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In reply to the discussion: What's your favorite national song? [View all]fadedrose
(10,044 posts)93. French Natl Anthem......I like the Russian Natl Anthem too
but it's too beautiful and sad for a creep like Putin
La Marseilles...... Ingrid Bergman, Claude Reines, and "As Time Goes By" was nice too....memory lapse, can't think of the name of that movie...I saw it as a child and many times after on TV...
What great war movies we had . . .
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The British Patriotic song, Jerusalem - is the most beautiful of all Patriotic songs in my opinion
Douglas Carpenter
Apr 2014
#12
All social contracts are illusions - it's an illusion to imagine that by helping others I can
el_bryanto
Apr 2014
#19
I don't have one, so I'll go with one even more horrible than those ones...
Violet_Crumble
Apr 2014
#18
No, I meant horrible*, though there are some in that bunch I haven't heard of...
Violet_Crumble
Apr 2014
#25
It's a tie between Oh Canada and that French one from that Humphrey Bogart picture. (n/t)
Iggo
Apr 2014
#51
Lyrics which largely consist of a series of questions about one old obscure battle?
Paladin
Apr 2014
#66
National songs are unnecessary kitsch used to blind people to the ills of the state.
Gravitycollapse
Apr 2014
#88