an electronic instrumental of the Czech song, "Za císaře pána" (For the Emperor), also known as simply "Hercegovina."

Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/4vOLhhxFrWUyxjBCibfCC9?si=2MvYX4ZpQHSdGGCfl5SaKw
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The song is about a young man who joins the infantry and fights the Ottomans in Hercegovina after his girlfriend leaves him for someone else. It was written around the time of the Austro-Hungarian campaign in Ottoman Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878. The campaign resulted in Austro-Hungarian rule over the province. Due to the conflict, some of the verses in the song cast Ottomans in a negative light. Before the end of the Great War, the Czech lands were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Pictured in the video is Franz Joseph I (1830-1916), the Austrian Emperor at the time of the 1878 campaign.

Lyrics:
Šel jsem temným hájem, šel jsem dolinou.
Potkal jsem tam myslivečka a s ním jeho milou, ach jo
Potkal jsem tam myslivečka a s ním jeho milou.

Milá už je amen konec lásky mí.
Já teď musím narukovat k infanterií, ach jo
Já teď musím narukovat k infanterií.

Ta Dalmacie samá skála je.
Tu musela vybojovat infanterie, Ach jo.
Tu musela vybojovat infanterie.

Infanteria to je láska má.
Ta musela bojovati za císaře pána, ach jo
Ta musela bojovati za císaře pána.

Za císaře pána a jeho rodinu.
Museli jsme vybojovat Hercegovinu, ach jo
Museli jsme vybojovat Hercegovinu.

Hercegovina je lautr rovina.
Tu musela vybojovat infanteria, ach jo
tu musela vybojovat infanteria.

nahoře na stráni schnellzug uhání.
A po stráni jsou schováni mohamedáni, ach jo
a po stráni jsou schováni mohamedáni.

a ty Turkyně to jsou strašný svině.
Císař pán je nemiluje ve svý krajině, ach jo
Císař pán je nemiluje ve svý krajině.

Tuto píseň skládal jeden hoch mladý.
který se dal skrz svou holku k infanterii, ach jo,
který se dal skrz svou holku k infanterii

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English Translation:
I walked through the dark grove, I walked through the valley.
I met a hunter there and with him his sweetheart.

My love, it's amen, the end of my love.
Now I have to enlist in the infantry.

Dalmatia itself is a rock.
The infantry had to fight here.

Infantry is my love.
She had to fight for the emperor.

For the lord emperor and his family.
We had to conquer Herzegovina.

Herzegovina is a lautr plain,
the infantry had to fight here.

Up on the hillside the schnellzug is speeding,
and the Mohammedans are hidden on the side.

And those Turks are terrible swine,
The lord emperor does not love them in his country.

A young lad composed this song,
who joined the infantry through his girlfriend

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Slightly different lyrics:
Šel jsem šumným hájem, širou rovinou,
potkal jsem tam myslivečka, jak šel s mojí milou

Už je, moje milá, konec lásky tý,
já musím dnes narukovat k infanterii

Infanteria, to je chlouba má,
ta musela bojovati za císaře pána

Za císaře pána a jeho rodinu
museli jsme vybojovat Hercegovinu

Hercegovina, lautr rovina,
tu musela vybojovat infanteria

Infanteria mnoho zkusila,
ta musela bojovati, až krev stříkala

A ty Turkyně tlustý jak dýně,
císař pán je nerad vidí ve svý krajině

Tuto píseň skládal jeden hoch mladý,
který se dal skrz svou holku k infanterii

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My attempt at English poetic version:
I walked along the grove, the rustling leaves above
And there I saw a hunter holding in his arms my love, ach jo,
And there I saw a hunter holding in his arms my love

My love has torn me apart, my heart is cold and grey
So now I’ll join the infantry, I will enlist today, ach jo,
So now I’ll join the infantry, I will enlist today

The infantry is my pride, for the emperor it stands
So Herzegovina we conquered at our lord’s command, ach jo,
So Herzegovina we conquered at our lord’s command

Herzegovina, the plains and the hills
The infantry was fighting there until the blood was spilled, ach jo,
The infantry was fighting there until the blood was spilled

A train speeds through the plains, it runs across the hills
And there a thousand turks are hiding in the hillside, still, ach jo,
And there a thousand turks are hiding in the hillside, still

The ottomans are swine, they’re fat, they're shaped like balls
The emperor, he wants them not inside his country at all, ach jo,
The emperor, he wants them not inside his country at all

A young lad wrote this song, his heart was cold and grey
His sweetheart left him so he joined the army right away, ach jo,
His sweetheart left him so he joined the army right away

This music was made using Logic Pro.

Eleven WWII National Anthems on Piano (Allied and Axis Powers)

Forte Republic 2024-04-27 | Hello! This video consists of piano instrumentals of World War II national anthems. I hope you enjoy the anthems and the information slides! Timestamps below:

0:04 God Save the King – Anthem of Great Britain
1:57 The Internationale – Anthem of the Soviet Union
4:20 State Anthem of the USSR – Anthem of the Soviet Union
6:26 The Star-Spangled Banner – Anthem of the United States of America
7:38 San Min Chu-i – Anthem of the Republic of China
8:47 La Marseillaise – Anthem of France
10:20 Mazurek Dabrowskiego – Anthem of Poland
11:37 Deutschlandlied – Anthem of Germany
13:49 Kimigayo – Anthem of Japan
14:40 Marcia Reale d'Ordinanza – Anthem of the Kingdom of Italy
17:49 Giovinezza – Anthem of the Italian Social Republic

Listen to these WWII anthems on Spotify or Apple Music:
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Radio Veriturris – Interval Signal and Fanfare Intro (Fictional Broadcasting Service)

Forte Republic 2024-04-13 | Hello! This is the interval signal and opening fanfare of Radio Veriturris, the main broadcasting service of the fictional kingdom of Veriturris.

The interval signal is the first line of the national anthem of Veriturris, and the royal fanfare is used as the radio intro.

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The audio following the fanfare was taken from a Radio Berlin International broadcast.

Just Before the Battle, Mother – Piano Instrumental

Forte Republic 2024-04-09 | Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/0Gt38YT4AQDg4xRLFH5xuD?si=BNV8P5WQTlqoVoj8rlwA6A
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Hello! This is a piano instrumental of “Just Before the Battle, Mother.” It’s one of my favorite American Civil War songs!

Discord: discord.com/invite/SGMHeZ7
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“Just Before the Battle, Mother” was an American Civil War era song that was popular in the Union Army. It was written by romantic American composer George Frederick Root (1820-1895), who also wrote famous songs such as “The Battle Cry of Freedom.” George Root was named after George Frideric Handel.

“Just Before the Battle, Mother” may have also been somewhat popular during the Great War. Outside of the United States, the song became popular among members of the Primrose League in England, and it was commonly performed in Canada on Victoria Day in the 19th and 20th centuries.

The image shown in the video is a painting titled “The Last Command,” by American artist Larry Selman.

Lyrics:
Just before the battle, mother,
I am thinking most of you,
While upon the field we're watching
With the enemy in view.
Comrades brave are 'round me lying,
Filled with thoughts of home and God
For well they know that on the morrow,
Some will sleep beneath the sod.

CHORUS:
Farewell, mother, you may never
Press me to your heart again,
But, oh, you'll not forget me, mother,
If I'm numbered with the slain.

Oh, I long to see you, mother,
And the loving ones at home,
But I'll never leave our banner,
Till in honor I can come.
Tell the traitors all around you
That their cruel words we know,
In every battle kill our soldiers
By the help they give the foe.

CHORUS:
Farewell, mother, you may never
Press me to your heart again,
But, oh, you'll not forget me, mother,
If I'm numbered with the slain.

Hark! I hear the bugles sounding,
'Tis the signal for the fight,
Now, may God protect us, mother,
As He ever does the right.
Hear the "Battle-Cry of Freedom,"
How it swells upon the air,
Oh, yes, we'll rally 'round the standard,
Or we'll perish nobly there.

CHORUS:
Farewell, mother, you may never
Press me to your heart again,
But, oh, you'll not forget me, mother,
If I'm numbered with the slain.

The music in this video was made using Logic Pro.

God Save the Tsar – Sovietwave Version

Forte Republic 2024-03-24 | Good day! This is an electronic instrumental version of the hymn "God Save the Tsar" (Боже, Царя храни).

Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/4otkgnEHLsdAt9QEw8rkM6?si=X58HeR9TSjO6RiOlxGK3kQ&nd=1&dlsi=e8ab398abd6f4ded
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"God Save the Tsar" (Боже, Царя храни) was the national anthem of the Russian Empire from 1833 until its collapse in 1917. The song was composed by violinist Alexei Lvov, with lyrics by poet Vasily Zhukovsky.

Prior to the adoption of "God Save the Tsar," the national anthem of the empire was "The Prayer of the Russians," set to the tune of "God Save the King." A number of monarchies used this tune at the time, including the British, German, and Russian empires. Tsar Nicholas I ordered Lvov to compose a new anthem for the empire in 1833, prompting Lvov to compose "God Save the Tsar."

The photograph in the video was colorized by planetzero.

Lyrics, transliteration, and translation below:

Lyrics
𝄆 Боже, Царя храни!
Сильный, державный,
Царствуй на славу, на славу намъ! 𝄇

𝄆 Царствуй на страхъ врагамъ,
Царь православный!
Боже, Царя храни! 𝄇

Latin Transliteration
𝄆 Bozhe, Tsarya khrani!
Sillnyy, derzhavnyy,
Tsarstvuy na slavu, na slavu nam! 𝄇

𝄆 Tsarstvuy na strakh vragam,
Tsar pravoslavnyy!
Bozhe, Tsarya khrani! 𝄇

English Translation
𝄆 God save the Tsar!
Strong and majestic!
Reign for glory, for our glory! 𝄇

𝄆 Reign to make enemies fear,
Orthodox Tsar!
God save the Tsar! 𝄇

Anthem of the Cantusian Nationalist Party [Fictional Country]

Forte Republic 2024-03-09 | Hello! This is an anthem I've made for the Cantusian National Party, which is the majority party of the fictional country of Cantusia.

This hymn was a popular patriotic song before it was adopted as the anthem of the CNP. The image in the video is one of several flags used by the CNP.

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For more music like this:
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Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/album/music-of-a-fictional-world-hymns-marches-and-songs-vol-1/1645933767

-This music was made using Logic Pro.

Marcia Reale dOrdinanza – Marimba Instrumental Version (Italian Anthem)

Forte Republic 2024-02-28 | Good day! This is a marimba version of the national anthem of the Kingdom of Italy, “Marcia Reale d’Ordinanza” (Royal March of Ordinance), also known as “Fanfara Reale” (Royal Fanfare). I hope you enjoy it!

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“Marcia Reale d’Ordinanza” was composed by Giuseppe Gazette in 1831 as both the Sardinian national anthem and the royal anthem of the House of Savoy. It was the national anthem of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1943, when Umberto II replaced it with the patriotic song “La Leggenda del Piave.” “Marcia Reale d’Ordinanza” was reinstated in 1944 when the allies captured Rome. It remained the national anthem of Italy until the 1946 Italian institutional referendum, after which the royal march was replaced with the modern Italian anthem, “Il Canto degli Italiani” (Inno di Mameli).

The picture in the video is a painting titled “Ingresso di Vittorio Emanuele II a Torino” (Entry of Vittorio Emanuele II into Turin), by painter Carlo Bossoli (1815-1884).

Lyrics:
Evviva il Re ! Evviva il Re ! Evviva il Re !
Chinate oh Reggimenti le Bandiere al nostro Re
La gloria e la fortuna dell'Italia con Lui è
Bei Fanti di Savoia gridate evviva il Re !
Chinate oh Reggimenti le Bandiere al nostro Re !

Viva il Re ! Viva il Re ! Viva il Re !
Le trombe liete squillano
Viva il Re ! Viva il Re ! Viva il Re !
Con esso i canti echeggiano
Rullano i tamburi le trombe squillano squillano
Cantici di gloria eleviamo con fervor
Viva l'Italia, l'Italia evviva ! Evviva il Re !
Viva L'Italia, evviva il Re ! Evviva il Re !!!
Viva l'Italia ! Viva il Re ! Viva il Re !
Tutta l'Italia spera in Te, crede in Te,
gloria di nostra stirpe, segnal di libertà,
di libertà, di libertà, di libertà.
Quando i nemici agognino
i nostri campi floridi
dove gli eroi pugnarono
nelle trascorse età,
finché duri l'amor di patria fervido,
finché regni la nostra civiltà.
L'Alpe d'Italia libera,
dal bel parlare angelico,
piede d'odiato barbaro
giammai calpesterà
finché duri l'amor di patria fervido,
finche regni la nostra civiltà.
Come falange unanime
i figli della Patria
si copriran di gloria
gridando libertà.

English Translation:
Long live the King! Long live the King! Long live the King!
Lower, oh Regiments, your Standards to our King!
Italy's Glory and Fortune Lie with Him
Savoy's Grand Soldiers, Cry Out "Long Live the King!"
Lower, oh Regiments, your Standards to our King!

Long live the King! Long live the King! Long live the King!
The trumpets joyously sound
Long live the King! Long live the King! Long live the King!
With this, the cries echo
The drums roll, the trumpets sound and sound again
Canticles of glory we fervently raise
Long Live Italy, Italy, Huzzah! Long Live the King!
Long Live Italy, Long Live the King! Long Live the King!
Long Live Italy, Long Live the King! Long Live the King!
All of Italy puts her faith in you, believes in you,
glory of our race, sign of freedom,
of freedom, of freedom, of freedom.
When the enemy comes seeking
our flourishing fields
where heroes fought
in the bygone ages
as long as our fervent patriotic love lasts
as long as our civilization reigns
The Italian Alps will be free,
angelic speech will reign,
the hated barbarian
will never set foot here
as long as our fervent patriotic love lasts
as long as our civilization reigns
As a single phalanx
the sons of the Fatherland
will cover themselves with glory
shouting "Freedom!”

Alternate Lyrics:
Viva il Re, viva il Re Imperator!
Iddio Ti salvi e assista ognor!
Viva il Re, viva il Re Imperator!
Del popol Tuo orgoglio e amor!

Te Legionari e Fanti
in Africa Oriental
cinsero del romano
simbolo imperial!
Di Savoia al grido
"sempre avanti"
Italia va!

Scese in Te da gli Avi tuoi
dei nostri Eroi - la virtù:
splende il capo tuo regal
d'un'immortal gioventù :
salde e forti ancor
con Te le sorti ognor
l'Italia nostra avrà!

Salve, Savoia, del gran Patto erede
che in Roma eterna Emanuel giurò!
Salve, Savoia, che l'ardita fede
della imperiale Italia incoronò!

Suon di gioia - è Savoia,
che fa tutto ardir:
suon di gloria - di vittoria
e d'avvenir!

Salve, Savoia, che l'ardita fede
della imperiale Italia incoronò!

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Za císaře pána – Piano Instrumental (1878 Campaign in Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Forte Republic 2024-02-10 | Hello! This is a piano instrumental of the Czech song, "Za císaře pána" (For the Emperor), also known as simply "Hercegovina."

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The song is about a young man who joins the infantry and fights the Ottomans in Hercegovina after his girlfriend leaves him for someone else. It was written around the time of the Austro-Hungarian campaign in Ottoman Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1878. The campaign resulted in Austro-Hungarian rule over the province. Due to the conflict, some of the verses in the song cast Ottomans in a negative light. Before the end of the Great War, the Czech lands were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Lyrics:
Šel jsem temným hájem, šel jsem dolinou.
Potkal jsem tam myslivečka a s ním jeho milou, ach jo
Potkal jsem tam myslivečka a s ním jeho milou.

Milá už je amen konec lásky mí.
Já teď musím narukovat k infanterií, ach jo
Já teď musím narukovat k infanterií.

Ta Dalmacie samá skála je.
Tu musela vybojovat infanterie, Ach jo.
Tu musela vybojovat infanterie.

Infanteria to je láska má.
Ta musela bojovati za císaře pána, ach jo
Ta musela bojovati za císaře pána.

Za císaře pána a jeho rodinu.
Museli jsme vybojovat Hercegovinu, ach jo
Museli jsme vybojovat Hercegovinu.

Hercegovina je lautr rovina.
Tu musela vybojovat infanteria, ach jo
tu musela vybojovat infanteria.

nahoře na stráni schnellzug uhání.
A po stráni jsou schováni mohamedáni, ach jo
a po stráni jsou schováni mohamedáni.

a ty Turkyně to jsou strašný svině.
Císař pán je nemiluje ve svý krajině, ach jo
Císař pán je nemiluje ve svý krajině.

Tuto píseň skládal jeden hoch mladý.
který se dal skrz svou holku k infanterii, ach jo,
který se dal skrz svou holku k infanterii

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Slightly different lyrics:
Šel jsem šumným hájem, širou rovinou,
potkal jsem tam myslivečka, jak šel s mojí milou, ach jo,
potkal jsem tam myslivečka, jak šel s mojí milou

Už je, moje milá, konec lásky tý,
já musím dnes narukovat k infanterii, ach jo,
já musím dnes narukovat k infanterii

Infanteria, to je chlouba má,
ta musela bojovati za císaře pána, ach jo,
ta musela bojovati za císaře pána

Za císaře pána a jeho rodinu
museli jsme vybojovat Hercegovinu, ach jo,
museli jsme vybojovat Hercegovinu

Hercegovina, lautr rovina,
tu musela vybojovat infanteria, ach jo,
tu musela vybojovat infanteria

Infanteria mnoho zkusila,
ta musela bojovati, až krev stříkala, ach jo,
ta musela bojovati, až krev stříkala

A ty Turkyně tlustý jak dýně,
císař pán je nerad vidí ve svý krajině, ach jo,
císař pán je nerad vidí ve svý krajině

Tuto píseň skládal jeden hoch mladý,
který se dal skrz svou holku k infanterii, ach jo,
který se dal skrz svou holku k infanterii

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English Translation:
I walked through the dark grove, I walked through the valley.
I met a hunter there and with him his sweetheart.

My love, it's amen, the end of my love.
Now I have to enlist in the infantry.

Dalmatia itself is a rock.
The infantry had to fight here.

Infantry is my love.
She had to fight for the emperor.

For the lord emperor and his family.
We had to conquer Herzegovina.

Herzegovina is a lautr plain,
the infantry had to fight here.

Up on the hillside the schnellzug is speeding,
and the Mohammedans are hidden on the side.

And those Turks are terrible swine,
The lord emperor does not love them in his country.

A young lad composed this song,
who joined the infantry through his girlfriend

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My attempt at English poetic version:
I walked along the grove, the rustling leaves above
And there I saw a hunter holding in his arms my love, ach jo,
And there I saw a hunter holding in his arms my love

My love has torn me apart, my heart is cold and grey
So now I’ll join the infantry, I will enlist today, ach jo,
So now I’ll join the infantry, I will enlist today

The infantry is my pride, for the emperor it stands
So Herzegovina we conquered at our lord’s command, ach jo,
So Herzegovina we conquered at our lord’s command

Herzegovina, the plains and the hills
The infantry was fighting there until the blood was spilled, ach jo,
The infantry was fighting there until the blood was spilled

A train speeds through the plains, it runs across the hills
And there a thousand turks are hiding in the hillside, still, ach jo,
And there a thousand turks are hiding in the hillside, still

The ottomans are swine, they’re fat, they're shaped like balls
The emperor, he wants them not inside his country at all, ach jo,
The emperor, he wants them not inside his country at all

A young lad wrote this song, his heart was cold and grey
His sweetheart left him so he joined the army right away, ach jo,
His sweetheart left him so he joined the army right away

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La Marseillaise – Lullaby Version (Music Box)

Forte Republic 2024-01-27 | Good day! This is a lullaby instrumental version of “La Marseillaise,” the national anthem of France. “La Marseillaise was written by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg in 1792, originally titled “Chant de guerre pour l’Armée du Rhin,” or “War Song for the Army of the Rhine.”

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The image in the video is a painting titled "La Marseillaise," by Jean Beraud.

Lyrics:
Allons enfants de la Patrie,
Le jour de gloire est arrivé !
Contre nous de la tyrannie
L'étendard sanglant est levé, (bis)
Entendez-vous dans les campagnes
Mugir ces féroces soldats ?
Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras
Égorger vos fils, vos compagnes !

Refrain :
𝄆 Aux armes, citoyens,
Formez vos bataillons,
Marchons, marchons !
Qu'un sang impur
Abreuve nos sillons ! 𝄇

Que veut cette horde d'esclaves,
De traîtres, de rois conjurés ?
Pour qui ces ignobles entraves,
Ces fers dès longtemps préparés ? (bis)
Français, pour nous, ah ! quel outrage
Quels transports il doit exciter !
C'est nous qu'on ose méditer
De rendre à l'antique esclavage !

Refrain

Quoi ! des cohortes étrangères
Feraient la loi dans nos foyers !
Quoi ! Ces phalanges mercenaires
Terrasseraient nos fiers guerriers ! (bis)
Grand Dieu ! Par des mains enchaînées
Nos fronts sous le joug se ploieraient
De vils despotes deviendraient
Les maîtres de nos destinées !

Refrain

Tremblez, tyrans et vous perfides
L'opprobre de tous les partis,
Tremblez ! vos projets parricides
Vont enfin recevoir leurs prix ! (bis)
Tout est soldat pour vous combattre,
S'ils tombent, nos jeunes héros,
La terre en produit de nouveaux,
Contre vous tout prêts à se battre !

Refrain

Français, en guerriers magnanimes,
Portez ou retenez vos coups !
Épargnez ces tristes victimes,
À regret s'armant contre nous. (bis)
Mais ces despotes sanguinaires,
Mais ces complices de Bouillé,
Tous ces tigres qui, sans pitié,
Déchirent le sein de leur mère !

Refrain

Amour sacré de la Patrie,
Conduis, soutiens nos bras vengeurs
Liberté, Liberté chérie,
Combats avec tes défenseurs ! (bis)
Sous nos drapeaux que la victoire
Accoure à tes mâles accents,
Que tes ennemis expirants
Voient ton triomphe et notre gloire !

Refrain

Couplet des enfants:[c]
Nous entrerons dans la carrière
Quand nos aînés n'y seront plus,
Nous y trouverons leur poussière
Et la trace de leurs vertus (bis)
Bien moins jaloux de leur survivre
Que de partager leur cercueil,
Nous aurons le sublime orgueil
De les venger ou de les suivre.

Refrain

English Translation:
Arise, children of the Fatherland,
The day of glory has arrived!
Against us stands tyranny
Her bloody standard has been raised, (repeated)
Do you hear, in the countryside,
The roar of those ferocious soldiers?
They come right into your arms
To tear the throats of your sons, your wives!

Refrain:
𝄆 To arms, citizens,
Form your battalions,
Let’s March, let’s march!
So that an impure
blood waters our furrows! 𝄇

What does this horde of slaves
Of traitors and invented kings want?
For whom have these vile chains
These irons, been long prepared? (repeated)
Frenchmen, for us, ah! What outrage
What furious action it must arouse!
It is for us they dare plan
A return to the old slavery!

Refrain

What! Foreign cohorts!
Would make the law in our homes!
What! These mercenary phalanxes
Would strike down our proud warriors! (repeated)
Great God! By chained hands
Our brows would yield under the yoke
Vile despots would themselves become
The masters of our destinies!

Refrain

Tremble, tyrants and you traitors
The shame of all parties,
Tremble! Your parricidal schemes
Will finally receive their prize! (repeated)
Everyone is a soldier to combat you,
If they fall, our young heroes,
Will be produced anew from the ground,
Ready to fight against you!

Refrain

Frenchmen, as magnanimous warriors,
Bear or hold back your blows!
Spare those sorry victims,
For regretfully arming against us (repeated)
But these bloodthirsty despots
These accomplices of Bouillé
All these tigers who, mercilessly,
Tear apart their mother's breast!

Refrain

Sacred love of the Fatherland,
Lead, support our avenging arms
Liberty, cherished Liberty
Fight with your defenders! (repeated)
Under our flags may victory
Hurry to your manly accents
So that your expiring enemies
See your triumph and our glory!

Refrain

Children's verse:
We shall enter the (military) career
When our elders are no longer there
There we shall find their dust
And the trace of their virtues (repeated)
Much less keen to survive them
Than to share their coffins
We shall have the sublime pride
To avenge or follow them.

Refrain

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The Star-Spangled Banner – Piano Instrumental

Forte Republic 2024-01-13 | Hello! This is a piano instrumental of "The Star-Spangled Banner."
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"The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics of the anthem are a poem titled "Defence of Fort McHenry," written by Francis Scott Key after the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the Royal Navy. The anthem uses the tune of the British song "To Anacreon in Heaven," composed by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a men's social club in London. "The Star-Spangled Banner" was adopted as the national anthem of the United States on March 3, 1931, under President Herbert Hoover. The anthem has four verses, though only the first verse is commonly sung.

Lyrics:
O! say can you see by the dawn's early light,
⁠What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
⁠O'er the ramparts we watch'd, were so gallantly streaming?
And the Rockets' red glare, the Bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our Flag was still there;
⁠O! say does that star-spangled Banner yet wave,
⁠O'er the Land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
⁠Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
⁠As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream,
'Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
⁠That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more?
⁠Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave,
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave,
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
O'er the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.

O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand,
⁠Between their lov'd home and the war's desolation,
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the Heav'n rescued land,
⁠Praise the Power that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto—"In God is our Trust;"
⁠And the star-spangled Banner in triumph shall wave,
O'er the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.

Lyrics of "To Anacreon in Heaven"
1
To Anacreon in Heav'n, where he sat in full Glee,
A few Sons of Harmony sent a Petition,
That he their Inspirer and Patron would be;
When this answer arriv'd from the Jolly Old Grecian
"Voice, Fiddle, and Flute,
"no longer be mute,
"I'll lend you my Name and inspire you to boot,
"And, besides I'll instruct you, like me, to intwine
"The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's Vine."

2
The news through Olympus immediately flew;
When Old Thunder pretended to give himself Airs.
"If these Mortals are suffer'd their Scheme to persue,
"The Devil a Goddess will stay above Stairs.
"Hark! already they cry,
"In transports of Joy,
"Away to the Sons of Anacreon we'll fly,
"And there, with good Fellows, we'll learn to intwine
"The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's Vine.

3
"The Yellow-Hair'd God and his nine fusty Maids,
"From Helicon's banks will incontinent flee,
"Idalia will boast but of tenantless Shades,
"And the bi-forked Hill a mere Desart will be
"My Thunder no fear on't,
"Shall soon do it's Errand,
"And dam'me! I'll swinge the Ringleaders, I warrant.
"I'll trim the young Dogs, for thus daring to twine
"The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's Vine."

4
Apollo rose up, and said, "Pry'thee ne'er quarrel,
"Good King of the Gods, with my Vot'ries below:
"Your Thunder is useless"—then shewing his Laurel,
Cry'd "Sic evitabile fulmen, you know!
"Then over each head
"My Laurels I'll spread;
"So my Sons from your Crackers no Mischief shall dread,
"Whilst snug in their Club-Room, they jovially twine
"The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's Vine."

5
Next Momus got up with his risible Phiz,
And swore with Apollo he'd chearfully join—
"The full Tide of Harmony still shall be his,
"But the Song, and the Catch, and the Laugh shall be mine.
"Then, Jove, be not jealous
"Of these honest fellows."
Cry'd Jove, "We relent, since the Truth you now tell us;
"And swear by Old Styx, that they long shall intwine
"The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's Vine."

6
Ye Sons of Anacreon, then join Hand in Hand;
Preserve Unanimity, Friendship, and Love!
'Tis your's to support what's so happily plann'd;
You've the sanction of Gods, and the Fiat of Jove.
While thus we agree,
Our Toast let it be.
May our Club flourish happy, united, and free!
And long may the Sons of Anacreon intwine
The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's Vine.

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Deutschlandlied – Sovietwave Version

Forte Republic 2024-01-01 | Hello! This is an electronic instrumental version of Deutschlandlied.
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Deutschlandlied (officially titled "Das Lied der Deutschen") is the national anthem of Germany. Its tune, originally called "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser," was composed by Joseph Haydn in 1797 as a personal hymn for Francis II, who was the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and later the emperor of Austria. After the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, the Austrian Empire adopted the tune as its national anthem, changing the words from "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser" to "Gott erhalte, Gott Beschütze." Austro-Hungarian Empire used the tune as its national anthem until its dissolution in 1918.

The lyrics to the German national anthem were written by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben in 1841, prior to German unification. The first verse includes the words "Deutschland über alles in der welt," meaning "Germany, above all in the world." These words were intended to be a call to prioritize a united Germany over the sovereignty of the small German states. The geographical boundaries of Germany included in the first verse do not fall within modern Germany but were within the German Confederation when the lyrics were written. However, due to Germany's history in the first half of the twentieth century, the first verse is often criticized for having an imperialistic tone. Hoffmann von Fallersleben also intended for the lyrics to be used as a drinking song, and the second verse includes mentions of German women, wine, and music. Only the third verse, which calls for unity, justice, and freedom, has been used in Germany since the end of the Second World War.

The English hymn "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken" is sung to the tune of Deutschlandlied, as is the alma mater of Columbia University, "Stand Columbia."

The image in the video is a photograph of crowds at the Reichstag building on October 3, 1990.

Lyrics:
Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,
Über alles in der Welt,
Wenn es stets zu Schutz und Trutze
Brüderlich zusammenhält;
Von der Maas bis an die Memel,
Von der Etsch bis an den Belt:
Deutschland, Deutschland über alles,
Über alles in der Welt!

Deutsche Frauen, deutsche Treue,
Deutscher Wein und deutscher Sang
Sollen in der Welt behalten
Ihren alten schönen Klang,
Uns zu edler Tat begeistern
Unser ganzes Leben lang:
Deutsche Frauen, deutsche Treue,
Deutscher Wein und deutscher Sang!

Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
Für das deutsche Vaterland!
Danach lasst uns alle streben
Brüderlich mit Herz und Hand!
Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
Sind des Glückes Unterpfand;
Blüh im Glanze dieses Glückes,
Blühe, deutsches Vaterland!

Original lyrics:
Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser,
Unsern guten Kaiser Franz!
Lange lebe Franz der Kaiser,
In des Glückes hellstem Glanz!
Ihm erblühen Lorbeerreiser,
Wo er geht, zum Ehrenkranz!
Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser,
Unsern guten Kaiser Franz!

Later Austrian lyrics:
Gott erhalte, Gott beschütze
unsern Kaiser, unser Land!
Mächtig durch des Glaubens Stütze
führ' Er uns mit weiser Hand!
Lasst uns Seiner Väter Krone
schirmen wider jeden Feind;
Innig bleibt mit Habsburgs Throne
Österreichs Geschick vereint.

National Anthem of Poland – Performed by Refrigerator

Forte Republic 2023-12-03 | Hello! This is an instrumental of the Polish National Anthem, made from the beeping sound my refrigerator makes when it is left open.

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The Polish national anthem, "Poland is Not Yet Lost" (Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła), is also known as "Mazurek Dąbrowskiego" and the "Song of the Polish Legions in Italy" (Pieśń Legionów Polskich we Włoszech).

The original lyrics were written by Polish nobleman Jozef Wybicki in 1797 (the same year Haydn composed the Kaiserhymne). The modern official Polish lyrics differ from Wybicki's original lyrics. The music is an unattributed mazurka considered to be a folk tune. When the entente reconstituted Poland in 1918, "Mazurek Dąbrowskiego" became the de facto national anthem of the Second Polish Republic. It was then officially adopted in 1927.

"Mazurek Dąbrowskiego" anthem is the musical basis for the Pan-Slavic anthem "Hej, Sloveni."

Lyrics and Translation below:
Modern Official Polish Lyrics:
I
Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła,
Kiedy my żyjemy.
Co nam obca przemoc wzięła,
Szablą odbierzemy.

Refren:
𝄆 Marsz, marsz, Dąbrowski,
Z ziemi włoskiej do Polski.
Za twoim przewodem
Złączym się z narodem. 𝄇

II
Przejdziem Wisłę, przejdziem Wartę,
Będziem Polakami.
Dał nam przykład Bonaparte,
Jak zwyciężać mamy.

Refren

III
Jak Czarniecki do Poznania
Po szwedzkim zaborze,
Dla ojczyzny ratowania
Wrócim się przez morze.

Refren

IV
Już tam ojciec do swej Basi
Mówi zapłakany –
Słuchaj jeno, pono nasi
Biją w tarabany.

Refren

English Translation:
I
Poland has not yet perished,
So long as we still live.
What the foreign force has taken from us,
We shall with sabre retrieve.

Chorus:
𝄆 March, march, Dąbrowski,
From Italy to Poland.
Under your command
We shall rejoin the nation. 𝄇

II
We'll cross the Vistula, we'll cross the Warta,
We shall be Polish.
Bonaparte has given us the example
Of how we should prevail.

Chorus

III
Like Czarniecki to Poznań
After the Swedish annexation,
To save our homeland,
We shall return across the sea.

Chorus

IV
A father, in tears,
Says to his Basia
Listen, our boys are said
To be beating the tarabans.

Chorus

Wybicki's Original Lyrics:
I
Jeszcze Polska nie umarła,
Kiedy my żyjemy
Co nam obca moc wydarła,
Szablą odbijemy.

Refren:
𝄆 Marsz, marsz, Dąbrowski
Do Polski z ziemi włoski
Za twoim przewodem
Złączym się z narodem. 𝄇

II
Przejdziem Wisłę, przejdziem Wartę
Będziem Polakami
Dał nam przykład Bonaparte
Jak zwyciężać mamy.

Refren

III
Jak Czarniecki do Poznania
Wracał się przez morze
Dla ojczyzny ratowania
Po szwedzkim rozbiorze.

Refren

IV
Niemiec, Moskal nie osiędzie,
Gdy jąwszy pałasza,
Hasłem wszystkich zgoda będzie
I ojczyzna nasza

Refren

V
Już tam ojciec do swej Basi
Mówi zapłakany
Słuchaj jeno, pono nasi
Biją w tarabany.

Refren

VI
Na to wszystkich jedne głosy
Dosyć tej niewoli
Mamy racławickie kosy
Kościuszkę Bóg pozwoli.

Refren

English Translation:
I
Poland has not yet died,
So long as we still live.
What the foreign power has seized from us,
We shall recapture with a sabre.

Chorus:
𝄆 March, march, Dąbrowski,
To Poland from the Italian land.
Under your command
We shall rejoin the nation. 𝄇

II
We'll cross the Vistula, we'll cross the Warta,
We shall be Polish.
Bonaparte has given us the example
Of how we should prevail.

Chorus

III
Like Czarniecki to Poznań
Returned across the sea
To save his homeland
After the Swedish partition.

Chorus

IV
The German nor the Muscovite will settle
When, with a backsword in hand,
"Concord" will be everybody's watchword
And so will be our fatherland.

Chorus

V
A father, in tears,
Says to his Basia
Listen, our boys are said
To be beating the tarabans.

Chorus

VI
All exclaim in unison,
"Enough of this captivity!"
We've got the scythes of Racławice,
Kościuszko, if God wills.

Chorus

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The Red Army is the Strongest – Piano Instrumental (Красная Армия всех сильней)

Forte Republic 2023-11-18 | Hello! This is a piano instrumental of the Russian Civil War song "The Red Army is the Strongest" (Красная Армия всех сильней), also known as "White Army, Black Baron."

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"The Red Army is the Strongest" is a popular song composed by Samuil Pokrass (1897-1939), with lyrics by Pavel Grigorev (1895-1961). It was written during the Russian Civil War as an anthem for the Red Army. The song is also known by its first line, "White Army, Black Baron" (Белая Армия, Чëрный Барон). "Black Baron" was a nickname for Baron Pyotr Wrangel, the commanding general of the White Army. Wrangel was known to wear black uniforms.

Prior to 1937, the song was published under various titles, including "From the Taiga to the British Seas" (От тайги до британских морей) and "Red Army" (Красная Армия). In Austria, the tune was used for the song "Die Arbeiter von Wien" (The Workers of Vienna). The tune was also used for a Yugoslav song called "Demokratska NATO Armija" (Democratic NATO Army). There are many other versions of the song, including a variant sung by communists in Weimar Germany.

Lyrics and translations below:

Lyrics:
I
Белая армия, чёрный барон
Снова готовят нам царский трон,
Но от тайги до британских морей
Красная Армия всех сильней.

Припев:
Так пусть же Красная
Сжимает властно
Свой штык мозолистой рукой,
И все должны мы
Неудержимо
Идти в последний смертный бой!

II
Красная Армия, марш марш вперёд!
Реввоенсовет нас в бой зовёт.
Ведь от тайги до британских морей
Красная Армия всех сильней!

Припев

III
Мы раздуваем пожар мировой,
Церкви и тюрьмы сравняем с землёй.
Ведь от тайги до британских морей
Красная Армия всех сильней!

Припев

Transliteration:
I
Belaya armiya, chyorny baron
Snova gotovyat nam tsarsky tron,
No ot taygi do britanskikh morey
Krasnaya Armiya vsekh silney.

Pripev:
Tak pust zhe Krasnaya
Szhimayet vlastno
Svoy shtyk mozolistoy rukoy,
I vse dolzhny my
Neuderzhimo
Idti v posledny smertny boy!

II
Krasnaya Armiya, marsh marsh vperyod!
Revvoyensovet nas v boy zovyot.
Ved ot taygi da britanskikh morey
Krasnaya Armiya vsekh silney!

Pripev

III
My razduvayem pozhar mirovoy,
Tserkvi i tyurmy sravnyayem s zemlyoy.
Ved ot taygi da britanskikh morey
Krasnaya Armiya vsekh silney!

Pripev

English Literal Translation:
I
The White Army and the Black Baron
Are trying to restore the Tsar's throne,
But from the taiga to the British seas
The Red Army is the strongest of all!

Refrain:
Let the Red Army
Masterfully grip
Its bayonet with its toil-hardened hand,
And we must all
Irrepressibly
Go into a last deadly fight!

II
Red Army, march, march forward!
The Revolutionary Military Council calls us into battle.
For from the taiga to the British seas
The Red Army is the strongest of all!

Refrain

III
We are fanning the flames of a world-wide fire,
We will raze churches and prisons to the ground.
For from the taiga to the British seas
The Red Army is the strongest of all!

Refrain

English Poetic Translation:
I
White is the Army and Black the Baron
That wants to restore the old Tsar's throne
But from the taiga to British seas
The Red Army shall show its strength!

Chorus:
Let the Red Army
Take in its journey
A bayonet in hardened hands,
And now we must all
Unstopped by walls
Go into one last deadly stand!

II
Oh people's Red Army, let's march on our way!
The Rev-Mil-Council calls us into the fray.
For from the taiga to British seas
The Red Army shall show its strength!

Chorus

III
Worldwide infernos we seek to ignite,
Razing down churches and prisons in tide.
For from the taiga to British seas
The Red Army shall show its strength!

Chorus

Die Arbeiter von Wien:
I
Wir sind das Bauvolk der kommenden Welt,
Wir sind der Sämann, die Saat und das Feld.
Wir sind die Schnitter der kommenden Mahd,
Wir sind die Zukunft und wir sind die Tat.

Refrain:
So flieg’, du flammende, du rote Fahne,
Voran dem Wege, den wir ziehn.
Wir sind der Zukunft getreue Kämpfer.
Wir sind die Arbeiter von Wien.

II
Herrn der Fabriken, ihr Herren der Welt,
Endlich wird eure Herrschaft gefällt.
Wir, die Armee, die die Zukunft erschafft,
Sprengen der Fesseln engende Haft.

Refrain

III
Wie auch die Lüge uns schmähend umkreist,
Alles besiegend erhebt sich der Geist.
Kerker und Eisen zerbricht seine Macht,
Wenn wir uns ordnen zur letzten Schlacht.[2]

Refrain

Demokratska NATO Armija:
I
"Demokratska" NATO armija,
a gospodar proklet i zao!
(x2)

Refrain:
Živela naša Jugoslavija!
Živela naša Srbija!
Predsednik Sloba, juri napred,
trupama komanduje!

II
Slavna armija Jugoslavije,
ruši zle snove Amerike!
(x2)

III
Živeo predsednik Slobodan
Milošević, naš junak!
(x2)

IV
Savezna Republika
Jugoslavija!
(x2)

The music in this video was made using Logic Pro.

Die Wacht am Rhein – Marimba Version (Instrumental)

Forte Republic 2023-10-29 | Good day! This is a marimba instrumental version of "Die Wacht am Rhein." I hope you enjoy it.

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*This video is not intended to carry any political meaning.*

"Die Wacht am Rhein" is a German patriotic song popular during the Franco-Prussian War and both World Wars. Its lyrics were written as a poem by Max Schneckenburger during the Rhine Crisis of 1840, which stoked fears of French expansionism. The musical setting to the poem was composed by Karl Wilhelm in 1854. Though the song calls for the defense of the Rhine, the fighting in the aforementioned wars that followed took place instead in France, to the west of the Rhine.

"Die Wacht Am Rhein" has been adapted for use as an alma mater for several institutions, most notably "Bright College Years," the alma mater of Yale University since 1881. During the Great War, the use of a German tune was questioned, and the Yale College Council proposed a ban on the song. Most alumni clubs voted in favor of keeping it, and it has since remained as the university's alma mater.

The image shown in the video is a painting of the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress.

Lyrics of both the original song and the Yale University alma mater are provided below.

Lyrics
Es braust ein Ruf wie Donnerhall,
wie Schwertgeklirr und Wogenprall:
Zum Rhein, zum Rhein, zum deutschen Rhein,
wer will des Stromes Hüter sein?

Refrain:
Lieb Vaterland, magst ruhig sein,
lieb Vaterland, magst ruhig sein,
Fest steht und treu die Wacht, die Wacht am Rhein!
Fest steht und treu die Wacht, die Wacht am Rhein!

Durch Hunderttausend zuckt es schnell,
und aller Augen blitzen hell;
der Deutsche, bieder, fromm und stark,
beschützt die heil'ge Landesmark.

Refrain

Er blickt hinauf in Himmelsau'n,
wo Heldenväter niederschau'n,
und schwört mit stolzer Kampfeslust:
Du Rhein bleibst deutsch wie meine Brust!

Refrain

Solang ein Tropfen Blut noch glüht,
noch eine Faust den Degen zieht,
und noch ein Arm die Büchse spannt,
betritt kein Feind hier deinen Strand!

Refrain

Und ob mein Herz im Tode bricht,
wirst du doch drum ein Welscher nicht.
Reich, wie an Wasser deine Flut,
ist Deutschland ja an Heldenblut!

Refrain

Der Schwur erschallt, die Woge rinnt
die Fahnen flattern hoch im Wind:
Am Rhein, am Rhein, am deutschen Rhein
wir alle wollen Hüter sein.

Refrain

Yale Alma Mater
Bright College years, with pleasure rife,
The shortest, gladdest years of life;
How swiftly are ye gliding by!
Oh, why doth time so quickly fly?

The seasons come, the seasons go,
The earth is green or white with snow,
But time and change shall naught avail
To break the friendships formed at Yale.

In after years, should troubles rise
To cloud the blue of sunny skies,
How bright will seem, through mem’ry’s haze
Those happy, golden, bygone days!

Oh, let us strive that ever we
May let these words our watch-cry be,
Where’er upon life’s sea we sail:
“For God, for Country and for Yale!”

English Lyrics:
The cry resounds like thunder's peal,
Like crashing waves and clang of steel:
The Rhine, the Rhine, our German Rhine,
Who will defend our stream, divine?

Chorus:
Dear fatherland, no fear be thine,
Dear fatherland, no fear be thine,
Firm stands the Watch along, along the Rhine!
Firm stands the Watch along, along the Rhine!

They stand, a hundred thousand strong,
Quick to avenge their country's wrong,
With filial love their bosoms swell
They shall guard the sacred landmark well.

Chorus

He casts his eyes to heaven's blue,
From where past heroes hold the view,
And swears pugnaciously the oath,
You Rhine and I, stay German, both.

Chorus

While still remains one breath of life,
While still one fist can draw a knife,
One gun still fired with one hand,
No foe will stand on this Rhine sand.

Chorus

If my heart ne'er survives this stand,
You'll never fall in foreign hand,
Much, as your waters with no end,
Have we our heroes' blood to spend.

Chorus

The oath resounds, on rolls the wave,
The banners fly high, proud, and brave,
The Rhine, the Rhine, the German Rhine
We all shall stand to hold the line!

Italian Lyrics:
Sopra l’Alpe d’Oulx, ai venti,
sta l’Alpino in sentinella:
come scroscio di torrenti,
come rombo di procella,
giunge un grido “ Al Reno, al Reno! „
Fratel mio, tu veglia al Reno;
io sull’Alpe itala sto.

Russian Lyrics:
Призыв — как громовой раскат,
Как звон мечей и волн набат:
«На Рейн, на Рейн, кто станет в строй
Немецкий Рейн закрыть собой?»

Refrain:
Спокоен будь, край отчий наш:
Спокоен будь, край отчий наш:
Твёрд и надёжен страж, на Рейне страж!
Твёрд и надёжен страж, на Рейне страж!

Звучит присяга, плещет вал,
Знамёна ветер полоскал:
На Рейн, на Рейн, готов любой
Немецкий Рейн закрыть собой!

Refrain

This music was made using Logic Pro.

Oh Freedom (Before Id Be a Slave) – Piano Instrumental

Forte Republic 2023-10-15 | Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/0Gt38YT4AQDg4xRLFH5xuD?si=BNV8P5WQTlqoVoj8rlwA6A
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Hello! This is a piano instrumental of the spiritual "Oh Freedom," also called "Before I'd Be a Slave."

"Oh Freedom" is a post-Civil War freedom song, first published in 1899 in William E. Barton's "Old Plantation Hymns" songbook. The song was popular during the American Civil Rights Era (1950s-1960s).

The image in the video is a painting of the Belle Grove Plantation, by American historical painter Keith Rocco .

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Lyrics:
Oh, freedom, Oh, freedom
Oh freedom over me
And before I'd be a slave
I'd be buried in my grave
And go home to my Lord and be free

No more running, no more running
No more running over me
And before I'd be a slave
I'd be buried in my grave
And go home to my Lord and be free

No more crying, no more crying
No more crying over me
And before I'd be a slave
I'd be buried in my grave
And go home to my Lord and be free

There’ll be singing, there’ll be singing
There’ll be singing over me
And before I'd be a slave
I'd be buried in my grave
And go home to my Lord and be free

There’ll be shouting, there’ll be shouting
There’ll be shouting over me
And before I'd be a slave
I'd be buried in my grave
And go home to my Lord and be free

Oh, freedom, Oh, freedom
Oh freedom over me
And before I'd be a slave
I'd be buried in my grave
And go home to my Lord and be free

The music in this video was made using Logic Pro.

Patrioticheskaya Pesnya – Lullaby Version (Music Box)

Forte Republic 2023-10-01 | Good day! This is a lullaby version of the "Patriotic Song" (Патриотическая Песня), which was the national anthem of Russia during the Yeltsin era.

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The piece was composed by Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka in 1833 and was originally entitled “Motif de chant national.” In November of 1990, the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR approved the song as the national anthem of the RSFSR. After December of 1991, the piece continued to be used as the anthem of the Russian Federation until 2000. The anthem had no official lyrics; unofficial lyrics were proposed but were never adopted.

The image in the video is a photo of people holding a large tricolor in the Red Square after the failed communist hardliner coup in August of 1991.

Unofficial lyrics:
Славься, славься, родина-Россия!
Сквозь века и грозы ты прошла
И сияет солнце над тобою
И судьба твоя светла.

Над старинным московским Кремлём
Вьётся знамя с двуглавым орлом
И звучат священные слова:
Славься, Русь – Отчизна моя!

English Translation:
Be glorious, be glorious, Mother Russia!
You passed through the centuries and the thunderstorms
And the sun shines above you
And your destiny is bright.

Above the ancient Moscow Kremlin
Waves the banner with the two-headed eagle
And the sacred words resound:
Be glorious, Russia – my Fatherland!

The song is also used with the following lyrics as an ode to Moscow:
Здравствуй, славная столица,
Сердце Родины - Москва!
Вся страна тобой гордится,
Городов родных глава.

Русь великую сплотила
Ты вокруг твердынь Кремля,
И окрепла наша сила
Да прославилась земля.

Ты как воин отражала
Каждый вражеский набег.
Ты Отчизну отстояла
от захватчиков навек!

И когда народ встречает
Дни побед и торжества,
Взор и сердце обращает
Он всегда к тебе, Москва!

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National Anthem of the Republic of China – Piano Instrumental (Taiwan)

Forte Republic 2023-09-23 | Hello! This is a piano instrumental of the national anthem of the Republic of China (Taiwan).

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The national anthem of the Republic of China (中華民國國歌) is informally called "San Min Chu-i" (三民主義) from its opening line, which cites the "Three Principles of the People," a central political philosophy of the Kuomintang. The text for the anthem was adapted from a 1924 speech by Sun Yat-sen, who was the first head of state of the Republic of China. The Kuomintang party held a contest for the accompanying music, and Cheng Maoyun's composition was chosen for the national anthem.

The "Three Principles of the People" was adopted in 1930 as the national anthem of China (then the Republic of China). Following its defeat by the Chinese Communist Party in the Chinese Civil War in 1949, the government of the Republic of China was relegated to the Island of Taiwan, where "San Min Chu-i" remains the national anthem. The war ended with Communist control of mainland China, and the ROC anthem was replaced by the "March of the Volunteers" in Mainland China.

Lyrics and Transliterations:

Lyrics:
三民主義，吾黨所宗，
以建民國，以進大同，
咨爾多士，為民前鋒，
夙夜匪懈，主義是從，
矢勤矢勇，必信必忠，
一心一德，貫徹始終。

Transliteration:
San-min-chu-i, Wu-tang so tsung;
i-chien min-kuo, i-chin ta-t'ung.
Tzu erh to-shih, wei min ch'ien-feng;
su-yeh fei-hsieh, chu-i shih ts'ung.
Shih ch'in shih yung, pi hsin pi chung;
i-hsin i-te, kuan-ch'e shih-chung.

Literal English Translation:
Three people's principles
The foundation of our party.
Using this, we establish the Republic;
Using this, we advance into a state of total peace.
Oh, you, righteous men,
For the people, be the vanguard.
Without resting day or night,
Follow the Principles.
Swear to be diligent; swear to be courageous.
Obliged to be trustworthy; obliged to be loyal.
With one heart and one virtue,
We carry through until the very end...

Official English Version (Poetic Translation):
San Min Chu-i
Our aim shall be:
To found a free land,
World peace, be our stand.
Lead on, comrades,
Vanguards ye are.
Hold fast your aim,
By sun and star.
Be earnest and brave,
Your country to save,
One heart, one soul,
One mind, one goal...

Korean Transcription:
삼민주의, 오당소종,
이건민국, 이진대동,
자이다사, 위민전봉,
숙야비해, 주의시종,
시근시용, 필신필충,
일심일덕, 관철시종!

Japanese Transcription:
さんびんしゅぎ, ごとうしょしゅう
いけんびんこく, いしんだいどう
しじたし, いびんぜんほう
しゅくやひけ, しゅぎぜじゅう
しきんしゆう, ひっしんひっちゅう
いっしんいっとく, かんてっししゅう

Vietnamese Transcription:
Tam Dân Chủ nghĩa, ngô đảng sở tông;
Dĩ kiến Dân Quốc, dĩ tiến đại đồng.
Tư nhĩ đa sĩ, vì dân tiền phong;
Túc dạ phỉ giải, Chủ nghĩa thị tòng.
Thỉ cần thỉ dũng, tất tín tất trung;
Nhất tâm nhất đức, quán triệt thủy chung.

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The Internationale – Sovietwave Version

Forte Republic 2023-09-17 | Good day! This is an electronic instrumental version of "The Internationale" (French: "L'Internationale"). I hope you enjoy it.

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"The Internationale" (French: "L'Internationale") has been the standard anthem of communist and socialist movements since the late 1800s, serving as the national anthem of the Soviet Union until 1944. The melody was composed by Pierre De Geyter (1848-1932), and its adoption as the official anthem of the Second Internationale made it famous. The original lyrics were written in French, and it is among the most universally translated anthems in history.

The image shown in the video is a photograph of the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

This instrumental is not an endorsement of any political ideology and is not to be interpreted as such.

French, English, Russian, German, Chinese, and Korean lyrics below:

Original French Lyrics:
Debout, les damnés de la terre
Debout, les forçats de la faim
La raison tonne en son cratère
C'est l'éruption de la fin
Du passé faisons table rase
Foule esclave, debout, debout
Le monde va changer de base
Nous ne sommes rien, soyons tout

C'est la lutte finale
Groupons-nous, et demain
L'Internationale
Sera le genre humain.

English Lyrics:
Arise, you prisoners of starvation!
Arise, you wretched of the earth!
For justice thunders condemnation.
A better world's in birth.
No more tradition's chains shall bind us.
Arise, you slaves, no more in thrall!
The earth shall rise on new foundations.
We have been naught, we shall be all.

'Tis the final conflict;
Let each stand in his place.
The international working class
Shall be the human race.

Russian Lyrics (Soviet Anthem):
Вставай, проклятьем заклеймённый,
Весь мир голодных и рабов!
Кипит наш разум возмущённый
И в смертный бой вести готов.
Весь мир насилья мы разрушим
До основанья, а затем
Мы наш, мы новый мир построим, –
Кто был ничем, тот станет всем.

Припев:
Это есть наш последний
И решительный бой;
С Интернационалом
Воспрянет род людской!

German Lyrics:
Wacht auf, Verdammte dieser Erde,
die stets man noch zum Hungern zwingt!
Das Recht wie Glut im Kraterherde
nun mit Macht zum Durchbruch dringt.
Reinen Tisch macht mit dem Bedränger!
Heer der Sklaven, wache auf!
Ein Nichts zu sein, tragt es nicht länger,
alles zu werden, strömt zuhauf.

Chorus:
Völker, hört die Signale!
Auf, zum letzten Gefecht!
Die Internationale
erkämpft das Menschenrecht!

Chinese Lyrics:
起来，饥寒交迫的奴隶！
起来，全世界受苦的人！
满腔的热血已经沸腾，
要为真理而斗争！
旧世界打个落花流水，
奴隶们起来，起来！
不要说我们一无所有，
我们要做天下的主人！

[副歌:]
这是最后的斗争，
团结起来到明天，
英特纳雄耐尔
就一定要实现!

Korean Lyrics:
깨어라, 노동자의 군대 굴레를 벗어 던져라
정의는 분화구의 불길처럼 힘차게 타온다
대지의 저주받은 땅에 새 세계를 펼칠 때
어떠한 낡은 쇠사슬도 우리를 막지 못 해

후렴:
들어라 최후 결전 투쟁의 외침을
민중이여 해방의 깃발 아래 서자
역사의 참된 주인 승리를 위하여
인터내셔널 깃발 아래 전진 또 전진!

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The Bonnie Blue Flag – Piano Instrumental (The Irish Jaunting Car)

Forte Republic 2023-09-09 | Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/0Gt38YT4AQDg4xRLFH5xuD?si=BNV8P5WQTlqoVoj8rlwA6A
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Good day! This is a piano instrumental of “The Bonnie Blue Flag,” an American Civil War song sung to the tune of “The Irish Jaunting Car.”

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I am making instrumentals of my 15 favorite Civil War songs (in no particular order) – this is number 10!

“The Bonnie Blue Flag” was a popular Southern marching song during the American Civil War. The title referred to the Bonnie Blue flag, a banner associated at different points in history with the Republic of Texas, the Republic of West Florida, and eventually the Southern states in the American Civil War.

The song’s melody was taken from “The Irish Jaunting Car,” an Irish folk song that was popular among the Irish diaspora in the United States. During the war, Union versions also emerged, such as the “Song of the Irish Volunteers” and other versions that described the flag of the United States instead of the Bonnie Blue flag.

The image shown in the video is a painting by Mort Künstler, titled "The Strangest Race."

The music in this video was made using Logic Pro.

Let the Thunder of Victory Rumble! – Marimba Version

Forte Republic 2023-09-03 | Good day! This is a marimba instrumental version of the song "Let the Thunder of Victory Rumble!" (Гром победы, раздавайся).

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"Let the Thunder of Victory Rumble!" (Гром победы, раздавайся!) was an unofficial Russian national anthem during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The piece is a polonaise composed by Osip Kozlovsky (1759-1831), a composer of Polish origin who became famous in Russia for his patriotic polonaises. Kozlovsky wrote most of his music for the Russian Imperial Court.

The lyrics to the anthem were written by Gavrila Derzhavin (1743-1816), a Russian statesman who was one of the country's most celebrated poets before Alexander Pushkin. The song commemorates the capture of the Ottoman fortress Izmail by the Russian general Alexander Suvorov, an event that effectively ended the Seventh Russo-Turkish War. The song's chorus praises Catherine the Great. A variation of the piece is quoted in Tchaikovsky's "The Queen of Spades" (Pique Dame).

The image in the video is a painting by Mikhail Matveevich Ivanov of the Russian imperial fleet in the Bosphorus Strait.

Lyrics, translation, and transliteration below:

Lyrics:
Гром победы, раздавайся!
Веселися, храбрый Росс!
Звучной славой украшайся.
Магомета ты потрёс!

Припев:
Славься сим, Екатерина!
Славься, нежная к нам мать!

Зри, премудрая царица!
Зри, великая жена!
Что Твой взгляд, Твоя десница
Наш закон, душа одна.

Translation:
Triumph's thunder louder, higher!
Russian pride is running high!
Russia's glory sparkles brighter!
We have humbled Muslim might.

Refrain:
Hail to you for this, oh Catherine!
Gentle mother to us all!

Brilliant Empress, gaze at visions,
And behold, a woman great:
In your thoughts and your decisions
As one soul we all partake.

Transliteration:
Grom pobedy, razdavaysya!
Veselisya, khrabry Ross!
Zvuchnoy slavoy ukrashaysya.
Magometa ty potryos!

Refrain:
Slav'sya sim, Yekaterina!
Slav'sya, nezhnaya k nam mat'!

Zri, premudraya tsaritsa!
Zri, velikaya zhena!
Chto Tvoy vzglyad, Tvoya desnitsa
Nash zakon, dusha odna.

The music in this video was made using Logic Pro.

19th Century German Patriotic Songs on Piano

Forte Republic 2023-08-26 | Good day! This is a video featuring piano instrumentals of the four most popular German patriotic anthems of the 19th Century (Unification Era). Timestamps below:

0:04 Die Wacht am Rhein – The Watch on the Rhine
2:16 Was ist des Deutschen Vaterland? – What is the German's Fatherland?
4:44 O Deutschland hoch in Ehren – O Germany High in Honor
6:09 Das Lied der Deutschen – The Song of the Germans

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Mazurek Dąbrowskiego – Lullaby Version (Music Box)

Forte Republic 2023-08-20 | Hello! This is a lullaby instrumental version of the Polish national anthem, "Poland is Not Yet Lost" (Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła), also known as "Mazurek Dąbrowskiego" and the "Song of the Polish Legions in Italy" (Pieśń Legionów Polskich we Włoszech).

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The original lyrics were written by Polish nobleman Jozef Wybicki in 1797 (the same year Haydn composed the Kaiserhymne). The modern official Polish lyrics differ from Wybicki's original lyrics. The music is an unattributed mazurka considered to be a folk tune. When the entente reconstituted Poland in 1918, "Mazurek Dąbrowskiego" became the de facto national anthem of the Second Polish Republic. It was then officially adopted in 1927.

"Mazurek Dąbrowskiego" anthem is the musical basis for the Pan-Slavic anthem "Hej, Sloveni."

The image shown in the video is a portion of the Racławice Panorama, a cycloramic painting by Jan Styka and Wojciech Kossak depicting the Battle of Racławice, during the Kościuszko uprising.

Lyrics and Translation below:
Modern Official Polish Lyrics:
I
Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła,
Kiedy my żyjemy.
Co nam obca przemoc wzięła,
Szablą odbierzemy.

Refren:
𝄆 Marsz, marsz, Dąbrowski,
Z ziemi włoskiej do Polski.
Za twoim przewodem
Złączym się z narodem. 𝄇

II
Przejdziem Wisłę, przejdziem Wartę,
Będziem Polakami.
Dał nam przykład Bonaparte,
Jak zwyciężać mamy.

Refren

III
Jak Czarniecki do Poznania
Po szwedzkim zaborze,
Dla ojczyzny ratowania
Wrócim się przez morze.

Refren

IV
Już tam ojciec do swej Basi
Mówi zapłakany –
Słuchaj jeno, pono nasi
Biją w tarabany.

Refren

English Translation:
I
Poland has not yet perished,
So long as we still live.
What the foreign force has taken from us,
We shall with sabre retrieve.

Chorus:
𝄆 March, march, Dąbrowski,
From Italy to Poland.
Under your command
We shall rejoin the nation. 𝄇

II
We'll cross the Vistula, we'll cross the Warta,
We shall be Polish.
Bonaparte has given us the example
Of how we should prevail.

Chorus

III
Like Czarniecki to Poznań
After the Swedish annexation,
To save our homeland,
We shall return across the sea.

Chorus

IV
A father, in tears,
Says to his Basia
Listen, our boys are said
To be beating the tarabans.

Chorus

Wybicki's Original Lyrics:
I
Jeszcze Polska nie umarła,
Kiedy my żyjemy
Co nam obca moc wydarła,
Szablą odbijemy.

Refren:
𝄆 Marsz, marsz, Dąbrowski
Do Polski z ziemi włoski
Za twoim przewodem
Złączym się z narodem. 𝄇

II
Przejdziem Wisłę, przejdziem Wartę
Będziem Polakami
Dał nam przykład Bonaparte
Jak zwyciężać mamy.

Refren

III
Jak Czarniecki do Poznania
Wracał się przez morze
Dla ojczyzny ratowania
Po szwedzkim rozbiorze.

Refren

IV
Niemiec, Moskal nie osiędzie,
Gdy jąwszy pałasza,
Hasłem wszystkich zgoda będzie
I ojczyzna nasza

Refren

V
Już tam ojciec do swej Basi
Mówi zapłakany
Słuchaj jeno, pono nasi
Biją w tarabany.

Refren

VI
Na to wszystkich jedne głosy
Dosyć tej niewoli
Mamy racławickie kosy
Kościuszkę Bóg pozwoli.

Refren

English Translation:
I
Poland has not yet died,
So long as we still live.
What the foreign power has seized from us,
We shall recapture with a sabre.

Chorus:
𝄆 March, march, Dąbrowski,
To Poland from the Italian land.
Under your command
We shall rejoin the nation. 𝄇

II
We'll cross the Vistula, we'll cross the Warta,
We shall be Polish.
Bonaparte has given us the example
Of how we should prevail.

Chorus

III
Like Czarniecki to Poznań
Returned across the sea
To save his homeland
After the Swedish partition.

Chorus

IV
The German nor the Muscovite will settle
When, with a backsword in hand,
"Concord" will be everybody's watchword
And so will be our fatherland.

Chorus

V
A father, in tears,
Says to his Basia
Listen, our boys are said
To be beating the tarabans.

Chorus

VI
All exclaim in unison,
"Enough of this captivity!"
We've got the scythes of Racławice,
Kościuszko, if God wills.

Chorus

The music in this video was made using Logic Pro.

When This Cruel War is Over – Piano Instrumental (American Civil War Song)

Forte Republic 2023-08-15 | Listen on Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/0Gt38YT4AQDg4xRLFH5xuD?si=BNV8P5WQTlqoVoj8rlwA6A
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Good day! This is a piano instrumental of the American Civil War song "When This Cruel War is Over," also known as "Weeping, Sad, and Lonely."

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"When This Cruel War is Over" was written by Charles Carrol Sawyer, with music by Henry Tucker. The song was published in 1863 and was popular among both Union and Confederate soldiers, selling over a million copies during the war. References to the Union flag and Union uniforms in the song were altered in Southern versions.

The tune's popularity led to the emergence of alternate lyrics, such as "When Upon the Field of Glory" and "When This Cruel Draft is Over."

The image in the video is a painting titled "Angel of the Battlefield," by Mort Künstler. The painting depicts American nurse Clara Barton caring for wounded soldiers in Northern Virginia after the battle of Cedar Mountain in 1862. Barton became known as the "Angel of the Battlefield." She would go on to found the American Red Cross in 1881.

Lyrics:
I.
Dearest love, do you remember,
When we last did meet,
How you told me that you loved me,
Kneeling at my feet?
Oh! how proud you stood before me
In your suit of blue,
When you vow'd to me and country
Ever to be true.

Chorus:
Weeping, sad and lonely,
Hopes and fears how vain! Yet praying,
When the cruel war is over,
Praying that we meet again!

II.
When the summer breeze is sighing
Mournfully along;
Or when autumn leaves are falling,
Sadly breathes the song.
Oft in dreams I see thee lying
On the battle plain,
Lonely, wounded, even dying,
Calling, but in vain.

(Chorus)

III.
If amid the din of battle
Nobly you should fall,
Far away from those who love you,
None to hear you call
Who would whisper words of comfort,
Who would soothe your pain?
Ah! the many cruel fancies
Ever in my brain.

(Chorus)

IV.
But our country called you, darling,
Angels cheer your way;
While our nation's sons are fighting,
We can only pray.
Nobly strike for God and liberty,
Let all nations see
How we love the starry banner,
Emblem of the free.

(Chorus)

The music in this video was made using Logic Pro.

La Marseillaise – Sovietwave Version

Forte Republic 2023-08-11 | Good day! This is an electronic instrumental version of “La Marseillaise,” the national anthem of France. “La Marseillaise was written by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle in Strasbourg in 1792, originally titled “Chant de guerre pour l’Armée du Rhin,” or “War Song for the Army of the Rhine.”

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Lyrics:
Allons enfants de la Patrie,
Le jour de gloire est arrivé !
Contre nous de la tyrannie
L'étendard sanglant est levé, (bis)
Entendez-vous dans les campagnes
Mugir ces féroces soldats ?
Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras
Égorger vos fils, vos compagnes !

Refrain :
𝄆 Aux armes, citoyens,
Formez vos bataillons,
Marchons, marchons !
Qu'un sang impur
Abreuve nos sillons ! 𝄇

Que veut cette horde d'esclaves,
De traîtres, de rois conjurés ?
Pour qui ces ignobles entraves,
Ces fers dès longtemps préparés ? (bis)
Français, pour nous, ah ! quel outrage
Quels transports il doit exciter !
C'est nous qu'on ose méditer
De rendre à l'antique esclavage !

Refrain

Quoi ! des cohortes étrangères
Feraient la loi dans nos foyers !
Quoi ! Ces phalanges mercenaires
Terrasseraient nos fiers guerriers ! (bis)
Grand Dieu ! Par des mains enchaînées
Nos fronts sous le joug se ploieraient
De vils despotes deviendraient
Les maîtres de nos destinées !

Refrain

Tremblez, tyrans et vous perfides
L'opprobre de tous les partis,
Tremblez ! vos projets parricides
Vont enfin recevoir leurs prix ! (bis)
Tout est soldat pour vous combattre,
S'ils tombent, nos jeunes héros,
La terre en produit de nouveaux,
Contre vous tout prêts à se battre !

Refrain

Français, en guerriers magnanimes,
Portez ou retenez vos coups !
Épargnez ces tristes victimes,
À regret s'armant contre nous. (bis)
Mais ces despotes sanguinaires,
Mais ces complices de Bouillé,
Tous ces tigres qui, sans pitié,
Déchirent le sein de leur mère !

Refrain

Amour sacré de la Patrie,
Conduis, soutiens nos bras vengeurs
Liberté, Liberté chérie,
Combats avec tes défenseurs ! (bis)
Sous nos drapeaux que la victoire
Accoure à tes mâles accents,
Que tes ennemis expirants
Voient ton triomphe et notre gloire !

Refrain

Couplet des enfants:[c]
Nous entrerons dans la carrière
Quand nos aînés n'y seront plus,
Nous y trouverons leur poussière
Et la trace de leurs vertus (bis)
Bien moins jaloux de leur survivre
Que de partager leur cercueil,
Nous aurons le sublime orgueil
De les venger ou de les suivre.

Refrain

English Translation:
Arise, children of the Fatherland,
The day of glory has arrived!
Against us stands tyranny
Her bloody standard has been raised, (repeated)
Do you hear, in the countryside,
The roar of those ferocious soldiers?
They come right into your arms
To tear the throats of your sons, your wives!

Refrain:
𝄆 To arms, citizens,
Form your battalions,
Let’s March, let’s march!
So that an impure
blood waters our furrows! 𝄇

What does this horde of slaves
Of traitors and invented kings want?
For whom have these vile chains
These irons, been long prepared? (repeated)
Frenchmen, for us, ah! What outrage
What furious action it must arouse!
It is for us they dare plan
A return to the old slavery!

Refrain

What! Foreign cohorts!
Would make the law in our homes!
What! These mercenary phalanxes
Would strike down our proud warriors! (repeated)
Great God! By chained hands
Our brows would yield under the yoke
Vile despots would themselves become
The masters of our destinies!

Refrain

Tremble, tyrants and you traitors
The shame of all parties,
Tremble! Your parricidal schemes
Will finally receive their prize! (repeated)
Everyone is a soldier to combat you,
If they fall, our young heroes,
Will be produced anew from the ground,
Ready to fight against you!

Refrain

Frenchmen, as magnanimous warriors,
Bear or hold back your blows!
Spare those sorry victims,
For regretfully arming against us (repeated)
But these bloodthirsty despots
These accomplices of Bouillé
All these tigers who, mercilessly,
Tear apart their mother's breast!

Refrain

Sacred love of the Fatherland,
Lead, support our avenging arms
Liberty, cherished Liberty
Fight with your defenders! (repeated)
Under our flags may victory
Hurry to your manly accents
So that your expiring enemies
See your triumph and our glory!

Refrain

Children's verse:
We shall enter the (military) career
When our elders are no longer there
There we shall find their dust
And the trace of their virtues (repeated)
Much less keen to survive them
Than to share their coffins
We shall have the sublime pride
To avenge or follow them.

Refrain

The music in this video was made using Logic Pro.

Marcia Reale dOrdinanza – Piano Instrumental (National Anthem of the Kingdom of Italy)

Forte Republic 2023-08-07 | Good day! This is a piano instrumental of the national anthem of the Kingdom of Italy, “Marcia Reale d’Ordinanza” (Royal March of Ordinance), also known as “Fanfara Reale” (Royal Fanfare). I hope you enjoy it!

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“Marcia Reale d’Ordinanza” was composed by Giuseppe Gazette in 1831 as both the Sardinian national anthem and the royal anthem of the House of Savoy. It was the national anthem of the Kingdom of Italy from 1861 to 1943, when Umberto II replaced it with the patriotic song “La Leggenda del Piave.” “Marcia Reale d’Ordinanza” was reinstated in 1944 when the allies captured Rome. It remained the national anthem of Italy until the 1946 Italian institutional referendum, after which the royal march was replaced with the modern Italian anthem, “Il Canto degli Italiani” (Inno di Mameli).

The picture in the video is a painting titled “Il panorama di Torino dalla villa Barbaroux,” by Italian Painter Francesco Gamba (1818-1887).

Lyrics:
Evviva il Re ! Evviva il Re ! Evviva il Re !
Chinate oh Reggimenti le Bandiere al nostro Re
La gloria e la fortuna dell'Italia con Lui è
Bei Fanti di Savoia gridate evviva il Re !
Chinate oh Reggimenti le Bandiere al nostro Re !

Viva il Re ! Viva il Re ! Viva il Re !
Le trombe liete squillano
Viva il Re ! Viva il Re ! Viva il Re !
Con esso i canti echeggiano
Rullano i tamburi le trombe squillano squillano
Cantici di gloria eleviamo con fervor
Viva l'Italia, l'Italia evviva ! Evviva il Re !
Viva L'Italia, evviva il Re ! Evviva il Re !!!
Viva l'Italia ! Viva il Re ! Viva il Re !
Tutta l'Italia spera in Te, crede in Te,
gloria di nostra stirpe, segnal di libertà,
di libertà, di libertà, di libertà.
Quando i nemici agognino
i nostri campi floridi
dove gli eroi pugnarono
nelle trascorse età,
finché duri l'amor di patria fervido,
finché regni la nostra civiltà.
L'Alpe d'Italia libera,
dal bel parlare angelico,
piede d'odiato barbaro
giammai calpesterà
finché duri l'amor di patria fervido,
finche regni la nostra civiltà.
Come falange unanime
i figli della Patria
si copriran di gloria
gridando libertà.

English Translation:
Long live the King! Long live the King! Long live the King!
Lower, oh Regiments, your Standards to our King!
Italy's Glory and Fortune Lie with Him
Savoy's Grand Soldiers, Cry Out "Long Live the King!"
Lower, oh Regiments, your Standards to our King!

Long live the King! Long live the King! Long live the King!
The trumpets joyously sound
Long live the King! Long live the King! Long live the King!
With this, the cries echo
The drums roll, the trumpets sound and sound again
Canticles of glory we fervently raise
Long Live Italy, Italy, Huzzah! Long Live the King!
Long Live Italy, Long Live the King! Long Live the King!
Long Live Italy, Long Live the King! Long Live the King!
All of Italy puts her faith in you, believes in you,
glory of our race, sign of freedom,
of freedom, of freedom, of freedom.
When the enemy comes seeking
our flourishing fields
where heroes fought
in the bygone ages
as long as our fervent patriotic love lasts
as long as our civilization reigns
The Italian Alps will be free,
angelic speech will reign,
the hated barbarian
will never set foot here
as long as our fervent patriotic love lasts
as long as our civilization reigns
As a single phalanx
the sons of the Fatherland
will cover themselves with glory
shouting "Freedom!”

The music in this video was made using Logic Pro.