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Originally Posted by Brandye
The Fourth is widely celebrated in Europe. Several years ago, I was in Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, watching a "real" American celebration:... lots of patriotic music - some of which sounded disturbingly English to me, but the Danes seemed to know American words.
We Scots missed our chance at the Battle of Bannockburn!
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Some American patriotic music sounds "disturbingly English." Well "Yankee Doodle" was an English tune, "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean" uses the same tune as "Britannia, the Pride of the Ocean," and " My Country 'tis of Thee" is the same melody as "God Save the Queen." I am sure there are other examples. Also many of our traditional tunes are in fact traditional Scots or Irish melodies or variations on them; brought by the Ulster Scot settlers in the Southern Appalachian mountains. Thanks to the Scots the Americans were able to invent Country Music and Rock n Roll and Gospel music; the latter two being a fusion of African and Gaelic influences.
You missed your chance at Bannockburn? How is that? I always thought you won.