Razom nas bahato


"Razom nas bahato" is a hip-hop song by GreenJolly, which became the unofficial anthem of the Ukrainian Orange Revolution in 2004. The literal translation of the song title is "Together we are many, we cannot be defeated".

Background

The song deliberately resembles a title of a famous Chilean song of Quilapayún used by the Unidad Popular, "El pueblo unido jamás será vencido", written by composer Sergio Ortega.
The original song was entirely in Ukrainian, and was written specifically to refer to the 2004 presidential election, even going so far as to name Presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko by name.

2005 Eurovision Song Contest entry

The song was the Ukrainian entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 in Kiev,. As a requirement of the song contest rules, forbidding direct political references, lyrics mentioning Yuschenko were removed. The verses were rewritten to include both Ukrainian and English lyrics, while the chorus' sentence "Razom nas bahato" was repeated in eight languages: Ukrainian, English, German, Spanish, Czech, French and Russian.
A group of Polish rappers created a remix of Razom nas bahato entitled Jest nas wielu, that became popular in Poland.