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National Anthems
A national anthem is a form of patriotic music that reflects on the history and traditions of a nation. The majority of national anthems are marches or hymns. The oldest anthem known is 'Wilhelmus', the Dutch national anthem, which was written between 1568 and 1572. The Japanese anthem, 'Kimi ga Yo' is often wrongly thought to be the oldest because the lyrics are taken from a poem written in 794, but it didn't become an anthem until the mid-1800's.
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What is the America the beautiful national anthem?
The National Anthem of the US is The Star-Spangled Banner; America the Beautiful is a patriotic song of no official standing.
What is the name of the brazil national anthem?
Hino Nacional Brasileiro (The Brazilian National Hymn)
What does gleaming mean as used in the national anthem?
It means to shine, be visible. The twilight's last gleaming is the last glow of daylight before darkness sets in.
In 1814 why was francis scott key on the ship?
Francis Scott Key was an American lawyer and poet. He was dining aboard the British ship, HMS Tonnant, during the War of 1812 as the guest of three British officers when he witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry and was inspired to write "The Star Spangled Banner". He and British Prisoner Exchange Agent. Col. John Stuart Skinner were there to negotiate a prisoner exchange.
What is the title of the black national anthem?
"Lift Every Voice and Sing" by James Weldon Johnson Lift every voice and sing
Till earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies of Liberty;
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the listening skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us,
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun
Let us march on till victory is won.
Stony the road we trod,
Bitter the chastening rod,
Felt in the days when hope unborn had died;
Yet with a steady beat,
Have not our weary feet
Come to the place for which our fathers sighed?
We have come over a way that with tears have been watered,
We have come, treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered,
Out from the gloomy past,
Till now we stand at last
Where the white gleam of our bright star is cast.
God of our weary years,
God of our silent tears,
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way;
Thou who has by Thy might
Led us into the light,
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Lest our feet stray from the places, Our God, where we met Thee;
Lest, our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget Thee;
Shadowed beneath Thy hand,
May we forever stand.
True to our GOD,
True to our native land
When was the Australian national anthem date?
The current Australian National Anthem, Advance Australia Fair, became the National Anthem on 19 April 1984.
Which two countries have same national anthem?
before, they used to have many flags to show variations in armed navy and different places of strength , but to show uniqueness and unique strength of the nation , every country has only one officail or national flag.
What is the words to the Texas national anthem?
The Texas Pledge of Allegiance is as follows:
"Honor the Texas flag; I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible."
Additionally, the pledge to the flag of the United States of America is as follows:
"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."
What are the Words of Ireland's national anthem?
Sinne Fianna Fáil[5]
Atá fé gheall ag Éirinn
Buíon dár slua
Thar toinn do ráinig chugainn
Fé mhóid bheith saor
Seantír ár sinsear feasta
Ní fhágfar fén tíorán ná fén tráill
Anocht a théam sa bhearna bhaoil
Le gean ar Ghaeil, chun báis nó saoil[6]
Le gunnascréach, fé lámhach na bpiléar
Seo libh canaídh Amhrán na bhFiann
"The Soldier's Song" We'll sing a song, a soldier's song, With cheering rousing chorus, As round our blazing fires we throng, The starry heavens o'er us; Impatient for the coming fight, And as we wait the morning's light, Here in the silence of the night, We'll chant a soldier's song. Chorus: Soldiers are we whose lives are pledged to Ireland; Some have come from a land beyond the wave. Sworn to be free, No more our ancient sire land Shall shelter the despot or the slave. Tonight we man the gap of danger In Erin's cause, come woe or weal 'Mid cannons' roar and rifles peal, We'll chant a soldier's song. In valley green, on towering crag, Our fathers fought before us, And conquered 'neath the same old flag That's proudly floating o'er us. We're children of a fighting race, That never yet has known disgrace, And as we march, the foe to face, We'll chant a soldier's song. Chorus Sons of the Gael! Men of the Pale! The long watched day is breaking; The serried ranks of Inisfail Shall set the Tyrant quaking. Our camp fires now are burning low; See in the east a silv'ry glow, Out yonder waits the Saxon foe, So chant a soldier's song.
How many stripes were on the flag of the Star Spangled Banner?
There are 13 stripes and 13 stars on the first flag
Who wrote the lyrics to Canada's national anthem?
"Oh, Canada" was composed in 1880 by Calixa Lavallée.
The English lyrics were written by Robert Stanley Weir in 1908,
and survive today in slightly modified form.
When did the Star Spangled Banner song become the US national anthem?
On March 3, 1931, after 40 previous attempts failed, a measure passed Congress and was signed into law that formally designated “The Star-Spangled Banner” as the national anthem of the United States.
Who wrote the US's National Anthem?
"The Star-Spangled Banner" is a poem written in 1814 by Francis Scott Key and is the national anthem of the United States of America. Key, a 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet, wrote it after witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore, Maryland by British ships in Chesapeake Bay during the War of 1812. The Star-spangled banner is the popular name for the national ensign of the United States It became well known as a patriotic song to the tune of a popular English song, "To Anacreon in Heaven." It was recognized for official use by the United States Navy (1889), by the White House (1916), and was made the national anthem by a Congressional resolution on March 3, 1931. Although the song has four verses, only the first is commonly sung today.
What Is The French National Anthem Called?
La Marseillaise
Allons enfants de la Patrie
Le jour de gloire est arrivé !
Contre nous de la tyrannie
L'étendard sanglant est levé
Entendez-vous dans nos campagnes
Mugir ces féroces soldats?
Ils viennent jusque dans vos bras.
Égorger vos fils, vos compagnes! Aux armes citoyens
Formez vos bataillons
Marchons, marchons
Qu'un sang impur
Abreuve nos sillons Que veut cette horde d'esclaves
De traîtres, de rois conjurés?
Pour qui ces ignobles entraves
Ces fers dès longtemps préparés?
Français, pour nous, ah! quel outrage
Quels transports il doit exciter?
C'est nous qu'on ose méditer
De rendre à l'antique esclavage! Quoi ces cohortes étrangères!
Feraient la loi dans nos foyers!
Quoi! ces phalanges mercenaires
Terrasseraient nos fils guerriers!
Grand Dieu! par des mains enchaînées
Nos fronts sous le joug se ploieraient
De vils despotes deviendraient
Les maîtres des destinées. Tremblez, tyrans et vous perfides
L'opprobre de tous les partis
Tremblez! vos projets parricides
Vont enfin recevoir leurs prix!
Tout est soldat pour vous combattre
S'ils tombent, nos jeunes héros
La France en produit de nouveaux,
Contre vous tout prêts à se battre. Français, en guerriers magnanimes
Portez ou retenez vos coups!
Épargnez ces tristes victimes
À regret s'armant contre nous
Mais ces despotes sanguinaires
Mais ces complices de Bouillé
Tous ces tigres qui, sans pitié
Déchirent le sein de leur mère! Nous entrerons dans la carrière
Quand nos aînés n'y seront plus
Nous y trouverons leur poussière
Et la trace de leurs vertus
Bien moins jaloux de leur survivre
Que de partager leur cercueil
Nous aurons le sublime orgueil
De les venger ou de les suivre! Amour sacré de la Patrie
Conduis, soutiens nos bras vengeurs
Liberté, Liberté chérie
Combats avec tes défenseurs!
Sous nos drapeaux, que la victoire
Accoure à tes mâles accents
Que tes ennemis expirants English translation:
Arise children of the fatherland
The day of glory has arrived
Against us tyranny's
Bloody standard is raised
Listen to the sound in the fields
The howling of these fearsome soldiers
They are coming into our midst
To cut the throats of your sons and consorts To arms citizens Form your battalions
March, march
Let impure blood
Water our furrows What do they want this horde of slaves
Of traitors and conspiratorial kings?
For whom these vile chains
These long-prepared irons?
Frenchmen, for us, ah! What outrage
What methods must be taken?
It is us they dare plan
To return to the old slavery! What! These foreign cohorts!
They would make laws in our courts!
What! These mercenary phalanxes
Would cut down our warrior sons
Good Lord! By chained hands
Our brow would yield under the yoke
The vile despots would have themselves be
The masters of destiny Tremble, tyrants and traitors
The shame of all good men
Tremble! Your parricidal schemes
Will receive their just reward
Against you we are all soldiers
If they fall, our young heros
France will bear new ones
Ready to join the fight against you Frenchmen, as magnanimous warriors
Bear or hold back your blows
Spare these sad victims
That they regret taking up arms against us
But not these bloody despots
These accomplices of Bouillé
All these tigers who pitilessly
Ripped out their mothers' wombs We too shall enlist
When our elders' time has come
To add to the list of deeds
Inscribed upon their tombs
We are much less jealous of surviving them
Than of sharing their coffins
We shall have the sublime pride
Of avenging or joining them Drive on sacred patriotism
Support our avenging arms
Liberty, cherished liberty
Join the struggle with your defenders
Under our flags, let victory
Hurry to your manly tone
So that in death your enemies
See your triumph and our glory!
What is the title of the United States ' national anthem?
The lyrics to the United States national anthem are a truncated version of a poem by Francis Scott Key originally called "The Defense of Fort McHenry", sometimes called "The Siege of Fort McHenry", but most popularly known as "The Star-Spangled Banner", and it is by this last name that the anthem is known. The music for the anthem is taken from "The Anacreontic Song", often mistakenly called "To Anacreon in Heaven" (from the opening line of its lyrics), a British song which celebrated the pleasures of wine, women, and song. Set thus to music, the poem was a popular favorite for many years. In 1916, President Thomas Woodrow Wilson ordered that "The Star-Spangled banner" be played, like a national anthem, by the military and at state functions. In the lates '20s, a movement developed to legislate a national anthem, and on 3 March 1931 President Herbert Clark Hoover signed a measure making "The Start-Spangled Banner" the anthem of the United States by law.
Key's original poem reads thus:
O! say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
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.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.'
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! Note that the anthem "The Star-Spangled Banner" ends just a quarter of the way through the original poem, as it asks "Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave / O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?" One hundred and ninety-four years later, that's a very good question. Certainly there are plenty of flags to be seen waving, but are they over a land of the free and a home of the brave?
(The bit about "the hireling and slave", by the way, is in reference to the foreign mercenaries and conscriptsused by the British.)
Where was the French National Anthem first sung?
The "chant de guerre de l'armée du Rhin" (the war song of the Rhine army) was composed in late April 1792, by Rouget de Lisle. It was first sung publicly, by its author, in the same town where it was written, Strasbourg in eastern France.
It gained widespread popularity in July 1792, when a volunteer regiment from Marseille sung it upon arrival in Paris. The Parisians immediately gave the song a new name, "La Marseillaise", under which it is still known.
Do Jehovah's Witnesses sing the national anthem?
No, we believe that the only one to whom worship is to be given, is Jehovah God himself. Therefore, we do not "salute" the flag of any country, as we see it as a form of idol worship. However, we do respect the flag and the government for which it stands. We will not deface the flag, or treat it with contempt in any way. We view protests (including flag burning), as rebellion against God himself, since he allows these governments to stand in their position as authorities, serving the greater good. We stand respectfully when the flag is presented, as the act of standing is not itself the act of worship. We do this in obedience to the scriptures that plainly say that God does not share his worship with images representing anything in the sky, on the ground, or in the sea. (See Exodus 20:4) That prohibition was repeated again upon Christians as well. (1 Corinthians 10:14; 1 John 5:21)
Jehovah's Witnesses do not pledge their allegiance to the flag of any country nor sing the National Anthem. Jehovah's Witnesses also do not join the armed forces or go to war.
What are the Words of the jamaican national anthem?
Jamaica
Eternal Father, Bless our Land
Guide us with thy mighty hand
Keep us free from evil powers
Be our light through countless hours
To our leaders, great defender
Grant true wisdom from above
Justice, truth be ours forever
Jamaica, land we love
Jamaica, Jamaica, Jamaica, land we love
Teach us true respect for all
Stir response to duty's call
Strengthen us the weak to cherish
Give us vision lest we perish
Knowledge send us Heavenly Father
Grant true wisdom from above
Justice, truth be ours forever
Jamaica, land we love
Jamaica, Jamaica, Jamaica, land we love
Who is the person who wrote the National anthem for New Zealand?
The National Anthem of New Zealand was originally written by Thomas Bracken, then there was one written by a man named Smith and another version was written by Prof Karetu.
The version by Bracken is in English, the Smith version is in Maori and the Prof Karetu version is English with the exception of the word "aotearoa."
