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   From: allan@EASYNET.CO.UK   
      
   "R.Peffers."  wrote in message   
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   > "allan connochie"  wrote in message   
   > news:446c1021@news.greennet.net...   
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   > There mat be no official version but, at the time, it was published in   
   full   
   > in, "The Gentleman's Magazine", and was first performed in a London   
   theatre.   
   > It then became popular and was played at every performance in all London   
   > Theatres. This was the beginning of the tradition of every performance of   
   > any sort including, "God Save The King". This tradition did not die out   
   > until the 1970s.   
      
   I can safely say that I've never ever heard the sixth verse being sung and   
   I've lived in the UK all my life! There was a discussion on scs just last   
   week or the week before and several folk said they'd heard the second verse.   
   Highlander heard it once at Melrose. But not the sixth! Of course it is   
   possible that you've heard it at some point but so what? It is one obscure   
   verse of an unnofficial version of an unnofficial anthem from 250 years ago,   
   and as Ian pointed out several weeks ago [for anyone on sci this topic is   
   brought up every couple of weeks] it doesn't even necessarily refer to Scots   
   in general.   
      
   Allan   
      
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