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Thread #31708   Message #420356
Posted By: Eric the Viking
18-Mar-01 - 07:48 AM
Thread Name: English National Anthem
Subject: RE: BS: English National Anthem
The Welsh have a National anthem!! It goes..

A hen laid a haddock on top of a tree.....etc

Then the chorus

Wales, Wales, bloody big fish in the sea etc.

The programme "Not the 9.o Clock News" had..."Failed in Wales" to the tune of Men of Harlech.

I have heard it sung at Rugby matches in Cardiff.. "A hen laid a haddock..." so it must be right. Any way, ask Anne Robinson!! I do think that when we (humans) get over this idea that our country is better than someone elses then things might improve for the whole world. Governments might give the orders to kill and invade etc, but humans cary them out, sometimes with great relish and enjoyment. What the English did to the Scots, The Irish did to the English, the British did to the Irish, the Welsh did to.... etc,before that the Romans, greeks, Phonecians, Egyptians. Not to mention the Germans,Chinese, Japanese, Dutch and Russians, Spanish, Americans, mexicans... just shows how small minded we really are, unless we learn a lesson from the past, we will still do these things-Kosovo, Croatia, Africa-it still goes on-thats, human beings for you!!!

I'm not one for quoting the Bilbe, but,"let him without sin" etc often springs to mind.

Oh well enough said.I think "Nowhere man" should be a world anthem.

Cheers