XPost: alt.music   
   From: john.wood@nrl.navy.mil   
      
   Hello, all. When I was back in grade school many many years ago I was a   
   member of an ad hoc county choir composed of students from various   
   school districts. One of the numbers we performed was the well-known   
   "This is My Country". The arrangement used a musical intro that borrowed   
   Sir Walter Scott's famous words "Breathes there a man with soul so dead,   
   who never to himself hath said..." I have no problem finding choral   
   (SATB) sheet music for the song except it doesn't have this intro.   
   I'm wondering if an arranger (not the songwriters Jacobs and Raye) added   
   the intro. It just doesn't seem right without beginning with Scott's   
   words. (Kind of like the 1953 instrumental "Ebb Tide" without that   
   short but sentient G-minor intro by Frank Chacksfield.) Thank you for   
   your time and comment. Sincerely,   
      
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