BAYAN KO

BY: JOSE CORAZON DE

JESUS
TAPANGCO,RUBY MILES M.
FORMILOZA,MARY CHRISTINE
HUMSS
TULA: Bayan Ko
Bayan Ko (My Country) is a Tagalog
poem was written by José Corazón de
Jesús in 1929. It was set to music by
Constancio de Guzman and became a
very popular song during the struggle
against the Marcos dictatorship in the
1980s.
This song has accompanied almost every struggle since
the turn of the century to recapture the visions and ideals
of the First Republic -- from the anti-American protest
movement and millenarian revolts of the 1920's and 30's,
to the resistance against the Japanese occupation in the
40's, the student revolt of the 70's and more recently, the
1986 "People's Power" revolt that toppled the Marcos
dictatorship.
Original Tagalog lyrics by Jose Corazon de Jesus, melody
by Constancio de Guzman.
 BAYAN KO

Ang bayan kong Pilipinas

Lupain ng ginto’t bulaklak
Pag-ibig na sa kanyang palad
Nag-alay ng ganda’t dilag.

At sa kanyang yumi at ganda

Dayuhan ay nahalina
Bayan ko, binihag ka
Nasadlak sa dusa.
Ibon mang may layang lumipad
kulungin mo at umiiyak
Bayan pa kayang sakdal dilag
Ang di magnasang makaalpas!

Pilipinas kong minumutya

Pugad ng luha ko’t dalita
Aking adhika,
Makita kang sakdal laya.
 ABOUT THE SONG

Key / Mode: C minor - C major

Genre: Songs of Nationhood / Patriotic Songs

Form: Kundiman

Historical Period: American Period

Date of Composition: 1928

 ABOUT THIS SONG

• COMPOSER: DE GUZMAN, CONSTANCIO

• LYRICIST: JOSE CORAZON DE JESUS
• PERFORMER: RUBEN TAGALOG
 JOSE CORAZON DE JESUS
• JOSE CORAZON DE JESUS (1896-1932) ALSO KNOWNAS HUSENG BATUTE
IS ONE OF THE GREATEST PHILIPPINEPOETS AND IS ACKNOWLEDGED
AS THE KING OFBALAGTASAN . UNKNOWN TO MANY, THE IMMORTAL
SONG"BAYAN KO" WAS PENNED BY THIS MAGNIFICENT BARD.
• HE WAS BORN IN STA. CRUZ, MANILA TO DR. VICENTE DEJESUS AND
SUSANA PANGILINAN. PEPITO, AS HE WASCALLED, STUDIED AT THE
LICEO DE MANILA WHERE HE GOTTHE BACHILLER EN ARTES DEGREE.
FROM THE ACADEMIADE LEYES, HE OBTAINED THE BACHILLER EN
LEYES DEGREE,BUT HE DID NOT TAKE THE BAR EXAMINATION
BECAUSE HEWAS ALREADY PREOCCUPIED WITH WRITING.
 JOSE CORAZON DE JESUS
• HIS LITERARY INCLINATION WAS MANIFESTED EARLY IN LIFE.HIS
FIRST POEM, PANGUNGULILA , WAS WRITTEN WHEN HEWAS 17
YEARS OLD. IN 1920, HE WORKED FOR TALIBAAND BEGAN HIS
FAMOUS COLUMN, BUHAY MAYNILA . HECAUGHT THE
IMAGINATION OF THE READERS THROUGH HISAPPEALING AND
INCISIVE SATIRE.
• MOST OF HIS POPULARITY RESTED ON LYRICAL JOUSTS HEHAD
WITH FLORENTINO COLLANTES. THIS LITERARY GENREWAS
PRACTICALLY UNKNOWN UNTIL POPULARIZED BY JOSE.THE FIRST
OF THESE ENCOUNTERS WAS PARU-PARO’TBUBUYOG HELD AT THE
INSTITUTO DE MUJERES.
• HE EXCELLED IN THE BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE, IN CHARM
 JOSE CORAZON DE JESUS
• LIKE A WHIRLING SILENT STORM, OR A SILENT SPRING THATWELLS
UP, HE MADE IMMENSE CONTRIBUTIONS TOTAGALOG LITERATURE.
HIS BUHAY MAYNILA COLUMN ALONEPUBLISHED ABOUT 4,000
POEMS; ANG LAGOT NABAGTING, WRITTEN IN MORE SERIOUS
TREND, NUMBEREDABOUT 800 POEMS. HE ALSO WROTE SOME 300
SHORTPOEMS AND PROSE.
• IN THE 15 LITERARY CONTESTS HE JOINED, HE WON EITHERFIRST
PRIZE OR SECOND PRIZE. IN LYRICAL JOUSTS, HERECEIVED THREE
SILVER TROPHIES AND FOUR GOLD MEDALS.
• HIS POEMS LIKE ANG PUSO KO, ANG PAMANA, ANGPANDAY, ANG
MANOK KONG BULIK, ANG PAGBABALIK ,AND SA HALAMANAN NG
DIOS WERE FEATURED IN POETRYREADING SESSIONS IN COLLEGES
 JOSE CORAZON DE JESUS

• PEPITO DIED OF ULCER ON MAY 26, 1932. HE WAS ONLY36.

HIS HEART WAS PRESERVED BY THE GOVERNMENTUNTIL
IT WAS BURIED WITH HIS MOTHER. HIS BODY WASBURIED
UNDER A TREE IN FULFILLMENT OF HIS WISHEXPRESSED
IN TWO OF HIS LAST POEMS— ISANG PUNONGKAHOY AND
ANG AKASYA .

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