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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4659981, member: 289"] One song you hear a lot in boxing arenas is the Mexican national anthem. I wodnered what the lyrics meant in English so I decided to look them up: [URL unfurl="true"]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himno_Nacional_Mexicano[/URL] "Mexicans, at the cry of war, assemble the steel and the bridle, and the Earth trembles to its core to the resounding roar of the cannon. [B]I[/B] Encircle Oh Fatherland!, your temples with olives peace by the divine archangel, for in heaven your eternal destiny by the finger of God it was written. If, however, a foreign enemy would dare to profane Your ground with their sole, think, Oh beloved Fatherland!, that Heaven has given a soldier in every son. War, war! with no mercy to any who shall try to tarnish the coats of arms of the Fatherland! War, war! The national banners Shall be drenched in the waves of blood. War, war! On the mountain, in the valley, The cannons thunder in horrid unison and the sonorous echoes resound with bellows of Union! Liberty! O, Fatherland, if however your children, defenseless With their necks bent beneath the yoke, May your fields be watered with blood, May their footsteps be printed with blood. And your temples, palaces and towers Shall collapse with horrid clamor, And your ruins continue on, whispering: Of one thousand heroes, the Fatherland once was. Fatherland! Fatherland! Your children assure to breathe until their last for your sake, if the bugle with its bellicose accent calls them together to battle with courage. For you, the olive wreaths! For them, a reminder of glory! For you, a laurel of victory! For them, a tomb of honor! " Our own national anthem is sometimes criticized as a 'war anthem', (with 'America the Beautiful' as a 'peace anthem'). The Mexican anthem is truly a war anthem. Some of that is their history, which was torn by the US and French invasions of the mid 19th century, (when it was first composed). Some of it is their violent internal history in the subsequent decades. It could really use some references to the peacetime virtues of the country or to a bright future. But it does correctly represent the attitude of Mexican fighter as he waits for a bout to begin. [/QUOTE]

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