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From: preece@uicsl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Reply to Chip Hitchcock (and J. Mcgh - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 5-Jan-84 22:37:00 EST
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uicsl!preece    Jan  5 09:22:00 1984

					  (BTW, I once read in a
	childrens' book about the US that TSSB was originally a military
	march.  Must have been a very strange march, because it is in
	three-quarter time.  I have a mental image of lines of 18th century
	soldiers waltzing into battle.) 
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My recollection is that The Star Spangled Banner got it's tune from
an English drinking song (the title 'To Anacreon in Heaven' comes
unbidden from the depths of my memory and may be totally wrong).
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	Canada has a very nice anthem, and if you can get CBC radio, listen
	to it when they sign off.  (They used to play first "Oh, Canada",
	then "God Save the Queen", but, now in these degenerate days of
	Liberal governments, they no longer play GStQ.)
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Didn't they just change their anthem, with a lot of fuss, a few years
ago?  I like the new one, too, but it sounds a lot better in French
than in English.

scott preece
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