Thread: Football World Cup 2014
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Old 19-06-2014, 23:08   #585
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Re: World Cup 2014

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Originally Posted by Damien View Post
They are right. England can use God Save the Queen if they want. It's the English and British National Anthem. Wales would be free to use it too.
The Scottish don't like to use it due to the 6th verse:

Lord grant that Marshal Wade
May by thy mighty aid
Victory bring
May he sedition hush
And like a torrent rush
Rebellious Scots to crush
God save the King

Whilst the sixth verse is hardly ever sung, it asks God to come to the aid of Marshal George Wade, who was sent to quell rebellious Scottish highlanders in the wake of the Jacobite rising of 1715.
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