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"Rally Round the West Indies" is the anthem of the West Indies cricket team. It was written in 1987 by David Rudder.

Background
Rudder wrote the song in 1987. In 1999, the West Indies Cricket Board approached Rudder and asked if they could use it as the West Indies' anthem in time for the upcoming tour by the Australian cricket team in the West Indies in 1998–99. Rudder agreed but the board said that the lyrics needed to be changed slightly. This was due to the original lines referring to islands when Guyana is not an island.