Let me sing you the song of my people

We really hope the Queen doesn't die, you guys

@weelydangle Hope? Why hope? SHE CAN NOT DIE!

@Henlaar Her and David Attenborough

@weelydangle My theory, is every time we sing God Save the Queen, it adds a year to her life, and deducts from ours. By my calculations, I've got two years left...

@Henlaar Bloody hell I've been dead for 12 years

@weelydangle What is dead, may never die.

@Henlaar You mean we're stuck with Theresa May forever?

@weelydangle Why? Do you not hope that God saves Prince Charles when he becomes King; if he becomes king. :P

@FluffyRose Dear God no

@weelydangle Sep. 8: Yeah.... about that... :cries:

We really, really, really like The Queen and really rather she didn't die. So far, almost 67 years later, it seems to be working.

@gandyg Keep singing!

USA: You threw everything you had at us. WE'RE STILL STANDING, BITCHES.

@tomyironmane if that's supposed to be ironic, the us would die with that metality

"Honey, did you bring the sullied Prussian blood to water our furrows ?"

@Spiclypeus

I must admit that was literally a LOL moment. It is rather notorious for its bloodlust but then as this comic shows there are some damn militant lines in a lot of the anthems.

@stevep59 Still, a renowned british rock band decided it was an appropriate introduction to a song called "all you need is love"... ;)
I always wondered if this was irony or ignorance on their part...

@Isdaril

Interesting. Initial suspicion is that it was ignorance but could be wrong. Possibly a very rose tinted view of the French revolution in their eyes so they didn't check the actual wording.

One of my all time favourite films is Casablanca and there's this great scene where your got some Germans singing "the watch on the Rhine" and in response Laszlo tells the house band to start playing La Marseillaise, which they do with a nod from Rick and the Germans are quickly drowned out by the locals. D) - Especially touching in that I once read that many of the 'Frenchmen' doing the singing were Jews who had escaped from Nazi control.

High drama is then followed by comedy when under orders from the Germans the corrupt Vichy police chief does so on the grounds that he is shocked to find gambling is being carried out in the club, only to be interupted by one of the staff telling him "here are your winnings."

@Spiclypeus Actually, the "impure blood" refers to that of the commoners, who WILL sacrifice themselves for the nation unlike those dainty purebred aristocrats

@JulesLT I don't think there's any historical proof of that. According to researchers, it has always been about the invaders blood.

@JulesLT Well, this is an interesting interpretation, but a little too convenient I think... I'll stick to believing we are talking about our ennemies (prussia and austria at the time, probably england too...)

@JulesLT

Made me think of the old story that during the last stages of the ancient regime some of the aristocrats tried to claim their right to rule was inherit because they were a different people, i.e. the Germanic Franks who had conquered Gaul after the collapse of the Roman empire. Which of course quickly earned the response "well go back to Germany then" - where go may have been expressed in rather more fruitful terms. ;)

@Spiclypeus This probably is the best comment on this sight. For some reason, I am obsessed with France, and can sing it in both French and English. I sometimes annoy my friends with it(Not by the quality of the song, but my horrid singing). Darkest anthem I know.

USA: We have a flag! Is it still there? It was last night!

France: We've been invaded! KILL THEM ALL

Ireland: We'll fight you off and sing while we do it.

Spain: [humming] (Spain's national anthem has no lyrics that anyone can agree on)

USA: "Hey, the flag was there last night; is it still there? Kinda hard to tell; the sun's not up yet."

@GermanYankee More like "Yay we're still standing even though we are getting the shit kicked out of us"

@GermanYankee Execute phase two of operation 1812: Replace the flags...

@GermanYankee ooh, a gust of wind. Yay! It's still there!

Poland: We may have gotten our ass kicked a thousand times but WE'RE NOT DEAD YET!
(+bonus points for being probably the only national anthem to positively reference Napoleon Bonaparte.)

@ketchupgirl Ukrainian is pretty much the same. But without Napoleon, so it's already lamer.

USA Anthem: "Our flag didn't burn down that one time"

Netherlands: I am Willem, I am German and the Spanish king is my friend, but he has been a bit naughty recently. So unfortunately I now have to ask him to stop being such a meanie so my Dutch homies.

@Nothing-above-Gronin

Ya, always fun to explain that one, though I like the Twents anthem too (if not more so): "After working hard and diligantly, I enjoy to rest in my wild and unbound nature, and sit contently on the top of my hill to look down on al the loosers that can never compare to me."

Nice name btw., but I'm sure that there is Norway that's "above" Groningen and then there is the Northpole, for now. ;-P

The Norwegian one is actually more about farmers preparing their axes to fight, rather burning our own towns than surrendering and how few people we are in the harsh country. but ofcourse, people only know the first and last verse, which is mostly about god...