Highland Cathedral Towers Over the Flower When It Comes to an Anthem, Argues Poet

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HIGHLAND Cathedral, the 1980s tune that is now a staple of school concerts and pipe bands, is being proposed as a Scottish national song to replace the ubiquitous Flower of Scotland.

Evoking the spirit of Robert Burns, Donald Smith, a playwright and poet, has written a new set of lyrics to the melody and is challenging others to better them.

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Highland Cathedral Towers Over the Flower When It Comes to an Anthem, Argues Poet

Smith claims that Flower of Scotland, the Corries' tune written in the late 1960s using the battle of Bannockburn as a theme, is "historically backward-looking and anti-English - and the ...

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