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God Bless Your Heart Geoff!
a) for being back on da board and
b) for calling it "Canada's Dominion Day" - hurrah! I call it "Dominion Day" - find "Canada Day" soooo insipid. Youse guys get "Independence Day" - why can't we continue to call ours "Dominion Day"? more poetic, more majestic, and them bad-ass politicos is the only ones who decided it would change. We wuz never ast.
Dominon Day ROCKS!
dang, how do people have the patience to change the colour on the letters all the way through a phrase/sentence? it takes for-freakin'-ever!
Let us go in peace to love and serve the board.
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I understand that the melody came from a British drinking songVoila: http://www.bcpl.net/~etowner/anacreon.htmlno sense to me because the melody is fairly challenging to sing well, and I cannot imagine a bunch of drunks singing it without sounding like a pack of howling houndsA few drinks make you sing better, as any Irish(wo)man will tell you (Helen?  ). It's only when you've really overdone it that you start sounding better to your own ears than you actually sound. And really then it's more a matter of not giving a fig.  Nothing wrong with the odd howl. Where would the Blues be without 'em?
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I read somewhere the music is from Brit drinking song "To Anacreon in Heaven."
And lyrics were written by an Hispanic, because first line is "Oh, José, can you see?"
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Ted, it's so good to see you're back. I look forward to reading the punny posts of yores. Happy Independence day, indeed! 
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Thanks, Fish! Do you drink like one when singing this song? I must paste the lyric from the first verse below from the site you provided:
To Anacreon in Heaven, where he fat in full glee,
A few fons of Harmony fent a petition,
That He their Infpirer and Patron would be;
When this anfwer arrived from the Jolly Old Grecian
"Voice, Fiddle, and Flute,
"no longer be mute,
"I'll lend you my Name and infpire you to boot,
"And, befides, I'll infruct you like me to entwine
"The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's Vine.
The person who wrote these lyrics was obviously intoxicated! Consider a couple of those spellings! [I know, I know, already. Spare me the writing lesson! It's more fun to think the scriber was drunk!]
Bacchus regards,
WordWoozie
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You know, Ted--your sawdust and all.
Sheesh! [exasperation-e]
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Thanks, Fish! Do you drink like one when singing this song?Any excuse Actually I reckon it's one of those songs that's meant to be difficult to sing, thus resulting in an ever-increasing number of alcoholic forfeits. A very found basis for a National Anthem if you afk me.
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And the rockets' red glare,
the bombs bursting in air...
...never did figure it out: just when did the word "the" get inserted? When I was learning to sing, it wasn't.
-- Class Pedant
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Dear C.P.,
I just checked three sites, and each showed the word in question: the.
Here's the whole banana from one of those sites:
Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thro' the perilous fight,
O 'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming.
And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
II
On the shore dimly seen, thro' the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In fully glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner: oh, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
III
And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has vanished out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
IV
Oh, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand.
Between their loved home and the war's desolation:
Blest with vict'ry and peace, may the heav'n-rescued land
Praise the Power that has made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just.
And this be our motto: "In God is our trust".
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
I'll check a few more sites to see whether any omit the the in question.
WW
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