Literal English Translation
- Let's denounce the old world!
- Let's shake its dust from our feet!
- We're enemies to the golden idols,
- We detest the Tsar's palaces!
- We will go among the suffering brethren,
- We will go to the hungry people;
- Together with them we send our curses to the evil-doers,
- We will call them to struggle with us:
- Refrain:
- Arise, arise, working people!
- Arise against the enemies, hungry brother!
- Forward! Forward!
- Let the cry of vengeance
- Sound of the people!
- The rich, the exploiters, the greedy mob
- Deprive you of your work so hard,
- In your sweat the greedy,
- They tear your last piece of bread.
- Hunger, so they celebrate
- Hunger, in the stock market game
- They sell conscience and honor
- And so they mock you.
- Arise, arise, working people...
- You the rest is just the grave,
- Every day the debt have prepared,
- The Tsar, the vampire takes you from the veins,
- The Tsar, the vampire drinks the blood of the people.
- He needs for army soldiers,
- So give him your sons!
- He needs festivals and halls,
- So give him your blood!
- Arise, arise, working people...
- Is it the eternal suffering is not enough?
- Stand on, brothers, everywhere, at the same time!
- From the Dnepr to the White Sea,
- And the Volga region, and the distant Caucasus!
- Against thieves, the dogs - the rich
- And the evil vampire, the Tsar!
- Defeat, kill them, cursed the criminals!
- Enlighten the dawn of a better life!
- Arise, arise, working people...
- And it goes on behind the bloody dawn
- The sun of freedom and the brotherhood of mankind.
- Let the world with the last fight we are buying,
- Let luck with the blood of the children are buying.
- And it breaks in the era of freedom,
- It resolves the lie that evil forever,
- Unite and struggle of the peoples
- In the free realm of the sacred work.
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