Esta É a Nossa Pátria Bem Amada

"Esta É a Nossa Pátria Bem Amada" (; "This Is Our Well Beloved Motherland") is the national anthem of Guinea-Bissau. Written in 1963 by Amílcar Cabral (1924–1973) and composed by Xiao He [zh] (1918–2010), it was adopted upon independence from Portugal in 1974.

 Lyrics 
Portuguese originalIPA transcriptionEnglish translationI
Sun, sweat, verdure and sea,
Centuries of pain and hope;
This is the land of our ancestors!
Fruit of our hands,
Of the flower of our blood:
This is our beloved fatherland.

Long live our glorious fatherland!
The banner of the struggle has fluttered in the skies.
Forward, against the foreign yoke!
𝄆 We are going to build
In our immortal fatherland
Peace and progress! 𝄇

II
Branches of the same trunk,
Eyes in the same light;
This is the force of our union!
The sea and the land sing,
The dawn and the sun
That our struggle fertilised!

References

Category:African anthems
Category:Guinea-Bissau
Category:1963 works