http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7126929.stm
I know nationalists aren't always aligned with fact but come on. A 'Lord' deigning 'I think the national anthem is an important part of our national tradition.' is vomit inducing.
And just before you strawman me like Blair, no, I don't condone Nationalism. I'm merely here to point out the hypocrisy.
I know nationalists aren't always aligned with fact but come on. A 'Lord' deigning 'I think the national anthem is an important part of our national tradition.' is vomit inducing.
And just before you strawman me like Blair, no, I don't condone Nationalism. I'm merely here to point out the hypocrisy.
But the "Lord" was wrong and that verse was never an official verse. But the weird thing is that the national anthem was adopted rather than an official sanctioned one.
Anyway to that verse which referred to rebellious Scots i.e. Jacobites.
"Around 1745, anti-Jacobite sentiment was captured in a verse appended to the song, with a prayer for the success of Field Marshal George Wade's army then assembling at Newcastle. These words attained some short-term use, although they did not appear in the published version in the October 1745 Gentleman's Magazine. This verse was first documented as an occasional addition to the original anthem by Richard Clark in 1822,[41] and was also mentioned in a later article on the song, published by the Gentleman's Magazine in October 1836. Therein, it is presented as an "additional verse... though being of temporary application only... stored in the memory of an old friend... who was born in the very year 1745, and was thus the associate of those who heard it first sung", the lyrics given being.
The 1836 article and other sources make it clear that this verse was not used soon after 1745, and certainly before the song became accepted as the British national anthem in the 1780s and 1790s"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7126929.stm
I know nationalists aren't always aligned with fact but come on. A 'Lord' deigning 'I think the national anthem is an important part of our national tradition.' is vomit inducing.
And just before you strawman me like Blair, no, I don't condone Nationalism. I'm merely here to point out the hypocrisy.
But the "Lord" was wrong and that verse was never an official verse. But the weird thing is that the national anthem was adopted rather than an official sanctioned one.
Anyway to that verse which referred to rebellious Scots i.e. Jacobites.
"Around 1745, anti-Jacobite sentiment was captured in a verse appended to the song, with a prayer for the success of Field Marshal George Wade's army then assembling at Newcastle. These words attained some short-term use, although they did not appear in the published version in the October 1745 Gentleman's Magazine. This verse was first documented as an occasional addition to the original anthem by Richard Clark in 1822,[41] and was also mentioned in a later article on the song, published by the Gentleman's Magazine in October 1836. Therein, it is presented as an "additional verse... though being of temporary application only... stored in the memory of an old friend... who was born in the very year 1745, and was thus the associate of those who heard it first sung", the lyrics given being.
The 1836 article and other sources make it clear that this verse was not used soon after 1745, and certainly before the song became accepted as the British national anthem in the 1780s and 1790s"