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On 2025-05-03 12:14 p.m., Bruce wrote:
> On Sat, 3 May 2025 10:17:30 -0600, Graham <g.stereo@shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
>> On 2025-05-03 8:21 a.m., Dave Smith wrote:
>>> On 2025-05-03 10:04 a.m., Mike Duffy wrote:
>>>> On 2025-05-03, BryanGSimmons wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Everybody fucks up the US anthem.  The only times I've heard it sung
>>>>> well in this century was several times on opening weekend of the StL
>>>>> Symphony, when the audience joins the orchestra.
>>>>
>>>> I forget her name, but the best I heard was an opera singer. (USA)
>>>>
>>>> The Canadian one I cannot sing anymore because they changed
>>>> the words *3* fucking times in my memory and always fall
>>>> back to what we sang as youngsters and get out of sync &c.
>>>
>>> I avoid the confusion by singing it in French. IMO anthems are no long
>>> anthems when thy change them. The last change was especially annoying. I
>>> thought if it was really important to have new words they could have
>>> altered one of the other verses instead of the one everyone seems to
>>> think is the only one.
>>
>> I detest ALL national anthems!
> 
> Me too.
> 
When I lived in Aussie during the early 70s, the Advance Australia
Fairies were succeeding in getting it to replace Waltzing Matilda, a
song that is indelibly associated with the country,