Time for a new national anthem?
961107
yep \nlets change it to "always look on the bright side of life"by monty python\nor the spam song or the lumberjack song anything but the dirge we have now .its why we lose at footy the players are comatose by the end and have lost the will to live let alone kick a ball about .
621240
I have sung the national anthem before.  They were both off the cuff.  Someone asked me to sing it minutes before the ceremony would start.  \nIt is an honor.\nIt's not an easy song to sing but I eeked out the high notes and prayed a lot.
1115451
http://www.last.fm/music/Soccer/_/Soccer+Anthem+(Ole+ole)\n\n\nyour are fit to go! me 10 points please? i was first.
339160
Hells no, kid!!! It is the American National Anthem, the native tongue in the United states is English. Only the National anthem for Spanish speaking nations should be sung in spanish. Should the Canadian National anthem be sung in German?........No again.
911169
Yes.  That time is here.  New day for America!  New path!
367531
Our National Anthem it makes me cry everytime and For the moments I feel faint by Relient K. I'm already there by Lonestar
346359
Can you imagine moving to France or Bolivia or Mexico and expecting everyone there to be able to communicate with you in ENGLISH? If you're adopting the country as your new home, you need to conform to its customs and laws.\n\nThe national anthem they came out with is insulting. Shall we rewrite the Mexican anthem, record it in English and release it in their country? Bet they'd start a war over that!
405287
here is the translation of thier version of america's national anthem.\n\nhttp://cbs13.com/local/local_story_118212333.html
990217
How about a song like America the Beautiful or some other song that is a tribute to the troups over in Iraq.
555250
Isn't that the national Anthem for France?
652597
If it's the American National Anthem, then of coarse it should be sung in English. English is our national language, like it or not.
850848
Yeah I know 2 versions. The sex pistols and the version that is my national anthem! I'm sure there is more.
941818
Sometime in 2007\n\nAnd this should be in the Music section.  The bloggers will get upset.\n\nGood Luck!
455818
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
1100518
our national anthem is boring i think we should use the theme tune from the archers lol
559134
I think that the National Anthem should be sung ONLY in English because that is our common language.\n\nI do, however, think that if the people want to recite it in Spanish. Hebrew, Chineese or whatever language they chose, then so be it as long as the main anthem is in English.\n\nWhy should the USA give up it's culture to please everyone else.\nOne day we will learn you can not please everyone.  And attmpting to please everyone you will please no one.
824466
song if not it should be??????