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Thread #30560   Message #971686
Posted By: TheBigPinkLad
24-Jun-03 - 01:44 PM
Thread Name: What is the Irish National anthem?
Subject: RE: What is the Irish National anthem?
Seems to me that a lot of national anthems are sectarian and/or god bothering crap about showing your arse to another nation. My vote would be to stop singing them but I suppose they will persist as long as patriotism is perceived as a good thing.

As for an English anthem, I agree with Billy Connoly's suggestion of adopting the theme from the Archers without words, just the dum-te-dum-te-dum-te-dum and an impassioned rum-te-tiddely rum-te-tum at the chorus. Easy to remember, inoffensive and jolly good fun.

And in answer to the original question (partly) Canada has two official anthems, O Canada and God Save the Queen.