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   From: allan@EASYNET.CO.UK   
      
   "R.Peffers."  wrote in message   
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   > > "R.Peffers."  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".   
      
   You won't get me arguing with you there. It's the whole idea of monarchy   
   that I disagree with. The sixth verse is an unimportant side issue.   
      
   cheers   
      
   Allan   
      
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