National Anthem.

[57vintage]

You'd have been better off going to St.Andrew's woolen mill.

Whoop de doo, free whisky tooties.


Another vote for the French National Anthem, just change the words.

Saint Andrew, sir?

No ah umnae.

https://www.musical1.com/saint-andre...herefore-eh-um

[donsdaft]

Saw them at Ruffles once, didn't he also do the tannoy at Dens?

[57vintage]

Saw them at Ruffles once, didn't he also do the tannoy at Dens?

Dinnae ast me chief, eh dinnae ken.

https://www.musical1.com/saint-andre...e-eh-dinna-ken

[krakowdon]

Conflicts me, but the American one is the best for me. It’s wasted on those *****.

[InversneckieDob]

The minor South American countries’ eens are usually the best. Proper Mannies’ martial music and words aboot pishing upstream of neighbouring enemies’ water supplies, and the looseness of the rival El Presidente’s wife’s knicker elastic.

There's usually an obscure toe-tapper comes to light every four years.

Is it the Italian anthem that doesnae hae words?

[InversneckieDob]

Conflicts me, but the American one is the best for me. It’s wasted on those *****.

G'wa an' fu ck.

It's a dirge.

I'll tell you what I like, nae the national anthem but that "Ireland's Call" that they dee before the rugby (nae sure if they dee it pre-fitba).

Fair get's the juices flowing.

[donsdaft]

There's usually an obscure toe-tapper comes to light every four years.

Is it the Italian anthem that doesnae hae words?

Italians are nae usually known for their lack of words.

Good anthem though, even if it does sound like two different tunes stuck together.


The English dirge is by far the worst, to think they used to play it at Scotland games when I was a loon.

[57vintage]

Of course, whilst Lochee Luciano did joke about our having to learn Hermless as a potential national anthem "you might have to sing it at the next Olympic Games", he also used to say that he distrusted flags, and that he thought a good flag, for anyone who wanted to wave it, would be "a plain white one, with a big question mark on it".

Dick Gaughan, the definitive interpreter of Brian McNeill's masterpiece from about 1986.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25I8llcBplQ

I am currently reading Ray Celestin's The Axeman's Jazz, and found this passage very interesting, if you substitute your location of choice for New Orleans:

"The Mayor was just repeating to the students the stories New Orleans told itself, stories about its past, about its character. Stories told so many times the place was in danger of crumbling into a myth of its own making, into a past that never was."

[Disco Buc]

May come as a suprise to fellow posters but Flower of Scotland is very boring even at full pelt glad when it's over .

My preference would be The Northern Lights of Old Aberdeen I'm belting it oot the now as I'm typing that or Caledonia.

[donsdaft]

National Anthems are just wrong.

Flower of Scotland replaced god save the f'uckin queen though so will always be a favourite of mine.

Scotland the Brave made a brief appearance but is a bit naff.

If I really got to choose it would be total silence in the crowd while a lone piper played flooers o' the forest.

The roar after that would fear the b'astards