As National Anthems Go

Bobbisox1 | 18:58 Mon 28th Jun 2021 | ChatterBank

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I like the French one, it’s got oomph!

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surreyman

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South Africa for me

ichkeria

“ Mozz @21.38 ,Never knew N/I had a football team, are you sure? ,or are you back on the weed again.

I think Mozz was on about England.
I was talking about NI.
Great to see someone so unashamedly admitting their ignorance :-)

perseverer

The problem with Jerusalem as an anthem is that the answer to the first few lines is a repeated no!

Hopkirk

I don't understand why you should want build Jerusalem here.

Anyway, isn't it unpatriotic to suggest we have 'dark, satanic mills'?

Mozz71

Gully, take your head out of your arris mate, and try and contribute more than just abuse to a thread.

Yup, I misread Ichy's post and missed that he was talking about Northern Ireland rather than England. Don't they use Son of Ulster at some events? Maybe that would be a better choice.

Jackdaw33

I rather like Mae Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, the Welsh anthem. It is much better sung in Welsh than in English.

JimF

Jerusalem is Victorian ultra-patriotism at its most absolutely ridiculous! Big empire not enough - let's just assume that Jesus visited the country. I mean, he must have, right?

Mozz71

Well, we could always use Three Lions if nobody wants Jerusalem.

jno

JimF, the legend of Jesus's visit was around a millennium before the empire - St Augustine wrote to the Pope that he'd been told of a divinely constructed church, apparently at Glastonbury, when he came to convert the heathens in the 500s.

Whether likely or not, it's certainly possible: there was a lot of international trade with the west country: bronze age rulers needed tin to make bronze, and there are few countries with a large supply of it. Britain was well known by Jesus's time to be one of the few.

Jackdaw33

I read some time ago the legend that Joseph of Arimathea, he who provided Jesus with a tomb, visited Glastonbury. That would have to have been in the 1st century AD.