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Anthem History |
name: "Kde domov muj?" (Where is My Home?) lyrics/music: Josef Kajetan TYL/Frantisek Jan SKROUP note: adopted 1993; the anthem was originally written as incidental music to the play "Fidlovacka" (1834), it soon became very popular as an unofficial anthem of the Czech nation; its first verse served as the official Czechoslovak anthem beginning in 1918, while the second verse (Slovak) was dropped after the split of Czechoslovakia in 1993 |
Anthem Lyrics |
Kde domov muj, Kde domov muj? voda huci po lucinach, bory sumi po skalinach, v sade skvi se jara kvet, zemsky raj to na pohled! A to je ta krasna zeme, zeme ceska domov muj, zeme ceska domov muj! Kde domov muj, kde domov muj? |
Anthem Lyrics English |
Where is my home, where is my home? Water bubbles across the meadows, Pinewoods rustle among crags, The garden is glorious with spring blossom, Paradise on earth it is to see. And this is that beautiful land, The Czech land, my home, The Czech land, my home. Where is my home, where is my home? |