Posted on 04/12/2006 11:20:33 AM PDT by Pyro7480
Man these guys hate this country
oy...any article which quotes that piece of S**T play, Angels in America, is an article not worth reading.
I must be a softy for overrated songs. Every time I hear the Star-Spangled Banner my eyes well up with tears and I get chill bumps too.
Yet, as I mentioned above, this editorial is all over the map. He doesn't like the current national anthem, quotes a character from a play who uses a racist term, and uses the term "crazed theocrat," yet he suggest "God Bless America" as a replacement.
The Star Spangled Banner is a second-tier work, compared to the beauty of the words and music of "America, " which really ought to be our National Anthem.
The only problem with "America" is the tune is exactly the same as "God Save the Queen."
Don't these folks have something better to write about?
Me, too.
Go ahead and cheat. Take it down an octave. Don't hurt yourself, for goodness sakes.
Ditto... unless some pop star decides to do a horrible rendition of it.
But of course we should never question their patriotism.
SNORT
And they wonder why they are losing readership!
Oh, really?
/sarcasm
The reason many people do not know the words, is because you F'n liberals won't let it be taught in school!!!
Man these guys hate this country.
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They hate themselves almost as much as they hate us.
What about "America The Beautiful"? (Wonderful lyrics!)
O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet
Whose stern impassion'd stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness.
America! America!
God mend thine ev'ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in law.
O beautiful for heroes prov'd
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country loved,
And mercy more than life.
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness,
And ev'ry gain divine.
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears.
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea.
Eff em!
Forever the rockets red glare!!!
http://homepage.mac.com/lightningrodpictures/iMovieTheater19.html
I still have trouble singing it without getting tears in my eyes. I love that song and what it stands for.
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