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Polish folk singer named Maryla Rodowicz performed a cover of the song. The song is widely known in the countries: Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia, and Belarus, and to a lesser extent in Russia and the eastern Czech Republic. It is sometimes presented as a Polish folk song [8] and/or Ukrainian folk song. [9] The lyrics vary only slightly between the ...
The song was popular with members of Polish socialist and agrarian movements and became an anthem of the Polish People's Army during World War II. Warszawianka (The Song of Warsaw or Whirlwinds of Danger, 1905) A revolutionary song written in 1879 by socialist Wacław Święcicki imprisoned in the Warsaw Citadel.
As Adam Mickiewicz explained in 1842 to students of Slavic Literature in Paris, the song "The famous song of the Polish legions begins with lines that express the new history: Poland has not perished yet as long as we live. These words mean that people who have in them what constitutes the essence of a nation can prolong the existence of their ...
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A Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow (Cailin Deas Crúite na mBó in the Irish language) is a traditional 18th-century Irish ballad. The English version is attributed to Thomas Moore (1779–1852). [1] Originally sung in Irish Gaelic, the song was popular through the early 20th century.
Notes of Warszawianka, taken from Piosenki leguna tułacza. The song was written in support of the November Uprising of 1830–1831. The French poet Casimir Delavigne was fascinated and inspired by the news of the uprising making its way to Paris and wrote the words, which were translated into Polish by the historian, journalist, and poet Karol Sienkiewicz [fr; pl] (great-uncle of novelist ...
Whirlwinds of Danger (original Polish title: Warszawianka) is a Polish socialist revolutionary song written some time between 1879 and 1883. [1] The Polish title, a deliberate reference to the earlier song by the same title, could be translated as either The Varsovian, The Song of Warsaw (as in the Leon Lishner version [2]) or "the lady of Warsaw".