The image of an anonymous young man's body
carried on doors through the cordons of police and tanks inspired
Dowgiałło to write the poem. Not knowing his name at the time, the
author decided to give him a name that is typically Polish.
). After the fall of communism
in Poland, a street was named after Zbigniew Godlewski and another
after Janek Wiśniewski.
Original lyrics
Chłopcy z Grabówka, chłopcy z Chyloni
Dzisiaj milicja użyła broni
Dzielnieśmy stali, celnie rzucali
Janek Wiśniewski padł
Na drzwiach ponieśli go Świętojańską
Naprzeciw glinom, naprzeciw tankom
Chłopcy, stoczniowcy, pomścijcie druha
Janek Wiśniewski padł
Huczą petardy, ścielą się gazy
Na robotników sypią się razy
Padają starcy, dzieci, kobiety
Janek Wiśniewski padł
Jeden raniony, drugi zabity
Krew się polała grudniowym świtem
To Partia strzela do robotników
Janek Wiśniewski padł
Krwawy Kociołek to kat Trójmiasta
Przez niego giną dzieci, niewiasty
Poczekaj draniu, my cię dostaniem
Janek Wiśniewski padł
Stoczniowcy Gdyni, stoczniowcy Gdańska
Idźcie do domu, skończona walka
Świat się dowiedział, nic nie powiedział
Janek Wiśniewski padł
Nie płaczcie matki, to nie na darmo
Nad stocznią sztandar z czarną kokardą
Za chleb i wolność, i nową Polskę
Janek Wiśniewski padł
English translation
Boys from Grabówek, boys from Chylonia
Today the
militsiya opened fire
Bravely we stood, accurately we threw
Janek Wiśniewski fell
On a door we carried him along Świętojańska
Against the cops, against the tanks
Boys, shipyard workers, avange your comrade
Janek Wiśniewski fell
The bangers sound, the gas spreads
Blows fall on the workers
Elderly, children, women are falling
Janek Wiśniewski fell
One is wounded, another killed
Blood was spilled at dawn in December
It's
the Party shooting
at the workers
Janek Wiśniewski fell
Bloody
Kociołek is the
Tricity's executioner
Because of him the children, ladies are dying
Wait bastard, we're gonna get ya
Janek Wiśniewski fell
Shipyard
workers of Gdynia, workers of Gdańsk
Go home, the battle is over
The world heard about this, and said nothing
Janek Wiśniewski fell
Don't cry mothers, it wasn't for naught
There's black banner above the shipyard
For bread and freedom, and a new Poland
Janek Wiśniewski fell
city of
Gdynia
by the military or police on December 17, 1970, during
the Polish 1970
protests. The image of an anonymous young man's body
carried on doors through the cordons of police and tanks inspired
Dowgiałło to write the poem. Not knowing his name at the time, the
author decided to give him a name that is typically Polish.
Later it
was discovered the man was actually named Zbigniew
Godlewski and lived in nearby Elbląg
. In
1970 he was shot dead along with some 40 other people.
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