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Walter Meyer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>James Zehm wrote:
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>>I nominate the Swedish anthem "Du gamla du fria" (Thou old, thou free),
>>I think it is horrible, as well for the music as the text. (Imagine a
>>national anthem text that not even mention its country).
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>Like "God Save the Queen", "La Marseillaise", or "The Star-Spangled
>Banner"?
Ah! here we have someone who not have heard the swedish national anthem.
I figure, else you wouldn't compaere it with any of those (despite I know
the country isn't mentioned oibn those either, but that was not what I
meant). For "Good save the Queen" I have no good comment, so instead I
quickly bow down to say that Sweden, among a lot of other countries has
once had a national anthem set to this melody. For "La Marseillaise":
this is a great, big, large, grand melody at least, and it includes the
word "fatherland", at least. Don't you think "Them star spangled Banner"
somehow resembles the US flag?
James Zehm
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