I thought verse two was: “Play ball!”

I heard that we were able to identify spies because of this. Apparently they were taught the full anthem whereas Americans do not recite the full one. It's funny to imagine these spies thinking they're absolutely killing it and the Americans looking at each other like "we gotta get rid of them, huh".

Same. I have never in my life heard anything after "O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave"

Yeah its pretty fucked up.

Do the other 3 verses count if nobody knows them?

You mean my unsourced internet meme was misleading, uninformed, or otherwise inaccurate? The idea of it! Next you'll tell me not to form an opinion on headlines alone!

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_National_Anthem#Lyrics

Em teu seio, ó liberdade

Your ears are girt by blood?

Yep, unless they count Austrias "secret anthem" by Reinhardt Fendrich - I am from Austria, which references blood.

The myth of how the flag came to be mentions it I suppose ... the red parts are blood, the white was covered and so not bloodied.

The state flag of Virginia has boobs on it, also an active call for violence. Not the same, but its in the spirit of the post.

The only one that explicitly mentions them, yep. It's a recounting of the british attack on a US fort during the war of 1812, which was attacked by, among other things, british bomb ships (mortar carriers). The actual bombs being referenced would be called shells in the modern era. Interestingly many others refer to guns and cannons and incoming fire and etc. as well; China's makes explicit reference to being shelled (tho as I have had it explained, it's also a bit of quite clever wordplay: 冒着敌人的炮火，前进 can mean both "withstand their (physical) guns/cannons" and "stand up in the face of their (metaphorical) aggression")

USA USA USA! But for real, we started the war, yes, but we had reasonable cassus belli (embargoing our trade with france and kidnapping our seamen into the british navy) and the poem is about a defensive battle.

I still think our national anthem should be a secularized version of the battle hymn of the republic.

Which is weird, since it was written in 1814, and I can't think of any bombs that burst in the air back then other than fireworks. Were they shooting fireworks in a battle?

Just nobody can understand it.

3rd stanza. In school I think we never went beyond the first stanza.

Their blood has wash'd out their foul footstep's pollution

metal asf

Verse 3. Well beyond the usual first verse recitation.

They both at mention a heart which... might be why they were included? But I think this map may just be AI or recaptioned from something else because thats a bit of a stretch to call blood.

edit: USA, China & mexico both overtly mention blood though... Maybe it really is the heart thing? Though if that were true then Canada should be on there too. Idkwtf

edit 2: and the Brazilian anthem is disappointing given the way it's brought up in the OP; it's not a crass use of it like "boob" but very much akin to "my heart beat in my breast" or "nurtured by your bosom". By that metric a ton of other countries also feature tiddy anthems.

If thats a question, yes, germany does not use the first two verses of the national anthem any more. The nazis made those uncomfortable.

I think they do in the secret stanzas where they list all the types of sausages