La Marseillaise

Album: National Anthems (1792)
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  • Allons enfants de la Patrie
    Le jour de gloire est arriv !
    Contre nous de la tyrannie
    L'tendard sanglant est lev
    Entendez-vous dans nos campagnes
    Mugir ces froces soldats?
    Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras.
    gorger vos fils, vos compagnes!

    (chorus:)
    Aux armes citoyens
    Formez vos bataillons
    Marchons, marchons
    Qu'un sang impur
    Abreuve nos sillons

    Que veut cette horde d'esclaves
    De tratres, de rois conjurs?
    Pour qui ces ignobles entraves
    Ces fers ds longtemps prpars?
    Franais, pour nous, ah! quel outrage
    Quels transports il doit exciter?
    C'est nous qu'on ose mditer
    De rendre l'antique esclavage!

    (chorus)

    Quoi ces cohortes trangres!
    Feraient la loi dans nos foyers!
    Quoi! ces phalanges mercenaires
    Terrasseraient nos fils guerriers!
    Grand Dieu! par des mains enchanes
    Nos fronts sous le joug se ploieraient
    De vils despotes deviendraient
    Les matres des destines.

    (chorus)

    Tremblez, tyrans et vous perfides
    L'opprobre de tous les partis
    Tremblez! vos projets parricides
    Vont enfin recevoir leurs prix!
    Tout est soldat pour vous combattre
    S'ils tombent, nos jeunes hros
    La France en produit de nouveaux,
    Contre vous tout prts se battre.

    (chorus)

    Franais, en guerriers magnanimes
    Portez ou retenez vos coups!
    pargnez ces tristes victimes
    regret s'armant contre nous
    Mais ces despotes sanguinaires
    Mais ces complices de Bouill
    Tous ces tigres qui, sans piti
    Dchirent le sein de leur mre!

    (chorus)

    Nous entrerons dans la carrire
    Quand nos ans n'y seront plus
    Nous y trouverons leur poussire
    Et la trace de leurs vertus
    Bien moins jaloux de leur survivre
    Que de partager leur cercueil
    Nous aurons le sublime orgueil
    De les venger ou de les suivre!

    (chorus)

    Amour sacr de la Patrie
    Conduis, soutiens nos bras vengeurs
    Libert, Libert chrie
    Combats avec tes dfenseurs!
    Sous nos drapeaux, que la victoire
    Accoure tes mles accents
    Que tes ennemis expirants
    Voient ton triomphe et notre gloire!

    ------------------------------------------

    English Translation:

    Arise children of the fatherland
    The day of glory has arrived
    Against us tyranny's
    Bloody standard is raised
    Listen to the sound in the fields
    The howling of these fearsome soldiers
    They are coming into our midst
    To cut the throats of your sons and consorts

    (chorus:)
    To arms citizens
    Form your battalions
    March, march
    Let impure blood
    Water our furrows

    What do they want this horde of slaves
    Of traitors and conspiratorial kings?
    For whom these vile chains
    These long-prepared irons?
    Frenchmen, for us, ah! What outrage
    What methods must be taken?
    It is us they dare plan
    To return to the old slavery!

    (chorus)

    What! These foreign cohorts!
    They would make laws in our courts!
    What! These mercenary phalanxes
    Would cut down our warrior sons
    Good Lord! By chained hands
    Our brow would yield under the yoke
    The vile despots would have themselves be
    The masters of destiny

    (chorus)

    Tremble, tyrants and traitors
    The shame of all good men
    Tremble! Your parricidal schemes
    Will receive their just reward
    Against you we are all soldiers
    If they fall, our young heros
    France will bear new ones
    Ready to join the fight against you

    (chorus)

    Frenchmen, as magnanimous warriors
    Bear or hold back your blows
    Spare these sad victims
    That they regret taking up arms against us
    But not these bloody despots
    These accomplices of Bouill
    All these tigers who pitilessly
    Ripped out their mothers' wombs

    (chorus)

    We too shall enlist
    When our elders' time has come
    To add to the list of deeds
    Inscribed upon their tombs
    We are much less jealous of surviving them
    Than of sharing their coffins
    We shall have the sublime pride
    Of avenging or joining them

    (chorus)

    Drive on sacred patriotism
    Support our avenging arms
    Liberty, cherished liberty
    Join the struggle with your defenders
    Under our flags, let victory
    Hurry to your manly tone
    So that in death your enemies
    See your triumph and our glory! Lyrics from a song in Public Domain

Comments: 2

  • Gym Mines from SaleIt is time to take a look at our National Anthem as it is really the Queen's anthem ad does nothing for many Patriotic English people like myself.
    I am proud to call myself ENGLISH - NOT A ROYALIST.
  • Chomper03 from Chambersburg, PaThis song was also used in the Monty Python's movie, "And Now For Something Completely Different". In the movie, it was used during the "Man With The Tape Recorder Up His Nose" scene; in which a man played the tune while sticking a finger up his nose and his brother's nose. :P
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