Trăiască Regele

Trăiască Regele
English: Long Live The King

Music sheet of the anthem
National and Royal anthem of
Romania
Lyrics Vasile Alecsandri, 1881
Music Eduard Hübsch, 1862
Adopted 10 May 1881
Relinquished 30 December 1947

Trăiască Regele (Long live the King) was the national anthem of the Principality of Romania and later Kingdom of Romania between 1866 and 1947. The music was composed in 1862 by Eduard Hübsch, an army captain who later became the chief of the music department of the Minister of War. The lyrics were written by the Romanian poet Vasile Alecsandri in 1881, when Romania became a Kingdom.

Lyrics

National anthems of Romania
Marş triumfal (1862 - 1884)
Trăiască Regele (1884-1948)
Zdrobite cătuşe (1948-1953)
Te slăvim, Românie (1953-1977)
Trei culori (1977-1989)
Deşteaptă-te, române! (1989-present)
Trăiască Regele
În pace şi onor
De ţară iubitor
Şi-apărător de ţară.
Fie Domn glorios
Fie peste noi,
Fie-n veci norocos
În război.
O! Doamne Sfinte,
Ceresc părinte,
Susţine cu a Ta mână
Coroana Română!
Trăiască Patria
Cât soarele ceresc,
Rai vesel pământesc
Cu mare, falnic nume.
Fie-n veci el ferit
De nevoi,
Fie-n veci locuit
De eroi.
O! Doamne Sfinte,
Ceresc Părinte,
Întinde a Ta mână
Pe Ţara Română!

English translation

Long live the King
In peace and honour
Loving his country
And defending it
May he be a glorious Lord
May he be over us
May he forever be lucky
In war
O! Holy Lord
Our father in the sky
Hold with your hand
The Romanian Crown
Long live the Fatherland
As long as the Sun in the sky,
Happy heaven on Earth
With a great and famous name
May it forever be spared
Of necessities,
May it forever be inhabited
By heroes.
O! Holy Lord
Our father in the sky
Hold your hand
Over the Romanian Land

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