Dā də Bātorāno Kor (Home of the Brave)
The National Anthem of Afghanistan
Audio with lyrics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UvtCQip8I0
Lyrics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_the_Home_of_the_Brave
dominant themes: bravery and repelling invaders
has a sad, haunting feel to it.
#NationalAnthems a thread
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Hmm.
♩ "Exterminate! Exterminate! Exter-"
♩ "-minate! Exterminate!"
♩ "Exterminate! Exter-"
♩ "-minate! Exterminate!"
It fits, but I don't think that the stresses land quite right.
Hatton's "Duke Street" starts mp and crescendoes to ff, on the other hand.
Anyway, who wants a national anthem whose original words talk about Herod The King killing children? But of a depressing choice, don't you think?
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You make a very good point. What tune would they set it to? It's 4 syllables, at least in English. So it would have to be a Long Metre tune.
One could use "Winchester New", but I wonder whether John Hatton's "Duke Street" would work better.
Try it in your head. What do you think?
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There is no way that #AshleyNeal has not deliberately saved up this video of someone having trouble on Askwith Moor (with signposts to Ilkley and Otley) for posting on #YorkshireDay .
Always remember that the national anthem of #Yorkshire is about how dangerous Ilkley Moor is.
"Drive safe, everyone!"
Today is Marseillaise Day in France. The day honours the National Anthem of France, the Marseillaise, on the anniversary of the day in 1792 when it was first sung in Paris (by 500 men from Marseilles).
10 things you might not know about La Marseillaise, the French national anthem:
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2024/07/30-july-la-marseillaise.html
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We need a godless national anthem, since the idea of submitting to an invisible overlord *divides* rather than unites us! Unfortunately, as you alluded to, too many Americans think Jesus dictated the Constitution to the Founding Fathers while toting an AR-15. /S
Reddit user Finsternis made a very elegant edit to "God Bless America", that the Bible thumpers would absolutely have a cow over:
God-LESS America,
Land that I love,
Stand beside her, and guide her
Through the night with no fright from above.
From the mountains, to the prairies,
To the oceans, white with foam
God-less America, My home sweet home
God-less America, My home sweet home.
https://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/31nyar/godless_america/
#NationalAnthem #NationalAnthems #GodBlessAmerica #godless #America #USA #atheism
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