However badly I rate Flower of Scotland it cannot reach the drivelling doggerel heights of another anthem, especially the second verse which runs:- O Lord our God arise, Scatter our enemies, And make them fall! Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks, On Thee our hopes we fix, God save us all! In future when I watch any Scotland v. England international on the television and anthems are being sung at the start, I will just have to mute the volume and sing to myself: - Roch the wind in the clear day’s dawin Blaws the cloods heelster-gowdie ow’r the bay......
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