Are you aware of possibly having a local anthem? I wasn't (up to now).

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whirlpolf

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It just came across through mailing with a friend. My homeland has its own anthem! While this (today's) lyrics are artificially produced through a contest I still cannot help but squeeze a small teardrop. Is nationalism still ok in these years of globalisation?

Whatever, after my homeland having been swapped to and fro through the ages between France and Germany, after having had so many changes in language and laws (and so many pro German and anti French versions) , I find the new anthem of 2003 quite appropriate (and realistic what comes to our natural tendency to party on, no matter what):

"My praise to you, you friendly land at Saar river,
surrounded by borders now ever so peaceful,
never again shall war or dangers threaten you,
forever will I live within your boundaries,
and as you yield us work and opportunities, there won't be any need,
we won't deny the burden, we will not abstain from toil,
yet celebrate our festivities all along our daily bread
as you are our homeland, our joy you shall be all along."

 
Yes, Joe, it's still absolutely OK!!!!!

I don't know if it qualifies as a "local" anthem, but my home country has one too. Some will say it shouldn't be as it's too hard to sing or the words are too difficult to remember (hogwash), and others will say it should be something different (I won't even go there). When nicely done it can still quiver my lip and choke my throat.

Chuck

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Oh, Chuck,

so good to see her. Sure: Not a "local" anthem at all (covering most of the nothern hemisphere) but her jazzy style surely is something to go by. So deep!
Great embedded video! Thanks.
Besides: Although never having been a US citizen at all, I was humming along with the text lines as this had been part of our English lessons back then. (Goodness, I even know your text better than ours here) *headshaking* ;-)

Is this normal? *g*
I guess it is media age.
Joe

Thanks again, Whitney is one of the greatest and one of the good ones, no doubt. And no excuses allowed or tolerated, she is Whitney! *stirn frown here to doubters*
 
In the usa each state has there own songs so to speak of. Here is the ones listed for this crap state. lol
Kentucky
State song My Old Kentucky Home Stephen Foster 1928
Bluegrass song Blue Moon of Kentucky Bill Monroe 1988
Kentucky Home Made Christmas

To add this would be the main song now thinking about it. All tv networks local use to sing off with it every night. Then they do the national anthem same for sing on also.


 
music links

Troy, your link is not working here, some "copyright infringement / music author / record selling company" bullshit has banned it here from craptube. Would you have another link (non-you-sh...?)
Gary, please post your anthem.
Thank you ;-)
 
Found this copy from 1918 it does not sound so great but should work I hope. Also not some want to change the words they use the word gay as in happy in it but we know how this world works today about such things.


 
Here are the words

My Old Kentucky Home, Good-Night (1853)

Words & music by Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864)

1.
The sun shines bright in the old Kentucky home,
'Tis summer, the darkies are gay,
The corn top's ripe and the meadows in the bloom,
While the birds make music all the day.
The young folks roll on the little cabin floor,
All merry, all happy and bright:
By'n by Hard Times comes a knocking at the door,
Then my old Kentucky Home, good night!

CHORUS
Weep no more, my lady,
Oh! weep no more to-day!
We will sing one song for the old Kentucky Home,
For the old Kentucky Home far away.

2.
They hunt no more for possum and the coon
On the meadow, the hill, and the shore,
They sing no more by the glimmer of the moon,
On the bench by the old cabin door.
The day goes by like a shadow o're the heart,
With sorrow where all was delight:
The time has come when the darkies have to part,
Then my old Kentucky Home, good-night!

(CHORUS)

3.
The head must bow and the back will have to bend,
Wherever the darkey may go:
A few more days, and the trouble all will end
In the field where the sugar-canes grow.
A few more days for to tote the weary load,
No matter, 'twill never be light,
A few more days till we totter on the road,
Then my old Kentucky Home, good-night!

(CHORUS)
 
Here in the US I think Georgia has the best anthem: Georgia On My Mind, written in 1930 by Hoagy Carmichael and Stuart Gorrell. Carmichael composed the music for several other first-rate songs, including Stardust, Heart and Soul, and The Nearness of You. The most famous rendition of Georgia On My Mind is of course by Ray Charles, and when it was voted state song by Georgia legislators in '79 he performed it for them.

 

Link to a site that lists some info on quite a few anthems for US states, Canadian provinces, and other nations.

 

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