For last few couple of posts I endeavour to present the "Anthems and Patriotic Songs featured in postage stamps"
with brief notes mostly from my collection built up over the years with my little wherewithal s. Readers will appreciate that to present
an exhaustive list of philatelic items featuring 'Flags in National Anthems and Patriotic Songs' is next to impossible and
perhaps, can never be completed. I, therefore, welcome my readers to contribute
in this Post for omissions, as well as, to bring forward any new findings
for the sake of academic interest of all concerned.
Humat Al Hima"(L’Hymne National Tunisien) is the national anthem of Tunisia since November 1987.The text was written by Mostafa Saadeq Al-Rafe’ie. The music was composed by Mohammed Abdelwahab.
The song proclaims: “The
banner of war in the north we have raised, by oath we to ransom our land all
our bound”. The verse three continues
“The flag, as it waves in the sky, now salute, with honour and glory and
great victory”.Turkey
“The
March of Independence” (Istikal Marsi) was adopted as National
Anthem in 1921 and its words were written by Mehmet Akif Ersoy (1873-1936) and its music was originally composed by Ali Rifat Çağatay's, but the same was replaced in 1930 by a symphonic
arrangement written by Zeki Üngör (1880-1958), conductor of the Presidential
Symphonic Orchestra, with a new harmonization supplied by the Turkish-Armenian composer Edgar Manas.
Fear not
and be not dismayed This crimson flag will never fade It is the last hearth that’s burning
For my nation and we know for sure
That it will never fail. It
is my nation’s star that ever forth will shine.
It is my nation’s star and it is mine.
Frown not,
fair crescent, for I Am
ready e’en to die for thee
Smile now upon my heroic nation, leave this anger.
Lest the bloodshed for thee unblessed be. Freedom’s
the right of this my nation, Yes, freedom for us who worship God and seek what’s right.
Turkmenistan
Turkmen, the national Anthem of Independent Neutral Turkmenistan. The lyrics
were written by Saparmurat Niyazov, the
first president of Turkmenistan. 
The anthem has the following wordings:
I am ready to give life for native
hearth
The spirit of ancestors descendants are famous for
My land is sacred. My flag flies in the world
A symbol of the great neutral country flies.
The spirit of ancestors descendants are famous for
My land is sacred. My flag flies in the world
A symbol of the great neutral country flies.
United Arab Emirates (UAE)
The National Anthem of the UAE is Ishy Bilady (Long Live my Nation), was
officially adopted in 1971. The anthem was composed by Saad Abdel Wahab, who
also composed the national anthems of Libya. The lyrics to the anthem,
adopted in 1996, were written by Arif Al Sheikh Abdullah Al Hassan.
United States of America (USA)
The verses one through four of "The Star Spangled Banner" refer to the national flag of the US fondly called "The Old Glory" refer to the US flag with 15 stars & 15 stripes (1795-1818) that withstood enemy bombardment at Fort McHenry, Maryland, September 13/14, 1814, and inspired Francis Scott Key to write the "Star Spangled Banner."
"The Star-Spangled Banner" was recognized for official use by the US Navy in 1889 and the President in 1916, and was made the national anthem in 1931.
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through 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 through the night that our flag was still there;
O! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner, O! long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust."
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
50th anniversary of the adoption of US National Anthem
Vietnam
“Our flag, red with the blood of victory, bears the spirit of the country…” The second verse goes on: “The gold star of our flag in the wind, leading our people, our mother land, out of misery and suffering”.
