"Song of the Falklands" is the unofficial anthem of the

Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands (; es, Islas Malvinas, link=no ) is an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. The principal islands are about east of South America's southern Patagonian coast and about from Cape Dubouze ...

God Save the King "God Save the King" is the national and/or royal anthem of the United Kingdom, most of the Commonwealth realms, their territories, and the British Crown Dependencies. The author of the tune is unknown and it may originate in plainchant, b ...

" being the official). It was written in the 1930s by Christopher Lanham, a

Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in western South East England on the coast of the English Channel. Home to two major English cities on its south coast, Southampton and Portsmouth, Hampshire ...

schoolteacher, while working on

West Falkland West Falkland ( es, Isla Gran Malvina) is the second largest of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. It is a hilly island, separated from East Falkland by the Falkland Sound. Its area is , 37% of the total area of the islands. Its coastli ...

Lyrics

I In my heart there's a call for the isles far away Where the wind from the Horn often wanders at play. Where the

kelp Kelps are large brown algae seaweeds that make up the order Laminariales. There are about 30 different genera. Despite its appearance, kelp is not a plant - it is a heterokont, a completely unrelated group of organisms. Kelp grows in "underwa ...

moves and swells to the wind and the tide And penguins troop down from the lonely hillside. :Those isles of the sea are calling to me, :The smell of the camp fire a dear memory. :Though far I may roam, some day I’ll come home :To the islands, the Falklands, the isles of the sea. II There's a camp house down yonder I'm longing to see, Though it's no gilded palace it's there I would be. Just to be there again I would race o’er the foam, For that lone house so far is my own home sweet home. III Now we’re off to the Falklands, so wild and so free, Where there's tussock and

and the red

diddle-dee ''Empetrum rubrum'', known as red crowberry or diddle-dee (Chilean Spanish: '' Murtilla de Magallanes''), is a species of plant in the family Ericaceae with a distributional range in Chile from Talca (35°S) to Cape Horn (55°S); in areas of adj ...

, And the wild rugged beauty that thrills more than me Is bred in the bones on the isles of the sea.

References

External links

Song of the Falklands
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