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Thu Sep 17, 2015, 06:38 PM

Sep 2015

My younger daughter once took part in an elementary school "olympics" as her class at the Anne Frank Schule here in Düsseldorf had 16 or more different nationalities in it out of a class of 28. The French Marseillaise is just as militaristic as our own ("aux armes, citoyens!&quot , as was the old Soviet anthem (I don't know if Putin's Russia still uses the tune). The tunes from places like Iran and Pakistan were curiously like folk tunes. This was 20 years ago, so they may have since changed.

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The US really frickin needs a new national anthem [View all] struggle4progress Sep 2015 OP

It was originally a poem, IIRC MannyGoldstein Sep 2015 #1

It's not a good poem either. Nobody can remember the words. struggle4progress Sep 2015 #3

You know one verse and a chorus, here's the rest of 'Doodle' : Bluenorthwest Sep 2015 #15

School kids could easily learn that with enthusiasm and would never forget it struggle4progress Sep 2015 #26

If you say so. It's fairly antique, difficult to understand and not universally applicable to the Bluenorthwest Sep 2015 #65

The original version, if anyone's interested... Mac1949 Sep 2015 #5

Someone here at DU suggested a plausible drinking game to go with that: struggle4progress Sep 2015 #8

Sounds like fun, but... Mac1949 Sep 2015 #17

Go ahead and compose a new anthem. Maybe it will be a hit. nt ladjf Sep 2015 #2

There are plenty of good possibilities struggle4progress Sep 2015 #7

America the Beautiful! Ray Charles! longship Sep 2015 #11

Would the DU community endorse any song with "God" in it? brooklynite Sep 2015 #18

OK but let's not bicker to the point of doing nothing struggle4progress Sep 2015 #23

I'd rather have a song about god than a song about bombs XemaSab Sep 2015 #48

"he has loosed the faithful lightning of his terrible swift sword....." brooklynite Sep 2015 #49

I didn't mean EVERY song about god XemaSab Sep 2015 #74

As somebody who's not a big fan of God RexDart Sep 2015 #77

The next anthem could be C&W ... JustABozoOnThisBus Sep 2015 #4

We can fight fire with fire there struggle4progress Sep 2015 #9

Sub title the song - All Hail to the Corporation liberal N proud Sep 2015 #6

Yankee Doodle Dandy struggle4progress Sep 2015 #13

...and the home... of the... crazed! nt Erich Bloodaxe BSN Sep 2015 #10

My country 'tis of thy people struggle4progress Sep 2015 #19

And, btw, I don't believe any apocryphal story about 'the British fleeing in terror' from a song. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Sep 2015 #12

Revisionist! struggle4progress Sep 2015 #14

You need to read all of Richard Armour's books 1939 Sep 2015 #33

Why? DFW Sep 2015 #16

De Colores struggle4progress Sep 2015 #20

why have one that is sung at all? melm00se Sep 2015 #22

I suppose we could just use the current one without lyrics struggle4progress Sep 2015 #31

Yes other countries' anthems sound like hymns treestar Sep 2015 #53

Not all DFW Sep 2015 #67

I'd like one that is not about bombs, LWolf Sep 2015 #21

Geronimo's great-grand-daughter told me she refused to sing Guthrie's song struggle4progress Sep 2015 #24

I can see that. LWolf Sep 2015 #25

Maybe we could offer folk several national anthems, copying the example struggle4progress Sep 2015 #28

This land is your land. nt Javaman Sep 2015 #27

The fact that no one can sing that song is what makes it beautiful. Sheldon Cooper Sep 2015 #29

Well, we could just lend out instruments and ask people to play along with this struggle4progress Sep 2015 #32

ha ha marions ghost Sep 2015 #41

I vote for this one: johnp3907 Sep 2015 #30

This Is My Country struggle4progress Sep 2015 #34

Or some good-old Milwaukee 90s Goblinmonger Sep 2015 #55

Why have a song at all it serves no purpose except divisiveness YabaDabaNoDinoNo Sep 2015 #35

Who needs a song to divide us when we can already be so divisive via internet? struggle4progress Sep 2015 #39

It's an embarrassing anachronism. HughBeaumont Sep 2015 #36

You should research the lyrics of other national anthems. Throd Sep 2015 #42

France: Bluenorthwest Sep 2015 #66

THat's one. Here are several others. HughBeaumont Sep 2015 #71

On this topic, more or less marions ghost Sep 2015 #37

+ struggle4progress Sep 2015 #40

America Uber Alles? ryan_cats Sep 2015 #38

God Bless the USA? hardluck Sep 2015 #43

If Socialist Bernie becomes our Prez... pink-o Sep 2015 #44

Sorry, but no other national song lets people do this: Tommy_Carcetti Sep 2015 #45

Toby Keith's "Have I Got a Present for You" Orsino Sep 2015 #46

I think Randy Newman has written many anthems about America olddots Sep 2015 #47

A Few Words in Defense of Our Country struggle4progress Sep 2015 #50

We should adopt the Spanish national anthem -- much easier to sing nichomachus Sep 2015 #51

Que? Throd Sep 2015 #52

People make up all sort of things to fill the gap nichomachus Sep 2015 #54

I guess I should have yelled "Stop making shit up" at everyone when I lived there. Throd Sep 2015 #63

Sometimes that's called for nichomachus Sep 2015 #69

Maybe Taylor Swift can write it, OP! WinkyDink Sep 2015 #56

God Bless America rogerashton Sep 2015 #57

If Democrats picked this battle, Snobblevitch Sep 2015 #58

You don't think everyone would sign on for John Prine's Paradise? struggle4progress Sep 2015 #62

"simple gifts" DonCoquixote Sep 2015 #59

Love is Little struggle4progress Sep 2015 #61

God Bless the USA by Lee Greenwood is good Reter Sep 2015 #60

I agree, something to keep with modern times. Rex Sep 2015 #64

Mebbe Lawyers, Guns and Money struggle4progress Sep 2015 #68

Nope Snow Leopard Sep 2015 #70

Blister in the Sun? Glassunion Sep 2015 #72

Gets my vote! beac Sep 2015 #73

"America, F*&# Yeah!" has my vote. Nailzberg Sep 2015 #75

"Sweet America," Buffy Saint Marie. Admiral Loinpresser Sep 2015 #76