Star Spangled Banner in spanish

Did anybody hear about some guy who wrote the star spangled banner in spanish and how people dont really like it, just wondering what youre thoughts were

Nope. I've never heard or that.
However, I have read it in German, and I must say it just sounds cooler than the English version.
http://ingeb.org/songs/thestars.html

Yeah I heard about that but I dont really see the big deal, they didnt change the words or anything, just translated them. I think why some people might be mad is because I thinks its purpose was to support the illegal immigrants. You know so they can sing the National Song of the country they DONT belong too.

They did change the words is what I am hearing. I hear that the focus has shifted from what the poem was about to instead immigration.

I'm not really a big fan of it. I dont know why the immigrants feel like they are such a special case. No other language or immigration has made a big a case as this. There were no demands of the polish to have their own polish star spangled banner, or demands of the iranian immigrants or the chinese immigrants. What makes this case so special?

It seems like a paradox, singing the song of the country your supposde to assimilate into in the language of your home world. I hope that in a few dozen years, they will be willing to and wanting to learn english and assimilate into the community as all other immigrants have done, instead of us seeing a massive presence of little-mexico's in all of the southwest.

i heard about that on our local news, apparently no one want anything to do with it

Originally Posted by Ahiga

They did change the words is what I am hearing. I hear that the focus has shifted from what the poem was about to instead immigration.

Yes they did change some wording. The spanish version had. "My people are fighting for freedom. Its time to break the chains." or something very similar to that included.

Originally Posted by Ahiga

I'm not really a big fan of it. I dont know why the immigrants feel like they are such a special case. No other language or immigration has made a big a case as this. There were no demands of the polish to have their own polish star spangled banner, or demands of the iranian immigrants or the chinese immigrants. What makes this case so special?

I totally agree with you there.

Originally Posted by Ahiga

It seems like a paradox, singing the song of the country your supposde to assimilate into in the language of your home world. I hope that in a few dozen years, they will be willing to and wanting to learn english and assimilate into the community as all other immigrants have done, instead of us seeing a massive presence of little-mexico's in all of the southwest.

They won't have to. Before long there will be more spanish speakers in America than any other language. Probably more than all the other languages combined. (note: this isn't a statisic, but an opinion)

<-what a cool smilie!!

I don't see the big deal: I mean can't they also do the Star-Spangled banner is gangster talk?

Oh, blud, can you see, blud through the sun's light,
What so sweetly we hail at the night, blud,
Whose big-ass stripes and bright-ass stars, too the light, blud.

And so forth...........

Originally Posted by vikingsiddhu

I don't see the big deal: I mean can't they also do the Star-Spangled banner is gangster talk?

Oh, blud, can you see, blud through the sun's light,
What so sweetly we hail at the night, blud,
Whose big-ass stripes and bright-ass stars, too the light, blud.

And so forth...........

As has been said so many times before, it's not that they changed the language of the anthem that is the problem. Its the fact that they changed the wording and turned it into a political thing. I mean come on, I don't really care if they want to sing it in spanish or any other language, but you damn well better not change the words to it. Besides how many other ethnicities have made such a big deal about this. Do we have french versions?german?italian? NO, only a spanish version, they need to just suck it up and learn freakin english. they can even speak slang for all I care, atleast then I know its some sort of english.

Originally Posted by Shadows

Its the fact that they changed the wording and turned it into a political thing.

Oh, and it wasn't a political song before?

I mean come on, I don't really care if they want to sing it in spanish or any other language, but you damn well better not change the words to it.

Oh, yes, gods forbid that we change a few things once it a good while...

german? NO, only a spanish version

http://ingeb.org/songs/thestars.html

1. O, sagt, könnt ihr seh'n
Bei der Dämmerung Schein,
Was so stolz wir begrüßten
In Abendroths Gluten?
Dess Streiffen und Sterne,
Durch Kämpfender Reih'n,
Auf dem Walle wir sahen
So wenniglich fluten;
Die Raketen am Ort
Und die Bomben vom Fort,
Sie zeigten bei Nacht,
Daß die Flagge noch dort.

O sagt, ob das Banner
Mit Sternen besäet
Über'm Lande der Frei'n
Und der Tapfern noch weht?

2. Am Strand, kaum geseh'n
Durch den Nebel jetzt noch,
Wo des Feinds stolzer Haufen
In Schweigsamkeit waltet;
Was ist's, daß der Wind,
Auf dem Thurme so hoch,
Wenn er günstig d'ran bläst,
Halb verdeckt, halb entfaltet?
Und jetzt faßt es den Strahl,
Wie er fällt in das Thal,
Und glanzet in Herrlichkeit
Jetzt auf dem Pfahl.

O das ist das Banner
Mit Sternen besäet,
Das noch über den Frei'n
Und den Tapferen weht!

3. Und wo ist der Schwarm,
Der vermaß sich so sehr,
Daß des Krieges Gewühl
Und Verwirrung der Schlachten,
Kein Land, keine Heimath
Gewähre uns mehr?
Ihr Blut hat verwischet
Ihr freventlich Trachten.
Und umsonst hat gesucht
Sklav und Miethling die Flucht
Beim Schrecken des Kampfs
Und der tödtlichen Wucht.

Und siegreich das Banner
Mit Sternen besäet,
Über'm Lande der Frei'n
Und der Tapfern noch weht!

4. Und so soll es sein stets,
Wo Männer die Hand
Sich reichen, entgegen
Des Aufruhrs Gewalten;
Mit Frieden und Sieg
Mag gesegnet das Land
Dann preisen die Macht,
Die uns einig erhalten;
Denn der Sieg muß uns sein,
Wo die Sache so rein;
Und das sei der Wahlspruch:
"Auf Gott trau allein!"

Und siegreich das Banner
Mit Sternen besäet
Über'm Lande der Frei'n
Und der Tapfern noch weht!

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