BBC gives Spain's instrumental national anthem lyrics
BBC gives Spain's instrumental national anthem lyrics
SPAIN'S national anthem acquired lyrics for the first time during the Confederations Cup match against Uruguay, thanks to the BBC.
La Marcha Real, or 'Royal March', is instrumental, but when the British Broadcasting Corporation televised the opening ceremony of Spain's first Cup match they gave it lyrics with subtitles in English.
The words were those written by Paulino Cubero, who was chosen by the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE) in 2007 so that sportsmen and women from the country could sing their own national anthem rather than just humming it.
But the idea never took off and the lyrics never aired in public.
They included lines such as “love your land because it knows how to embrace, beneath blue skies, people at liberty,” which were shown in English subtitles – and Spanish subtitles for those picking up the BBC in Spain and Latin America – across the faces of the 11 members of Vicente del Bosque's team, 'The Reds'.
This unusual twist to the Marcha Real immediately went viral on Twitter.
One user stated that the Spanish national anthem was 'brief, profound and full of strength' and that it did not have lyrics because it did 'not come from the mouth, but from the heart'.
Another user tweeted: “I though the lyrics for our national anthem were 'loo loo lo lo lolololo'?”
