From the dust of work-worn valleys
From the fire of factory light
Hands that shook in hunger’s twilight
Rise to greet the breaking sky
We remember days of silence
Boot and shadow
Bar and chain
Still a single word kept burning
Motherland
We speak Your name
Ode to the Motherland
Heart of our courage and song
From every river and field and mountain
Your people are standing strong
Ode to the Motherland
Justice and bread in our hand
We lift our voices
One great chorus
Motherland
Beloved land
Once we bent beneath the burden
Bent but never broke inside
Whispered vows in crowded doorways
Dreams we had no right to hide
Now the harvest fills the granaries
Children race in open air
On the walls the dawn is written
Every color
Everywhere
Ode to the Motherland
Heart of our courage and song
From every river and field and mountain
Your people are standing strong
Ode to the Motherland
Justice and bread in our hand
We lift our voices
One great chorus
Motherland
Beloved land
Not for gold and not for glory (hey!)
Not for throne or jeweled crown
For the hands that shaped the future
For the lost who laid life down
From the trenches
From the workyards
From the storms our elders braved
Rises now a living anthem
For the land their courage saved
Ode to the Motherland
Heart of our courage and song
From every river and field and mountain
Your people are standing strong
Ode to the Motherland
Justice and bread in our hand
We are the promise
We are the present
Motherland
Beloved land
Ode to the Motherland
Anchored in sea
Star
And sand
Forever faithful
Children singing
Motherland
Beloved land
