To teach DS the words to 'the red flag'?

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I can't stand 'o Christmas tree' and don't know the French words to the same tune but have always found the words to the red flag quite rousing.

DH says I am terrible for doing this.

The Internationale is too hard to sing in English!!

I'm listening to a slow version of the red flag with tears streaming down my face - pathetic! But I am pregnant so have an excuse..

My 3 yo LOVES "The Manchester Rambler" by Ewan Maccoll

When my dh was in hospital a choir used to come round the wards at Christmas and they asked for requests.My dh asked dd who was 11 to ask them for Tannenbaum.He then sang The Red Flag very loudly.I was rather embarrassed but dd said she was proud of him especially when several other patients joined in.I too find it a very moving/stirring song but there is a time and place for it.It is not a Christmas song.

YANBU. But I would say that

And completely agree about God Save the Queen. We can surely find something a bit more rousing!

The Red Flag will do more for his sex life. O Christmas Tree will turn him into Michael Barrymore. Fact.

I was taught how to sing it when I was very young. Mind you, I was also the sort of child who got kicked out of the Brownies for refusing to sing the national anthem as it went against my republican principles, and got my entire class to form a picket line and go on strike at the foot of a mountain in protest at being told to climb it (to the the great distress of the ex-para mountaineering instructor), so it really depends on what sort of child you want

Can I ask how old you are? We were teaching Year 6 'O Tannenbaum' this week and I said to the other TA and teachers that I could barely resist the urge to sing 'The Red Flag'. I was met with completely blank faces. I wondered whether it has missed a generation or something.

YANBU, My mother was singing 'The Red Flag' to me before I was old enough to go to school! It's perfectly normal behaviour

I'm another one who certainly was not brought up on the Red Flag, so interesting for the info - I'd be v proud of a child like you, Jennyrosity!

Do you think This Land is my Land or the collected works of Billy Bragg count as alternatives? Buffalo springfield's For What It's Worth? (Just because it's a favourite of mine...) Bob Dylan? Joni Mitchell/ Joan Baez - how traditional are we talking really?

You might want to learn the name of it before you try and teach it.....its called the Internationale not the red flag.

Ignore me, i confused myself!

Otter, I'm 27. I was raised by raving liberals. My dad was a left wing political exile, mum an ex commune dweller etc.

What a great thread. This year I had the very sad but also moving and lovely experience of singing 'The Red Flag' at the graveside of a dear friend.

'Flower of Scotland', on the other hand, is the work of two Satans in woolly jumpers and nothing could induce me to sing it.

Salme (class before country, always)

neuro it is rightly called the Internationale, though, isn't it?

I love Between the Wars as an mini-anthem.

Silent night is excellent sung by a gaggle of warbling Germans :)

Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht,
Alles schläft; einsam wacht
Nur das traute hochheilige Paar.
Holder Knabe im lockigen Haar,
Schlaf in himmlischer Ruh!
Schlaf in himmlischer Ruh!

Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht,
Hirten erst kundgemacht
Durch der Engel Halleluja,
Tönt es laut von fern und nah:
Christ, der Retter ist da!
Christ, der Retter ist da!

Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht,
Gottes Sohn, o wie lacht
Lieb' aus deinem göttlichen Mund
, Da uns schlägt die rettende Stund'.
Christ, in deiner Geburt!
Christ, in deiner Geburt!

thats what I thought LineRunner, but I was actually conflating two songs in my head. I know them both but they had somehow amalgamated for me.

or how about this version ?