Pałacyk Michla was written during Warsaw Uprising on 4th or 5th August 1944 by one of the insurgents Józef Szczepański in Michler's Palace. This song became a war anthem of Battalion Parasol (Umbrella) which was fighting for the Michler's Palace. The Palace was destroyed during the Warsaw Uprising, but the song survived and is still sung by Polish children (and others too). The language of it is rather difficult to translate and there are many war words we don't use now. It's about young people fighting against the Germans, about insurgents' life during uprising, love and friendship. Our music teacher at SP 9 Dzierżoniów plays the music and the school choir is singing. Polish students Kasia Wielgos from class 5d learnt to sing the English war song
It’s a long way to Tipperary.
Then the other students also could learn this song using our film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hehmm6abpYM
It's a long way to Tipperrary, It's a long way to go; It's a long way to Tipperrary To the sweetest girl I know! Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell, Leicester Square, It's a long, long way to Tipperrary, But my heart's right there!
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