7月04日にはちょっと早いけどアメリカ人ならたぶん知っているこの歌、一応聴いておきましょう。念のために歌詞もつけておきます。やはり血気盛んなお国柄だと思います。明日はイギリスの国歌でも聴きましょう。
Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof thro' the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0DHsQ-iob0 A national anthem to remember
