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Do you know the words to your National Anthem?

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Do you know the words to your National Anthem?

for the footy ignoramous..

from JoeUser Forums
Tonight here in Australia we have the footy match called "state of origin" where queensland is up against nsw in a head to head battle of rugby league.

Before the game starts they all stand up to sing the Australian National Anthem.

Well.. this reminds me of when I was in the USA where everyone would stand and place their hand on their hearts and sing their anthm with pride.

Not here,

For those blockheads who dont know it, well Ill post the words for you..

Australians all let us rejoice
For we are young and free
We've golden soil and wealth for toil,
Our home is girt by sea:
Our land abounds in nature's gifts
Of beauty rich and rare,
In history's page let every stage
Advance Australia fair,
In joyful strains then let us sing
Advance Australia fair.

Beneath our radiant Southern Cross,
We'll toil with hearts and hands,
To make this Commonwealth of ours
Renowned of all the lands,
For those who've come across the seas
We've boundless plains to share,
With courage let us all combine
To advance Australia fair.
In joyful strains then let us sing,
Advance Australia fair.
Maybe we as Australians should be proud of our country and understand its heritage a little more.

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Reply #26 from JoeUser Forums Top
Thanks for the Canadian National Anthem Latour!

God keep our landGlorious and freeOh CanadaWe stand on guard for thee


Shhhh. Don't tell the more militant Atheist set that your National Anthem Mentions God... they might have a meltdown. ;~D
Reply #27 from JoeUser Forums Top
@ Para!
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Reply #28 from JoeUser Forums Top
lol...when I was in college and the olympics were on in 2000, my roommate and I were wondering the same thing--exactly how many athletes had taken the time from their busy training schedules to learn the national anthem. We decided that very few of them had...but we came up with an alternative to the US National Anthem:

I don't know the words,
I don't know the words
I dooooon't know the words,
I don't know the-e words.
I don't know the words!
I don't know the words.
I don't know the words.
I don't know the words.
I don't know the-e wo-ords
I don't kno-ow the-e wo-ords.
I don't know the-e WORDS!
I don't know the words.

See...at least this way the athletes could be singing, or at least lip syncing something, and the general public would think they were actually singing the NA. (For you American's out there...try it...it really works to sing "I don't know the words" to our anthem).
Reply #29 from JoeUser Forums Top
2nd, 3rd and 4th:


You're a better man than I Gunga IG!
Reply #30 from JoeUser Forums Top
Hail to the Redskins, hail victory
We're on the warpath...


I am going to have to take back my Atta-boy after that one!
Reply #31 from JoeUser Forums Top
I know the words to not only my own national anthem, but also the French! And no, I'm not a frog, but I DID watch "Casablanca" 5,367 times!


I had to learn it as a child! And I am a frog!
Reply #32 from JoeUser Forums Top
Marcie,

That tidbit about alternative lyrics is an evil little tidbit. Because you choose to be evil, I will be evil right back and destroy you.

Take ANY Emily Dickinson poem...

Sing it to the tune of "Gilligan's Island".

It works. Every time.

(like sysiphus with the damn rock, you will spend all eternity reciting Dickinson lyrics to the tune of "Gilligan's Island"...perhaps this would be a good start to a plan to take over the world...mwwwaaahhaaahaaaaahaaaa!)
Reply #33 from JoeUser Forums Top
(like sysiphus with the damn rock, you will spend all eternity reciting Dickinson lyrics to the tune of "Gilligan's Island"...perhaps this would be a good start to a plan to take over the world...mwwwaaahhaaahaaaaahaaaa!)


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Im just as amazed at how many Americans on here who dont know the words to their anthem as there is to Aussies! .. But I would have thought you guys would all know it being sooo very patriotic and stuff!..
Reply #34 from JoeUser Forums Top

Im just as amazed at how many Americans on here who dont know the words to their anthem as there is to Aussies! .. But I would have thought you guys would all know it being sooo very patriotic and stuff!..

most of us here do.  Most of Americans do not.  Dont confuse the 2.  After all, 48% forgot about hanoijohn too!

Reply #35 from JoeUser Forums Top
most of us here do. Most of Americans do not. Dont confuse the 2.


i think there was only one who recited it on here fully..

and who is hanoijohn??
Reply #36 from JoeUser Forums Top

i think there was only one who recited it on here fully..

and who is hanoijohn??

Good response!  Take care of Schapellle.  The other is not important.  I am sorry that your PM is such a politician.

Reply #37 from JoeUser Forums Top
I am sorry that your PM is such a politician.


Such an ass you mean?
Reply #38 from JoeUser Forums Top
Such an ass you mean?


sounds like my country. Paul Martin blows. I almost prefer Chretien, even though I can't understand a word he says. But he's still better than the M-word.
Reply #39 from JoeUser Forums Top
What country are you in latour??
Reply #40 from JoeUser Forums Top

Such an ass you mean?

I was trying to be polite, but yea, you can say it on your blog!

Reply #41 from JoeUser Forums Top
I know the words to the U.S. National Anthem, I'm just used to singing along with the Jimi Hendrix Woodstock rendition, so I get tongue-tied singing it at games! ;~D
Reply #42 from JoeUser Forums Top

I know the words to the U.S. National Anthem, I'm just used to singing along with the Jimi Hendrix Woodstock rendition, so I get tongue-tied singing it at games! ;~D

His is a classic!  I dont like most of his music, but Watchtower is definitely one of my all time favorites.