Reply #29: 'La Marseillaise' is a rousing tune, indeed

[Oeditpus Rex]

But did you ever check out the lyrics? And you thought ours was violent. :scared:



Arise children of the motherland,
Our day of glory has arrived!
Over us, the bloodstained banner
Of tyranny holds sway!
Oh, do you hear there in our fields
The roar of these ferocious soldiers?
Who came right here in our midst
To slaughter our sons and wives

To arms, oh citizens!
Form up in serried ranks!
March on, march on!
May their impure blood
Flow in our fields!

Supreme devotion to our Motherland
Guides and sustains avenging hands!
Liberty, oh dearest Liberty
Come fight with your shielding bands!
Beneath our banner come, oh victory
Answer your soul-stirring cry!
Oh come, come see your foes now die
Witness your pride and our glory!

(chorus)

Into the fight we too shall enter
When our fathers are dead and gone
We shall find their bones laid down to rest
With the fame of their glories won
Oh, to survive them care we not
Glad are we to share their grave
Great honor is to be our lot
To follow or to venge our brave

(chorus)