*clears throat* From memory, in honour of the day...

[camwyn]

o Canada
Our home and native land
True patriot love
In all thy sons command!
With beating hearts we see thee rise
The True North strong and free
From far and wide, o Canada,
We stand on guard for thee!

God keep our land
Glorious and free
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee!


... shoot, it was 'glowing', not 'beating'... oh well. Happy Canada Day, y'all.


(ETA: For those of you who were thinking of getting sniffy because I'm an American and I memorized the English words to the Canadian national anthem, I can sing all three verses of ours that are still in common use- and I just listed off all fifty U. S. states, from memory, in less than three minutes. Deal.)

Comments

[zsero.livejournal.com]

Am I allowed to say that I think O Canada is a really stupid song? It even makes Advance Australia Fair seem less stupid by comparison. Both The Star Spangled Banner and God Save the Sovereign of Appropriate Sex are decent poetry, from an era when they wrote decent anthems, even though they have not much more than a nodding relationship with their tunes.

[camwyn]

Hey, I'm not fussed by it, so as far as I'm concerned, go ahead.

... gorramit, one of these days I'll remember that I'm logged into my RP journal.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

*scratches head* God save the King/Queen? Where is that decent poetry? I mean, maybe I just learned it wrong, but all I remember from that one is God save our gracious Queen,/Long live our noble Queen,/God save the Queen:/Send her victorious,/Happy and glorious,/Long to reign over us:/God save the Queen.
Which is, as far as I am concerned, pretty much the most boring text anyone could have come up with...
(And the tune is stolen from a German anthem. Not a good one, either.)

Not that Oh Canada is a good poem. But God Save Whatever Is Appropriate is even worse.

Now, the Marsellaise, that one has power... *g*