No, Danny Boy....

[James MacMillan]

Calm down - Don't they say that "Music has charms to soothe the savage breast?"

or something like that?

[macwilkin]

Isn't there another popular US song called "My Country 'Tis of Thee" that is just different lyrics set to "God Save the Queen"? A bit funny to have a patriotic song based off the anthem of your former ruler, I think.

Also "God Save our Native Land". Nothing really funny about it, since many aspects of American government come from the mother country.

When I teach the American Rebellion...oops, Revolution in my history classes, I always mention what the regimental history of the Black Watch says about it:

We can boast no Battle Honours for our part
in the American War of Independance,
because it was rightly decreed that Battle Honours
should not be granted for a war with our kith and kin.

T.

[Yaish]

During the War of 1812 (and probably before) the British soldiers called Americans "Cousin Jonathan", to denote the still close ties even with to the nation they were at war with.