On New Year’s Eve, many at midnight will be singing the words or botching the words to “Auld Lang Syne.” This Scottish song is thought to have been written by Robert Burns in 1788. As 2008 turns into 2009, the huge ball in Times Square of New York City will be fitted with thousands of [...]

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A few weeks ago, I had talked about Spain’s lyric competition to give words to their wordless national anthem. Now, the official Spain National Anthem lyrics have been leaked and are open for public discussion and consumption. The lyrics to the “Royal March” were written by an unemployed man, Paulino Cubero, who said he wanted [...]

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The “Gotta Digg” lyrics by Kina Grannis have been making the social networking rounds lately particularly on Digg.com. Kina posted the song on the techno-oriented website with the title “Cute Girls Sing Awesome Song About Digg” so as of this writing, 5776 diggers have dugg that song. The Gotta Digg lyrics talk about the issues [...]

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For years, Spanish soccer players and others have had to bow their heads and wait out the slow wordless dirge of the national anthem La Marcha Real to be played. La Marcha Real not to be confused with La cucaracha (or the Royal March) has been around since the 1700’s but only became official in [...]

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Okay, Jihad the Musical is sure to stir up some discussion as this clearly mocking parody will nonetheless hit a little too close to home for some to handle. Be that as it may, the fact that Jihad the Musical mocks the world’s most wanted man in blatant fashion also will give others a good [...]

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