by Mulan 41 Replies latest jw friends
Yikes. Talk about letting nationalist pride overrun musical taste.
There is only one really great national anthem in the world: France's La Marseillaise.
All other are somewhere between mediocre (like UK, Germany, Norway) and outright ugly (US, Sweden, Russia).
IMNSHO
- Jan
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- "How do you write women so well?" - "I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability." (Jack Nicholson in "As Good as it Gets")
Jan, you're my man...
I was just going to answer to this post.
Yes, :
Allons enfants de la patrie
Le jour de gloire est arrivé
Contre nous de la tyrannie
L'étendard sanglant est levé...
Aaah...
I always wished that the song "This Land Is Your Land" was the national anthem of the USA.
I like the American Anthem, especially the way Jimi Hendrix played it.
Oh yeah.....
Jan, I forgot all about France. I agree that their anthem is awesome.
Marilyn (aka Mulan)
"No one can take advantage of you, without your permission." Ann Landers
A National anthem by Woodie Guthrie? Hmmmm!
Prince Charles reckons he will change our anthem to Land of hope and glory when he gets the crown, I hope so too.
Englishman.
Truth exists;only falsehood has to be invented. -Georges Braque
Im sitting here laughting Waltzing Matilda the national anthem of Australia, well they did talk about it a while back. Actually Australia has two National anthems the one you here the most is [Gopher ] Advance Australia Fair, the other national anthem is god Save the Queen, the same as the UK but is only used when the Queen is here. They added the new national anthem in the 70s
Barry
http://home.earthlink.net/~hldettling/dtlied.ra
Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
Für das Deutsche Vaterland.
Danach laßt uns alle streben,
Brüderlich mit Herz und Hand.
Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
Sind des Glückes Unterpfand.
Blüh' im Glanze dieses Glückes,
Blühe deutsches Vaterland.
English Translation
Unity and Rights and Freedom
For the German Fatherland
Let us all strive for that
Brotherly with heart and hand
Unity and Rights and Freedom
Are the foundation for happiness
Bloom in the glow of happiness
Bloom German Fatherland
BTW, the meloddy used to be that of "Zion's Glorious Hope", song no 64 in the Watchtower Songbook of 1928
Actually Waltzing Matilda, was once the National Anthem of Australia.
