My daughter, who speaks fluent German, told me a few days ago that the melody of the CNMI Anthem is very similar to a German folk music called Im Schoensten Wisengrude. In fact it is and if you Google this music, one would find several versions of it in German.<\/p>\n
She translated this music to English and it turns out that there is close meaning of the lyrics to the CNMI Anthem. This song is called:<\/p>\n
“In the most beautiful meadow valley”<\/p>\n
In the most beautiful valley
\nthere is my home.
\nI went there many times.
\nI greet thee my beautiful
\nand quite valley a thousand times!
\nI went there many times.<\/p>\n
If I had to leave this valley
\nand its delight and tone,
\nthis would be my last journey.
\nI greet thee a thousand times my quiet valley.<\/p>\n
If I die I want to be buried in this valley.
\nThen people shall sing in the evening\u2019s sunset:
\nI greet thee my valley for the last time.<\/p>\n
I thought your readers would be interested in this, so that they would have an idea how our CNMI Anthem evolved over the years.<\/p>\n
Francisco R. Agulto<\/strong> My daughter, who speaks fluent German, told me a few days ago that the melody…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nChalan Kanoa, Saipan<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"