Have you herad OUR National Anthem has been changed by Adam Kidron, the words and the melody has been changed?
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It makes no sense at all for them to continue to upset the legal US citizens and their Representatives in Congress.  All they are managing to do is make more people upset about their presence here.
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That is very interesting.\nHere in Canada  we have two official languages, and the anthem is sung in both languages, English and French.\nBut unless Spanish has been made an official language in the US, it is not right that this be sung in Spanish.\nMy opinion.
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No, the melody of the Star Spangled Banner is actually based on an old British drinking song, "To Anacreon in Heaven", which started at Crown Anchor Tavern in the Strand in London around 1780.\n\nFrancis Scott Key's lyrics to the tune were published in 1814.  Woodrow Wilson designated the song as the U.S. national anthem in 1916, and Congress finally confirmed it in 1931.
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No. But as JD has pointed out on other posts, it's really ironic, because that is actually a distress signal (Hanging our flag upside down.) Our nation is in distress and it is at the hand of the illegal invasion that is occurring.
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YES>>>>> i freaking hate that song now... if your anywhere near Indianapolis ever.... dont listen to X103..... christ... id say it got repetative but on that station its all stuck on loop.   Pretty much its Hurt. Buckcherry. Fall Out Boy. Staind.  Flyleaf.  oh.... repeat....\n\n\nso yes that song is overplayed
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yea, thats what happend to me\n\ninstead of songs it now shows lyrics!
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The Star-Spangled Banner\n\n\nIf there is anything taken more seriously than the US flag, it's possibly the national anthem. The Star-Spangled Banner accompanies just about every major American function, and at major sporting events a significant honour is bestowed on those asked to sing what is probably the best known national anthem in the world.\n\nBut, listen to the words and it tells of a moment in US history when the war with the British was being fought and of one man's relief in seeing the US flag still flying after a vicious bombardment.\n\nBefore the Battle\nThe War of 1812 had been a particularly nasty conflict with the British. They had burned down the Capitol and White House in Washington, and were set on taking the port of Baltimore, which was protected in part by Fort McHenry. After an initial land attack had been thwarted, 16 ships of the British fleet positioned themselves for a massive attack on the fort.\n\nBefore the fleet came within canon range, two Americans, Colonel John Skinner and a lawyer and part-time poet by the name of Francis Scott Key, had gone out to one of the British ships. They had come to negotiate the release of Dr William Beanes, a friend of Key who had been seized following the attack on Washington. The British agreed, but all three had learned too much about the forthcoming attack and were detained by the British on board the frigate Surprise until it was over.\n\nThe Defense of Fort McHenry\nThe attack started on September 12th, 1814, and continued for the next two days. Skinner, Beane and Key watched much of the bombardment from the deck and, through the nights of the 12th and 13th they caught glimpses of the star-shaped fort with its huge flag - 42ft long, with 8 red stripes, 7 white stripes and 15 white stars, it had been specially commissioned to be big enough that the British could not possibly fail to see it from a distance.\n\nIn the dark of the night of the 13th, the shelling suddenly stopped - through the darkness they couldn't tell whether the British forces had been defeated, or the fort had fallen.\n\nAs the sun began to rise, Key peered through the lifting darkness anxious to see if the flag they had seen the night before was still flying. And so it was that he scribbled on the back of an envelope the first lines of a poem he called Defense of Fort M'Henry:\n\nO, say can you see, by the dawn's early light,\nWhat so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming\nAs the mist started to clear he was aware that there was a flag flying - but was it the British flag? It was difficult to tell:\n\nWhat is that which the breeze o'er the towering steep,\nAs it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?\nBut finally the sun rose, and with intense relief and pride he saw that the fort had withstood the onslaught ...\n\n'Tis the star-spangled banner - O long may it wave\nO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.\n\n\nThe poem becomes a hymn and anthem\nOn the way back to shore, and later in his hotel room, he completed all four verses of the poem, and the following morning he took it to his brother-in-law, a local judge, who thought it so good that he arranged to have it printed as a handbill.\n\nIt is very likely that Key only ever intended this as a poem. However, there was a very popular tune of the time which had the same form and metre, and there can be no doubt that Key was heavily influenced by it - ironically, this was the tune of a British drinking song!\n\nWhen the handbills were printed, they bore the name of this tune to which the poem should be sung - Anacreon in Heaven. Nobody is sure whether this was Key's idea, or whether his brother-in-law had made the connection, but to this day the American National Anthem is sung to the tune of a British drinking song.\n\nAt one time, the English composer Dr Thomas Arnold was thought to be its composer - it was used as the constitutional song of the Anacreonic Society, a
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can't say ive been listening but they do play the national anthem   \nif that's what u r referring to!
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yes! yes! oh thank god someone out here has a brain! not only the patriot act though, adding an amendment is another problem, he's changing the constitution, the very thing this country was based on because he is a homophobe! freedom is being taken away from americans and i can't take it any longer! down with bush, up with freedom!
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I think it has gone way too far with Spanish... By at least trying to learn the language of your adoptive land you show respect and gratitude. But with Spanish, my opinion is that there's no way back now; you'll just have to make Florida (and Texas and New Mexico) officially and legally bilingual. That's why Canadian anthem is sung in two languages - cuz it's a bilingual country, with 2 official and legal languages. (Finland is one, too - its Finnish and Swedish). All this said, USA is still a monolingual country, and as such, I would say that messing with anthem is not nice. To say the least.
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Isn't that the national Anthem for France?
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Not sure but it may be his voice is changing
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not sure really? try looking up the score and music details for the song. It might be possible to find the melody before the lyrics were added.?
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Yeah, it was The National Anthem, great song!
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No, the national anthem of Great Britain is 'God Save the Queen'.
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The National Anthem should be sung however we want to sing it. As Americans we should be proud of our freedom of speech, and anyone who wishes to sing the national anthem in Spanish, English, German, French or any other language for that matter should be able to do so.\n\nOn Friday, September 10, 1897 "some three hundred men assembled at Harwood, gathered a few American flags to display during their march, and set off for Lattimer. They proceeded peacefully and unarmed. In their view, they were simply expressing the American rights to assembly and free speech. Sheriff Martin received word of the procession and mobilized his deputies. As the column neared Hazleton they encountered Martin's posse. The sheriff drew his pistol, pointed it at the head of a marcher, and ordered them to disperse. They refused. A fight broke out. One of the deputies grabbed a flag and ripped it to pieces,"\n\nMore often than not those who have sacrificed and died for this country have been immigrants, and have fought hard. Let's not forget the Lattimer Mine massacre where so-called proud Americans yanked the American flag from the hands of immigrants, tore it and threw it on the ground to be trampled on. The question is "which of these two groups were the more patriotic? The immigrants who carried the flag or the non-immigrants who threw it on the ground? I know the answer I give to that question."\n\nThe reality is that no first generation of immigrants have ever successfully been able to learn English and it wasn't until the second generation that English was spoken among these immigrants. There were periods in our history where entire towns, streets, and areas of entire cities that no English was spoken or read. These people were hard working Americans who came here without any documentation. Some of my ancestors came down through Canada and did not have papers. It wasn't until they went to be naturalized that they ever had any official papers. The idea that there is such a thing as illegal immigration is strange and foreign and the result of bigotry.\n\nThe immigrants from Spanish speaking countries who have not and cannot (and this is a known fact from our history) learn English should be able to sing the National Anthem because they are Americans as much as my undocumented ancestors from Canada, England, and every other place in the world were Americans long before they were naturalized.
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A Spanish rendition of the national anthem does not "incurage" (by the way, isn't it a bit humbling that you don't know how to write in your own language, and are being scorned for it by people whose first language isn't even English?) illegal immigration.  It encourages provincial, monolingual, illiterate simpletons to learn at least one more language.  Heh.