Thread: O Sweet Sint Maarten Land!

In case any of you want to sing along during White Coat Ceremony...

Where over the world, say where,
You find an island there,
So lovely small with nations free
With people French and Dutch
Though talking English much,
As thee Saint-Martin in the sea ?

Chorus :
O sweet Saint-Martin Land
So bright by beach and strand
With sailors on the sea and harbors free
Where the chains of mountains green
Colourful in sunshine sheen

O I love thy Paradise,
Nature-beauty fairly nice (twice)

How pretty between all green
Flamboyants beaming gleam
Of flowers red by sunlight set
Thy cows and sheep and goats
In meadows or on the roads
Thy donkeys keen I can't forget

Thy useful birds in white
Their morn and evening flight
Like aircrafts-wings in unity
Their coming down for food
Then turning back to roost
Bring home to me their harmony

Saint-Martin I like thy name
In which Columbus fame
And memories of old are closed
For me a great delight
Thy Southern Cross the night
May God the Lord protect thy coast !

Originally Posted by Jungaroo

Seriously??! I can go without water and 100 degree weather doesn't really phase me much but that's the song for the white coat ceremony?

It's the Sint Maarten National Anthem. Since they are the school's host country, then their anthem is sung along with the Star Spangled Banner.

Touching, really.

With people French and Dutch
Though talking English much

Ah, now I see. That makes much more sense now...

Originally Posted by anencephalic

It's the Sint Maarten National Anthem. Since they are the school's host country, then their anthem is sung along with the Star Spangled Banner.

Touching, really.

I was going to record that at the white coat during my 5th semester but they didn't have anybody sing it.. i was bummed. my favorite line is "With people french and Dutch, though talking english much"

So direct and to the point..

Still searching for an MP3 version to post....

Originally Posted by Jungaroo

Seriously??! I can go without water and 100 degree weather doesn't really phase me much .......

But that'll phase the rest of us.... please stand downwind.

Originally Posted by Jungaroo

Seriously??! I can go without water and 100 degree weather doesn't really phase me much but that's the song for the white coat ceremony?

I think they forgot the line about the salt pond and filling it in with refuse to create land for our children's inheritance. It is nice to know that the real Saint Maarten ghetto neighborhood is yet to be created.