| Ὦ ξεῖν᾿, ἀγγέλλειν Λακεδαιμονίοις ὅτι τῇδε | 
| κείμεθα τοῖς κείνων ῥήμασι πειθόμενοι. | 
| They told them forces would be rising from the east | 
| Striking fear into their hearts as from the wild sea rose the beast | 
| Just three hundred Spartans, as they met them side by side, | 
| When arrows flew to cloak the sun, they stemmed the Persian tide | 
| Lead our way, Leonidas | 
| Give us strength and unite us | 
| On these rocks the tide will break | 
| And no one weep at our wake! | 
| Tell them you saw us ride | 
| To the gates of our destiny | 
| Tell them we fought and died | 
| For our land and our liberty | 
| And then tell them, you saw us lie | 
| On the ground as their law commands | 
| Here they fought immortals and a man-god at these portals | 
| On their shields and armour clashed swords and arrows, bodies gashed | 
| And the phalanx held and would not break as Xerxes' pillar dared to quake | 
| With the dawn a red sun rose, a lion’s wrath, a feast for crows… | 
| Tell them you saw us ride | 
| To the gates of our destiny | 
| Tell them we fought and died | 
| For our land and our liberty | 
| And then tell them, you saw us lie | 
| On the ground as their law commands | 
| And so three hundred rode | 
| With their dark fate bestowed | 
| Upon their longest day | 
| Where they lay | 
| But so the word was spread | 
| And, this the legend said, | 
| Made Greece retaliate | 
| For Sparta’s fate | 
| Lead our way, Leonidas | 
| Give us strength and unite us | 
| On these rocks the tide will break | 
| And no one weep at our wake! | 
| Tell them you saw us ride | 
| To the gates of our destiny | 
| Tell them we fought and died | 
| For our land and our liberty | 
| And then tell them, you saw us lie | 
| On the ground as their law commands |