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grufty jim
grufty jim
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national anthem
Feb 12, 2002, 15:16
morfe wonders...
>
> What other national anthem exults in "the
> rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in
> air" as the US one does in its fifth line?
>

plenty of them, i imagine actually morfe me old mucker. take the following lines (which are pretty representative of the whole):
>
> 'Mid cannons' roar and rifles peal,
> We'll chant a soldier's song...
>
OR
>
> We're children of a fighting race,
> That never yet has known disgrace,
> And as we march, the foe to face,
> We'll chant a soldier's song
>
and finish with a rousing...
>
> Out yonder waits the Saxon foe,
> So chant a soldier's song!
>
(the irish national anthem - the title of which translates as "Soldier's Song")

i suspect it's not unusual for national anthems to feature those kind of lyrics - given that many nations were originally formed out of armed struggle and/or revolution.

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