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Re: Patriotic Songs, excluding national anthems
Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2015 5:41 pm
by Peter Duggan
an seanduine wrote:Strange for the Scots to forget: A man's a man for a' that.
Might have been if it hadn't featured in Brus's original choice...
Brus wrote:For Scotland I considered "Scotland the Brave" and "Scots Wha Hae" before settling on "A Man's a Man for A' That". I pondered whether the last is truly a patriotic song since it doesn't mention Scotland. The fact that Sheena Wellington sang it at the re-opening of the Scottish Parliament (after a 292 year adjournment) pushed me to select it:
Scotland -
A Man's a Man for A' That (sung by Sheena Wellington)
As well as my reply...
Peter Duggan wrote:
Great song if more on the world-equality lines of
A Man's a Man for a' That than specifically Scottish patriotism.
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Re: Patriotic Songs, excluding national anthems
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2015 2:06 pm
by accordionstu
I'm surprised that no one has mentioned "The Sash" - Northern Ireland.
Re: Patriotic Songs, excluding national anthems
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2015 3:52 am
by Brus
accordionstu wrote:I'm surprised that no one has mentioned "The Sash" - Northern Ireland.
A proper discussion of that would lead us into the now-forbidden PROCTology territory.
Re: Patriotic Songs, excluding national anthems
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2015 3:59 am
by benhall.1
Brus wrote:accordionstu wrote:I'm surprised that no one has mentioned "The Sash" - Northern Ireland.
A proper discussion of that would lead us into the now-forbidden PROCTology territory.
... which is a milder way of saying what I was thinking.
Re: Patriotic Songs, excluding national anthems
Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2015 10:17 am
by Coffee
Well, for US of A, Battle Hymn of the Republic comes to mind.
For Scotland... Cullins of Rhum.
For Ireland... The Foggy Dew.