A little page on The Internationale
A lyric written in Paris in 1871 and an anthem
for leftists.
Original words by Eugene Pottier. Original music by
Pierre Degeyter.
I like this song for its inspiration. The lyrics aren't
perfect but the situations and scenarios under which it is frequently sung
get the point across. It's
too bad that nowadays the song is commonly associated with repressive
governments that may have been borne in hope for the underclass
but were eventually perverted away from that purpose.
Its universal appeal is manifested by its
translation into many languages.
If you know the lyrics to The Internationale in
a language I have not listed here,
please
send me a message. And
apologies in advance for my slow response.
(Last updated June 14th 2005)
(Disclaimers)
Sections below:
Words, Sounds,
Arrangements, Links,
Referral Pages, Trivia.
- Words in...
- 1. Afrikaans. 1 (courtesty liela groenewald).
- 2. Catalan.
1.
- 3. Chinese. Pinyin and Characters
(courtesy zjw).
- 4. Czech. 1 (courtesy Pavel and AndreW).
- 5. Danish.
1.
- 6. Dutch. 1,
2.
- 7. English.
- a. "Prisoners of Starvation'' version
1,
2,
3
- b. "Workers from your Slumbers'' version, 3 verses
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7 (scroll down
a bit),
8 (6 verses!)
- d. Billy Bragg version
1
(scroll down), 2
- 8. Esperanto.
1
- 9. Estonian.
1
(couresty Larko).
- 10. Finnish.
1,
2
- 11. French.
- Original version, 6 verses.
1,
2,
3,
4.
- slightly altered version (scroll down a bit)
- 12. Galician.
1
- 13. German.
- 14. Gronings. 1 (courtesy Jan Lunsing),
- 15. Hebrew. 1 (courtesy Uri),
2
(courtesy Yanay).
- 16. Hungarian.
1
- 17. Norwegian.
1 (courtesy Mari).
- 18. Icelandic. 1 (courtesy Stefan).
- 19. Irish. 1 (courtesy an talla).
- 20. Italian.
1,
2
- 21. Karelian.
1
(courtesy Larko).
- 22. Klingon. 1 (courtesy SkyMan).
- 23. Kurdish. 1 (courtesy Ako Mohammad).
- 24. Lithuanian. 1 (courtesy Dimitri).
- 25. Maori.
1
- 26. Persian.
1
- 27. Pilipino. 1
(courtesy bidasari_2000).
- 28. Polish.
1
- 29. Portuguese.
1,
2
- 30. Russian.
- 31. Slovak. 1 (courtesy AndreW).
- 32. Spanish.
1,
2
- 33. Swedish.
1 (courtesy Marco),
2,
3,
4.
- 34. Turkish. 1 (courtesy ozan).
- 35. Welsh. 1
(found by Francesco)
- 36. Yiddish.
1
- 37. Zulu.
1 (scroll down),
2
- Audio files...
- 1. Without words.
1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6 (midi),
7 (AU).
8 (midi).
9 (RA).
- 2. In Brezhoneg (Breton). One (courtesy Jean-alain).
- 3. In English.
One,
Two
- 4. In French.
One
- 5. In German.
One
- 6. In Greek. One
- 7. In Kurdish. One (courtesy Ako Mohammad)
- 8. In Mandarin.
1,
2 (RA).
- 9. In Persian.
One
- 10. In Russian.
One,
Two,
Three
- 11. In Turkish.
1
(thanks ozan),
2,
- 12. Plenty of
MP3
versions at this page in Norway.
- Arrangement
- 1. Jerry
Engelbach, for piano.
- Links
- 1. Rafael Pla-Lopez,
in Valencia, España. Very good
site for the song!
- 2. Riccardo
Venturi, another great site!
- 3. The FUNet Russian Archive, in
Finland
- 4. The Marxism Page, in
Canberra
- 5. Frank
Petersohn, in
B.C., Canada
- 6. The union makes us strong. Solidarity forever.
- 7. First Run Icarus Films has produced a documentary by Peter Miller about the song.
- 8. Radical socialist music is at the
Scarlet Banner.
- 9. Lots of versions collected by
Rob
Elders.
- Pages that refer to this page. Thanks!
- 1. Musicians United
for Songs In the Classroom, Inc. links to here on their
song directory page
under "Internationale".
- 2. Internationale-ist runs an excellent site with audio and visual info.
- 3. Juso Hochschulgruppe Frankfurt (Oder) links to here, in their
lieder page.
- 4. Mikhail
Avrekh links to this page, through his
bookmarks.
- 5. ComInterNet has a collection (and links back to me!)
- 6. The online journal
Voice of the Turtle mentions
this page in its
dictionary
as a reference for the song.
- 7. The open directory
project has a link to here in their socialism-culture page.
- 8. A page in Austria.
- 9. A list of labor songs on a page by Bobby.
- 10. Songs of Irish Labour used to link back to this page.
- 11. Google's directory of pages covering leftist
culture.
- 12. The Scottish Socialist Party links to here on their
Just For Fun page.
- 13. The Peterborough Collective lists this page in its links collection.
- 14. Yoo hoo! The Norwegian Communist Party (Central Norway) lists various
music pages.
- Other interesting trivia
- 1. It is possible
to have the Internationale play
as the ringtone on certain mobile phones:
Nokia, and
Siemens C35.
- 2. Just found a whole page about ring tones
here,
linked from Rafael Pla-Lopez' page.
