World in Union always announced the RWC to me and I miss it
I'm fed up with Non, je ne regrette rien it's getting irritating
I'm fed up with Non, je ne regrette rien it's getting irritating
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Anybody else missing "World in Union"?
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It always amuses me that they stole the tune from I Vow to Thee My Country. During the 1991 world cup I was forced to go to church and when they started singing the hymn I thought they were singing the rugby world cup anthem 
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Just priming everyone for England actually having their own anthem in the near future.
It's Holst, stolen for the hymnIt always amuses me that they stole the tune from I Vow to Thee My Country. During the 1991 world cup I was forced to go to church and when they started singing the hymn I thought they were singing the rugby world cup anthem
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Here you go. I believe this is the 2023 version.
Still not a patch on the 1995 version but I guess that's the first version I heard also the first time I heard the tune so I get confused when when I vow to thee my country plays. I guess lyrically there's something more to the 1995 version anyway due to being part of post apartheid SA.
Personally I love the lyrics as well they're simple but speak to sporting ideals, world cups and well as more global things in a generalised way.
Top marks to the guy who thought of it.
Personally I love the lyrics as well they're simple but speak to sporting ideals, world cups and well as more global things in a generalised way.
Top marks to the guy who thought of it.
PJ Powers, was one of the best versions with the background choir
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Did Floerence do one? I think your mixing up Paloma Faith.
After Welch's Stand By Me I can't imagine she'd butcher it like Paloma did.
I am indeed, apologies. She butchered it
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Paloma's was by far the worst version IMO.
It always amuses me that they stole the tune from I Vow to Thee My Country. During the 1991 world cup I was forced to go to church and when they started singing the hymn I thought they were singing the rugby world cup anthem
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I love/hate the song. It's beautiful but i can't think of another tune that provokes such a volume of mixed feelings.
