High Quality - "Mu isamaa on minu arm" // Estonian Song Celebration

Composition by Gustav Ernesaks (first composition done by Aleksander Kunileid in 1869), lyrics by Lydia Koidula. This song was first set to music in its new composition 21st July 1944 in Leningrad, Russia. It was first performed at song celebration 1947 by the author itself.

"Mu isamaa on minu arm" (My Country is My Love) became the unofficial anthem during the Soviet occupation when her father's (Johann Voldemar Jannsen) "Mu isamaa, mu õnn ja rõõm" (My Country is My Pride and Joy), the anthem of the Estonian Republic in 1921-1940 was forbidden. Koidulas song always finished every festival, with or without permission. The tradition persists to this day.

More information about the history of Estonian Song Celebrations visit http://tobreatheasone.wordpress.com

Lyrics:

My Country is My Love,
to whom I´ve given My Heart.
To You I sing, my greatest happiness,
My flowering Estonia!
Your pain boils in My Heart,
Your Pride and Joy makes my happy,
My Country, My Country!

My Country is My Love,
I shall never leave Her,
even if I must die hundred deaths
because of Her!
Does the foreign envy slander,
You still live in my Heart,
My Country, My Country!

My Country is My Love,
and I want to rest,
to lay down into Your Arms,
My sacred Estonia!
Your Birds will sing Sleep to Me,
flowers will bloom from My Ashes,
My Country, My Country!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Estonian Song Festival
• To Breathe as one
• Tallinn
• Estonia
• singing revolution

[VaDiskovich]

I am Russian, and I love estonia, estonians, and estonian songs! I think this is one of the most beautiful patriotic songs I have ever heard. God bless Eestimaa! Да здравствует Естония, прекрасная страна!

[Sewolaw]

It's beautiful estonians and we latvians have so much common. We have Pūt vējiņi at the ending of our song festival and it was also an unofficial anthem during the occupation.

[HenryBrosowski]

Seems that estonians are very beautiful..

[HenryBrosowski]

Wow, nice

[Sitavikat21]

@VaDiskovich I am estonian and i love all nations, and i truly belive that in one day, if we are worthy we can make difference, global singing revolution, a revolution for mankind and its freedom.

[chorwat29]

Nice song....... Greetings from Croatian

[Hypeni]

Küll on ilus laul! Seda kuulan ma pisarad silmades, ja püüan ette kujutada, milline on atmosfäär lauluväljakul. Ta peab ju olema imelik, kuna juba selle laulu kuulamine ja video vaatamine saab nutma.

[JKristjan]

See on nii ilus!

[whyteay]

@pr9301 You're right. I'm a Brit but I live here in Tallinn, and no, it has not (yet) been infected by the disease of political correctness, unlike the UK as we've seen recently.