Freedom Or Death

Ye blood brothers of Sava
The clarion calls
Lay down lutes and psalteries
And take up your swords!

Tzar Lazar the glorious
Heading the charge
His breastplate and shield shine
With the holy cross.

Voyvoda Stefan rides at his side
The mighty king Vukashin
Goiko and Uglyesha
Staring proudly into the sun
Defying the fire, scorning the foe
Freedom or death is their oath!

Ye sons of the Empire
The sun doth rise black
Now's the time to dye hands red
But let your souls be white!

Tzar Lazar has fallen
Under Turkish sword
Avenge him to the last man
Freedom or death!

Voyvoda Stefan bleeds by his side
The mighty king Vukashin
Goiko and Uglyesha
Staring proudly into the sun
Defying the fire, scorning the foe
Freedom or death is their oath!

Must thou go my noble Tzar?
Would that I were cold with those
That laid their lives in the holy cause
At the feet of the Serbian eagle
Would that the blade that sealed thy fate
Be lodged ten times into my breast
Than to see our only hope fail.

Our dead call revenge
Remember Kosovo!
Left alone to brave the night
We stood for our Homeland
God and the Tzar
On the fields where we fell
Now the Amaranths bloom.