BBC feature points out that Mr C has something in common with the Queen - she also remains silent.
God save the Queen !
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostGives a whole new meaning to "standing for the National Anthem"!
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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I cannot abide the words or the music but I tend to sing it if it is being sung . The idea ,however, that it shows a lack of respect for anyone if one chooses not to sing a song about a deity in whom you do not believe saving a hereditary monarch whose power and status you regard as an anachronism is unpatriotic or offensive is absurd .
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Originally posted by pastoralguy View PostBilly Connelly suggested the theme from 'The Archers' as a replacement for GSTQ.
How that soap's endured into the second decade of this century is beyond me; I wonder if it will continue to do so once the farming industry which has always been its foundation has largely disappeared from Britain as is already happening to dairy farming. Its strapline as an "everyday story of country folk" is inaccurate in that it's only broadcast on six days of each week, but who in any case ARE these "country folk", of whom some apparently have no identifiable accents at all and others speak a kind of BBC Brummerset?
No - great as Billy Connolly is, I think that he's on a hiding to nothing with that idea!
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Originally posted by ahinton View PostWhat lyrics? You can't put those of GSTQ to Barwick Green; even the ISIHAC team would struggle to do that in a "one song to the tune of another" round!
Long live noble Queenie
On the throne so long she's been
She's almost part o'the scen'ry
Poor old Charlie
He's left to parley
(Particularly
To weedies)
Let us bless the dear old Queen
And bugger all the expense.[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]
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As it's the centenary of WW1, I thought I'd be 'inclusive' and play the German royal anthem, Heil dir im Siegerkranz. Before 1795 it was the royal anthem of Prussia. They gave it up in 1918:
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Trouble with us is that we assume GSQ is our anthem. It's not; it's our royal anthem.
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Originally posted by Pabmusic View PostTrouble with us is that we assume GSQ is our anthem. It's not; it's our royal anthem.Last edited by ahinton; 17-09-15, 08:06.
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Originally posted by ahinton View PostAll this talk of GSQ and GSOGQ makes me thinkog GCHQ. Anyway, you're right about this, hence my Fairest Isle suggestion if we must have a National Anthem....
(Scroll down the playlist)Last edited by Pabmusic; 17-09-15, 08:05.
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Dryden's text for Fairest Isle isn't exactly suitable for a national anthem. It's an aria sung by Venus in King Arthur. The first verse reads:
Fairest isle, all isles excelling,
Seat of pleasures and of loves,
Venus here will choose her dwelling
And forsake her Cyprian groves.
Cupid from his fav'rite nation
Care and envy will remove,
Jealousy that poisons passion,
And despair that dies for love.
However, we sang another version, the authorship of which I'm not sure of:
Fairest isle, all isles excelling,
Cradled midst the western seas,
Where sweet peace hath made her dwelling,
Where she sporteth at her ease.
Blessed isle, where gladness reigneth,
Where the wand'rer findeth rest,
Where the churl alone complaineth,
Where the brave and true are blest.
As far as I can make out, Alfred Deller sang both versions. I think I once had a recording of version 2.
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