The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #50045   Message #757751
Posted By: Joe_F
31-Jul-02 - 06:43 PM
Thread Name: New English 'national' anthem?
Subject: RE: BS: New English 'national' anthem?
I wish _I_ had learned it in the nursery!

Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks.
On Thee our hopes we fix:
God save us all!
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I dutifully learned the whole thing while I was going over on the Queen Elizabeth in 1958, and I didn't get a chance to sing it once. In Scotland, at the time, they _ran_ out of the cinema so that they wouldn't have to hear a few bars of it played at the end.