Une Seule Nuit

"Une Seule Nuit" ("One Single Night") is the national anthem of Burkina Faso. Written by Thomas Sankara. It was adopted in 1984.

French lyrics

Contre la frule humiliante il y a dj mille ans,
La rapacit venue de loin les asservir il y a cent ans.
Contre la cynique malice mtamorphose
En nocolonialisme et ses petits servants locaux
Beaucoup flanchrent et certains rsistrent.
Mais les checs, les succs, la sueur, le sang
Ont fortifi notre peuple courageux et fertilis sa lutte hroque. CHORUS:
Et une seule nuit a rassemble en elle
L'histoire de tout un peuple.
Et une seule nuit a dclench sa marche triomphale
Vers l'horizon du bonheur.
Une seule nuit a rconcili notre peuple
Avec tous les peuples du monde,
A la conqute de la libert et du progrs
La patrie ou la mort, nous vaincrons. Nourris la source vive de la Rvolution.
Les engags volontaires de la libert et de la paix
Dans l'nergie nocturne et salutaire du 4 aot
N'avaient pas que les armes la main, mais aussi et surtout
La flamme au coeur pour legitimement librer
Le Faso jamais des fers de tous ceux qui
  et, l en poluaient l'me sacre de l'indpendance, de la souverainet.  
CHORUS Et sant dsormais en sa dignit recouvre
L'amour et l'honneur en partage avec l'humanit,
Le peuple du Burkina chante un hymne la victoire,
A la gloire du travail librateur, mancipateur.
A bas l'explotation de l'homme par l'homme!
H en avant pour le bonheur de tout homme,
Par tous les hommes aujourd'hui et demain, par tous les hommes ici et pour toujours! CHORUS Rvolution populaire notre sve nourricire.
Maternit immortelle du progrs visage d'homme.
Foyer ternel de dmocratie consensuelle,
O enfin l'identit nationale a droit de cit,
O pour toujours l'injustice perd ses quartiers,
Et o, des mains des btisseurs d'un monde radieux
Mrissent partout les moissons de vux patriotiques, brillent les soleils infins de joie. CHORUS

English translation

Against the humiliating bondage of a thousand years
Rapacity came from afar to subjugate them for a hundred years.
Against the cynical malice in the shape
Of neo-colonialism and its petty local servants.
Many gave in and certain others resisted.
But the frustrations, the successes, the sweat, the blood
Have fortified our courageous people and fertilized its heroic struggle. CHORUS:
And one single night has drawn together
The history of an entire people,
And one single night has launched its triumphal march.
Towards the horizon of good fortune.
One single night has brought together our people
With all the peoples of the World,
In the acquisition of liberty and progress.
Motherland or death, we shall conquer. Nourished in the lively source of the Revolution,
The volunteers for liberty and peace
With their nocturnal and beneficial energies of the 4th of August
Had not only hand arms, but also and above all
The flame in their hearts lawfully to free
Faso forever from the fetters of those who
Here and there were polluting the sacred soul of independence and sovereignty. CHORUS And seated henceforth in rediscovered dignity,
Love and honour partnered with humanity,
The people of Burkina sing a victory hymn
To the glory of the work of liberation and emancipation.
Down with exploitation of man by man!
Forward for the good of every man
By all men of today and tomorrow, by every man here and always! CHORUS Popular revolution our nourishing sap.
Undying motherhood of progress in the face of man.
Eternal hearth of agreed democracy,
Where at last national identity has the right of freedom.
Where injustice has lost its place forever,
And where from the hands of builders of a glorious world
Everywhere the harvests of patriotic vows ripen and suns of boundless joy shine. CHORUS

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