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 the St. Martin in the sea?
 
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O, sweet Saint Martin's Land
So bright by beach and strand
With sailors on the sea
And harbours free;
Where the chains of mountains green
Variously in sunlight sheen;
O, I love thy Paradise,
Nature beauty fairly nice!
 
How pretty between all green
Flamboyants beaming gleam
Of flowers red by sunlight set!
Thy cows and sheep and goats
In meadows on or roads,
They donkeys keen can't I forget.

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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! 

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Sint Maarten

Words by:unknown
Music by:G. Kemps
Adopted:unknown

Sint Maarten is the name of the half of St. Martin island administered by the
Netherlands. This territory is part of the Netherlands_Antilles, which itself
is a Dutch colony. However, all the islands of the Netherlands Antilles have
their own local anthems, as well as using the Netherlands Antilles' anthem
(which was written and composed by a resident of Sint Maarten) for purposes
relating to the Netherlands Antilles. Interestingly, the anthem lyrics seem to
solely be in English, although this is not an official language of the region
(yet, as the anthem lyrics indicate, it is widely spoken.)

(It should be worth noting here that the other half of the island is
administered by France under the Guadeloupe territory; I don't believe this
anthem is used in the French side (only on the Dutch side), primarily because
it is not usual for a French department (including Guadeloupe) to develop a
departmental anthem.)

Special thanks to:Ben Cahoon for informing me about this anthem and Pawel
Ciupak for the MIDI.

See also: Netherlands, Netherlands_Antilles.

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