mary1947 2,090 Posted July 5, 2014 Report Share Posted July 5, 2014 Do we need a new National Anthem? after hearing all the national anthem's at the football matches and seeing every one singing to there own anthem and just a few of us singing to ours, also if you went to the flicks how many of you tried to leave before the anthem was played What do you think? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted July 5, 2014 Report Share Posted July 5, 2014 Until 24 hour T.V. The B.B.C. played the national anthem every night on closing down I'm not sure when this practice ceased. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,213 Posted July 5, 2014 Report Share Posted July 5, 2014 Cinema,Theatre,School,Radio,Telly, all played the Anthem,the only time you hear it now is at Military and Sporting occasions,and most under 40s would'nt know the words, Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted July 5, 2014 Report Share Posted July 5, 2014 The National Anthem was usually followed by a white spot! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,213 Posted July 5, 2014 Report Share Posted July 5, 2014 Some 'ANTHEMS' are awful,my favourite after our own', is 'Flower of Scotland' Quote Link to post Share on other sites
darkazana 1,736 Posted July 5, 2014 Report Share Posted July 5, 2014 .....and a high pitched hum! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
darkazana 1,736 Posted July 5, 2014 Report Share Posted July 5, 2014 I think we should keep our anthem. It's part of our heritage and who we are. I would imagine that the reason the younger generation don't know the words is because they do not learn it at school now. Like the assemblies have died out,(how many of them would know the words to any of our hymns, like Onward Christian Soldiers), due to the diversity of faiths in schools, so too has anything remotely patriotic in case it causes offence to others. 8 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted July 5, 2014 Report Share Posted July 5, 2014 Benjamin1945, you omitted the EU National Anthem! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,213 Posted July 5, 2014 Report Share Posted July 5, 2014 Goes without saying,that must be 'awful' Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted July 5, 2014 Report Share Posted July 5, 2014 I like the Siamese national anthem - sung to the same tune as our own "Ah wah tah na Siam, wah tah sih lyah Siam, Ah na Siam..." (Oh, and by the way - this is fictitious!) 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted July 5, 2014 Report Share Posted July 5, 2014 Goes without saying,that must be 'awful' A fine Classic, stolen by the EU 'parliament' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHLajawqWvs 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlebro 234 Posted July 5, 2014 Report Share Posted July 5, 2014 The 'National Anthem' is the music alone, the words were penned much later. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 16,213 Posted July 5, 2014 Report Share Posted July 5, 2014 I STAND CORRECTED ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted July 5, 2014 Report Share Posted July 5, 2014 You can stand corrected, just dont feel obliged to stand Quote Link to post Share on other sites
carni 10,094 Posted July 5, 2014 Report Share Posted July 5, 2014 I always thought that when the National Anthem came on at the Ritz, it was time to run outside, round the back for a quick snog!!! Only joking gang, I love our Queen. She's done a grand job! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted July 5, 2014 Report Share Posted July 5, 2014 I think our National Anthem is miserable - miserable tune and miserable lyrics. It praises a person, not the country and its people. All this will change when we are a republic. By far the best I have heard is the Welsh anthem, the American one is good, too. As for playing anthems at sporting events, I think there should be a universal anthem, either for all sports or each sport having its own anthem. Play it once and its over with. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted July 5, 2014 Report Share Posted July 5, 2014 Men of Bulwell stand ye steadyIt can not be ever said yeFor the battle were not readyBritains never yield Men of Bulwell, on to glorySee your banner famed in storyWaves these burning words before ye,"Britain scorns to yield!" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted July 5, 2014 Report Share Posted July 5, 2014 The American NA started life as a poem, written during the 1812 war ....It can be a tear jerker when sung by the right person. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted July 5, 2014 Report Share Posted July 5, 2014 And the words to it. Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early lightWhat so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet waveO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it waveO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!And where is that band who so vauntingly sworeThat the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,A home and a country should leave us no more!Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.No refuge could save the hireling and slaveFrom the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth waveO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall standBetween their loved home and the war's desolation!Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued landPraise the Power that hath made and preserved 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 waveO'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bilbraborn 1,594 Posted July 5, 2014 Report Share Posted July 5, 2014 Our national anthem maybe about a person, but she is the human representative of our country. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,429 Posted July 5, 2014 Report Share Posted July 5, 2014 I always gain great amusement by reminding my American friends that when they sing their patriotic hymn "my Country 'Tis of Thee", that it is actually sung to the tune of the British national anthem. Most of them have no idea and "look at yer gon' aht." 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chulla 4,946 Posted July 5, 2014 Report Share Posted July 5, 2014 Mick2me. If that is the Welsh national anthem (Bulwell version) then I am thinking of the wrong tune. The one in my mind has the words 'Wales, Wales, land of....' or something like that. They sing it at rugby matches. Ayupmeducks. Thanks for the words of the American one, but hope that they don't have to sing it all the way through. Bilbraborn. I know she is, but that doesn't make it right in my thinking. She isn't even ancestrally English. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Pianoman 1,535 Posted July 5, 2014 Report Share Posted July 5, 2014 I always gain great amusement by reminding my American friends that when they sing their patriotic hymn "my Country 'Tis of Thee", that it is actually sung to the tune of the British national anthem. Most of them have no idea and "look at yer gon' aht." We have a hymn tune that is also the German National Anthem. Not often heard these days though Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted July 5, 2014 Report Share Posted July 5, 2014 Re #22 "Oh land my fathers, the land of the free..." - or in the original "Hen wlad fy nhadau..." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted July 5, 2014 Report Share Posted July 5, 2014 Most just sing verse one Chulla... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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