Tony Duggan ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>David Stewart wrote:
>
>>Anyway, you maybe right.  Can you think of any WORSE tune than the English
>>national anthem - 'God Save the Queen'.   Someone needs to write some
>>suitably sardonic lyrics to that.
>
>I think you mean the _British_ National Anthem. ...
>
>You are right, though, the tune is dire.

And yet dozens of other countries (including the USA) have used it for
national anthems and Beethoven wrote a set of piano variations on it and,
IIRC, was quoting as wishing he'd composed it.

Not bad for a dire tune...

Deryk Barker
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