El Gran Carlemany
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| El Gran Carlemany (The Great Charlemagne) is the national anthem of Andorra. Written by Joan Benlloch i Vivo (1864-1926) and composed by Enric Marfany Bons (1871-1942), it was adopted in 1914.
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Catalan lyrics
- El gran Carlemany, mon Pare dels alarbs em deslliurà,
- I del cel vida em donà de Meritxell, la gran Mare,
- Princesa nasquí i Pubilla entre dues nacions neutral
- Sols resto l'única filla de l'imperi Carlemany.
- Creient i lluire onze segles, creient i lliure vull ser.
- Siguin els furs mos tutors i mos Prínceps defensors!
- I mos Princeps defensors!
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English translation
- The great Charlemagne, my Father, liberated me from the Saracens,
- And from heaven he gave me life of Meritxell, the great Mother.
- She was born a Princess, a Maiden neutral between two nations.
- I am the only remaining daughter of the Carolingian empire
- Believing and free for eleven centuries, believing and free I will be.
- The laws of the land be my tutors, and my defender Princes!
And Princes my defender!