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CHAPTER VI
THE NATIONAL ANTHEM "GOD SAVE THE QUEEN"
WILL it ever be definitely known who wrote and composed our national anthem—an anthem that is familiar all the whole wide world over ? During the Chicago Exhibition a body of World's Fair representees of twenty-seven different nationalities, speaking when at home fifteen different languages, crossed the Canadian frontier at Gretna in Manitoba on August 29th, 1893, for the purpose of heartily cheering Queen Victoria and singing " God Save the Queen." Yet particulars concerning the origin of the melody are so conflicting that we doubt if it will ever be absolutely proved whence it sprang. The vast majority of those who have gone into the subject incline to favour the claim put forward for Henry Carey, the writer and original composer of the immortal" Sally in Our Alley/' whose son, as soon as he was old enough, stoutly maintained that he (Henry Carey) and he alone
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