United Nations on the March

The song "United Nations on the March" was featured in the 1943 MGM war-time musical "Thousands Cheer." Originally written by Shostakovich for a Soviet film called "Counterplan," the song was sung by Kathryn Grayson and a chorus in the Hollywood adaptation. Leopold Stokowski, a champion of Shostakovich, arranged the song as an orchestral march for general concert use. In 1954, the Symphony of the Air conducted by Hugh Ross performed the song during United Nations Day celebrations in New York, with the Schola Cantorum singing Harold J. Rome's lyrics at the end.

Lyrics:
The sun and the stars are all ringing
With song rising strong from the earth,
The hope of humanity singing,
A hymn to a new world in birth!

United Nations on the march, with flags unfurled,
Together fight for victory A free new world.

Take heart all you nations swept under
By powers of darkness that ride,
The wrath of the people shall thunder,
Relentless as time and the tide!

United Nations on the march, with flags unfurled,
Together fight for victory A free new world.

As sure as the sun meets the morning
And rivers go down to the sea,
A new day for mankind is dawning,
Our children shall live proud and free!

United Nations on the march, with flags unfurled,
Together fight for victory A free new world.