Hey, Slavs

English-language translations of
Hej, Slovania (Hey, Slavs) (1834)
by Samo Tomášik

Slovak Lutheran pastor Samo Tomášik originally called the song Hej, Slováci (Hey, Slovaks), referring only to his own nation, but later changed it to include all Slavs. This rewritten version became popular among other Slavic peoples too, becoming the anthem of the Pan-Slavic movement, the organizational anthem of the Sokol movement, and the national anthem of the Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro. The original version was used as an anthem of the First Slovak Republic.

English-language translations of Hej, Slovania include:

Hej Slované, in Bohemian Poems, Ancient and Modern (1849) by Albert Henry Wratislaw
Ho, Slavonians!, in Slavs on Southern Farms (1914) by Vincent Písek
An excerpt from the lyrics in "A New Ally: The Bohemian Army" in The New Europe, 5 (61) (13^th December, 1917), translated by anonymous
The All-Slavs Hymn, "Hej Slovane", in The Bohemian Review, vol. 2, no. 11–12 (1918) by Francis Petherick Marchant

Hey, Slavs

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