Time to change the national anthem?

[totallyfixed]

 

[perplexed]

Must keep t'yorkshire lads happy

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8MWb1FlODQ

Cripes, you nearly had me there...As a Yorkshireman, I nearly clicked on the link but realised, just in time, that it looks like Lesley 'I ruined the first British winner of the Tour de France's' podium ceremony' Garrett... Luck escape.

 

[Globalti]

Yes, we're a bunch of pussies by comparison.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

This is a bit of a dirge

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29FFHC2D12Q

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Cripes, you nearly had me there...As a Yorkshireman, I nearly clicked on the link but realised, just in time, that it looks like Lesley 'I ruined the first British winner of the Tour de France's' podium ceremony' Garrett... Luck escape.

Not 100% Lesley. Bit of several including Brian of Blessed.

 

[Smurfy]

Nobody could say this is a dirge.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2iLA3h_u60

 

[jefmcg]

National anthems are tricky. Few are as good as La Marseillaise. Australia got rid of the irrelevant and awful God Save The Queen, and replaced it by popular vote with the nearly-as-awful Advance Australia Fair, a terrible late victorian song by one of those types of poets who thinks "our home is girt by sea" is more poetic than 'we live on an island". Most of the verses had to be removed, and several lines changed - including the first one - to make it suitable for the 20th century. Most people have no idea of the lyrics of the second verse, so it's reduced to an embarrassing mumble until it gets back to the chorus. I think Waltzing Matilda was rejected because a song about sheep stealing and suicide while fleeing the law wasn't the best thing for state funerals.

 

[fimm]

There's a country out there that doesn't have words to its National Anthem. I think it might be Spain. I suppose I could google it.
Flower of Scotland is a bit of a dirge, IMHO.

 

[nickyboy]

This is a bit of a dirge

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29FFHC2D12Q

Massive disagree. It's probably the most beautiful of all anthems

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Massive disagree. It's probably the most beautiful of all anthems

Well there you go

But come my Emperorship my little black book will be getting quite full

 

[Globalti]

That Japanese anthem sounds like it was composed by the ghastly Graham Kendrick or one of those other one-finger composers of modern twaddle who have destroyed British church music with marvels of composition like "Shine, Jesus, Shine". Arguably the banality of their music has actually contributed to the decline of organised Christian religion in Britain.

But I digress....

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

There's a country out there that doesn't have words to its National Anthem. I think it might be Spain. I suppose I could google it.
............

Correct - but not Spain

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WNaHuAHKFU

 

[jefmcg]

Correct - but not Spain

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WNaHuAHKFU

It is Spain. Just because lyrics exist for a tune, doesn't mean the lyrics are part of the official anthem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcha_Real

The Marcha Real (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmartʃa reˈal], "Royal March") is the national anthem of Spain. It is one of only four national anthems (along with those of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and San Marino) in the world to have no official lyrics.[1]

 

[Cheddar George]

I have always thought that "I do like to be beside the seaside" nicely reflects our island heritage.

It's quite a jaunty little number as well.

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

It is Spain. Just because lyrics exist for a tune, doesn't mean the lyrics are part of the official anthem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcha_Real

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