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- Ankh-Morpork Anthem performed by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the soprano was Clare Rutter.
The lyrics of the anthem are as follows:
"When dragons belch and hippos flee
My thoughts, Ankh-Morpork, are of thee
Let others boast of martial dash
For we have boldly fought with cash
We own all your helmets, we own all your shoes
We own all your generals - touch us and you'll lose.
Morporkia! Morporkia!
Morporkia owns the day!
We can rule you wholesale
Touch us and you'll pay.
We bankrupt all invaders, we sell them souvenirs
We ner ner ner ner ner, hner ner hner by the ears
Er hner we ner ner ner ner ner
Ner ner her ner ner ner hner the ner
Er ner ner hner ner, nher hner ner ner (etc.)
Ner hner ner, your gleaming swords
We mortgaged to the hilt
Morporkia! Morporkia!
Hner ner ner ner ner ner
We can rule you wholesale
Credit where it's due."
GNU Terry Pratchett
It's amazing how much civic pride is in this anthem of a city whose motto literally means "How much for that doggie in the window?".
the one with the waggly tail?
I didn't know it came from this song !
original here : th-cam.com/video/2AkLE4X-bbU/w-d-xo.html
french version : th-cam.com/video/F6pJrhdk43E/w-d-xo.html
Or "Pure in spirit and water", which is even worse, considering the Ankh is only marginally faster than the land it flows through.
Yes, the second verse has "ner ner ner" as its official lyrics.
It's what everyone sings anyway, so might as well write it that way.
@@geraldfrost4710 Germans have solved the problem of everybody forgetting the second stanza of the anthem - they only use the third stanza.
I can't help hearing Agnes Nitt singing in harmony with herself... This is a pure gem, I am so happy to have found it!
Pratchet writes in his Short stories book "A Blink of the Screen" this: "It was never officially played again, for complicated reasons to do with Money and copyright, although I Think a version did end up on-line. Some people are such scallywags..." p 304.
That is where I got my motivation to search for the anthem. I am not the first scallywag ^^. I merely found it.
And I think TH-cam is a better place for this masterpiece than some random forum.
Yes it is :D It would be lost for closed archives for many years!
Just heard that today on the audiobook version, which is how I got here.
I just read that and immediately came here looking for it
*snicker* For some reason I keep picturing Sybil Ramkin-Vimes singing this. ;)
poor Pterry :~(
"Her swelling bosom, which she is by age allowed to have..." Yes I can see her singing this with proper pride.
Perdita Nitt would be another good singer for this song. When that lipo-enhances person of ovaries sings, you know the game is over!
I want a male version though so I can imagine Archancelor Ridcully singing it at the top of his lungs before a Football match.
GNU Sir Terry Pratchett!
Only Pratchett wrote an entire national anthem for his fictional city and captures the spirit of the place to such a tee.
Man i need to read the rest of his books. Only 14 to go!
***** Not to mention the level of civic feeling of the citizens of a place like Ankh-Morpork for remembering their national anthem. Then again... best not to ask me about verses two through four of "The Star Spangled Banner"... ;)
Actually, I've written several anthems to go with the fictional worlds I'm building. Hoping to write some books set in them
Entire national anthem? Must've missed the ner ner ner bit there, chum.
*The Nac Mac Feegles yelling "Nae King Nae Quin Nae Laird Nae Master! We willnae be fooled again!" in the background*
FEEGLES WHA' HAE!
On not knowing the second verse of your national anthem:
The story goes that, during WWII, some GIs were faced with a guy in a US uniform, who spoke English perfectly, but who was PRECISELY where you'd expect a German spy to be. So they started quizzing him. Yeah, he had a favorite baseball team and knew all their statistics. Yeah, the street he grew up on sounded perfectly plausible.
They asked him to sing the national anthem. He got it perfectly. They asked him to sing the second verse. He got THAT perfectly.
So they shot him. NOBODY knows the second verse, unless they're a spy.
That has to be the most monumentally stupid reason to shoot someone I have ever seen in my entire life.
This is the plot of the short story "No Refuge Could Save" by Isaac Asimov.
Everything is the plot of a short story by Isaac Asimov.
@@greernelson7419 Yes, but it does sound perfectly American.
@@petergibbs Guy could have been a nerd, though, or a real patriot. Lol.
I -----ing love this ----ing anthem
Most honest national anthem ever.
RIP, Terry Pratchett…
GNU Terry Pratchett
@@jonophant GNU Sir Terry Pratchett
GNU Sir Terry!!
I wonder what Death said when he met him. Whether to honour the man who made him great, or mourn the end of his own adventures.
"OH NO, IT'S THE GREAT MASTER. SHIT. YOU'VE GOT ME CONFUSED NOW".
Well, at least the Arbiters will be happy.
"Which one is happy. To feel happiness is illogical." pffftt.
"When dragons belch and hippos flee
My thoughts, Ankh-Morpork, are of thee
Let others boast of martial dash
For we have boldly fought with cash
We own all your helmets, we own all your shoes.
We own all your generals - touch us and you'll lose.
Morporkia! Morporkia!
Morporkia owns the day!
We can rule you wholesale
Touch us and you'll pay.
Love this! the Ner ner ner hner part was so touching ;_;
Yes, it really speaks to and from the heart, doesn't it?
Oh my, I can totally picture that. Nanny Ogg with her tutu and big boots from Maskerade... I'm gonna laugh to death!!!
Man, I miss Agnes/Perdita so much, I hope Pratchett brings her back for another book in the future.
Next international football match the whole crowd should start singing this! Just to watch the reaction of the players.
*stands tall and proud, snapping a salute with a tear of pride in his eye*
xD
I hope all of you are proud. I know I am. WE are the scallywags!
Scallywag is such a great word.
Wow... they even saved us the trouble of having to forget the words and sing half the song as "hner". I'm SO singing this next time anyone asks me to perform the national anthem (like that'll happen- I'm pretty horrid). Possible new favorite song.
Genius. Absolutely genius. Terry Pratchett is literally a god at this.
I fear the Reaper has got him, fare well Terry Pratchett
FEAR NOT.
OR WORDS TO THAT EFFECT.
found out about this in A Blink of the Screen, scallywags!
For anyone confused about the "hner ner nyers" in the second verse, those are the actual lyrics. In the short story where he gave the lyrics, the diegetic composer noted that during all anthems' second verse and beyond, people mumble along until they get to lyrics they actually know, which they then sing louder as an attempt to make up for it, so he decided to make them the real lyrics.
RIP Sir Terry Pratchett, you were an absolute gem of wit and humour.
"Wish you were here!"
--Discworld's most clueless tourist
...claro que si, esta Lady Sybil!!!
This is probably the most fun the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra has ever had. ;) That Pratchett fella has some serious clout...and for good reason! When I first saw the title of the vid, I thought the anthem would be to the tune of 'We Will Rock You' - but this is great too :p
omg, i have been recently going through the books again, or should i say audiobooks. and in one of the books there was a part that included the first verse (possibly Night Watch). the reader of the book, Stephen Briggs, actually sang that bit. but whats amazing is that his inflections were exactly the same as here.
my only reasoning for this is that either Stephen heard this version, and sang it like that, or that they based this version on how he sang it in the audiobook. XD
Propably Unseen Academicals. Museum sings it by loud before the game (as only Mustrum would do).
@@BobHerzog1962 i heard it too in UA, but i think NW has it as well, when a group of soldiers were questioning people at one of the barricades and the people started singing it. "Rebel song, sir"
RaptorNX01 there's a couple of lines of the chorus,but not much else.
@oceandawn26 "We Will Rock You" is the troll anthem.
day have ways of asking questions that don't heal for a loong time!
I've wanted to hear this since I first heard it existed. Many thanks for posting it! :)
Oh god this anthem is so awesome! I am here because A Blink of th Screen, too.
Copyright is such a bitch for trying to not letting us listen to this.
Objection!
I'm German and I only know the third verse of my national anthem! :P
For obvious reasons it's got censored ;-)
It's glorious that the official anthem actually has secreral lines of "ner ner ner ner" in it.
My thoughts, Ankh-Morpork, are of thee
My condolences. Wanna genuine pig product sausage in a bun?
Ganz wundervoll, ich bin ein großer Verehrer von Terry Pratchett, das wird mich in Zukunft musikalisch begleiten!Danke!
+Dietmar Scheele Bitte gern geschehen.
+tobiyashi 🚄🚂🏀🏀🛁🎾🎾🎾🐎🏊 Bubba Waw my boss
+tobiyashi 🚄🚂🏀🏀🛁🎾🎾🎾🐎🏊 Bubba Waw my boss
@Lightningvine Terry Prattchett is an effing genius
I'm not sure what's more brilliant...the song or your reason for the 2nd verse.
spoken like a true discworlder.
I'm just so happy that I found this..
Australians all let us rejoice, for we are mumble-mumble-mumble-mumble ADVANCE AUSTRALIA FAIR!
I always liked Australia's anthem
TIME TO TAKE A LITTLE WALK TOGETHER SIR TERRY BUT THE ANTHEM WILL LIVE ON
GNU Sir Terry
7+1, or 4x2 dislikes... Bel-Shamharoth cometh
I really love this, but I feel I must dislike it to change the number... I'm torn!
nowy there are two times 7a dislikes
Now it's a sixteen (lots) and a four (many) dislikes. Maybe Klatchians.
@@dutop142 I bet they'd know the second verse.
also, who IRL would dislike this?
excellent! !!!I didn't know this! I m reading the french book "fond d'écran " by my favorite author in the world Terry pratchett!I miss him. ..but he walks with the death now and yes she is still ...she.
I love this version.
This is glorious.
Wow. So much awesomeness....
I believe the Canadian national anthem has a second verse...I might've read about it somewhere once.
Wow, I think this anthem best illustrates the importance of a frank and serious execution to make even the silliest and most obnoxious things seem dignified and legitimate.
I don't mean to say the writing is bad (it's Terry Partchett, after all), but it is _so_ unbecoming of any anthem...
+Dan Wendelstein (Atvishees) Well, to be fair, he knew about one of the biggest problems of many a song and intentionally wrote around them, as seen here.
tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SecondVerseCurse
MORPORKIAAA! i could only wish for this to be on itunes....
omg, thats actually ingenious!!
I wish there was the rowdy crass people's version of this song, like when it was sang during the opening of the first Foot the Ball match.
indeed, the singer here is the twin of Sybil yes
Beautiful, just beautiful...
WIN!
VERSE TWO
We bankrupt all invaders,
We sell them souvenirs,
We ner ner ner ner ner ner by the ears,
Er ner ner ner ner ner ner ner ner ner,
Ner ner ner ner ner ner, ner ner ner ner ner,
Ner your gleaming swords, we mortgaged to the hilt.
Morporkia! Morporkia!
Ner ner ner ner ner ner ner ner ner ner ner ner ner ner ner ner
We can rule you wholesale
Credit where it's due."
Personally, I know the Canadian anthem first verse (like everyone else), second verse (we sang it in high school), and French version (I thought it sounded interesting). But I'm an anomaly.
You're absolutely right.
Rest in peace Terry Pratchett
and the other two live in Fourecks
Nice song, maybe a new video w\ her dressed as Lady Sybil would suffice.
This is BRILLIANT!!
Man, that was beautiful, I just wanted to raise and stand to attention... and maybe nick the wallet from the guy in front of me.
And if Sybil looks like that Claire Rutter, shes kinda hot...
just awesome
GNU Terry Pratchett
I misspoke. I ment "strophes" when i wrote "verses". Polish people usually know fisrts three strophes. And yes it include verses: "Bonaparte gave us example how to win"
I imagined it sounding more like a football chant
Ah but this is just the fancy one. With twiddly bits on, and fancy op'ra bits and probably some murder backstage if'n I know my op'ra.
Same with the Swedish anthem. I've only met 1 other person that knew there was a third and fourth verse.
The verses are 5 short lines and there is no refrain other then possibly the 2 last lines in every verse so thats why we have 4 but since noone knows the last 2 verses exist it is stupidly rare that we sing them or even "ner ner ner" through them.
To make things worse you are considered a rasist if you sing the national anthem on other than national sport events (there is 1 or 2 exceptions).
I know the Ankh-Morpork national anthem better than I know my own..
I dunno...I always imagined it going along the lines of a football chant, lol... but this works too!
Mor pooooorkia, Mor Pooooorkia!!! *right hand in the heart*
YESSS MORPORKIAAAAA
And a sixth one in Llamedos
you wonderful nerds i love you all
best anthem ever!
Best anthem i ever heard. :D
What about Agnes Nitt/Perdita X. Dream?
Anthem of true story of Britsh Empire :D
What if someone were to make a country and use this?
You might own our helmets...
You might own our shoes...
You might own our generals...
But you don't own us! (Says so in these papers)
Singing the national anthem is really something only foreigners do isn’t it?
Swedes tend to know 1 or 2 verses since the first two verses are the national anthem. The song has 4 verses, but the status of the last two is unclear.
Also, the first two verses don't even mention Sweden. Instead the glory of Norden (the Nordic Countries, the North) is extolled.
Yeah, I think it's a trait you inherited from mama Britain
ner ner ner ner!
Begining at 00:12
Well.... it fucking suits the damn country.
Nyer Nyer Nyer Nyer Nyer...
PSA for all the lovely Europeans who know all 3 verses of their National Anthems:
Not knowing the 2nd verse of the anthem is a very British trait. The running joke is that the only people who do know the entire anthem are the Queen, Prince Philip and Tony Blair's youngest son Leo (Prince Philip taught it to him when he was 5).
It's a very British pisstake of ourselves. That's the joke. We know you can sing your whole anthem, (unless you're from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Spain, or San Marino).
right as I think she must be after reading the books :-)
It's a pretty good tune! i can see why the watch were singing this when barricaded in Night Watch!
but now i want to kill the soprano because i keep humming it myself.
It must have been really wierd for the soprano who sang this to actually sing na na na...:))
I don't really know how about other nation, but Polish people usually know three verses. But it's funny either way :)
@Geliaebrina Agreed.
yepyep
Vimes was back in the past and they were trying to deal with the mobs.
Does that include the "Bonaparte" verse?
Ner
you mean -ing right? :)
A seventh from Klatch!
I want to visit AM!
Do you have a flag?
it's something that you give to somebody else so that they will give you something else. isn't it called a pledge in english?