US Anthem in Australian

That's a ruddy abomination!!!


If you want us to render the wretched thing, you'll have to quote it.


No decent Australian knows the words to OUR anthem, let alone yours!

What? You don't like my beginning? Well, I never . . .

However, I can see you might have trouble with the original lyrics. Here is the first verse. If there is enough interest, we can later on move along to the rest of them.


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 rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave

Well, I am sure your end makes up for it!

Well, I don't speak the kind of Oz you are using, but I will do my humble best to treat your anthem with the disrespect it, and all others, so thoroughly merit.


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 rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave


Oy, is it light enough to see
That flag thingy we saw at sunset?
You know, the red and white thing with the starry whatsits
That was blowing about and distracting us in the fight last night, cos it was so bloody garish.
Ya know, they kept it waving all night.
Boy, they like their bits of cloth, these Yanks...

Slogging on alone . . . (Where's a real Outback man, like Gus, when you need him?)


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Can a ruddy cobber see
On a fair dinkum morn
What we jolly well saw
As we waited the billy boil
And the bloody red glare
Oer the jumbuck's short hair
Made a jolly good show


More later.

Does the phrase "too much time on your hands" mean anything to ye?

I love it. Don't stop now.

dlowan
Now that's nice. I guess my Australian is a bit rustic (fanciful, dumb, inappropriate - ). But I think we got it going now.

So...what is the next silly verse?



Not sure it can vie in dumbness with ours, but at least ours doesn't wank so much about war, as far as I can recall it, anyway.

Here the song is in its entirety:

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 rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O 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, now conceals, now discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! O 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 wiped out their foul footstep's 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 homes and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-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!

I'll wager all my worldly goods that not one person out a hundred knows more than the first verse, and damn' few know that. And, as a general rule, it's only the first verse that's sung at such patriotic events as baseball games.

Oh boy.

I wouldn't know where to start with that lot.


Anthem writers should be done away with at birth, to prevent things like that from happening.

It's a mess, all right.
Let me defend my knowledge of the Australian language, by citing the impeccable sources: Walt Kelly's Pogo Possum comic strip, and the lyrics to Waltzing Matilda. I rest my case.

I have to tell you, your case is resting on pretty thin ice there, me lad.


You all have a nice day, ya hear?

ditto

Oh, my gawd, edgar. I just remembered Leslie Nielson in one of those Naked Gun movies. He had the opera star kidnapped and impersonated him singing the Star Spangled Banner.

"...and the bombs in the air
They were bursting up there..."

That one had OJ in it as well.

Well, now we have the anthem in Spanish; Auzzie; and English. Poor Francis Scott Keys. He meant it to be a poem.

It's awkward as a poem, also, in my view.

Oh, go take a shifty when the maggies start callin'
But keep your head low 'cause the shells are still fallin'
Check out whether the flag that was flyin' last night
Is cactus, or whether it's still all-flamin'-right.
Each time a bomb went off it was still flappin' away
I'll be buggered if I thought it'd stick it out till today.
Well, ya stupid drongo, is it still there or not?
Ya might down the bloody country but it's the only one we got!