Tribal Songs of the Andromeda

by arthur jarvinen

copyright © 2006


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THE NATIONAL ANTHEM OF TARAGON

The Taragon have no nations. They are all simply Taragon.

But they have heard tell of nations with national anthems,
pledges, and oaths of allegiance. Finding these ideas most
curious, and wanting to learn more, they sought out some
representative compilations, and listened. Upon repeated
listening they came to the conclusion that few of the anthems
are really very good, and that most of them were not even
composed to be national songs. The nations just stole them
and put stupid words to them. But even so, the Taragon were
amused enough to follow suit and appropriate some material
from previous sources into something like a national anthem
of their own.

Now, all the children of Taragon are taught to recite the anthem –

with fingers crossed behind their backs.