Poll: Do you know the words to your national anthem?

[Brandon237]

My anthem has 4 frikkin languages, so no, I know some of it, but past paragraph one I'm a lost little mumbler.

 

[feather240]

Oh say can you see, By the Dawns early light what so proudly we hailed Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

That's the one. I only know the pledge.

 

[Segadroid]

I only know the first part

Wilhelmus van Nassouwe
Ben ik van Duitsen bloed
Den vaderland getrouwe
Blijf ik tot in den dood

Een prinse van Oranje
Ben ik, vrij onverveerd
Den koning van Hispanje
Heb ik altijd geëerd

The lyrics make absolutely no sense at all in this day and age, but whatever.

I'm not much of a patriot. I like my country, but I don't think it's anything special just because I was born here.

Oh come on now. You don't want to have Frans Bauer's "Heb je even voor mij?" do you?

*Edit: Maybe fun to know (no impoliteness intended towards you, Hurr Durr) but the word "Duits" is a degenerate of the word: "Diets" which gave us the name Dutch.

Oh PLEASE, not Frans Bauer. Though it's not more worse then the Toppers.

OT: These 2 fellow Dutch people pretty much said it all for me. I know every word in my anthem(It's actually the only part sung out of 13 other parts), but it doesn't give me any patriotic feeling when singing it.

[sub]No, you're just a regular threadmaker who made some extra questions to make it more interesting.[/sub]

 

[Rogue 9]

I know the first and second verses to Advance Australia Fair off by heart (I'm not sure how many Australians even know there's a second verse, it never gets sung at sporting events that I know of)

I'm not a big fan of hats off, hand on heart, tear in the eye while you sing patriotism though, I just learned it in primary school and it stuck.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

Oh say can you see, By the Dawns early light what so proudly we hailed Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

That's the one. I only know the pledge.

I pledge allegiance to the Flag of The United States of America, and to The Republic for which it stands One Nation Under God, indivisible with Liberty and Justice for All.

 

[El Poncho]

I shiver when a song about Britain/Scotland is played, I don't know all the words to the national anthem.

 

[Nechti_Visara]

Oh say can you see, By the Dawns early light what so proudly we hailed Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Now! What about the other three verses?

Seriously there are like five verses. It is ridiculous, nobody knows them.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

Oh say can you see, By the Dawns early light what so proudly we hailed Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Now! What about the other three verses?

Seriously there are like five verses. It is ridiculous, nobody knows them.

They were cut cause they were a bit to offensive. So now we just use the first.

 

[Caligulove]

After spending 12 years in some sort of choir, yea.
Goddamn I've sang the Star Spangled Banner so many times... so much so that anything but the Baritone part sounds off

 

[HK_01]

Not really, I know the old, old, old one from the times we still had an emperor though.

 

[Crowns18]

Yes, I know part of our national anthem, it's realy long so it's hard to learn it, I used to know all of it, I'm Mexican!

 

[Mephisteus]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Het_Wilhelmus#Lyrics

Fifteen stanzas, I think not.

I do know the first Stanza though, which is enough.

 

[masqueblanc]

I know the first verse of the National Anthem (as spoilered in the original post) but not the other three or four verses. Seriously, nobody knows those, and on the rare occasions the music continues for an extra verse, there is blind panic among under 60s - who have effectively run out of lyrics - and equally blind panic among the over 60s who DO know the words but it's pretty hit-and-miss which verse you're expected to sing. I think it's the third verse that's no longer sung? Who can tell?

 

[Dapsen]

Det er et yndigt land!
Det står med brede bøge!
Nær salten østerstrand, nær salten østerstrand!
Det bugter sig i bakkedal, det hedder gamle Danmark.
Og det er Frejas sal, og det er frejas sal!

^Thats the first verse of the Danish one. All in all the song is about how beautiful our nature is, how awesome our people are, and about Nordic gods and other Norse mythology. I think it fits pretty well, except for the people. We aren't exactly as badass as in Viking times ):

 

[Nechti_Visara]

snip

Now! What about the other three verses?

Seriously there are like five verses. It is ridiculous, nobody knows them.

They were cut cause they were a bit to offensive. So now we just use the first.

I don't really buy that because they still exist, so they're still part of the national anthem. Buuuut they're definitely not acknowledged so who cares.

(Offensive? They seem kind of badass to me. Like if we had kept them in elementary school mothers would be complaining that their kids were learning violent things in school.

Oh. That's why we cut them out.)

 

[Gauntes]

yep
all four verses of it...

 

[BlumiereBleck]

snip

Now! What about the other three verses?

Seriously there are like five verses. It is ridiculous, nobody knows them.

They were cut cause they were a bit to offensive. So now we just use the first.

I don't really buy that because they still exist, so they're still part of the national anthem. Buuuut they're definitely not acknowledged so who cares.

(Offensive? They seem kind of badass to me. Like if we had kept them in elementary school mothers would be complaining that their kids were learning violent things in school.

Oh. That's why we cut them out.)

Twas offensive to the South, and the north feeling guilt for killing Innocent people and burning thousands of miles of land they said "lets cut it!"

 

[Tom Phoenix]

We sang to the national flag every morning and evening back when I was a boy scout, so I do know the words. But I only know the one Stanza that is the actual anthem, not the entirety of the original song from which it comes from.

 

[Willis_D]

I do know the Irish National Anthem, but only in Irish, not in English. That's not a patriotic thing, it's just because I was thought it in Irish in school. And hand goes on heart, but no tears in my eyes when I hear it.