# What one particular song best represents a particular country in your opinion? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [November 12, 2025, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812 "2025-11-12T22:15:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812/21 "2025-11-14T13:02:19Z")
Thank you! This would have been my second choice for a country/song combo, but the OP isn’t allowing more than one per Doper. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812/22 "2025-11-14T13:05:23Z")
That is true, but please remember that two people might pick the same song for the same country, and that is certainly allowed. “Me, too!” is much more preferred over “I was gonna say “A”, but since that was already picked, I guess I’ll have to go with “B”, sorry”. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812/23 "2025-11-14T13:07:30Z")
Got it. No, I’m glad for my own pick. Sorry if I broke the rules in congratulating someone else for theirs. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812/24 "2025-11-14T13:10:48Z")
Congratulate away! Just remember that your own pick is singular. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812/25 "2025-11-14T13:14:31Z")
Argentina: (Especially in these times, but all the other times too): Cambalache (1935) by Enrique Santos Discepolo: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/vH6_jzFlkFg/hqdefault.jpg "CAMBALACHE - ENRIQUE SANTOS DISCÉPOLO") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH6_jzFlkFg) That the world was and always will be filth, I already know… In the year five hundred and six and in the year two thousand too! There always have been thieves, traitors and victims of fraud, happy and bitter people, values and duplicity But, that the twentieth century is a display of insolent evil, nobody can deny anymore. We live sunk in a meringue and in the same mud all well-worn… Today it happens it is the same to be decent or a traitor! To be an ignorant, a genius, a pickpocket, a generous person or a swindler! All is the same! Nothing is better! They are the same, an idiot ass and a great professor! There are no failing grades or merit valuations, the immoral have caught up with us. If one lives an imposture and another, in his ambition, steals, it’s the same if it’s a priest, a mattress maker, a king of clubs, a cad or a tramp. What a lack of respect, what a way to run over reason! Anybody is a gentleman! Anybody is a thief! Mixed with Stavisky, you have Don Bosco (Catholic saint) and La Mignon don Chicho (Mafia don) and Napoleon, Carnera (boxer) and San Martin (founding father). Like in the disrespectful window of the bazaars, life is mixed up, and wounded by a sword without rivets you can see a Bible crying next to a water heater. Twentieth century, bazaar problematic and feverish! If you don’t cry, you don’t get fed and if you don’t steal, you’re a stupid. Go ahead! Keep it up! That there, in hell we’re gonna reunite. Don’t think anymore, move out of the way. Nobody seems to care if you were born honest. That is the same the one who works, day and night like an ox, than the one who lives from the others’ work, than the one that kills or heals or the one who lives outside the law. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812/26 "2025-11-14T13:17:48Z")
The second stanza sounds a little like a Borges poem, appropriately. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812/27 "2025-11-14T13:32:12Z")
Figuring out the one song for your own country is hard. I’ve been working on mine since yesterday, and so far nada. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812/28 "2025-11-14T13:33:45Z")
It’s impossible to select only one, but what I did was the select, out of many, the one that fits the (my?) current mood. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812/29 "2025-11-14T13:34:31Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Figuring out the one song for your own country is hard. I’d have one for my country, and also one for the USA, but according to @Czarcasm’s rules I’ve fulfilled my quota and am not allowed to post them. Bummer. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812/30 "2025-11-14T13:38:54Z")
No, as far as I understand you can do one song per country and one song per post, and since you’ve done neither your country nor the U.S. yet, feel free to fire away. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812/31 "2025-11-14T13:44:04Z")
Ah, well, I understood the OP as only allowing one post/country per poster. In this case, here’s my nomination for Germany. I don’t know if it represents my country the best, in the light of all the horrible crimes we did in history, but as a lifelong optimist I _want_ it to be representative: Ode To Joy (Ode an die Freude) - Music: Beethoven, Lyrics: Schiller ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812/32 "2025-11-14T13:45:30Z")
And I could say something similar about my nomination for the USA: This Land Is Your Land - Woody Guthrie ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812/33 "2025-11-14T13:49:58Z")
That is more in the spirit of this thread. I’m just trying to avoid the postings of lists that just discourage others from posting. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812/34 "2025-11-14T13:52:16Z")
Thanks for the clarification to both of you. 👍 ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812/35 "2025-11-14T14:08:09Z")
**Never mind** ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812/36 "2025-11-14T16:06:48Z")
Uruguay: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/T6NhuWYnxW0/maxresdefault.jpg "Mayonesa - Chocolate (Video Oficial)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6NhuWYnxW0&t=6s) ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812/37 "2025-11-14T16:14:17Z")
U.K. in the 1970s: ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/qJYbFFFZwdE/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/qJYbFFFZwdE?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=RDqJYbFFFZwdE ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812/38 "2025-11-14T16:27:05Z")
Very well chosen! ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812/39 "2025-11-14T16:52:07Z")
Unfortunately. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2025, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-one-particular-song-best-represents-a-particular-country-in-your-opinion/1024812/40 "2025-11-14T20:27:17Z")
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