No karaoke lyrics on the screen or anything. Pretty cool.
Edmonton Oilers fans sing the Star Spangled Banner...(OT)
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I know the lyrics. Have vacationed in Canada numerous times and made a point of learning them. Beautiful song.
I'm afraid to ask if a greater proportion of Canadians know all the words to our national anthem than Americans.
I do. Beautiful song. My son knew it as a five-year old. Go to enough hockey games you know it.
I can follow along in English--not at all in French.
My favorite version is the dual language one (you get both US and Canada anthems in this video) by Roger Doucet. The Blue Jackets anthem singer uses this version as a tribute. I had the privelidge of hearing him live in Philly once--though he was only doing the US and Czech anthems (an exhibition game vs a Czech team)
If you look at the crowd, maybe of them are looking up while singing. I'm guessing as many of them knew the lyrics to our anthem as Americans do the Canadian anthem (understandable for both), and were just reading the lyrics off the scoreboard.
Canadian hockey fans know our national anthem, and American hockey fans know Canada's. The reason is obvious. They hear or sit through it all the time....
