Poland's national anthem, Mazurek Dąbrowskiego. It seems like so much fun to sing!
And as an American, I'm particularly fond of the "black national anthem," Lift Every Voice and Sing.
Posted Apr 10, 2012, 1:58 PM UTC
I envy all countries that have a national anthem with lyrics :(
The himn of my region has lyrics and is known in Spain as "the drunk men's hymn", because drunk people sing it all over the country (I don't know why, no-one knows) It has bagpipes! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ecbE7nSlpw
Instrumental version at the Spain's royal wedding: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwz9rvrgXSc
What happens when they play the Marcha Real at soccer games or the Olympics or whatever? Do you hum along? Or does everyone just stand there awkwardly?
Looking forward to the Drunk Men's Hymn, though. In class at the moment, but I'll listen to it afterwards.
People just sing using one random silable, like "da da da da dadada..." etc.
I think in sport events, fans have their own different way of singing hymns, but I don't like sports so I don't know xD
To be honest I would prefer that our (Serbian) anthem don't have words.
First few lyrics, roughly translated -
God of Justice, You who saved us
From our nation's falling,
Hear the voices of your children,
And be our salvation from now on.
Not everyone is christian or even religious and it sounds like people didn't ever do anything, god did everything for us.
I'm not religious, but I don't mind christian songs. I like to sing church songs when I'm at home, and my sister too.
You've misunderstood me. I don't have anything against christian songs. I'm simply against this anthem because we chose our anthem few years back when we became independent and at the same time we've said that we are secular country.
This anthem ''Boze, pravde'' was already our anthem in 1918 but with slightly changed text.
My opinion is that this or this would've been much better choices for anthem of our country if we're looking for something text based.
Shockingly intimidating, considering it's Slovakia.
It's more of an ode to the patriotic spirit of the people rather than the size of the country. Us Slovak's can do some pretty awesome shit.
I love this Welsh lullaby: Suo Gan.
I'm not Welsh.
Beautiful! That was an awfully impersonal performance, though. I feel like all lullabies should be sung my motherly soloists.
Here's the Portuguese one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvbBxh87444
I am very interested in knowing how you guys think it sounds, since you probably don't understand the words :P To me it sounds heroic, but I'm a bit patriotic so you could say I'm biased...
Version with English subtitles for the curious: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqjdtkWNF60
This is Fazil Say, a very famous Turkish pianist, playing "Kara Toprak", a very well known Turkish folk tune: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFSm5_4afro
The national anthem of China is pretty fucking sweet
"Pretty fucking sweet" is indeed a great description. Thanks for sharing!
The Finlandia Hymn by Jean Sibelius. Sadly it's not Finland's national anthem, but it always gives me chills. I couldn't find any video with the correct lyrics with subtitles, but here's the original song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em4czW4tmT8
EDIT: just realized the lyrics are also in the video description. Heh.
Love this post. Interesting to note: Poland's and Ukraine's national anthems both start with "[Poland/Ukraine] is not yet lost..."
Well, to be fair, those countries do have a history of being lost.
You might also like Rota, which I and many people think sounds better than the anthem. I personally find Mazurek Dąbrowskiego to be too much happy and not dignified enough. Bogurodzica (Mother of God) was unofficial hymn of Poland in the medieval age, it's a beautiful song as well.
I think the Montenegro anthem totally rules. And I'm not from Montenegro. Another version
Pretty much the Last Night of the Proms. Land of Hope and Glory (it's to the tune of Pomp and Circumstance) and Jerusalem are my favourites.
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Oh, I love Jerusalem. That's a quality song right there.
Land of Hope and Glory just sounds weird to me outside of the context of graduation. I feel like I need to be marching in an uncomfortable robe while that music plays.
Do you happen to know if the Last Night of the Proms would be broadcast on BBC's international channels? I'd love to watch it this year if I could.
I couldn't say, sorry. I would have thought so though.
Yugoslavian national anthem. Sounds familiar?
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Damn Yugoslavs, stealing Poland's ideas. Not cool.
Maybe this will explain things better than I would. - Wiki link
I guess it makes sense that a Pan-Slavic anthem would use the melody of a Slavic country's national anthem. Still, redundancy in national anthems bothers me.
Well you were right in the first place, as the Pan-Slavic anthem stole the tune from the Polish Anthem, which came first.