[SOC] Empire State

[Chris Redding]

Nothing wrong with the Marseillaise...sounds just fine to me...a song for
heroes (we remember the resistance/maquis).
Sing it at march tempo, sing it loud, sing it with pride, then buy some
British beef :-)

Chris GQ4PDJ

----- Original Message -----
From: Claude TERRIER - F5PBL <f5pbl@qsl.net>
To: <soc@mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: [SOC] Empire State


> <<
> There have been occasional proposals to replace it, but not many countries
seem
> to make such changes (Canada
> excepted).
> >>
>
> What's happening agn with Canada ??... uh-huuh ... Ok, you are speaking
for
> Canada, not Quebec, you are safe ;o))
>
> Besides that, today (or was it yesterday), I've read that Spain is looking
for
> help : their national hymn does not have any lyrics (!!!) and they want to
put
> some words on the music ... SOC friends, this will be our next task : to
make a
> proposal to EA0JC.
>
> Now, speaking abt changes on hymns, an other French stupid story. You
surely
> know (I hope ;o)) that our hymn is called "La Marseillaise" and is mostly
a
> military song. But do you know that one of the first task achieved by each
new
> president, at least since 1974 with some "nude crane Pdt" we had then, is
to
> change the ... tempo of our hymn !!
>
> One's never now how busy can be the president of a nation ...
>
> 73!
> Claude, F5PBL
>
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