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"The White Cockade" is a Scots song written by Robert Burns in 1790. The tune used for the song was later used by the Irish journalist Jim Connell for his socialist anthem, "The Red Flag".

"The Red Flag"
Jim Connell was a socialist from County Meath, Ireland, who was active in the trade unionist movement in London and worked as a journalist at the newspaper, The Labour Leader. Connell was inspired by the London Dock Strike of 1889 to write a socialist anthem entitled "The Red Flag", which was published in the newspaper Justice. It quickly gained popularity throughout the socialist and trade unionist movements. In 1895, Adolphe Smith promoted the tune of the German carol "O Tannenbaum" as an alternative to "The White Cockade", a change which Connell was strongly opposed to. The Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw compared the tune of "O Tannenbaum" to "the funeral march of a fried eel".

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