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Lyrics to 'Nuestro Himno' ('Our Anthem')
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Amanece, lo veis?, a la luz de la aurora?
lo que tanto aclamamos la noche caer?
sus estrellas sus franjas
flotaban ayer
en el fiero combate
en señal de victoria,
fulgor de lucha, al paso de la libertada.
Por la noche decían:
"Se va defendiendo!"
Oh decid! Despliega aún
Voz a su hermosura estrellada,
sobre tierra de libres,
la bandera sagrada?
Sus estrellas, sus franjas,
la libertad, somos iguales.
Somos hermanos, en nuestro himno.
En el fiero combate en señal de victoria,
Fulgor de lucha, al paso de la libertada.
Mi gente sigue luchando.
Ya es tiempo de romper las cadenas.
Por la noche decían: "!Se va defendiendo!"
Oh decid! Despliega aún su hermosura estrellada
sobre tierra de libres,
la bandera sagrada?
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English translation:
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By the light of the dawn, do you see arising,
what we proudly hailed at twilight's last fall?
Its stars, its stripes
yesterday streamed
above fierce combat
a gleaming emblem of victory
and the struggle toward liberty.
Throughout the night, they proclaimed:
"We will defend it!"
Tell me! Does its starry beauty still wave
above the land of the free,
the sacred flag?
Its stars, its stripes,
liberty, we are the same.
We are brothers in our anthem.
In fierce combat, a gleaming emblem of victory
and the struggle toward liberty.
My people fight on.
The time has come to break the chains.
Throughout the night they proclaimed, "We will defend it!"
Tell me! Does its starry beauty still wave
above the land of the free,
the sacred flag?
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HELP! I have blundered into an alternate universe!

What is the purpose in changing up the words? They could have least left it in it's orginal form :evil:

Every negative has a positive. Let's hope something positive comes of the massive protests that will take place on May 1st. Our national anthem in Spanish could be the last straw.
Hopefully, passive, apathetic Americans will finally wake up and get mad.
When will we wake up and protest in mass? When will we stand up for our country, and hold the elected pandering politicians accountable? Or are we just going to be the next great society to collapse?
It's now or never.

Changing our anthem and singing it in Spanish is the worst thing, in my opinion, that these people have done! The waving of other flags on American soil fired me up, but this has REALLY fired me up!!!!!!!! No one but NO ONE has the right to mess with our national anthem! This is disgusting!

You are correct. I am livid as well. I pray that this will backfire, and finally jump start everyday Americans into action. I am still amazed how many neighbors around my town are just shrugging their shoulders and just resigned to what is happening. This is positively frightning.

The Roman empire fell because their citizens got fat and lazy. We are close to repeating history if we don't all wake up and take to the streets as well. We need millions of Americans to do a save America protest in D.C and all across the country.

The spineless politicians are pandering to potential voters who they believe will vote for them after they give them amnesty and citizenship.

We are current votes that can still stop this. And everyone in Congress who is not listening to their constitutents should be voted out of office ASAP!

What they have done to our anthem has to be the stupidest thing they have done yet. I don't think that there is ANY american that won't be upset by this.

What they've done is they have written a song using our national athem's melody. It's a joke not to be taken seriously until they force it in our schools, football games, etc. It's just another way of trying to assert themselves. The song does not make any sense anyway. Just a bunch of jibber-jabber. We should be laughing at it all the way :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Changing our anthem and singing it in Spanish is the worst thing, in my opinion, that these people have done!

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It's nothing, not even a song that can be understood. No need to worry until they try and change it officially.

According to CNN, they even pissed Bush off with that!

That is their Aztlan Athem, has nothing to do with my Countrys Athem as far as im concerned. Its a Abomination

By the meer fact that they wrote a different song in Spanish proves their unwillingness to become citizens and their blatent racism towards others other than their own. And we have some of our own countrymen wanting to give them a path to citizenship? These people are so full of hatred that they should be labeld as 'dangerous'. WAKE UP GEORGE!

Mexican insurgents...call them what they are!

I like the fact that this finally got to Bush, that and he wants to cover his butt when the crap hits the fan :twisted:

Terrorists!!! :evil:

!!Mi, no hablo.

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Originally Posted by ConcernedCitizen

What is the purpose in changing up the words? They could have least left it in it's orginal form :evil:

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the problem is that you're going from english to spanish and back to english.. and in all these translation you loose something. you cant literally translate things otherwise they dont make sense. they tried to keep it as accurate as possible..but its impossible. to have done this period is retarded.. this is just a way to infuriate americans against illegals without realizing it. i dont think its fair to immigrants when the majority are not supporting. we cant control what "artists" record we can only choose to hear it or not. remember the dixie chicks??

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Originally Posted by lsmith1338

I like the fact that this finally got to Bush, that and he wants to cover his butt when the crap hits the fan :twisted:

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You got that right. I was wondering why all of a sudden he made 'nice'. D'oh.

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I like the fact that this finally got to Bush, that and he wants to cover his butt when the crap hits the fan

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lsmith, I agree. It tells me that he at least has enough common sense left to realize who the majority actually is in this country.

Called "Nuestro Himno" -- "Our Anthem" -- the Spanish version rewrites some of the English version. For instance, the second stanza says, "My people keep fighting. It's time to break the chains."

"I think people who want to be a citizen of this country ought to learn English and they ought to learn to sing the national anthem in English," Bush said.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washi ... n_english/

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Originally Posted by had_enuf

Called "Nuestro Himno" -- "Our Anthem" -- the Spanish version rewrites some of the English version. For instance, the second stanza says, "My people keep fighting. It's time to break the chains."

"I think people who want to be a citizen of this country ought to learn English and they ought to learn to sing the national anthem in English," Bush said.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washi ... n_english/

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"My people keep fighting. Its's time to break the chains." This sounds to me like a fight for ATZLAN.

TexasCowgirl wrote

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Terrorists!!!

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Next thing you know, to call someone a terrorist might be considered a racial slur.