Dżem - Opowiedzcie wiatry

Tell us, winds

Tell us, winds smoky and flaming
About these years, loud as three cannon fires
Bright sun rose beyond dark slag heaps
When Silesians were going to an uprising
Nobody went down to mine, ironworks' fire went out
Everybody was going to the uprising spontaneously
As for the shift, took a chunk of bread for the way
Some gun, if he had one in the storage
Did anyone believe that they could win?
They were so ordinary, even pitful
And on the opposite there were arrogant enemy's forces
You can make it – perforate steel with your hearts
Tell us, houses sprinkled with soot
How mothers were crying these days
When the news spread – boys are being dragged
Up the wall, for the fear to be spread
But boys weren't downcast for a long time
When first uprising were crushed by the enemy
They convened again to grab the guns
There is no miracle – we will make a miracle
Beyond the coal-stated land an elevated song is flying
Home by home, the same hard call
When second will fall, we'll induce the third one
Because while dancing trojak* you count to three
Tell all around, Odra** winds
To make everybody remember
About 1921***, the most beautiful year
That wanderer's song, along rebels' ways
That wanderer's song, along rebels' ways

*Silesian folk dance
**Main Silesian river
***A year of the last, Third Silesian Uprising which ended up with incorporation of substantial part of Silesia to Poland