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Old 12-14-2003, 12:56 PM
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Don't forget the Germans, though they only sing the last stanza of their national anthem today (the first two were banned after World War II):

Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
Für das deutsche Vaterland!
Darnach laßt uns alle streben
Brüderlich mit Herz und Hand!
Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit
Sind des Glückes Unterpfand.

Blüh' im Glanze dieses Glückes,
Blühe, deutsches Vaterland.


translation:

Unity and right and freedom
For the German fatherland!
Let us strive for all of these
Brotherly with heart and hand!
Unity and right and freedom
Pledge for our happiness!
Bloom in the splendour of this happiness,
Bloom, my German Fatherland!

Or the national anthem of Venezuela:

CHORUS

Gloria al bravo pueblo
Que el yugo lanzó,
La Ley respetando
La virtud y honor.

¡Abajo Cadenas! ¡Abajo Cadenas!
Gritaba el Señor; gritaba el Señor.
Y el pobre en su choza, Libertad! pidió.

Y a este santo nombre, tembló de pavor,
El vil egoismo que otra vez triunfó;

Y a este santo nombre, tembló de pavor,
El vil egoismo que otra vez triunfó.


REPEAT CHORUS

Translation:

Glory to the brave people
That threw off the yoke
The law respecting
Virtue and honor!

Off with the chains! Off with the chains!, cried out the Lord
The poor man in his hovel, 'Liberty!' he implored.
To this holy name, trembled with horror
That vile egoism, that once had triumphed
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