NATIONAL ANTHEM OF UNITED STATES (1777-1931)

[pejb83]

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

Eat me.

~Anonymous

[MsBongmaster]

fuck usa the government is poison for the mankind

[MonTex2841]

This song is played when the vice president is inaugurated.

[MonTex2841]

My country tis of thee is a copy of British anthem. Star spangled banner is to the tune of a British drinking tune.

[brettsworld99]

the incy wincy spider climbed up the water spout

[tmf1977]

Dare I say I like this way better than the Star Spangled Banner (which by the way that anthem's music cops off the British National Anthem)..

[gloriab357]

@tmf1977 The British National Anthem is God Save The Queen which isn't at all like The Star Spangled Banner.

[VictorLepanto]

@DrSunshineAOD: Health maintenance organisations which were create in response to HOW MEDICARE DROVE UP MEDICAL COSTS IN THE 60S & 70S. Why do you make me repeat myself. Politicians offer solutions to problem they created in the 1st. If you don't want HMOs, tell your crooked politicians to allow individuals to maintain health savings accounts like IRAs. No taxes on them. That would not increase the power of politicians so they don't care. Simple solutions that benefit most are hated by pols.

[VictorLepanto]

@DrSunshineAOD: controlling you is driving up the price of everything in medicine through medicare regulations & through the trial lawyers using loose tort laws to feed off the medical industry. When the gov't has wrecked this industry thusly they then offer to "solve" the problem they created by taking over the whole healthcare industry. That is what is happening. They know they can rely on ignorant people like you to let them get away w/ it.

[BlodwynBeynon]

first time I ever heard it

[Mustoverus]

I like the lyrics to this. ^-^

[DJLest1000]

this sounds alittle like the olimpic song

[TheFederalistVoice]

Congress should reinstate this as our national anthem, plus we won't have to listen to butchery before every major sporting event.

[Snicklefritz1979]

I thoroughly oppose English being declared as the langiage of the U.S.

We are a multi-lingual and multi-ethnic country with immigrants from every corner of the globe.

America is simply not the "white" or "Anglo-Saxon" nation that it once was and people need to start accepting that fact.

[teniguafez]

@Snicklefritz1979 We may be multiethnic, but the only language that sees anything like the prominence of English in this country is Spanish (which, incidentally, I would also like to see made an official language). There may be individual areas where other languages are spoken, primarily in East Coast urban centers.

Plenty of multiethnic countries (Russia, the UK, and Canada among them) have official languages.

[SlipSloop]

@teniguafez We're not Russia, the UK, or Canada.

[Willredd94]

@teniguafez The US isnt even supposed to be a multicultural or multiethnic society. Based on 200 years of immigration history we are supposed to be a melting pot, we all have an American culture and we all adapt to it.

[teniguafez]

@Willredd94 American culture, though, is by definition a melting pot of all the cultures that have built it. And even 200 years of immigration history can't change genetics.

Still, English is by far the dominant language, though Spanish is rising in prominence. That's why I'd like to see both become official languages.

[MrMatt9009]

I actually like this over "Star Spangled Banner" and I just found out that this was the first national anthem.

[fabricsman1]

first time i hear the original united states national anthem.thank you for sharing.

[jkilla199]

WOOW THANKS I NEVER HEARD THIS VERSION BEFORE

[SlipSloop]

Are you serious? Why did we replace this..?

[gevanamataka]

@SlipSloop For the same reason why the Democrats want to keep English from being declared the official national language. Note that SSB became the anthem during a Democrat's presidency. Also if you are a Democrat, please reconsider your politics. The Democrats are all about dividing the American people into separate races and ethnicities and controlling us with welfare and nationalized medicine. The republicans are about a single American nation with rights for all (who are citizens).

[SlipSloop]

@gevanamataka Why would we declare English our national language? What business does the federal government have in deciding what language is considered 'official' or 'unofficial' within the Union? Look up the tenth amendment.

[gevanamataka]

@SlipSloop Because this is a nation. English is our language. Tenth amendment has been shit on so much it has little meaning, and using it to deny the fact that this is an english-speaking nation is probably the worst way the party of "fuck america" could possibly abuse it.

[dreamcore]

@SlipSloop Government decided to make something "official" rather than allow the choice, and the timing was such that the SSB was popular at the time (after some major wars...). Sort of similar to how E Pluribus Unum went by the wayside when a 1950s Congress decided to make an official motto.

I like this one, too. It's peaceful without being boring, and has a certain dignity to it.

[MegaDAgr8]

Why was this replaced?

[CYCROFT]

@MegaDAgr8 Congress passed a law in 1931 declaring the Star-Spangled Banner the national anthem. I haven't researched it but I'm guessing because Hail Columbia glorifies George Washington instead of the flag over Fort Henry. And because it's a little more sensational than Hail Columbia. I prefer Hail Columbia because the words mean more to me and because it isn't buchered like a bar-song at every footbal game lol.

[CYCROFT]

@MegaDAgr8 Congress passed a law in 1931 declaring the Star-Spangled Banner the national anthem. I haven't researched it but I'm guessing because Hail Columbia glorifies George Washington instead of the flag over Fort McHenry. And because it's a little more sensational than Hail Columbia. I prefer Hail Columbia because the words mean more to me and because it isn't buchered like a bar-song at every footbal game lol.

[briorange]

@CYCROFT Funny you mentioned that our current national anthem is butchered like a bar-song. The melody comes from "The Anacreontic Song" which coincidentally was the theme song to a late 1700s gentleman's club in London and commonly used as a sobriety test to let people know if they were good to drink more thus it is in fact originally a bar-song

[WolfHoundKing]

this is in my head sounds like itsty bitsy spider

[subfusc8]

@WolfHoundKing Fuck you. You just ruined it for me. rofl

[WolfHoundKing]

@subfusc8 lol

[celticoinsubre]

The Cisalpine Republic, it is not Italy! We want our freedom and dependence, from the Italian peninsula, a Mafioso-total domination and oppression and the current north-ethnic Gallic Celtic, is totally excluded from the rest of the country.

[imperialrussian1]

@celticoinsubre

Not trying to be rude but y would you post that? this has nothing to do with the Usa

[celticoinsubre]

@imperialrussian1 It is not my rudeness, but a way to propagate the reality of independence in the north of the peninsula! Long live the Republic Cisalpine FREE ..!!! CISALPINA is NOT ITALY

[HueyJoe]

@celticoinsubre non c'è bisogno di far sapere i cazzi nostri al mondo...tanto a loro mica gli frega...

[celticoinsubre]

@HueyJoe Non penso proprio!

[JSav07]

The United States HAD no national anthem until the 30's. We used many different tunes, this should be our anthem. But it fell out of use in WWI.

[WhoIsJohnGalt4279]

This anthem is still used during state events to announce the Vice President.

[GoldPie11]

@WhoIsJohnGalt4279 but its not a anthem

[deltaofwar]

@WhoIsJohnGalt4279 Yeah but its... the vice president, they don't even tell him the important stuff in case the president gets shot.

[Eagle027]

Your just honoring one lost Italian for another in either song.

[kohl57]

Much nicer than the "Star Spangled Banner" by a mile.

[TheElectricTurtle]

@kohl57 Seems rather manic to me. The Star Spangled Banner is more valuable for its spirit than its composition, but at least it's more consistent in tone than this is/was.

[dbeiswenger]

@kohl57 ok its cool, and an interesting piece of history, but nicer than the star spangled banner? HA. no.

[SpaceCowboy641]

@kohl57 Agree! This should be the nation anthem and "star spangled banner" teached as a patriotic poem ...

[Ferrariman601]

@kohl57 Agreed.

I wish the U.S. anthem was the Civil War march "The Battle Cry of Freedom" however.

[drnachos]

hail columbia

[donniededondon]

another sign where "Europe" want's to become.

I'd rather have the current American anthem

[thenutintheushanka18]

Hail Columbia written in 1789, the US had no national Anthem from 1777-1789.