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   "allan connochie"  wrote in message   
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   >> "allan connochie"  wrote in message   
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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.   
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   > 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.   
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   > Allan   
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   In any case it is obscene that we are subjects to a monarchy, who via the   
   Parliament. can do as they wish with us, (including lifting us off the   
   street and banging us up in jail as, "Suspected Terrorists". What on Earth   
   gives these people the right to think themselves better or above any other   
   member of the human race defies all logic. The royals should be wound up and   
   made to exist on the wealth they have stolen from the people and never get   
   another brass farthing from the public purse, (do they still lock us up for   
   treason for such views)?   
      
   We really should be citizens and have a citizens charter, (and don't claim   
   we are NOT subjects for the wording on our passports make the fact all too   
   clear). There should be a National Anthem that actually refers to, "The   
   Nation", but first we must sort out just what that, "Nation", is. I have   
   heard media people use the word in the same paragraph to mean a single UK   
   country and the whole United Kingdom, (That's when they actually know the   
   difference between England and the UK in the first place.   
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