"Awaken Thee, Romanian!" Awaken thee, Romanian, from that d**hly sleep Into which you've been sunken by the barbarian tyrants. Now or never sew yourself another fate To whom even your cruel enemies may bow to. Now or never, let us give proof to the world That in these hands of ours roman blood still flows And that in our chests we proudly keep a name Triumphant in battles, a name of "Trajan".
Look, majestic shadows, Michael, Stephen, Corvinus: The Romanian nation, your grand-grandsons With armed hands and your fire in their veins "A life of freedom or d**h", they all shout. Priests with the cross ahead, because the army is christian The motto is freedom and it's purpose is all too holy We'd rather die in battle, in elevated glory Than be slaves once more on our ancestral land.