Let’s go, children of the Motherland
The day of glory has arrived!
All the tyranny are against us
Their blood-stained banners arise
Their blood-spattered banners arise
Can you hear now out in the country
Their blood-thirsty soldiers ablare?
They’re coming right into your hands
To cut throats to sons of yours, your women!
To arms, compatriots
Form up your battle corps
March on, march on!
Let blood impure
Onto our furrows pour!
What do they want, this horde of slaves
Of traitors and king conjurors?
For who are these ignoble vile chain
And balls have long been prepared?
Balls and chain have long been prepared
French people, ah, for us! A disgrace!
What outburst it must then arouse!
It’s us they dare to conspire
To drag back to stagnant slavery old days!
To arms, compatriots
Form up your battle corps
March on, march on!
Let blood impure
Onto our furrows pour!
How can it be that foreign cohorts
Would be the law in our lands!
How come that mercenary soldiers
Would shoot at our rebellious lads!
Would shoot at our rebellious lads!
Great God of Mine! With those chained hands
We’d yield ourselves to the yoke
Vile despots would have us provoked
To make them the rulers of our fortune!
To arms, compatriots
Form up your battle corps
March on, march on!
Let blood impure
Onto our furrows pour!
Shake over, tyrants and you, traitors-
Disgrace to all parts of the earth.
Fear, your vile schemes parricidal
Will at last get what they’re worth! (bis)
All here are for a great combat
If our young heroes die
Our land will give us other ones
Ready to put up a fight against you!
To arms, compatriots
Form up your battle corps
March on, march on!
Let blood impure
Onto our furrows pour!
French people in majestic battle force,
Stand up to and then return the blows!
Spare all those victimized soldiers
Who regret fighting against us (bis)
But spare none of bloody despots
No pity on Bouillé’s satraps
Those tigers without any qualm
Would rip open their mother’s bosom!
To arms, compatriots
Form up your battle corps
March on, march on!
Let blood impure
Onto our furrows pour!
The sacred love to our Motherland,
Lead and support our avenging arms
Liberty, Liberty, our Dear
Come on fight by your defenders’ side! (bis)
Under our flags and victory
Will haste to our courageous men
And dying foes will have to face
All your triumph and all of our glory!
To arms, compatriots
Form up your battle corps
March on, march on!
Let blood impure
Onto our furrows pour!
We all will start this same career
When our elders pass away
And we’ll find their ashes in here
And the virtues left over after them (bis)
We care less just to survive them
Than next to them in coffins lie
We’d take the greatest sublime pride
In avenging them and them to follow
May, children, Honour and your Homeland
Forever be your final goal!
Let us always have the souls filled
With the fire that well inspires both (bis)
Let’s all unite! Possible is all
Every vile foe will cease to be
And then the French will cease to sing
This refrain of terrifying awe:
To arms, compatriots
Form up your battle corps
March on, march on!
Let blood impure
Onto our furrows pour!