Comments by "Elaine" (@Petal4822) on "BBC defends decision to drop lyrics from patriotic songs at Last Night of the Proms- BBC News" video.

  1. Rule Britannia is a song about the Royal Navy’s pivotal role in ending the large scale enslaving of Europeans by Barbary Pirates over 300 years ago. It had nothing to do with the - ‘Trans-Atlantic Black African Slave Trade’ or colonisation.
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  2. Rule Britannia is a song about the Royal Navy’s pivotal role in ending the large scale enslaving of Europeans by Barbary Pirates over 300 years ago. It had nothing to do with the - ‘Trans-Atlantic Black African Slave Trade’ or colonisation.
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  3. Maybe scrap it for this year and have it next year
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  4. Hail Sagan It is always an opera singer who sings the verses and the audience sings along with the chorus. So In keeping with the utmost care and British traditions would it not be appropriate to allow an opera singer to sing the verses and allow the chorus to be lyric free.
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  5. Peanut Dust I totally agree with you - It is always an opera singer who sings the verses and the audience sings along with the chorus. So In keeping with British traditions, an opera singer should continue to sing the verses and allow the chorus to be lyric free.
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