The lyrics of the anthem was based on a poem by a Ukrainian ethnographer, folklorist and poet Pavel Chubinsky. A priest, a famour composer of his time, Mikhail Verbitskiy wrote the music for the poem and performed it himself for the first time in a hall of theological seminary in the city of Przemyśl.
On January 15, 1992, the current version of the anthem was approved by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. However, only on March 6, 2003 the Verkhovna Rada has adopted a law "About national anthem of Ukraine", proposed by the president Leonid Kuchma. The law made the first refrain and the chorus of the song "Shche ne vmerla Ukrayina" the official national anthem.
Often, some inaccuracies can be heard when listening to performance of the anthem. Officially it is adopted for a fragment of the first line to be sung as "і слава, і воля", however some replace it with a more sounding "ні слава, ні воля". In the second line, one could hear "браття українці" instead of "браття молодії". And in the third it is often performed "вороженьки" instead of "воріженьки".
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Ще не вмерла України і слава, і воля,
Ще нам, браття молодії, усміхнеться доля.
Згинуть наші воріженьки, як роса на сонці,
Запануєм i ми, браття, у своїй сторонці.
Душу й тіло ми положим за нашу свободу,
І покажем, що ми, браття, козацького роду.
20 июл 2020
