Creation
The wartime lyrics of the song were created around August 1942 in Warsaw, by a member of ZWZ Anna Jachnina, young wife of an army captain from before the invasion. It quickly spawned many variants. In 1943 it was published in print by the Polish resistance underground presses, in the Posłuchajcie ludzie... , book, one of the bibuła publications of Propaganda Commission (Komisja Propagandy) of Armia Krajowa (Home Army). The music - and in part the lyrics - was based on an existing melody and the words of older songs.
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