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Do you know All the words to the National Anthem of your country?

Asked by msh (4270points) December 14th, 2015 from iPhone

If someone asked you to stand up and sing your country’s National Anthem, would you remember all of the words?
No ‘cheats’ either; “by the donzerly light” (US)
Could you do it?

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stanleybmanly's avatar

Only the first stanza. Frankly, neither the lyrics nor the tune are up to the standards for even mediocre music. I think the vast majority of us can sing the song accurately through ”...the home of the brave.”

Mimishu1995's avatar

I can, absolutely! At school I was required to sing every Monday, from when I first started school until when I left high school, so there’s no way I can forget anything. But if you ask me to sing here… well, I don’t know how to sing it in English.

longgone's avatar

Not a chance. I may have sung it twice, at the most. In fact, it took me a few seconds to even recall the tune – I automatically went to the hymn of Europe first.

ragingloli's avatar

Just the first 2 lines.

ucme's avatar

No, but then I don’t think the fucking Queen even knows all of it & it tells of her arse licking citizens.
Like most Brits, I know the few verses our (English) sports teams sing before big games/events.

elbanditoroso's avatar

USA – all the words in first verso, no problem.

All the other verses, no way.

LostInParadise's avatar

The first stanza, mostly but not perfectly.

Seek's avatar

Only the verse they sing at baseball games.

It’s not a very good song anyway. A war ballad set to the tune of a pub song. Yay, ‘murika.

filmfann's avatar

Only the first verse.

CunningFox's avatar

If up until ‘o’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave’ is all the way through(?), then yes.

SavoirFaire's avatar

Yes. I performed it as part of a quartet when I was 15, and I still remember all the words.

dxs's avatar

I know all the words, but no way could I sing it. The range is way over an octave.

Lightlyseared's avatar

Yes. Although I prefer the alternative lyrics

God save the Queen
The fascist regime,
They made you a moron
A potential H-bomb

God save the Queen
She ain’t no human being
There is no future
And England’s dreaming

Don’t be told what you want
Don’t be told what you need
There’s no future
No future
No future for you

God save the Queen
We mean it man
We love our Queen
God saves

God save the Queen
‘Cause tourists are money
And our figurehead
Is not what she seems

Oh God save history
God save your mad parade
Oh Lord God have mercy
All crimes are paid

When there’s no future
How can there be sin
We’re the flowers
In the dustbin
We’re the poison
In your human machine
We’re the future
You’re future

God save the Queen
We mean it man
We love our Queen
God saves

God save the Queen
We mean it man
There is no future
And England’s dreaming

No future no future no future for you
No future no future no future for me
No future no future no future for you
No future no future for me

ragingloli's avatar

Kazakhstan greatest country in the world
all other countries are run by little girls.
Kazakhstan number one exporter of potassium!
Other countries have inferior potassium.

Kazakhstan home of the tinshein swimming pool
its length thirty metre and width six metre.
Filtration system a marvel to behold
it removes 80 percent of human solid waste.

Kazakhstan,Kazakhstan, you very nice place,
from plains of tarashenk to northern fence of jewtown.
Kazakhstan, friend of all except Uzbekistan,
they very nosey people withe bone in their brain.

Kazakhstan industry best in world,
we invented toffee and trouser belt.
Kazakhstan, prostitutes cleanest in the region,
except of course for Turkmenistan’s.
Kazakhstan,Kazakhstan, you very nice place,
from plains of tarashenk to northern fence of jewtown.

Come grasp the mighty penis of our leader,
from junction with testes to tip of its face

ucme's avatar

Never Mind the Bollocks

filmfann's avatar

Nevermind the Borat.

Buttonstc's avatar

Yes. I even know the second stanza as well. What can I say; I’m kind of a poetry nerd with a good memory for lyrics.

rojo's avatar

Not really. Something about rockets red glare and bombs. Reminds me of an old High School cheer we did: “KILL! KILL! KILL! Blood makes the grass grow”

lugerruger's avatar

I know all the words of the first verse of he Australian anthem, and I remember a few words of the second verse. We used to have to sing the whole anthem at school, so I used to know it all, but now we only sing the first verse.

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