Well folks, I am claiming back my right to wind up the loonies. I have just had the biggest laugh of my life! I found the website an Anthem4England; now this is another of your typical English Nationalist sites with all of the usual stuff, except that it has a poll where one can vote for a new English anthem, and this is what gave that laugh that I mentioned; one of the options is “Swing Low Sweet Chariot“. Now I am not sure if the people who set this up are aware of exactly where this song comes from, but I have been aware since my Grandmother told me at a very early age that it is in fact a Negro Spiritual (yes I know that “Negro” is not politically correct, but then that is the sort of person that I am; take it or leave it) which I would have thought runs against the whole ethos of English Nationalism!
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