Commonwealth Games Anthems

[Mags22]

Haven't seen award ceremonies at all - but what are our four nations using,as obviously all can't have God save the Queen ( it'd a dirge at the best of times)

[THECORBYLOON]

None of the teams uses God Save The Queen. Scotland has The Flower Of Scotland, Ulster has Londonderry Air, Wales has Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau (Land Of My Fathers) and England has Jerusalem.

[ummmm]

Do you think the people in Eire want NI?

[jeffa]

"You'll never walk alone"
The song from the American musical Carousel?

"Give Ireland back to the Irish"
The Wings track?

[Prudie]

Just found this on Wiki which I didn't know - Commonwealth Games.Prior to 2010, "Land of Hope and Glory" was used as the victory anthem of England team at the Commonwealth Games. On St George's Day, 23 April 2010, the Commonwealth Games Council for England launched a poll to allow the public to decide which anthem would be played at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India. Voters chose between "God Save The Queen", "Jerusalem" and "Land of Hope and Glory" with the winning song, "Jerusalem", being adopted as the official anthem for Team England.

I didn't get asked to vote, I'd have gone for Land of Hope and Glory

[jeffa]

Neither did I, nor would I have voted for any of them anyway. Land of Hope and Glory is, in many ways, even worse than Jerusalem in terms of its British Empire and colonial overtones. "Wider still and wider shall her bounds be set" - is that really the image that England is trying to convey these days?

"There'll Always Be An England" would have been my choice had I been afforded one.