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No cheating! Do you, or do you not?
Only the first two stanzas. I don’t know anything after:
“now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
its full glory reflected now shines on the stream,
Ti’s the star spangled banner oh long may it wave,
o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave”
Yes
Without cheating.
SiDi™
Al regel achas, I believe it is as follows:
“Oh 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 rocket’s 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!”
At least that is how I have been singing it all my life. There are more stanzas, by the way.
Oomis, you forgot the last two words: “Play Ball!”
Oomis, you forgot the last two words: “Play Ball!”
I didn’t forget. Out of respect to the CR, I omitted those last two words, lest anyone chas v’sholom, lo aleinu, R”L think I believe in telling people to waste their valuable learning time on such naarishkeit as sports. 😉
Fanatical frummie
According to Ramona Quimby, there’s something about a “dawnzer lee light…?”
Oomis, you’ve made a common mistake. The line isn’t, “THE bombs bursting in air” It’s, “Bombs bursting in air.”
My favorite is the last stanza:
Oh, thus be it ever when free men shall stand
Between their loved homes 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 G-d 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.
DY and Oomis very funny!
PBA and redleg are slightly incorrect. Only the first stanza is our “national anthem”. The Star-Spangled Banner is an extended poem (the tune came later), which is quite beautiful and everyone should read and appreciate it. But the anthem is just one stanza.
And yes, I know all of the words to the anthem.
Thanks Sam2, when I said yes, I was referring only to the anthem and not the other parts.
Gut Shabbos!
SiDi™
I had an American History teacher in my BY school that had us sing the national anthem and pledge allegiance every day before class. And America the Beautiful too; “Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain…”
Sam is slightly incorrect.
DY: Intriguing. I need to have a discussion with the authors of my high school civics textbook…
You’re all wrong. The title refers to the rational anthem, not the national anthem.
yy: That was a mod edit later. The URL has “national”, which was the original title.
Do you know Shas by heart?
DY and Oomis very funny! “
HEHEHEHEHEH!
Redleg:
Oomis, you’ve made a common mistake. The line isn’t, “THE bombs bursting in air” It’s, “Bombs bursting in air.”
I googled the lyrics, and this is what I found. Please note line 5.
Apparently you and I have different versions of the same anthem.
The Star Spangled Banner Lyrics
By Francis Scott Key 1814
Oh, 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 thru the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s 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!
Oh! 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!
All we sang in school was:
Oh say can you see? I can see perfectly.
Oh how horribly and wrong, to make us sing this stupid song…
The teacher gave up trying to teach us anymore…
I had an American History teacher in my BY school that had us sing the national anthem and pledge allegiance every day before class. And America the Beautiful too; “Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain…”
My 6th grade (public school) teacher made us memorize two verses of the National Anthem, as well as all the verses of “My Country Tis of Thee” and three verses of “America the Beautiful.” We also had to memorize “The American’s Creed” and the Preamble to the Constitution.
Each morning we said the Pledge of Allegiance, the American’s Creed, and sang one of the songs. Can you imagine that happening in a public school today? The teacher would probably be fired for not being multicultural enough.
I don’t know the words of the rational anthem, but I suspect that the general themes are about individual rights, and how the government is obligated to provide police protection of rich people’s property but not basic necessities for poor people. How regulation is stupid because it hinders the free market, but we should still have a mortgage tax deduction. How people who make $100,000 a year should pay 25% in taxes, but people who make 150,000,000 should pay 15%, or nothing at all. That the way to stimulate the economy is to give massive handouts to corporations, so that they can give the money to their executives as bonuses, but not to give the money to poor people or unemployed people, because they would just spend it.
VM, would you please draft us that anthem?
rebyidd: Perek Shirah?
Oh say can you see,
by the dawns early light,
the stock traders rushing to work,
while ignoring the urban blight,
whose broad bonuses and bright computer screens,
through the night after night,
o’er their upturned noses they watched,
the stock ticker’s streaming,
and the homeless guy’s glare,
the pollution in air,
gave proof through the night,
that they just did not care,
oh say does that 1 percenter yet wave,
to the college graduate pouring his coffee,
who’s probably to “lazy” to be saved.
pba, very good!
SiDi™
What happened to Reb Avraham’s (Lincoln) two minute shiur? Anyone? (the yeshivish version)
Very good, PBA. There should also be something about no prosecution of the people who brought the economy down, but I guess there isn’t enough room for everything.
That’s in the second stanza. The part about the foe’s haughty host.
It hasn’t been composed yet.
Natural Anthem? Don’t you mean National?
PBA – IMPRESSIVE!
@pba- lol
Star Spangled Banner parody 1 (the National Phantom)
Oh say can you see
by Wall Street’s short-sight
when democracy failed
and investors were scheming
with pinstriped suit and ties
left the markets in scars
from our sofas we watched
as the nation was screaming
Bernie Madoff’s great flare
of numbers high in the air
came crashing down in its flight
my savings stripped bare
oh say will that blood-spattered
dollar still reign
in the land of corporate greed
and the home of the slave
Parody 2 (the Natural Anthem)
Oh say can you see
my lawn’s burly sight
It so sadly has failed
by your car’s gas that’s streaming
broad billows of smoke in a perilous flight
through ozone’s last layers, earth is drastically heating
and your gas grill’s big flare polluting the air
has ruined my plants; they are no longer here
Oh say was last winter the coolest in years?
“Oh, er, legislation is key, and the earth we must save.”
excellent!
i know them all and I’m not even Amercian!
The natural anthem has 4 stanzas.
The rational anthem has 3/4 stanzas.
The irrational anthem has ?2 stanzas.
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