28-04-2010, 02:54pm
(28-04-2010, 12:04pm)Throwdown! Wrote: "Regarding Our National Anthem...It was written in English, and should be sung word for word the way it was written".
Maybe with one exception for certain occasions. I heard it sung beautifully in an Aboriginal language leading into the English second verse at the World masters Games in the Olympic stadium, and thought it was an awesome performance for the people in the crowd representing 90 odd (I think) nations.
Throwdown ....... are you introducing another discussion/debate? There are many dialects/regions in the aboriginal language. Who are you not going to upset if you introduced a verse or two into the national anthem? I'm afraid that this is a never ending topic (asylum seeking, migration, race relations etc) and will unfortunately be so.
Where's Ya Snow Plough?