The lyrics are performed to the tune of Le Chant des marais1.
The Song of the Deported or Swamp Song (in German Moorsoldatenlied, "song of the swamp soldiers", or Börgermoorlied, "song of Börgermoor" or Die Moorsoldaten) is the adaptation into French of a German song composed in 1933 by communist prisoners of the concentration camp for political prisoners of Börgermoor, in the Ems Country, in Lower Saxony. It should not be confused with the religious song, in Hebrew, intoned during each deportation ceremony, on the Sunday before the New Year according to the Hebrew calendar, in the Synagogue de la Victoire, in Paris [ref. needed]. This song of German deportees also became a French military song, known as Chant des marais, and sung by various French military choirs, paratroopers and even the Foreign Legion [ref needed].