Name: The Lord of the Rings (Main Theme) by Brian Sibley
Duration: 5 min 11 s
Description: Stephen Oliver's opening theme music to the BBC's 1981 radio serialisation of J R R Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings', dramatised by Brian Sibley and Michael Bakewell

Stephen Oliver's opening theme music to the BBC's 1981 radio serialisation of J R R Tolkien's 'The Lord of the Rings', dramatised by Brian Sibley and Michael Bakewell

The Lord of the Rings (Main Theme)

This is a solo bass guitar arrangement of the old song 'When Johnny Comes Marching Home'. It was written for the 'Solo Arrangements for Electric Bass' book, which can be purchased from Bassline Publishing (www.basslinepublishing.com). 

When Johnny Comes Marching Home

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Hey Slavs was the national anthem of Yugoslavia under Tito (the man pictured):

Hey, Slavs, there still lives / the word of our grandfathers
While for the nations beats the heart / of their sons!

There lives, there lives the Slavic spirit / It will live for ages!
In vain threatens the abyss of Hell / In vain the fire of thunder!

Strangely, if you go to any of the former Yugoslavia, you'll still find people who consider it their anthem. There's a lot of nostalgia for Tito's time, especially in, say, Bosnia, a country that has more issues than Croatia or Slovenia.
The words are by the poet Samuel Tomášik who wrote it to the great, highly danceable tune of Poland's anthem, Mazurek Dąbrowskiego.
For more about anthems, read my book, Republic or Death! Travels in Search of National Anthems

The Lord of the Rings (Main Theme)

Brian Sibley

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