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* In some Irish classrooms, there's a small poster detailing the full lyrics to the national anthem, ''Amhrán na bhFiann'' in both Irish and English. Nobody ever sings any verse other than the first one.
* The Greek national anthem "Hymn to Freedom" (or "Hymn to Liberty") is 158 stanzas long but only two are commonly known.
* There's also a state song with several little-known stanzas -- "Maryland, My Maryland." Only one of its nine stanzas is commonly sung today, for good reason -- it was [[To the Tune Of|originally]] a pro-Confederate rally cry that referred to "Northern scum" and called Lincoln a "Yankee despot."
* Parodied in the ''[[Discworld]]'' novels, where [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAqCbOJc6RU Ankh-Morpork's civic anthem "We Can Rule You Wholesale"] was written with this in mind: the second verse
** Also parodied in ''[[Discworld/Monstrous Regiment|Monstrous Regiment]]'' where a character deliberately sings the second verse which no-one ever remembers and is then described as having a I'm-more-patriotic-that-you grin.
* The French national anthem ''La Marseillaise'' has, in the mind of most French, only one stanza and the chorus.
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