Doamne ocroteşte-i pe români! [English translation]

We, during the first war

We overcame death, we

Lord, take care of the Romanians!

We shed our blood and sweat

For Great Romania

Lord, take care of the Romanians!

We sacrificed our life and soldiers

For a motherland of brothers,

Lord, take care of the Romanians

We ofered facts, we gave our words

From Nistru to Tisa,

Lord, take care of the Romanians!

But then, in the year 1940

The year of the great robbery,

Lord, take care of the Romanians!

Two beasts bit us:

The ultimatum and the dictate,

Lord, take care of the Romanians!

The poor world didn’t know

That one day, in Moscow,

Lord, take care of the Romanians!

They signed a stupid pact

Molotov and Ribbentrop

Lord, take care of the Romanians!

And the world fascism

Took a piece of Ardeal,

Lord, take care of the Romanians!

And they gave it to Horty,

To hell with their names!

Lord, take care of the Romanians!

Stalin and his terror

Took Basarabia away from us

Lord, take care of the Romanians!

And he agreed with Hitler

To take away Bucovina from the north,

Lord, take care of the Romanians!

The biggest robbers tore us apart

They took our country and our land,

Lord, take care of the Romanians!

Nobody heard our cry as we were suffering on the cross,

Lord, take care of the Romanians!

So we also took part

In the second war,

Lord, take care of the Romanians!

Come on, marshal!

To Moldova and Ardeal,

Lord, take care of the Romanians!

We fight for we miss each other

For our county, for our people,

Lord, take care of the Romanians!

For the ancient borders,

For Great Romania,

Lord, take care of the Romanians!

And we lost, and we were defeated,

And we were under Russian occupation

Lord, take care of the Romanians!

Our allies kept quiet,

Stalin did whatever he pleased,

Lord, take care of the Romanians!

And we died a thousand times

In order to have again three colours on our flag

Lord, take care of the Romanians!

And we paid more than enough

For our holy freedom

Lord, take care of the Romanians!

Our country is small, the times are hard,

Whatever will be, will see,

Lord, take care of the Romanians!

To forget, we’ll never forget

Our country as it is,

Lord, take care of the Romanians1

As long the Romanian will be a Romanian,

The baby will be breast fed,

Lord, take care of the Romanians!

The true truth

About everything that happened,

Lord, take care of the Romanians!

Remember, my son,

That there is a God,

Lord, take care of the Romanians!

And a vow bounds you

Our country is not whole,

But this will be until one day

When you’ll also be a man

Always feel like a soldier,

Lord, take care of the Romanians!

For the ancient borders

For Great Romania,

Lord, take care of the Romanians!

• Artist:Adrian Păunescu