FOR MANY Poland face an uphill battle to survive the group stages at Euro 2020 – but if their national anthem is anything to go by they will not go down without a fight.
The opening lines to Mazurek Dabrowskiego declares: “Poland has not yet perished – so long as we still live.”
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And with captain Robert Lewandowski in the side his goals could fire them into an unlikely trip through the knockout stages – where anything is possible.
What are the lyrics to “Mazurek Dabrowskiego?”
Verse 1
Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła,
Kiedy my żyjemy.
Co nam obca przemoc wzięła,
Szablą odbierzemy.
Chorus
Marsz, marsz, Dąbrowski,
Z ziemi włoskiej do Polski.
Za twoim przewodem
Złączym się z narodem.
Verse 2
Przejdziem Wisłę, przejdziem Wartę,
Będziem Polakami.
Dał nam przykład Bonaparte,
Jak zwyciężać mamy.
Chorus
Marsz, marsz, Dąbrowski,
Z ziemi włoskiej do Polski.
Za twoim przewodem
Złączym się z narodem.
Verse 3
Jak Czarniecki do Poznania
Po szwedzkim zaborze,
Dla ojczyzny ratowania
Wrócim się przez morze.
Chorus
Marsz, marsz, Dąbrowski,
Z ziemi włoskiej do Polski.
Za twoim przewodem
Złączym się z narodem.
Verse 4
Już tam ojciec do swej Basi
Mówi zapłakany –
Słuchaj jeno, pono nasi
Biją w tarabany.
Chorus
Marsz, marsz, Dąbrowski,
Z ziemi włoskiej do Polski.
Za twoim przewodem
Złączym się z narodem
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What are the lyrics in English?
Verse 1
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.
Verse 2
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
March, march, Dąbrowski,
From Italy to Poland.
Under your command
We shall rejoin the nation.
Verse 3
Like Czarniecki to Poznań
After the Swedish annexation,
To save our homeland,
We shall return across the sea.
Chorus
March, march, Dąbrowski,
From Italy to Poland.
Under your command
We shall rejoin the nation.
Verse 4
A father, in tears,
Says to his Basia
Listen, our boys are said
To be beating the tarabans.
Chorus
March, march, Dąbrowski,
From Italy to Poland.
Under your command
We shall rejoin the nation.
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
