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"Rule, Britannia!" is a British patriotic song, originating from the 1740 poem "Rule, Britannia" by James Thomson [1] and set to music by Thomas Arne in the same year. [2] It is most strongly associated with the Royal Navy , but is also used by the British Army .
James Thomson (c. 11 September 1700 – 27 August 1748) was a Scottish poet and playwright, known for his poems The Seasons and The Castle of Indolence, and for the lyrics of "Rule, Britannia! Scotland, 1700–1725
Thomas Augustine Arne (/ ɑːr n /; 12 March 1710 – 5 March 1778) was an English composer.He is best known for his patriotic song "Rule, Britannia!" and the song "A-Hunting We Will Go", the latter composed for a 1777 production of The Beggar's Opera, which has since become popular as a folk song and a nursery rhyme. [1]
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'Rule,_Britannia!'_(United_States_Army_Strings).oga (Ogg Vorbis sound file, length 1 min 17 s, 344 kbps, file size: 3.14 MB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.
I believe that the version known as "Married to a Mermaid" is a music-hall song composed in 1866 by Arthur Lloyd which certainly USES the chorus of "Rule Britannia" as a musical element but is really a comic song in its own right and not a version of "Rule, Britannia!" per se. Mooncow 17:48, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
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Christopher Pitt, The Aeneid of Virgil (Books 1-4 first published 1736; see also An Essay on Vergil's Aeneid 1728, Works of Virgil 1753) [2] Aquila Rose, Poems on Several Occasions, English Colonial America (posthumous) [3] James Thomson, Alfred, including "Ode in Honour of Great Britain," that is, "Rule Britannia"