Whats your favourite national anthem?

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Auferstanden aus Ruinen gets my vote

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1CyPjQQTAM[/youtube]

Auferstanden aus Ruinen
und der Zukunft zugewandt,
lasst uns Dir zum Guten dienen,
Deutschland, einig Vaterland.
Alte Not gilt es zu zwingen,
und wir zwingen sie vereint,
denn es muss uns doch gelingen,
dass die Sonne schön wie nie
über Deutschland scheint,
über Deutschland scheint.

Glück und Friede sei beschieden
Deutschland, unserm Vaterland.
Alle Welt sehnt sich nach Frieden,
reicht den Völkern eure Hand.
Wenn wir brüderlich uns einen,
schlagen wir des Volkes Feind.
Lasst das Licht des Friedens scheinen,
dass nie eine Mutter mehr
ihren Sohn beweint,
ihren Sohn beweint.

Lasst uns pflügen, lasst uns bauen,
lernt und schafft wie nie zuvor,
und der eignen Kraft vertrauend
steigt ein frei Geschlecht empor.
Deutsche Jugend, bestes Streben
unsres Volks in dir vereint,
wirst du Deutschlands neues Leben.
Und die Sonne schön wie nie
über Deutschland scheint,
über Deutschland scheint

From the ruins risen newly,
to the future turned, we stand.
Let us serve your good weal truly,
Germany, our fatherland.
Triumph over bygone sorrow,
can in unity be won.
For we shall attain a morrow,
when over our Germany,
there is radiant sun,
there is radiant sun.

May both peace and joy inspire,
Germany, our fatherland.
Peace is all the world's desire,
to the peoples lend your hand.
In fraternity united,
we shall crush the people's foe.
Let all paths by peace be lighted,
that no mother shall again
mourn her son in woe,
mourn her son in woe.

Let us plough and build our nation,
learn and work as never yet,
that a free new generation,
faith in its own strength beget!
German youth, for whom the striving
of our people is at one,
you are Germany's reviving,
and over our Germany,
there is radiant sun,
there is radiant sun.

Waltzing Matilda is easily the best.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOfyHjRONLo[/youtube]

I'll give second place to Nicaragua's anthem during the 1980s

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y8oVeZiKIA[/youtube]

Flower of Scotland gets my second place vote

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyx1xeZo_tk[/youtube]

Oh flower of Scotland
When will we see your like again
Who fought and died for
Your wee bit o' hill and glen

And stood against him
Proud Edward's army
and sent him homeward
tae think again

The hills are bare now
And Autumn leaves lie barely still
o'er land which is lost now
though so dearly held

Those days are past now
and in the past they must remain
but we can still rise now
and be a nation again

This one also comes pretty close
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axn9T9qUrkE[/youtube]

God is greatest! God is greatest!
And God is greatest above plots of the aggressors,
And God is the best helper of the oppressed.
With faith and with weapons I shall defend my country,
And the light of truth will shine in my hand.
Say with me! Say with me!
God, God, God is greatest!
God is above any attacker.

Oh this world, watch and listen:
The enemy came coveting my position,
I shall fight with Truth and defences
And if I die, I'll take him with me!
Say it with me, say it with me:
God , God , God is greatest!
God is above any attacker!

God is Great God is Great
Say With Me Woe To The Enemy :
And God is Over The Invader Egotist,
God Greatest My Country Say with Me :
And Behold of Enemys Forelock and Destroy it
Say it with me, say it with me:
God , God , God is the Greatest
God is above any attacker!

Can I say "Flower of Scotland" even though it's technically God Save the Queen?

Edit:
I see I can. Excellent choice, Thomas. And my 2nd place is O Canada.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnKkN-DjXt8

and O Canada from a fella that does one of the best renditions (which may just be my hockey-bias showing through.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j5ucKaBtR4

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-7MeqSIj4E[/youtube]

I like Borat's Kazakhstan national anthem

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv5jLsLoYcE[/youtube]

Kazakhstan greatest country in the world.
All other countries are run by little girls.
Kazakhstan number one exporter of potassium.
Other countries have inferior potassium.

Kazakhstan home of Tinshein swimming pool.
It’s length thirty meter and width six meter.
Filtration system a marvel to behold.
It remove 80 percent of human solid waste.

Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan you very nice place.
From Plains of Tarashek to Norther fence of Jewtown.
Kazakhstan friend of all except Uzbekistan.
They very nosey people with bone in their brain.

Kazakhstan industry best in the world.
We invented toffee and trouser belt.
Kazakhstan’s prostitutes cleanest in the region.
Except of course Turkmenistan’s

Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan you very nice place.
From Plains of Tarashek to Norther fence of Jewtown.
Come grasp the might phenis of our leader.
From junction with the testes to tip of its face!

For clarity, here is the REAL Kazakh anthem.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12tGtMA4tqk[/youtube]


Sky of golden sun,
Steppe of golden seed,
Legend of courage -
Take a look at my country!

From the antiquity
Our heroic glory emerged,
They did not give up their pride
My Kazakh people are strong!

Chorus:
My country, my country,
As your flower I will be planted,
As your song I will stream, my country!
My native land My Kazakhstan!

The way was opened to the posterity
I have a vast land.
Its unity is proper,
I have an independent country.

It welcomed the time
Like an eternal friend,
Our country is happy,
Such is our country.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bzWSJG93P8[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VCYlLG8VR8[/youtube]

my vote for world anthem
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2pGWkjwOBw[/youtube]

"The Star-Spangled Banner" by Francis Scott Key has many more verses beyond what most are familiar with, and I love the whole thing's message.


Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blessed with victory and peace, may the heaven rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

"we're a warlike country. We got the only national anthem that mentions rockets and bombs in the f*****g thing"
- GC

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rlqjxst6xU[/youtube]

Jimmy Hendrix Star-Spangled Banner,but it's because it's Hendrix.