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Examples of such songs include Malay song "Di Tanjung Katong", Mandarin song "Xin Yao", and Tamil song "Munnaeru Vaalibaa". The second type are the comparatively modern songs, mostly in English , that were composed specifically for national events – particularly the National Day Parade held annually on 9 August – and for use in schools.
"Majulah Singapura " [a] is the national anthem of Singapore.Composed by Zubir Said in 1958 as a theme song for official functions of the City Council of Singapore, the song was selected in 1959 as the nation's anthem when it attained self-government.
"Singapore" (in Japanese: "夢のシンガポール", [1] also known as "Singapore Dreams") was the second single from 2 Plus 1's first international album Easy Come, Easy Go, and the band's first single released in Japan. The song was met with modest success in Japan and has become one of 2 Plus 1's most popular songs.
Semoga Bahagia is a Malay song composed by the Singaporean composer Zubir Said, who also composed Majulah Singapura, the national anthem of Singapore.The song has been the official Children's Day song in Singapore since 1961, and is also performed at the Singapore Youth Festival (SYF) as its official theme song.
Songs with English-language lyrics originating in Japan. Pages in category "English-language Japanese songs" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.
Singapore National Pledge; February 1966 (first version) “We, as citizens of Singapore, pledge ourselves to forget differences of race, language or religion and become one united people; to build a democratic society where justice and equality will prevail and where we will seek happiness and progress by helping one another.”
Today, Singdarin remains often used and is commonly spoken in colloquial speech in Singapore and occasionally even on local television, and most Chinese-speaking Singaporeans are able to code-switch between Singdarin and Standard Mandarin, likewise with most Singaporeans in general with Singlish and standard Singapore English. Furthermore, most ...
The first verse of the song. Hotaru no Hikari (蛍の光, meaning "Glow of a firefly") is a Japanese song incorporating the tune of Scottish folk song Auld Lang Syne with completely different lyrics by Chikai Inagaki, first introduced in a collection of singing songs for elementary school students in 1881 (Meiji 14).