Patriotic Songs, excluding national anthems

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Re: Patriotic Songs, excluding national anthems

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an seanduine wrote:Strange for the Scots to forget: A man's a man for a' that. :D
Might have been if it hadn't featured in Brus's original choice...
Brus wrote:For Scotland I considered "Scotland the Brave" and "Scots Wha Hae" before settling on "A Man's a Man for A' That". I pondered whether the last is truly a patriotic song since it doesn't mention Scotland. The fact that Sheena Wellington sang it at the re-opening of the Scottish Parliament (after a 292 year adjournment) pushed me to select it:

Scotland - A Man's a Man for A' That (sung by Sheena Wellington)
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BigDavy wrote:As a folkie I thought you would go for The Freedom Come All Ye
Great song if more on the world-equality lines of A Man's a Man for a' That than specifically Scottish patriotism.
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I'm surprised that no one has mentioned "The Sash" - Northern Ireland. :D
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Re: Patriotic Songs, excluding national anthems

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accordionstu wrote:I'm surprised that no one has mentioned "The Sash" - Northern Ireland. :D
A proper discussion of that would lead us into the now-forbidden PROCTology territory.
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Brus wrote:
accordionstu wrote:I'm surprised that no one has mentioned "The Sash" - Northern Ireland. :D
A proper discussion of that would lead us into the now-forbidden PROCTology territory.
... which is a milder way of saying what I was thinking.
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Re: Patriotic Songs, excluding national anthems

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Well, for US of A, Battle Hymn of the Republic comes to mind.
For Scotland... Cullins of Rhum.
For Ireland... The Foggy Dew.
"Yes... yes. This is a fertile land, and we will thrive. We will rule over all this land, and we will call it... This Land."
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