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Thread #172623   Message #4179661
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
22-Aug-23 - 02:39 PM
Thread Name: Rugby Songs
Subject: RE: Rugby Songs
Lighter: Originally two separate parodies to the same tune? (O Tannenbaum.) The topics are different.

The 'parody' in the first stanza is to the tune 'O Tannenbaum', but is clearly intended to parody the anthem (since 1900) of the Labour Party: The Red Flag