Badass, it is. A rough translation of the chorus would be:
May the laurels be eternal the ones we managed to win. (repeat x2) Let us live crowned in glory... or let us swear to die gloriously! (repeat, x4)
So you see, we're basically swearing in our national anthem that we'd rather die gloriously than let ourselves be controlled by another nation again... badass, huh? :)
And the original was bloody indeed... It included jewels such as:
"Don't you see them (the Spaniards) over Mexico and Quito throwing themselves with tenacious viciousness? And how they cry, bathed in blood, PotosÃ, Cochabamba and La Paz? (all sites of incredible bloodshed in the independence wars; Potosà in particular was a very rich silver mine which had claimed hundreds of deaths every year among the workers... Spain hadn't cared much for the well-being of the aborigens that they forced to work in their mines) Don't you see them over sad Caracas spreading mourning and weeping and death? Don't you see them devouring as wild animals all people who surrender to them?"
And that's just a sample. After this there is a call for "the valiant Argentine to arms", to stop all this bloodshed and come out victorious (and humiliate Spain while at it). No wonder it had to be toned down. ^^UUU
I still like your anthem better. You can feel the love of Canadian people for their country. :3
In case you're curious, here is my favourite version of the Argentinean national anthem (incidentally, the guy who sings it has every woman over forty in my country madly in love with him. He apparently has a gorgeous smile that makes mature ladies swoon. XD), this is an instrumental version that has a great video, which shows awesome images of my country and our people (including some of the people that have made us proud in the past, like Jorge Luis Borges), and here is a version that has English subtitles and sign language. I don't much like the singer of this last version, but she performs the sign language flawlessly (I know a bit), so I guess some credit should go to her for that.
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May the laurels be eternal
the ones we managed to win. (repeat x2)
Let us live crowned in glory...
or let us swear to die gloriously! (repeat, x4)
So you see, we're basically swearing in our national anthem that we'd rather die gloriously than let ourselves be controlled by another nation again... badass, huh? :)
And the original was bloody indeed... It included jewels such as:
"Don't you see them (the Spaniards) over Mexico and Quito
throwing themselves with tenacious viciousness?
And how they cry, bathed in blood,
PotosÃ, Cochabamba and La Paz?
(all sites of incredible bloodshed in the independence wars; Potosà in particular was a very rich silver mine which had claimed hundreds of deaths every year among the workers... Spain hadn't cared much for the well-being of the aborigens that they forced to work in their mines)
Don't you see them over sad Caracas
spreading mourning and weeping and death?
Don't you see them devouring as wild animals
all people who surrender to them?"
And that's just a sample. After this there is a call for "the valiant Argentine to arms", to stop all this bloodshed and come out victorious (and humiliate Spain while at it). No wonder it had to be toned down. ^^UUU
I still like your anthem better. You can feel the love of Canadian people for their country. :3
In case you're curious, here is my favourite version of the Argentinean national anthem (incidentally, the guy who sings it has every woman over forty in my country madly in love with him. He apparently has a gorgeous smile that makes mature ladies swoon. XD), this is an instrumental version that has a great video, which shows awesome images of my country and our people (including some of the people that have made us proud in the past, like Jorge Luis Borges), and here is a version that has English subtitles and sign language. I don't much like the singer of this last version, but she performs the sign language flawlessly (I know a bit), so I guess some credit should go to her for that.