I am also curious about what makes a song an anthem...why Dixie? Why Sonny's Dream? Fields of Athenry? When all sorts of us common folk like it and know at least bits of it..when people want to sing it all together in a soccer stadium...it can have inane words..Dixie has a verse about pancakes which is about the only one anyone can remember....

Some might be very particular to place..20,000 Cornishmen will know the reason why...

Maybe some of them anchor us geographically.