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Show German Children Learning to Sing 'Star Spangled Banner' FRANKFURT, GERMANY. Ctrrnan children are learning to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner." It's tough going, but they are trying. try-ing. Air force officers have added a German version of the V. S. na-' tional anthem to recreation courses for German youth, sandwiching the songfests between baseball and football. foot-ball. As a substitute for some of the songs the German boys and girls used to sing, the anthem presents some problems. , Where it fits the music in English Eng-lish with 10 short words for the first line, "Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light," it comes out in German, "Oh, sag, kannst du beim licht des fruehen morgen-rots morgen-rots sehen," and what started out to be "What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming" comes out "Was so stolz wir gruessten waehrend des zwielichts letztem schimmer." The American flag flies over the fields as the children sing the anthem. an-them. Lt. Bob Metzger, Natchez, Miss., the first to try the stunt in his classes for several hundred children, chil-dren, said the job was difficult but certainly not impossible despite all the propaganda about Hitler's influence influ-ence on the younger generation. |