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Australia ("Advance Australia Fair")
Belgium ("La Brabançonne"/"De Brabançonne")
Canada ("O Canada")
France ("La Marseillaise")
Germany ("Deutschlandlied")
Italy ("Fratelli d'Italia")
Netherlands ("Het Wilhelmus")
New Zealand ("God Defend New Zealand")
Portugal ("A Portuguesa")
Russia ("Государственный гимн Российской Федерации")
South Africa ("Die Stem van Suid-Afrika")
United Kingdom ("God Save the Queen")
United States ("The Star-Spangled Banner")
Other (state which one)
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We've adopted this one to be sung at rugby matches, even though it's been sung by an `Englshman`
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Here a non instrumental version of our national anthem from the singing song festival!! Thousand of people singing together ---- You can read some strophes in my signature!!
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Here a other song i very love!! Some say our inofficial anthem! Very emotional , sometimes silent and sometimes loud.
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Latvian-German Friendship
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Ja vi elsker dette landet (Yes, we love this country) Not the song who I mean should have been the anthem though...
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But this, on the other hand (The northman/Between hills and mountains)
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(Worst voice ever)
:Visi neinn, sithan mathr fylgja neinn:
:Fylgja neinn, sithan mathr visi neinn:
:Hvarfa vith til mathr, etha fagna mathr:
Gifts does not need to be great, one does often get compliments to few
This one is machine and nerve, and got a mind concluded.
This one is but flesh and faith, and are the more deluded.
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Nationalsången / Du gamla du fria
Classical version
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Swedish Nyckelharpa version with very melancholic floating melodies!
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Ultima Thule - Nationalsången
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Lyrics
Du gamla, Du fria, Du fjällhöga nord
Du tysta, Du glädjerika sköna!
Jag hälsar Dig, vänaste land uppå jord,
Din sol, Din himmel, Dina ängder gröna.
Du tronar på minnen från fornstora dar,
då ärat Ditt namn flög över jorden.
Jag vet att Du är och Du blir vad Du var.
Ja, jag vill leva jag vill dö i Norden!
Translation;
You ancient, you free, you mountainous North
You quiet, you joyful beauty!
I greet you, most beautiful land upon earth,
Your sun, Your sky, Your meadows green.
You throne upon memories of great olden days,
When honored your name flew over the world,
I know that you are and will be as you were,
Yes, I want to live I want to die in the North!
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De Vlaamse Leeuw (Dutch for "the Flemish Lion") is the official anthem of Flanders, a region in the federal kingdom of Belgium.
De Vlaamse Leeuw is a strijdlied, a nationalist ‘battle-song’, like France’s Marseillaise. Franco-Belgian political tension in the mid-19th century made the Flemish public mood ripe for such an expression of regional feeling. At the time it was not meant as anti-Belgian (as it often came to be seen by Flemish separatists and their Belgicist opponents), for the ‘enemy’ it refers to is Belgium’s southwestern neighbour France, as in the 1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs.
Around 1900 the anthem was in general use among Flemish militants.
On 6 July 1973, a decree by the then Raad voor de Nederlandse Cultuurgemeenschap (the precursor of the present Flemish Parliament) proclaimed the first two stanzas to be the official national anthem of Flanders. The text and musical notation were officially published on 11 July 1985.
English translation:
They will never tame him, the proud Flemish Lion,
Even if they threaten his freedom with fetters and with shouts.
They will never tame him, as long as a Fleming lives.
As long as the Lion can claw, as long as he has teeth.
Chorus:
They will never tame him, as long as a Fleming lives.
As long as the Lion can claw, as long as he has teeth.
As long as the Lion can claw, as long as he has teeth.
Time devours cities, no thrones will ever last,
Armies may go under, but a people never dies.
The enemy comes marching in; surrounded by mortal danger
We laugh at his anger: the Flemish Lion is here!
Chorus
Only the text above is actually sung on official occasions, not the following stanzas:
For a thousand years now has he fought, for freedom, land and God,
And yet his strength is as youthful as ever.
Should anyone think him powerless, and taunt him with a kick,
Both menacing and fearsome will he rise.
Chorus
Pity the mindless who, deceptive and full of treason,
Comes to pet the Flemish Lion and hit him faithlessly.
Not a single movement he does not see:
And if he feels offended, he will raise his manes and roar.
Chorus
The sign of revenge has been given, he is tired of their bait;
With fire in the eye, in anger he jumps towards the enemy.
He tears, destroys, crushes, covers in blood and mud
And in victory grins over his enemy's trembling corpse.
Chorus
When good men are the rulers and the program-makers for a society, the population as a whole will reflect this, and people with no
originality or moral sense of direction of their own will nevertheless fervently support the highest aims of their society. But when evil
men rule, as has been the case in the Western World for many years now, most of the population will wallow happily in degeneracy of the worst
kind and will self-righteously parrot every filthy and destructive idea that they have been taught.
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