Tony Duggan 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. If _England_ has a >National Anthem it's usually "Land Of Hope and Glory " that's played. >You'll never work for the BBC, David! ;-) (You really have to be here >at the moment to understand that reference.) > >You are right, though, the tune is dire. No, he means the _English_ national anthem. In Wales, we have our own national anthem, and it's got a much better tune (even though I don't understand all of the words). Re the sardonic lyrics to the English tune: I thought P.B.Shelley had done just that. Peter Varley [log in to unmask]