Anthem of our Great Nation

[jdd2007]

Now that were getting a flag, i dont see why we shouldnt have an anthem. it would give us a sense of pride in apolytonia (hopefully). i suggest we take a song that we all like (or most of us )and we replace the lyrics with ones that fit us. we could have a contest to see which lyrics would be the best. any suggestions for songs. we should all know the song.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by jdd2007
Now that were getting a flag, i dont see why we shouldnt have an anthem. it would give us a sense of pride in apolytonia (hopefully). i suggest we take a song that we all like (or most of us )and we replace the lyrics with ones that fit us. we could have a contest to see which lyrics would be the best. any suggestions for songs. we should all know the song.

Well since we are egypt, why not have the Egyptian Anthem?

My homeland, my homeland, my hallowed land,
Only to you, is my due hearty love at command,
My homeland, my homeland, my hallowed land,
Only to you is my due hearty love at command,
Mother of the great ancient land,
My sacred wish and holy demand,
All should love, awe and cherish thee,
Gracious is thy Nile to humanity,
No evil hand can harm or do you wrong,
So long as your free sons are strong,
My homeland, my homeland, my hallowed land,
Only to you, is my due hearty love at command.

Of course we should change it a little bit. But, why not?

[Nubclear]

Bah, double post.

[jdd2007]

Originally posted by Tassadar5000


Well since we are egypt, why not have the Egyptian Anthem?

My homeland, my homeland, my hallowed land,
Only to you, is my due hearty love at command,
My homeland, my homeland, my hallowed land,
Only to you is my due hearty love at command,
Mother of the great ancient land,
My sacred wish and holy demand,
All should love, awe and cherish thee,
Gracious is thy Nile to humanity,
No evil hand can harm or do you wrong,
So long as your free sons are strong,
My homeland, my homeland, my hallowed land,
Only to you, is my due hearty love at command.

Of course we should change it a little bit. But, why not?

yes that sounds good. just curious, where did u find the national anthem of egypt?

[Spiffor]

A song everybody knows (or I assume so) is Ode to Joy, by Beethoven. Its most grandiose moments will perfectly fit when we'll rightfully crush our enemies !

Regular lyrics are this :
Freude, schöner Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium
Wir betreten feuertrunken, Himmlische, dein Heiligtum
Deine Zauber binden wieder, was die Mode streng geteilt
Alle Menschen werden Brüder wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt.

I think we should change this (esp the last one : "all people become brothers where your feather goes" or something like that)

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Spiffor
A song everybody knows (or I assume so) is Ode to Joy, by Beethoven. Its most grandiose moments will perfectly fit when we'll rightfully crush our enemies !

Regular lyrics are this :
Freude, schöner Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium
Wir betreten feuertrunken, Himmlische, dein Heiligtum
Deine Zauber binden wieder, was die Mode streng geteilt
Alle Menschen werden Brüder wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt.

I think we should change this (esp the last one : "all people become brothers where your feather goes" or something like that)

Good suggestion, however, to me it just doesn't really seem like 'anthem material'.

Plus, do we really want to be like the EU?

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Tassadar5000


Good suggestion, however, to me it just doesn't really seem like 'anthem material'.

Plus, do we really want to be like the EU?

bump.

Also, is anybody going to create a poll for this..?

[Spiffor]

The biggest problem of EU is its "consensus culture". Many other anthems, who have precise historical reasons to be so : for example, Boris Ieltsin decided alone what the Russian anthem would be, and Wladimir Putin decided it would turn back to the Sovietic one.

But our anthem is not decided by a few people, or by a precise historical occurence. So I feel Ode to Joy is the best (or rather the "least bad") choice for this : everybody knows the music, and it can have a grandiose feel which is good in an Anthem.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Spiffor
The biggest problem of EU is its "consensus culture". Many other anthems, who have precise historical reasons to be so : for example, Boris Ieltsin decided alone what the Russian anthem would be, and Wladimir Putin decided it would turn back to the Sovietic one.

But our anthem is not decided by a few people, or by a precise historical occurence. So I feel Ode to Joy is the best (or rather the "least bad") choice for this : everybody knows the music, and it can have a grandiose feel which is good in an Anthem.

Everyone knows the music, yes, but whenever I hear the EU anthem, I think its just ackward. It doesn't sound like an anthem. It sounds like a classical composion that was selected to be an anthem because it's name is "Ode to Joy"It sounds nothing like an anthem, and it doesn't really invoke a response from me.

However, I think we should leave this up to the people. So, I ask again: When are we going to create a poll?

[Spiffor]

Let's say : when we have other options
A poll like :
"Group A : Egyptian anthem"
"Group A : Ode to joy"
"Group A : (other idea suggested in this thread)"
"Group B : no anthem at all"

would be in order. I think we should take some time, for people to come up with more ideas.

[Combat Ingrid]

http://www.algonet.se/~zyron/barn/t&b.html

Unfortunately, this is in Swedish, so I guess it's not suitable as our anthem.
However, I hereby nominate these brave men as the National Heroes of Apolytonia. I think their heroic deeds are quite obvious

[Kuciwalker]

Ode to Joy...

Thats the Civ2 WLT*D music!

[jdd2007]

would we make our own lyrics if the song was, say the egyptian anthem?

[Ninot]

I would prefer we came up with Original lyrics.

Heck, given a day, I could probably make some decent ones.

[History Guy]

So then, if lyrics, even remarkably bad ones concerning bananas, are to be written, to what tune shall it be written?

[Apocalypse]

Rough draft of revised Egyptian lyrics:

My homeland, my homeland, my hallowed land,
Only to you, is my due hearty banana at command,
My homeland, my homeland, my hallowed land,
Only to you is my due hearty banana at command,
Mother of the great ancient banana,
My sacred wish and holy demand,
All should love, awe and cherish banana,
Gracious is thy Banana to humanity,
No evil hand can harm or do you wrong,
So long as your free bananas are strong,
My homeland, my homeland, my hallowed land,
Only to you, is my due hearty banana at command.

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Apocalypse
Rough draft of revised Egyptian lyrics:

My homeland, my homeland, my hallowed land,
Only to you, is my due hearty banana at command,
My homeland, my homeland, my hallowed land,
Only to you is my due hearty banana at command,
Mother of the great ancient banana,
My sacred wish and holy demand,
All should love, awe and cherish banana,
Gracious is thy Banana to humanity,
No evil hand can harm or do you wrong,
So long as your free bananas are strong,
My homeland, my homeland, my hallowed land,
Only to you, is my due hearty banana at command.

Love it.

[Kingof the Apes]

yeah! that's it

[Robber Baron]

Here's another suggestion:
(To the tune of Oh Canada)

Oh, Ba-na-na!
Our fruit and sacred sign!
We bow to thee,
so yellow and divine!

From the jungle deep,
We will one day sweep,
And we'll spread across the land!
From the mountain peaks,
to the valleys deep,
our culture will command!

Oh, Ba-na-na ....

(worth working on?)

[redstar1]

Anthem should be 'Sad but True' by Metallica. And before you scoff I say, Why not?

Dave

[Schee]

I love Apocalypse's lyrics !
They must be chosen !

[History Guy]

Or try Jerusalem...by William Blake...if you are going to suggest something by that bunch of rock-heads, you might as well go for something with a tune or with words...

[Kuciwalker]

"Albuqurque" by Al Yankovic.

Lyrics:

Way back when I was just a little bitty boy living in a box under the stairs in the corner of the basement half a block down the street from Jerry's Bait shop
You know the place
well anyway, back then life was going swell and everything was just peachy

Except, of course, for the undeniable fact that every single morning
My mother would make me a big bowl of sauerkraut for breakfast

Awww - Big bowl of sauerkraut
Every single mornin
It wa driving me crazy

I said to my mom
I said "Hey, mom, what's with all the sauerkraut?"
And my dear, sweet mother
She just looked at my like a cow looks at an oncoming train
And she leaned right down next to me
And she said "IT'S GOOD FOR YOU"
And then she tied me to the wall and stuck a funnel in my mouth
And force fed me nothing but sauerkraut until I was twenty six and a half years old

That's when I swore that someday
Someday I would get outta that basement and travel to a magical, far away place
Where the sun is always shining and the air smells like warm root beer
And the towels are oh so fluffy
Where the shriners and the lepers play their ukuleles all day long
And anyone on the street will glady shave your back for a nickel

Wacka wacka doodoo yeah

Well, let me tell you, people, it wasn't long at all before my dream came true
Because the very next day, a local radio station had this contest
To see who could correctly guess the number of molecules in Leonard Nimoy's butt
I was off by three, but I still won the grand prize
That's right, a first class one-way ticket to

Albuquerque
Albuquerque

Oh yeah
You know, I'd never been on a real airplane before
And I gotta tell ya, it was really great
Except that I had to sit between two large Albanian women with excruciatingly severe body odor
And the little kid in back of me kept throwin' up the whole time
The flight attendants ran out of Dr. Pepper and salted peanuts
And the in-flight movie was Bio-Dome with Pauly Shore
And, oh yeah, three of the airplane engines burned out
And we went into a tailspin and crashed into a hillside
And the plane exploded in a giant fireball and everybody died
Except for me
You know why?

'Cause I had my tray table up
And my seat back in the full upright position
Had my tray table up
And my seat back in the full upright position
Had my tray table up
And my seat back in the full upright position

Ah ha ha ha
Ah ha ha
Ahhhh

So I crawled from the twisted, burnin' wreckage
I crawled on my hands and knees for three full days
Draggin' along my big leather suitcase and my garment bag
And my tenor saxophone and my twelve-pound bowling ball
And my lucky, lucky autographed glow-in-the-dark snorkel
But finally I arived at the world famous Albuquerque Holiday Inn
Where the towels are oh so fluffy
And you can eat your soup right out of the ashtrays if you wanna
It's OK, they're clean

Well, I checked into my room and I turned down the A/C
And I turned on the SpectraVision
And I'm just about to eat that little chocolate mint on my pillow
That I love so very, very much when suddenly, there's a knock on the door

Well now, who could that be?
I say "Who is it?"
No answer
"Who is it?"
There's no answer
"WHO IS IT?"
They're not sayin' anything

So, finally I go over and I open the door and just as I suspected
It's some big fat hermaphrodite with a Flock-Of-Seagulls haircut and only one nostril
Oh man, I hate it when I'm right
So anyway, he bursts into my room and he grabs my lucky snorkel
And I'm like "Hey, you can't have that"
"That snorkel's been just like a snorkel to me"
And he's like "Tough"
And I'm like "Give it"
And he's like "Make me"
And I'm like "'Kay"
So I grabbed his leg and he grabbed my esophagus
And I bit off his ear and he chewed off my eyebrows
And I took out his appendix and he gave me a colonic irrigation
Yes indeed, you better believe it
And somehow in the middle of it all, the phone got knocked off the hook
And twenty seconds later, I heard a farmiliar voice
And you know what it said?
I'll tell you what it said

It said
"If you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again"
"If you need help, hang up and then dial your operator"
"If you'd like to make a call, please hang up and try again"
"If you need help, hang up and then dial your operator"

In Albuquerque
Albuquerque

Well, to cut a long story short, he got away with my snorkel
But I made a a solemn vow right then and there that I would not rest
I would not sleep for an instant until the one-nostrilled man was brought to justice
But first, I decided to buy some donuts

So I got in my car and I drove over to the donut shop
And I walked on up to the guy behind the counter
And he says "Yeah, what do ya want?"
I said "You got any glazed donuts?"
He said "No, we're outta glazed donuts"
I said "Well, you got any jelly donuts?"
He said "No, we're outta jelly donuts"
I said "You got any Bavarian cream-filled donuts?"
He said "No, we're outta Bavarian cream-filled donuts"
I said "You got any cinnamon rolls?"
He said "No, we're outta cinnamon rolls"
I said "You got any apple fritters?"
He said "No, we're outta apple fritters"
I said "You got any bear claws?"
He said "Wait a minute, I'll go check"
"No, we're outta bear claws"
I said "Well, in that case - in that case, what do you have?"
He says "All I got right now is this box of one dozen starving, crazed weasels"
I said "OK, I'll take that"

So he hands me the box and I open up the lid and the weasels jump out
And they immediately latch onto my face and start bitin' me all over
(rabid gnawing sounds)
Oh man, they were just going nuts
They were tearin' me apart
You know, I think it was just about that time that a little ditty started goin' through my head"
I believe it went a little something like this . . .

Doh
Get 'em off me
Get 'em off me
Oh
No, get 'em off, get 'em off
Oh, oh God, oh God
Oh, get 'em off me
Oh, oh God
Ah, (more screaming)

I ran out into the street with these flesh-eating weasels all over my face
Wavin' my arms all around and just runnin', runnin', runnin'
Like a constipated weiner dog
And as luck wouls have it, that's exactly when I ran into the girl of my dreams
Her name was Zelda
She was a caligraphy enthusiast with a slight overbite and hair the color of strained peaches
I'll never forget the first thing she said to me.
She said "Hey, you've got weasels on your face"

That's when I knew it was true love
We were inseperable after that
Aw, we ate together, we bathed together
We even shared the same piece of mint-flavored dental floss
The world was our burrito
So we got married and we bought us a house
And had two beautiful children - Nathaniel and Superfly
Oh, we were so very very very happy, aw yeah

But then one fateful night, Zelda said to me
She said "Sweetie pumpkin? Do you wanna join the Columbia Record Club?"
I said "Woah, hold on now, baby"
"I'm just not ready for that kinda commitment"
So we broke up and I never saw her again
But that's just the way things go

In Albuquerque
Albuquerque

Anyway, things really started lookin' upi for me
Because about a week later, I finally achieved my lifelong dream
That's right, I got me a part-time job at The Sizzler
I even made employee of the month after I put that grease fire out with my face
Aw yeah, everybody was pretty jealous of me after that
I was gettin' a lot of attitude

OK, like one time, I was out in the parking lot
Tryin' to remove my excess earwax with a golf pencil
When I see this guy Marty tryin' to carry a big ol' sofa up the stairs all by himself
So I, I say to him, I say "Hey, you want me to help you with that?"
And Marty, he just rolls his eyes and goes
"No, I want you to cut off my arms and legs with a chainsaw"

So I did

And then he gets all indignant on me
He's like "Hey man, I was just being sarcastic"
Well, that's just great
How was I supposed to know that?
I'm not a mind reader for cryin' out loud
Besides, now he's got a really cute nickname - Torso-Boy
So what's he complaining about?

Say, that reminds me of another amusing anecdote
This guy comes up to me on the street and says he hasn't had a bit in three days
Well, I knew what he meant
But just to be funny, I took a big bite out of his jugular vein
And he's yellin' and screamin' and bleeding all over
And I'm like "Hey, come on, don'tcha get it?"
But he just keeps rolling around on the sidewalk, bleeding, and screaming
(screaming sounds)
You know, just completely missing the irony of the whole situation
Man, some people just can't take a joke, you know?

Anyway, um, um, where was I?
Kinda lost my train of thought

Uh, well, uh, OK
Anyway I, I know it's kinda been a roundabout way of saying it
But I guess the whole point I'm tryin' to make here is

I hate sauerkraut

That's all I'm really tryin' to say
And, by the way, if one day you happen to wake up
And find yourself in an existential quandry
Full of loathing and self-doubt
And wracked with the pain and isolation of your pitiful meaningless existence
At least you can take a small bit of comfort in knowing that
Somewhere out there in this crazy mixed-up universe of ours
There's still a little place called

Albuquerque
Albuquerque
Albuquerque, Albuquerque
Albuquerque, Albuquerque
Albuquerque, Albuquerque
Albuquerque, Albuquerque

I said "A" (A)
"L" (L)
"B" (B)
"U" (U)
"querque" (querque)

Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque
Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque
Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque
Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque, Albuquerque

Albuquerque

(belch)

[jdd2007]

i didnt read all of that, , skywalker, but we could replace albuquerque with apolyton...maybe...

[Kuciwalker]

No, I suggested it just because it happens to be the most hilarious song in all of creation

[History Guy]

Hardly. The most hilarious song in history was Gilbert & Sullivan's 'Titwillow' from The Mikado.

[History Guy]

WAIT! HOLD THE PRESSES! I've got it! There can only be one national anthem for the civilization of APOLYTONIA! That anthem must be: 'DAY-O'! Yes...the Harry Belafonte song. Come Mr. Tally-man and all that. Heck, we gotta use it...it glorifies the banana!

[jdjdjd]

Originally posted by History Guy
WAIT! HOLD THE PRESSES! I've got it! There can only be one national anthem for the civilization of APOLYTONIA! That anthem must be: 'DAY-O'! Yes...the Harry Belafonte song. Come Mr. Tally-man and all that. Heck, we gotta use it...it glorifies the banana!

This is it, what other choice is there?

Unless we take God Bless America and change it Banana Bless Apolytonia.

[Kingof the Apes]

Day-O should be the official song...

Come, Mr. Tally-man, and tally me BANANAS!

Daylight come, and I want to go home...

Day-o! Me sing Daaaay-Ohhh!

Daylight came and I want to go home.

Six and Seven and Eight...BANANAS!

Daylight come and I want to go home.

Daylight come, and I want to goooooo.......hoooooooome!

[History Guy]

(wipes an imaginary tear from right eye) That was beautiful. A splendid rendition, sir. This great song must be our national anthem. There can be no other.