The original score was found in the archives of the Music Auditorium in Cagliari by Prof. Francesco Cesare Casula, then head of Institute of History of Mediterranean Europe (ISEM) of Italy's National Research Council (CNR).

On the express wishes of Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, it was officially performed for the last time in 1937, by the choir of the Sistine Chapel, the Director of which being Lorenzo Perosi, when the Golden Rose was conferred to Queen Elena by Pope Pius XI.

In 1991, "S'Hymnu sardu nationale" was performed by the Carabinieri Music Band at the Quirinal Palace on 29 May, in accordance with the traditional way the foreign diplomatic corps was received.

Solu in sa morte cedere Soliat su Sardu antigu Né vivu a' s'inimigu deo m'apa a dare, o Re.

De ti mostrare cupidu Sa fide sua, s'amore Sas venas in ardore Sentit su Sardu, o Re.

Indica un adversariu E horrenda dae su coro Scoppiat s'ira insoro A unu tou cinnu, o Re.

Sos fidos fortes homines Abbaida tue contentu chi an a esse in onzi eventu cales jà fuint, o Re.