America the Beautiful

Saruman

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_the_Beautiful
This is a song, almost an anthem that rivals the national anthem.

Anyway this is pretty funn especially if you are an American!!

We were looking at the Rugby over the weekend and my wife, who is American was in the kitchen when the English national anthem was being played... she came in and said whats that? Then she started singing American the Beautiful

Turns out, this American patriotic song thats almost a second national anthem is in fact the same Tune as God save the Queen! We thought that was very funny.

Saruman

OK scrap the last one... my wife got it mixed up... i was trying to figure out why they were the same tune... so on Wiki'ing God save the queen it seems Canada uses the tune on a french version of it.

More importantly Samuel F. Smith wrote the words to the American patriotic song "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" sung to the same tune, in 1832
When i told her that... she sang that song to that tune and said "oh wait its that song not America the Beautiful"

So same thing applies.. an American patriotic song is sung to tune of the english national anthem "God save the queen". Who cares? no one i think but its pretty funny when you think about it.

Rb

America...
America...
America, fúck YEAH!
Coming again, to save the mother fúcking day yeah,
America, fúck YEAH!
Freedom is the only way yeah,
Terrorist your game is through cause now you have to answer too,
America, fúck YEAH!
So lick my butt, and suck on my balls,
America, fúck 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

fúck YEAH!

McDonalds, fúck YEAH!
Wal-Mart, fúck YEAH!
The Gap, fúck YEAH!
Baseball, fúck YEAH!
NFL, fúck, YEAH!
Rock and roll, fúck YEAH!
The Internet, fúck YEAH!
Slavery, fúck YEAH!

fúck YEAH!

Starbucks, fúck YEAH!
Disney world, fúck YEAH!
Porno, fúck YEAH!
Valium, fúck YEAH!
Reeboks, fúck YEAH!
Fake Tits, fúck YEAH!
Sushi, fúck YEAH!
Taco Bell, fúck YEAH!
Rodeos, fúck YEAH!
Bed bath and beyond (fúck yeah, fúck yeah)

Liberty, fúck YEAH!
White Slips, fúck YEAH!
The Alamo, fúck YEAH!
Band-aids, fúck YEAH!
Las Vegas, fúck YEAH!
Christmas, fúck YEAH!
Immigrants, fúck YEAH!
Popeye, fúck YEAH!
Demarcates, fúck YEAH!
Republicans (republicans)
(fúck yeah, fúck yeah)

Sums up the American attitude better than any of their anthems tbh.
EDIT: Linky gone, found out there was a tad bit of adult stuff stuck in at the end of what was a good video before it

InFront

I'm confused, what are you trying to say, Flipper?:)

Some american changed the lyrics of the British national anthem and Americanised it?

"And mercy more than life!
America! America! May God thy gold refine,
'Til all success be nobleness, and ev'ry gain divine!"

There's the real joke.

Nature Boy

Oh yeah. I remember they used to sing this song sometimes at Wrestlemania (when I used watch it!) instead of the national anthem.

Ruu_Old

Alot of the time it it sang along with the national anthem and they tried to replace Star Spangled Banner with America the Beautiful at one stage I believe (or maybe are still trying). *hits wall*

sceptre

Saruman wrote:

So same thing applies.. an American patriotic song is sung to tune of the english national anthem "God save the queen". Who cares? no one i think but its pretty funny when you think about it.

The same tune is used for the national anthem of Liechtenstein. It's previously been used as the national anthem of Sweden, Switzerland, Russia, Prussia and later Germany. It's also currently used as the royal anthem in Norway. Meanwhile in Orwell's 1984, the national anthem of Oceania was called "Oceania, 'Tis for Thee", which could quite possibly have had the same tune. It's been a popular tune. Bach even composed a series of variations for piano based on it once upon a time.

Feral Mutant

rb_ie wrote:

America...
America...
America, fúck YEAH!
Coming again, to save the mother fúcking day yeah,
America, fúck YEAH!
Freedom is the only way yeah,
Terrorist your game is through cause now you have to answer too,
America, fúck YEAH!
So lick my butt, and suck on my balls,
America, fúck 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

fúck YEAH!

McDonalds, fúck YEAH!
Wal-Mart, fúck YEAH!
The Gap, fúck YEAH!
Baseball, fúck YEAH!
NFL, fúck, YEAH!
Rock and roll, fúck YEAH!
The Internet, fúck YEAH!
Slavery, fúck YEAH!

fúck YEAH!

Starbucks, fúck YEAH!
Disney world, fúck YEAH!
Porno, fúck YEAH!
Valium, fúck YEAH!
Reeboks, fúck YEAH!
Fake Tits, fúck YEAH!
Sushi, fúck YEAH!
Taco Bell, fúck YEAH!
Rodeos, fúck YEAH!
Bed bath and beyond (fúck yeah, fúck yeah)

Liberty, fúck YEAH!
White Slips, fúck YEAH!
The Alamo, fúck YEAH!
Band-aids, fúck YEAH!
Las Vegas, fúck YEAH!
Christmas, fúck YEAH!
Immigrants, fúck YEAH!
Popeye, fúck YEAH!
Demarcates, fúck YEAH!
Republicans (republicans)
(fúck yeah, fúck yeah)

Sportsmanship, . . .
Books, . . .

Lust4Life

Duh! America is "The Melting Pot of Cultures". Of course the melody was borrowed.

Red Hand

^^^^^
Will teach us all how to sing!

CiaranC

sceptre wrote:

The same tune is used for the national anthem of Liechtenstein. It's previously been used as the national anthem of Sweden, Switzerland, Russia, Prussia and later Germany. It's also currently used as the royal anthem in Norway. Meanwhile in Orwell's 1984, the national anthem of Oceania was called "Oceania, 'Tis for Thee", which could quite possibly have had the same tune. It's been a popular tune. Bach even composed a series of variations for piano based on it once upon a time.

+1 Interesting

Black Swan

rb_ie wrote:

Starbucks, fúck YEAH!

Star*ucks?

zuutroy

A couple of years ago they introduced the singing of 'God Bless America' during the 7th inning at all New York baseball games. Lord help he that didn't agree, a Puerto Rican playing for a Canadian team. I was at the game mentioned below and it was sickening:

Wiki wrote:

In the 2004 season, Delgado protested the war by silently staying in the dugout during the playing of God Bless America during the Seventh inning stretch. Delgado does not make a public show of his beliefs and even his teammates were not aware of his views until a story was published in July 2004 in the Toronto Star. The story was the subject of a media frenzy, mostly in New York, where on July 21, 2004, as was anticipated, Delgado was booed for his passive protest during a game at Yankee Stadium [3]. Angry New York fans booed him and, when Delgado lined out in the bottom 7th inning, fans chanted "USA, USA" even though Delgado, like all Puerto Ricans, is an American citizen. Delgado had explained that the playing of God Bless America had come to be equated with a war in which he didn't believe. In a New York Times interview, Delgado said this is what he believed in, and "It takes a man to stand up for what he believes."

Terry

zuutroy wrote:

A couple of years ago they introduced the singing of 'God Bless America' during the 7th inning at all New York baseball games. Lord help he that didn't agree, a Puerto Rican playing for a Canadian team. I was at the game mentioned below and it was sickening:

Someone needs to tell those hicks in America that the "Towel Heads"* they are fighting against to preserve their democracy believe in the same god.




*Redneck hick term. Not mine and not what I would call anyone in the middle east.

Binomate

I love Ray Charles's version.

Rb

Blue_Lagoon wrote:

Star*ucks?

Fúck yeah?

Saruman

sceptre wrote:

The same tune is used for the national anthem of Liechtenstein. It's previously been used as the national anthem of Sweden, Switzerland, Russia, Prussia and later Germany. It's also currently used as the royal anthem in Norway. Meanwhile in Orwell's 1984, the national anthem of Oceania was called "Oceania, 'Tis for Thee", which could quite possibly have had the same tune. It's been a popular tune. Bach even composed a series of variations for piano based on it once upon a time.

Now thats interesting.. i wonder is our "Soldiers song" using the same tune as something else.

Terry

Binomate wrote:

I love Ray Charles's version.

I've never seen it. Is it any good?

InFront

Saruman wrote:

Now thats interesting.. i wonder is our "Soldiers song" using the same tune as something else.

It's from a really pro-republican, Brits-out episode of Bosco. Honest.

Terry

Isn't that the one where they go through the magic door, put a bomb under maggie thatchers room in a hotel and then leg it bag to the studio? I think it was the incedental music that played when they were planting the bomb.

Pigman II

Star Spangled Banner? Have to admit I've never heard of it.

Always presumed this was the American anthem?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmGFVLZC3os