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Thread #15970 Message #4236169
Posted By: Lighter
25-Feb-26 - 08:23 AM
Thread Name: Origin: Scotland the Brave
Subject: RE: Origin: Scotland the Brave
OK. It's "Scotland the Brave," all right.
As a Mormon hymn, in the U.S. Utah Territory in 1878.
It apparently is the tune's first printing anywhere, though it is not credited to a composer, to tradition, or to anyone.
Presumably a Scots emigrant brought it to the American West, years before its first printing in Scotland,
I know, I know. Incredible. But true: