Nederlands
Through valleys and over hills
Also known as "Partisans of Amur". Although initially the melody was a march of the Russian Empire, now it is, in essence, a song of communist and anti-fascist partisans. It has versions in so many languages, and also different lyrics written on the same melody, so I decided to do a collection of all versions that I could find, because I consider it interesting to listen to all the variations across the different languages. Tell me if you know another version that is not yet listed. I hope that you enjoy listening.
Soviet, the earliest version with partisan lyrics.
Greek
Other version in Greek
Greek song with same melody, about Georgi Dimitrov.
Austrian, different lyrics
Another Yugoslavian version, quite different melody.
Complete Yugoslav lyrics, unfortunately no video
other Czech version
Japanese
Melody sounds different to me, but it may be just musical interpretation
Other English version, unfortunately no video
Other Turkish performance, again no lyrics, but there is an English translation in the subtitles of the video
partly Hindi, partly English
partly Bengali, partly English
yuan jinquan
Ma, 13/01/2020 - 01:36
I think it's the original version of Yugoslavia.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UGPrsvzfnqk
Austria:
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/unknown-artist-german-schlu%C3%9F-mit-phr...
cpenguin
Ma, 13/01/2020 - 01:54
Thank you for finding more versions, I added these. Except the Turkish version, because this site doesn't let me add a song without lyrics transcript to the collection. And the Yugoslavian version, which seems to have the same lyrics as the one that I added as Serbian. Maybe I should change that to just Yugoslavian then, if these lyrics were used across all Yugoslavia. But the melody is different, so I'm not sure whether it should be added as separate song.
yuan jinquan
Ma, 13/01/2020 - 02:29
https://youtube.com/watch?v=b37IvHFQLZY&t=2s
It has 24 versions about partisan song, include the chinese version, you can listen it, but its lyric is different with this collection.
yuan jinquan
Ma, 13/01/2020 - 02:48
Anarchist version:
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/green-army-choir-la-makhnovtchina-lyrics....
Arabic:
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/%D9%8A%D8%A7-%D8%B4%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%A8-%D8...
And the "Марш сибирских стрелков" is white army's version in russian civil war.You can look for it.
cpenguin
Ma, 13/01/2020 - 03:10
Thanks, added these. The description of the lyrics of that song says that the "Марш сибирских стрелков" has been written before the civil war, somewhen 1914–1915. I added a link to that song to the collection description, because it is the source of the melody, but doesn't fit with the "partisans" theme that all the other versions have.
(I'll look more at the video with the 24 versions tomorrow, maybe I'll find some more versions for the collections, I found the name of the Czech version there already.)
yuan jinquan
Ma, 13/01/2020 - 03:20
In fact, this song also has Kurdish and Uyghur versions, and may also be Bulgarian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Polish, etc, but I couldn't find them in youtube.
yuan jinquan
Woe, 15/01/2020 - 01:31
I also find some versions.
This is an other version of french.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=fr2pYU8IduA
This is an english version, and the lyric is in the picture.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=sc-hCd9TGTQ
This seems to be the Spanish version of La Makhnovtchina.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=E75KdVBcfoc
cpenguin
Woe, 15/01/2020 - 22:46
Added English and the other Yugoslavian version (now that you added a transcription, I see that there are some differences with the existing version). As to the anarchist Spanish version, I listened to it, it's not actually sung in Spanish. It's sung in French ("La Makhnovtchina", which we already have in the collection), and the Spanish text is a translation. That Spanish text doesn't fit the rhythm of the song, so it seems to me that it is just a translation, not another version of the song. You can add it as Spanish translation to the French "La Makhnovtchina" if you want.
As to the French anti-communist version, I don't transcribe or translate such lyrics on principle, but if someone else does a transcription, I'll add it, for the completeness of the collection.
yuan jinquan
Do, 16/01/2020 - 00:30
The full Yugoslav version has five paragraphs, but I couldn't find the video in youtube.
yuan jinquan
Do, 16/01/2020 - 01:01
In this web:
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/national-anthems-patriotic-songs-po-%C5%A...
With english translation:
https://www.antiwarsongs.org/canzone.php?id=46715&lang=en
cpenguin
Do, 16/01/2020 - 01:36
Good, added it. That same website also has another English lyrics, which I also added. That's what the partly-english partly-hindi version that I found previously is singing in the English part. I also just found a performance that is partly in English and partly in Bengali, and also is using these lyrics for the English version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qB-x8YVVNI
yuan jinquan
Do, 16/01/2020 - 00:38
The song is so famous that both the left and the right sing it.
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Zon, 19/01/2020 - 14:53
doctorJoJo
Do, 13/02/2020 - 11:10
doctorJoJo
Do, 13/02/2020 - 11:12
cpenguin
Zat, 15/02/2020 - 02:09
Isn't that written on the melody of Katyusha? I'm looking for songs with the melody of "Partisans of Amur" specifically in this collection.
(Maybe I should do a separate collection for songs written on the melody of Katyusha, there are also quite many of these.)
Slovak:
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/slovak-socialist-songs-partiz%C3%A1nskym-...
Slovenian:
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/unknown-artist-slovene-naglo-pu%C5%A1ke-s...
Turkish(without lyric):
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/unknown-artist-turkish-partizan-mar%C5%9F...