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Alright, I was wondering what everyone's favorite patriotic song is. It doesn't matter if its for your country or not. Please, if your going to post lyrics, post only some or post a link to the rest of the lyrics.

My personal favorite (though saticical as well):

America, F*** YEAH!
America...
America...
America, F*** YEAH!
Coming again, to save the mother f***ing day yeah,
America, F***YEAH!
Freedom is the only way yeah,
Terrorist your game is through cause now you have to answer too,
America, F*** YEAH!
So lick my butt, and s*** on my balls,
America, F*** YEAH!
What you going to do when we come for you now,
it’s the dream that we all share; it’s the hope for tomorrow

F*** YEAH!

For the rest of the lyrics click here (http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/teamamericaworldpolice/americafuckyeah.htm)

Patriotism being the last refuge of the scoundrel, I don't listen to such crappy music.

I wouldn't go that far, but I don't exactly listen to patriotic music all day 'cause admitadly its mostly crap, but there has to be some exceptions that people like.

Patriotism being the last refuge of the scoundrel, I don't listen to such crappy music.

woody guthrie smuggled in some socialism into a song most americans think of as patriotic. though when they teach it to children they leave out the completely unambiguous verses to downplay that aspect of it.

Screw patriotism. I'll take internationalism ala "Le Internationale"

I don't go out of my way to listen to patriotic music. I catch it often enough as background music on television at before sports games. I'm not adverse to it though. Despite popular belief, you can be patriotic, as opposed to only turning to it as a defense mechanism.

I wouldn't go that far, but I don't exactly listen to patriotic music all day 'cause admitadly its mostly crap, but there has to be some exceptions that people like.

Well, if I have to choose one, I'll choose the Soviet/Russian national anthem. (http://www.funet.fi/pub/culture/russian/lyrics/political/SovietUnionNationalAnthem_RedArmyChorus.mp3) [3.5Mb MP3, in public domain]

Lyrics in English, transliterated Russian and Russian. (http://www.angelfire.com/sc/usmclan/anthem2.html)

Bruce Springstein's Born in the USA (http://www.lyricsdomain.com/2/bruce_springsteen/born_in_the_usa.html)-
I had a buddy at Khe Sahn
Fighting off the Viet Cong
They're still there, he's all gone
He had a little girl in Saigon
I got a picture of him in her arms

Down in the shadow of the penitentiary
Out by the gas fires of the refinery
I'm ten years down the road
Nowhere to run, ain't got nowhere to go

Husker Du's [url=http://plyrics.com/lyrics/huskerdu/youreasoldier.html]You're a soldier
Going off on a big adventure
You never want it to end
Saving up a million stories
To tell to all your friends

You're a soldier

Patrolling the world with your little boy face
And a grown up gun that shoots
You got a fresh scrubbed teenage outlook on terror
And a khaki attitude

woody guthrie smuggled in some socialism into a song most americans think of as patriotic. though when they teach it to children they leave out the completely unambiguous verses to downplay that aspect of it.
You mean the one that for some reason spawns a million schoolyard variations that go like this:

This land is my land
It isn't your land
I've got a shotgun
And you don't got one
If you don't get off
I'll blow your head off
This land was made for only me!


I used to be able to do all the verses this way, but it's been awhile.

I've never been into patriotic music myself, however, my time in the military was as Airborne. There was one song that was always enjoyed by all, but you have to be into black humor I guess. "Blood on the Risers" is the name if you have not heard it, it is sung to the tune of, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and is quite funny the first time or two you hear it. Here's a link if you're interested.

http://www.west-point.org/users/usma1981/38405/west_point/songs/bloodontherisers.htm

For my own country, "Canada's Really Big" by the Arrogant Worms.

For other countries, "Finland" by Monty python's Flying Circus, and anything by Midnight Oil (not patriotism, really, but plenty of thoughts on how to make their country better)

You mean the one that for some reason spawns a million schoolyard variations that go like this:

This land is my land
It isn't your land
I've got a shotgun
And you don't got one
If you don't get off
I'll blow your head off
This land was made for only me!

yeah. oddly enough, that paradoy verse is directly opposed to one of the verses i was talking about.

Was a big high wall there that tried to stop me
A sign was posted, said “Private Property”
But on the back side, it didn’t say nothing --
This land was made for you and me

and then there is the version used by arlo guthrie and pete seeger which changes the last line there to "that side was made for you and me"

ah, patriotic collective ownership

Here's a New Zealand one:

Fred Dagg - We don't know how lucky we are

At the dawn of the day, in the great Southern Ocean
Where the world’s greatest fish was being landed
And the boat they were pulling it into was sinking
And the sea was quite lumpy, and the weather was foul
And the bloke with the map was as pissed as an owl
And the boys called out “Maui, ya clown, let it go”
In the noise he reached down for his grandmother’s jawbone
and he winked at his mates and he said
“Boys, we don’t know how lucky we are”
“I have a feeling I have stumbled on something substantial.”

We don’t know how lucky we are
We don’t know how lucky we are
We don’t know how lucky we are
We don’t know how lucky we are

I was speaking to a mate of mine, just the other day
A bloke called Bruce Bayliss who, lives up our way
He’s been round the world on an 8th army do for a year, more or less
I said “Describe the global position, Bruce”
He said “Fred, it’s a mess.
We don’t know how lucky we are in this country.
We don’t know how lucky we are.

We don’t know how lucky we are
We don’t know how lucky we are

There’s a guy I know who lives in town
I see him about once a year I suppose
He’s had a coronary since Easter
He’s got a haemorrhage in his ear
He went bankrupt a couple of weeks back
And now his wife’s left him too
I said “You’re looking hot mate,
You’re looking clear, what are ya gonna do?”
He said “We don’t know how lucky we are
To live in this joint mate"

We don’t know how lucky we are
We don’t know how lucky we are

So when things are looking really bad
And you’re thinking of giving it a way
Remember, New Zealand’s a cracker
And I reckon come what may
If things get appallingly bad
And we’re all under constant attack
Remember, we want to see good clean ball
And for god’s sakes, feed your backs
We don’t how fortunate we are to have that place
We don’t know how propitious are the circumstances.

We don’t know how lucky we are, mate
We don’t know how lucky we are

We don’t know how lucky we are, get it right
We just don’t realise how fortunate we are
We have no idea, the luck, we possess, collectively
We just don’t know how lucky we all are. Full stop.

My personal favorite:

America, F*** YEAH!Um... That isn't a patriotic song. It's satirical (unless they mean "Slavery! F*** YEAH!" seriously).

My personal favorite would be "3 Lions on the Shirt", even though I can't stand the country or team... :D

I like "the Star Spangled Banner" and "My Country 'Tis of Thee" for the tunes of them, and "This Land is Your Land" for the words, but only when all six verses are included.

Well, if I have to choose one, I'll choose the Soviet/Russian national anthem. (http://www.funet.fi/pub/culture/russian/lyrics/political/SovietUnionNationalAnthem_RedArmyChorus.mp3) [3.5Mb MP3, in public domain]

Lyrics in English, transliterated Russian and Russian. (http://www.angelfire.com/sc/usmclan/anthem2.html)

Now I'm sad again, because the great moral experiment of our time was failed so miserably. :(

Maybe some better people will get to try again some day?

EDIT: to remain relevant I'll post about patriotic songs. I don't really like them, as I'm not patriotic(American and not patriotic you say! Do tell :D ), but I agree with the guy who posted L'Internationale. Tis an awesome song.

EDIT: to remain relevant I'll post about patriotic songs. I don't really like them, as I'm not patriotic(American and not patriotic you say! Do tell :D ), but I agree with the guy who posted L'Internationale. Tis an awesome song.And who said it had to be patriotic songs from your own country? :p

Screw patriotism. I'll take internationalism ala "Le Internationale"

Um... that *is* patriotic. You're venerating the failed idealism of Communism.
(This works since the Communist ideal was to abolish states; therefore it itself is it's own state -- working in theory to a state of statelessness.)

And who said it had to be patriotic songs from your own country? :p

*chuckle*

Well, I'm actually a very patriotic European, who just happens to have been born American :D

anything by Anal **** or such bands

Whoa great moral experiment LOL you know marx believed women were nothing more then farm animals used to procreate and that the ultimiate workers paradise was built on the back of womens subjugation see Stalin...ummm i know this is hard to understand...i mean i know but he was...the ...good...guy...compared to trotsky who was all in to the universal brotherhood
Stalin was a thousand times more liberal then Trotsky lol

i think my favourite part of America F**k yeah is the fact almost nothing they say is great about america was invented in america lol not even ice cream which was invented in china lol

i think my favourite part of America F**k yeah is the fact almost nothing they say is great about america was invented in america lol not even ice cream which was invented in china lolHence it is considered "satire" and not "patriotic" :D

Jimmy Carter says 'yes'

Whoa great moral experiment LOL you know marx believed women were nothing more then farm animals used to procreate and that the ultimiate workers paradise was built on the back of womens subjugation see Stalin...ummm i know this is hard to understand...i mean i know but he was...the ...good...guy...compared to trotsky who was all in to the universal brotherhood
Stalin was a thousand times more liberal then Trotsky lol

That's not coherant. At all.

It's like you tried to diss me, but lost your train of thought.

BTW, Communism was considered by the intellectuals of the early 20th century to be the Great Moral Experiment of our Time. They even used that phrase - that is what I was referrencing. Unfortunately, the Bolsheviks and Stalinists were a bunch of assholes, turning a unique, revolutionary idea into a corrupt, dicatorial and brutal system.

i'm gonna say "When The Tigers Broke Free" By Pink Floyd, I don't remember the words from heart but i'll have a go

It was one miserable morning in black '44
When the forward commander was asked to sit tight,
When he asked that his men be withdrawn,
Well the other Generals gave thenks to the other ranks,
As they held back the enemy Tanks for a while,
And the Anzio bridge hit was held for the price of a few thousand ordinary lives,
Well no-one survived from the royal fusalirs company C,
They were all left behind most of them dead the rest of them dying,

I know I shouldn't, but I really do love this song.

"We Are Australian"

I came from the dreamtime, from the dusty red soil plains,
I am the ancient heart - the keeper of the flame,
I stood upon the rocky shore, I watched the tall ships come,
For forty thousand years I'd been the first Australian.
We are one but we are many
And from all the lands on earth we come,
we share a dream,
And sing with one voice,
I am, you are, we are Australian.
I came upon the prison ship bound down by iron chains
I cleared the land, endured the lash and waited for the rains.
I'm a settler, I'm a farmer's wife on a dry and barren run
A convict then a free man, I became Australian.
I'm the daughter of a digger who sought the mother lode
The girl became a woman on the long and dusty road
I'm a child of the depression, I saw the good times come
I'm a bushy, I'm a battler, I am Australian.
We are one but we are many
And from all the lands on earth we come,
we share a dream,
And sing with one voice,
I am, you are, we are Australian.
I'm a teller of stories, I'm a singer of songs
I am Albert Namatjira, and I paint the ghostly gums
I am Clancy on his horse, I'm Ned Kelly on the run
I'm the one who waltzed Matilda, I am Australian.
I'm the hot wind from the desert, I'm the black soil of the plains
I'm the mountains and the valleys, I'm the drought and flooding rains
I am the rock, I am the sky, the rivers when they run
The spirit of this great land, I am Australian.
We are one but we are many
And from all the lands on earth we come,
we share a dream,
And sing with one voice,
I am, you are, we are Australian.

Screw patriotism. I'll take internationalism ala "Le Internationale"

Right on! I'd rather listen to the Internationale than Courtesy of the Red White and Blue.

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Patriotic Songs...

How About
"B.Y.O.B." by System of a Down

Patriotic towards truth, not the government.

"American Jesus" by Bad Religion works well too.

Amhran na bhfiann

Seo dhibh a cháirde duan Óglaigh,
Cathréimeach briomhar ceolmhar,
Ár dtinte cnámh go buacach táid,
'S an spéir go min réaltogach
Is fonnmhar faobhrach sinn chun gleo
'S go tiúnmhar glé roimh thíocht do'n ló
Fé chiúnas chaomh na hoiche ar seol:
Seo libh canaídh Amhrán na bhFiann.

Curfá:
Sinne Fianna Fáil
A tá fé gheall ag Éirinn,
buion dár slua
Thar toinn do ráinig chugainn,
Fé mhóid bheith saor.
Sean tír ár sinsir feasta
Ní fhagfar fé'n tiorán ná fé'n tráil
Anocht a théam sa bhearna bhaoil,
Le gean ar Ghaeil chun báis nó saoil
Le guna screach fé lámhach na bpiléar
Seo libh canaídh Amhrán na bhFiann.

Cois bánta réidhe, ar árdaibh sléibhe,
Ba bhuachach ár sinsir romhainn,
Ag lámhach go tréan fé'n sár-bhrat séin
Tá thuas sa ghaoith go seolta
Ba dhúchas riamh d'ár gcine cháidh
Gan iompáil siar ó imirt áir,
'S ag siúl mar iad i gcoinne námhad
Seo libh, canaídh Amhrán na bhFiann.

Curfá

A bhuíon nách fann d'fhuil Ghaeil is Gall,
Sin breacadh lae na saoirse,
Ta scéimhle 's scanradh i gcroíthe namhad,
Roimh ranna laochra ár dtire.
Ár dtinte is tréith gan spréach anois,
Sin luisne ghlé san spéir anoir,
'S an bíobha i raon na bpiléar agaibh:
Seo libh, canaídh Amhrán na bhFiann.
Curfá

EDIT:ugh the spelling seems wrong.but it might be poetic license so i wont bother editing

"Jerusalem" has always worked well for me. :D

i'm gonna say "When The Tigers Broke Free" By Pink Floyd, I don't remember the words from heart but i'll have a go

It was one miserable morning in black '44
When the forward commander was asked to sit tight,
When he asked that his men be withdrawn,
Well the other Generals gave thenks to the other ranks,
As they held back the enemy Tanks for a while,
And the Anzio bridge hit was held for the price of a few thousand ordinary lives,
Well no-one survived from the royal fusalirs company C,
They were all left behind most of them dead the rest of them dying,

"And that's how the high command took my daddy from me...
It was dark all around, there was frost in the ground... when the Tigers broke free..."

There are actually two versions of that song: one from the movie, one released on the version of The Wall that wasn't released in the US. :)

Three lions on the shirt
Jules Rimet's still gleaming
No more tears of hurt
No more need for dreaming

Our best national song and it includes the line 'psycho screaming'. :p

No surrender to the IRA.

Everyone thought it was stupid and racist. but they kept singing it anyway and now the IRA have surrendered. Thats the power of music. politicians took all the credit though. even though they didnt write the song.

No surrender to the IRA.

Everyone thought it was stupid and racist. but they kept singing it anyway and now the IRA have surrendered. Thats the power of music. politicians took all the credit though. even though they didnt write the song.

LOL

Anyway
Parcel o' Rogues in a Nation by Burns

FAREWEEL to a’ our Scottish fame,
Fareweel our ancient glory;
Fareweel ev’n to the Scottish name,
Sae fam’d in martial story.
Now Sark rins over Solway sands,
An’ Tweed rins to the ocean,
To mark where England’s province stands—
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!

What force or guile could not subdue,
Thro’ many warlike ages,
Is wrought now by a coward few,
For hireling traitor’s wages.
The English stell we could disdain,
Secure in valour’s station;
But English gold has been our bane—
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!

O would, or I had seen the day
That Treason thus could sell us,
My auld grey head had lien in clay,
Wi’ Bruce and loyal Wallace!
But pith and power, till my last hour,
I’ll mak this declaration;
We’re bought and sold for English gold—
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation!

Joe McDonnell


O me name is Joe McDonnell
from Belfast town I came
That city I will never see again
For in the town of Belfast
I spent many happy days
I love that town in oh so many ways

For it's there I spent my childhood
and found for me a wife
I then set out to make for her a life
But all my young ambitions
met with bitterness and hate
I soon found myself inside a prison gate

Chorus: And you dare to call me a terrorist
while you looked down your gun
When I think of all the deeds that you had done
You had plundered many nations divided many lands
You had terrorised their peoples you ruled with an iron hand.
And you brought this reign of terror to my land


Through those many months internment
In the Maidstone and the Maze
I thought about my land throughout those days
Why my country was divided,
why I was now in jail
Imprisoned without crime or without trial

And though I love my country
I am not a bitter man
I've seen cruelty and injustice at first hand
So then one fateful morning
I shook bold freedom's hand
For right or wrong I'd try to free my land
Chorus:

Then one cold October morning
trapped in a lion's den
I found myself in prison once again
I was committed to the H-blocks
for fourteen years or more
On the Blanket the conditions they were poor

Then a hunger strike we did commence
for the dignity of man
But it seemed to me that no one gave a damn
But now, I'm a saddened man
I've watched my comrades die
If only people cared or wondered why
Chorus:

May God shine on you Bobby Sands
for the courage you have shown
May your glory and your fame be widely known
And brave Francis Hughes and Ray McCreesh
who died unselfishly
And Patsy O Hara and the next in line is me

And those who lie behind me
may your courage be the same
And I pray to God our lives were not in vain
Ah but sad and bitter
was the year of 1981
For everything I've lost and nothing's won.

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Two World Wars and one World cup, doo dah, doo dah,
two World Wars and one World cup, doo dah, doo dah....

I'm not a big listener of this particular music, but I have heard some ones I like.

"Patriot" - Pearl Jam

And Yankee Doodle Dandy for its historical significance.

This Land is Your Land because it involves a government cover-up and the promotion of communism. Seriously, if you don't believe me google the lyrics, and not just the first verse.

This Land is Your Land because it involves a government cover-up and the promotion of communism. Seriously, if you don't believe me google the lyrics, and not just the first verse.

*was stupid enough to google the lyrics*

Amhran na bhfiann

-snip-

Do we get a translation with that?

Uhh...

As I was walkin' - I saw a sign there
And that sign said - no tress passin'
But on the other side .... it didn't say nothin!
Now that side was made for you and me!

In the squares of the city - In the shadow of the steeple
Near the relief office - I see my people
And some are grumblin' and some are wonderin'
If this land's still made for you and me.

How does that not promote communism? This guy was obviously refering to the great depression and how the majority of his people can't expirience America like it should be.

Do we get a translation with that?

curfa/ 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.

The british grenediers, and whilst in paris ANGLETARE ANGLE TARE ANGLETARE

(the the tune of, engaland engaland engaland......) watch a soccer match, youll know wat i mean,

Better version of this Land is Your Land





This Land is Your Land

This land is your land, this land is my land
From the northern highlands to the western islands
From the hills of Kerry to the streets of (Free) Derry
This land was made for you and me

(Chorus)


As I was walking by the Shannon water
Hand in hand with my little daughter
The church bells ringing, and the children singing
This land was made for you and me

(Chorus)


So I walked her home by the old church steeple
Proud of my country, proud of my people
Of the men who tried there, of the men who died there singing
This land is made for you and me

(Chorus)


Then I climbed a mountain, saw the crystal fountain
And heard a great roar from the rocky sea shore
Her eyes were gleaming, she cried oho Daddy
This land was made for you and me

I tell you this:

Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA" is Satan's own laxative.

I tell you this:

Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA" is Satan's own laxative.

Funny. I thought it was this little gem:

The Peace Choir, 1991:

Everybody's talkin' 'bout:
Planet earth
Rebirth
United Nations
Good relations
Space stations
Starvation
Radiation
Salvation
Education
Liberation

Chorus:
All we are saying,
is give peace a chance

Everybody's talkin' 'bout:
Civil war
Revolution
Armageddon
No solution
Are we facing
Vietnam?
We don't want to
Drop the bomb

Chorus: (Repeat)

Everybody's talkin' 'bout:
Acid house
Gay spouse
Green house
Heavy metal
Hip-hop
Censorship
Has to stop
HIV
AZT
New Kids Dance on
MTV
With toxic waste dumps
in the sea

Chorus: (Repeat)

Everybody's talkin' 'bout:
Amazon's
Trees gone
Cancer cells
From the sun
Middle East
Crazy beast
Rock 'n rollers
sing for peace.

Chorus: (Final)

http://www.instantkarma.com/givepeaceachance91.html
...what a load of crap.

Two World Wars and one World cup, doo dah, doo dah,
two World Wars and one World cup, doo dah, doo dah....
LOL, LOL, LOL, By the way, if you meet any Germans, ask how the weather is in Poland this time of year (september - invasion- history - get it?)

Some 'patriotic' songs I like:
The Battle Hymn of the Republic - best version i've heard is suprisingly sung by a Welsh Choir on an old cd i have
Brisbane Lions Club Song
(sung to the tune of La Marseillaise, the French anthem and the tune of the Fitzroy club song)
We are the pride of Brisbane town,
We wear maroon, blue and gold.
We will always fight for victory,
Like Fitzroy, and Bears of old.
All for one, and one for all,
We will answer to the call.
Go Lions, Brisbane Lions,
We'll kick the winning score.
You'll hear our mighty roar.
( i think its funny that it uses the french anthem and sounds better)
The old Soviet Anthem - gotta love it for the 'Red Menace' factor
and of Course:
Rule Britannia
a song by Thomas Augustine Arne, 1740

When Britain first at Heav'n's command
Arose from out the azure main;
This was the charter of the land,
And guardian angels sang this strain;

Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves:
Britons never will be slaves.

The nations not so blest as thee,
Shall in their turns to tyrants fall;
While thou shalt flourish great and free,
The dread and envy of them all.

Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves:
Britons never will be slaves.

Still mor majestic shalt thou rise,
More dreadful from each foreign stroke;
As the loud blast that tears the skies,
Serves but to root thy native oak.

Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves:
Britons never will be slaves.

Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame,
All their attempts to bend thee down
Will but arouse thy generous flame;
But work their woe, and thy renown.

Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves:
Britons never will be slaves.

To thee belongs the rural reign;
They cities shall with commerce shine;
All thine shall be the subject main,
And every shore it circles thine.

Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves:
Britons never will be slaves.

The Muses, still with freedom found,
Shall to thy happy coast repair;
Blest Isle! With matchless beauty crowned,
And manly hearts to juide the fair.

Rule, Britannia! Britannia, rule the waves:
Britons never will be slaves.

I rather enjoy some of Sousa's marches.

As well as the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." Quite historic. *go union! whooo!*

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