Thu Sep 1, 2016, 09:08 PM
struggle4progress (89,425 posts)
we need a new national anthem so post suggestions
[youtube]https://youtu.be/48vNfKUHWRw[/youtube]
[youtube]https://youtu.be/ya7Bn7kPkLo[/youtube]
Response to struggle4progress (Original post)
Thu Sep 1, 2016, 09:09 PM
Brickbat (19,179 posts)
1. This Land Is Your Land -- as long as it's the entire song.
Response to Brickbat (Reply #1)::)
Thu Sep 1, 2016, 09:15 PM
struggle4progress (89,425 posts)
2. Geronimo's great-grand-daughter told me she would refuse to sing it
Response to struggle4progress (Original post)
Thu Sep 1, 2016, 09:18 PM
Travis_0004 (5,066 posts)
4. You are proposing a song in Spanish???
Response to Travis_0004 (Reply #4)
Thu Sep 1, 2016, 09:20 PM
struggle4progress (89,425 posts)
5. I don't know any Spanglish or Chinglish songs
Response to struggle4progress (Original post)
Thu Sep 1, 2016, 09:24 PM
Ilsa (39,093 posts)
8. I love the second one. It might not be secular enough,
Though.
I also like This Land is Your Land and America the Beautiful.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-Yrg9xNSS0[/youtube]
Response to Jim Beard (Reply #45)
Fri Sep 2, 2016, 06:21 AM
Star Member Hortensis (10,785 posts)
51. On the list as possible, but badly flawed due to religious content.
It's a shame, but "God" is in every verse in every version.
Response to Doc_Technical (Reply #19)
Fri Sep 2, 2016, 12:28 AM
SeattleVet (1,412 posts)
34. I'd have to ask that we absolutely avoid 'The Liberty Bell'...
Back when I was in the Air Force some high-ranking officer requested a full-on retirement ceremony when he completed his 30 years, with marching formations and all the pomp and crap.
He also had music.
Imagine, if you will, a parade ground with full formations of Airmen, in dress blues, standing at attention while the opening notes of 'The Liberty Bell' wafted over the parade ground.
A good portion of the troops in the formations were in their 20's.
The year was 1975.
As the music started, we all immediately recognized it as the theme from 'Monty Python's Flying Circus'.
Cut to a few hundred (mostly younger) people, in dress uniforms, standing at attention, mostly with shoulders shuddering and making choking sounds as we all tried to keep from bursting out laughing, while the (older) officers on the reviewing stand had no freaking idea whatsoever what we were all finding so funny.
A British comedy show from 40 years ago has made it impossible for this piece of music to ever be heard, without expecting a big giant paper cutout foot to be coming down at any moment, with a fart sound.
Who the hell says we need a new national anthem? Some idiot football player and the vermin at DU?
'The Star- Spangled Banner' remains as relevant now as it was in Francis Scott Key's day, and its first verse's ending "Oh say, does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave, o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?", remains a crucial question for us all to keep in mind.
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O! thus be it ever when freemen shall stand
Between their lov'd home, and the war's desolation,
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the power that hath made and preserv'd us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto — "In God is our trust!"
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave.
Im surprised nobody suggested this :rofl:
NSFW.. you have been warned.[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1mlCPMYtPk[/youtube]
OK, I'll play along.
What would be the DUmmies' ideal new national anthem?
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=0O9hSjYF2Hc[/youtube]
I'm surprised coming from the DUmp they didn't choose Puff the Magic Dragon by a massive majority.