Ukrainian folk song from the Sich Riflemen tradition
Read by: Honored Artist of Ukraine Mykhailo Voichuk
Our youth is ready
Riding forth to proud Kyiv town.
Chorus:
Come, brothers, rise — we’ll stand and fight,
For Ukraine, for our homeland bright!
From Frankivsk to Lviv we go,
From Lviv to Kyiv’s golden glow.
We’ve formed a living chain, we vow —
From Moscow we are free now.
Our banner soars into the sky,
And joyful songs are ringing high:
“Dear Ukraine, our mother true,
We have come to fight for you.”
Though prisons held us in their keep,
A nation’s soul they could not sleep.
Give thanks to God this very day —
In free Ukraine we live and stay!
We have our nightingale tongue clear,
And an independent land so dear.
