>A movement is now afoot to designate another, less
>offensive tune as the official State Anthem, much as folks in neighboring
>Virginia periodically lobby to deep six the racist lyrics to "Carry Me
>Back to Old Virginny" .... But I digress .... :-)
 
I find that state officials often don't even bother checking the lyrics to
a song before advocating its adoption as an anthem.  Not too long ago, a
state senator in New Jersey tried to have "Born to Run" adopted as a state
song simply because Bruce Springsteen is from NJ - disregarding the fact
that the lyrics include such lovely sentiments as "baby, this town rips the
bones from your back/it's a death-trap, it's a suicide rap/we gotta get out
while we're young".
 
ObHoCo (well, sort of):  Cornell also uses the same tune as "O Tannenbaum"
for one of its songs - "The Evening Song."  But I've never heard it sung
anywhere near a hockey game.
 
And as for national anthems - I know people have strong opinions about it.
But if you don't want the Canadian anthem sung at your school, that's fine,
don't sing the Canadian anthem at your school - as long as you let other
schools sing whatever they choose to sing at their own games.  Seems to me
there something ironic about that in terms of freedom of speech...
 
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