Whirlwinds of Danger

"Warszawianka"
"Warszawianka"
Song
Language	Polish, Russian
English title	Whirlwinds of Danger; March Song of the Workers; The Song of Warsaw; Hostile Whirlwinds; The Varsovian
Written	between 1879 and 1883
Published	15 September 1883
Genre	Revolutionary song
Songwriter(s)	Wacław Święcicki; Douglas Robson (1st English version); Randall Swingler (2nd English version)
Composer(s)	Józef Pławiński

Audio with English lyrics and piano accompaniment

Warszawianka 1905 in Polish, sung by Jan Stern, 1909

Whirlwinds of Danger (original Polish title: Warszawianka) is a Polish socialist revolutionary song written some time between 1879 and 1883.^[1] The Polish title, a deliberate reference to the earlier song by the same title, could be translated as either The Varsovian, The Song of Warsaw (as in the Leon Lishner version^[2]) or "the lady of Warsaw". To distinguish between the two, it is often called "Warszawianka 1905 roku" ("Warszawianka of 1905"), after the song became the anthem of worker protests during the Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland (1905–1907), when 30 workers were shot^[3] during the May Day demonstrations in Warsaw in 1905.

According to one version, Wacław Święcicki wrote the song in 1879 while serving a sentence in the Tenth Pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel for socialist activity. Another popular version has it written in 1883, immediately upon Święcicki's return from exile in Siberia.^[4]^[5] By the beginning of the next decade the song became one of the most popular revolutionary anthems in Russian-held Poland.^[6] The music was written by composer Józef Pławiński, who was imprisoned together with Święcicki, inspired partially by the January Uprising song "Marsz Żuawów".^[7]

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^ Ascher, Abraham (1994). The Revolution of 1905: Russia in Disarray, Stanford University Press, pp. 157–158, ISBN 0-8047-2327-3
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^ Biblioteka Polskiej Piosenki, Warszawianka

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[3] Ascher, Abraham (1994). The Revolution of 1905: Russia in Disarray, Stanford University Press, pp. 157–158, ISBN 0-8047-2327-3

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[7] Biblioteka Polskiej Piosenki, Warszawianka

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