Whirlwinds of danger are raging around us
O'erwhelmlng forces of darkness assail.
Still in the fight see advancing before us,
Red flag of liberty that yet shall prevail.

CHORUS:
Then forward, ye workers, freedom awaits you.
O'er all the world on the land and the sea.
On with the fight for the cause of humanity,
March, march ye toilers and the world shall be free!

Women and children in hunger are calling,
Shall we be silent to their sorrow and woe?
While in the fight see our brothers are falling.
Up then united and conquer the foe!

CHORUS:

(SOURCE: The Socialist Songbook)

No luck with the Polish "Whirlwinds of Danger". The Japanese version of it ("Warushawa Roodooka" or "Warushawa Rodoka") is HERE (sung by amateurs; seems to be taken from a movie or something else; the recording is scratchy; and the volume should be greatly turned up).

~Masato

the original hymn is from 1831, not 1848 (Polish revolution started in 1830, same time as in Paris).
The 1905 version doesn't sound original, as my Polish friend tells me (maybe new text for the Russian uprising of 1905, Lenin's brother killed then).
Looking up the Polish text you must search the internet with the original title Warszawianka.
You'll get a lot of links; one of them, tested by native speaker, I give here: http://papirus.pdi.net/hymny/warszawianka.html.

Wilfried

and here the redversion of 1905:
http://webmedia.pl/biesiada/teksty/warszawianka_1905.htm
This version was translated into many other languages and was called Warszawianka because of the old melody. Nevertheless it is a Labour song and has nothing to do with the old national uprising of the noble Polish people. In both cases Poland was divided under Prussian, Austro-Hungarian and Russian rule. Latter was the worst.

Wilfried

my last posting needs a revision. My words about the melody especially must be corrected.
The patriot song of 1831 was written by the French polonophile writer Casimir Delavigne, translated into Polish, and the music is by Karol Kurpinski. You find a midi version at http://www.studentenlied.de/warszawianka.html. Click the musical symbol.
Interesting literature in English you may find using Google's advanced search with "delavigne varsovienne".
The revolutionary song was written in 1879 by W. Swiecicki and sung to the Zouaves' March (1863).
If you can read Polish you may search the Great Internet Encyclopaedia with "warszawianka".
The main difficulty searching for Warszawianka or Varsovienne with Google is that these words meaning "from Warszaw" denote not only both songs, but also restaurants, sport clubs, enterprises and a kind of folk dance.

Wilfried

Whirlwinds of danger are raging around us,
Overwhelming forces of darkness assail.
Still in the fight advancing before us,
Red flag of liberty that yet shall prevail

CHORUS: Then forward you workers, freedom awaits you,
Over the world on the land and the sea.
On with the fight for the cause of humanity.
March, march and the world will be free.

Women and children in hunger are calling,
Shall we be silent to their sorrow and woe?
While in the fight see our brothers are falling,
Up then united and conquer the foe!

Off with the crowns of tyrants favour,
Down in the dust with the prince and the peer.
Strike off your chains all you brave sons of labour,
Wake all humanity for victory is near.

Obviously this is the Socialist version of the song and not the earlier one. Good luck and I hope this helps, Kindest regards, Neil

HTML line breaks added. --JoeClone, 28-Feb-02.

as I wrote before, there are two songs known as Warszawianka. The Polish people know the first one, of 1831, by heart; it is sometimes regarded as the second Polish national anthem.
The other one, internationally known especially through labour and communist parties, became famous in the Russian uprising of 1905. That is the song you know the tune of. The title comes from the fact that, in the original version, Warszaw is referred to in the chorus.
Albeit the second Warszawianka might have got its wide spread through the Russian and the many translations from there, it is genuinely a Polish poem, written in Polish language.

Wilfried