The national anthem of Alderney Islands territory, separated from the Duchy of Normandy in 1204.

Alderney shares its prehistory with the other islands in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, becoming an island in the Neolithic period as the waters of the Channel rose. Formerly rich in dolmens, like the other Channel Islands, Alderney with its heritage of megaliths has suffered through the large-scale military constructions of the 19th century and also by the Germans during the World War II occupation, who left the remains at Les Pourciaux unrecognisable as dolmens. A cist survives near Fort Tourgis, and Longis Common has remains of an Iron Age site. There are traces of Roman occupation including a fort, built in the late 300s, above the island's only natural harbour.
About author : Gwyneth Herbert
Performer, composer / lyricist and musical activist Gwyneth Herbert has been hailed as one the most imaginative and idiosyncratic artists of her generation.
She has collaborated with artists, academics, communities, companies, orchestras, pole dancers and puppets to produce a huge canon of interdisciplinary work that, whilst challenging expectations, seeks to find dialogue with the world.
With connection and community at the heart of her practice, her work is rooted in a desire to question the binary, to reach across the divide… to hold both the shadows and the light and find the hope within.
The release of her seventh solo album, Letters I Haven’t Written, was accompanied by an ambitious live tour exploring the struggle for connection through film, narrative, soundscape and song. As well as inviting audience members to offer a line from a letter they wished they had sent, she met the untold stories of unheard voices in creative workshops around the country. These participants then joined her onstage as encore choirs, to sing their musical “Letters” out into the world - listening, making, sharing together.
Gwyneth is also the co-creator of seven musicals, including the record-breaking productions of “A Christmas Carol” and “The Nutcracker” at Bristol Old Vic, with writer Tom Morris and director Lee Lyford.
Her arrangement of Swahili folk song Baiskeli - taught to her by young people in workshops on the outskirts of Mombasa - was commissioned for Benjamin Britten’s centenary and simultaneously performed by 100,000 children worldwide.
Other composition work has involved major commissions from the London Sinfonietta, Mahogany Opera Group, Roman River Festival, Snape Maltings; transforming Stratford Station into a Fun Palace and recruiting a choir on wheels in Sheffield with artist Mel Brimfield, and conducting her own film score at the BFI.
Alternative anthem for Alderney adopted 2015
Author : Gwyneth Herbert
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Lyrics:
(Short version)
Alderney, Remember me, I claim you as my home
Remember me, my Alderney, wherever I may roam,
Alderney!
Alderney, Remember me, I claim you as my home
Remember me, my Alderney, wherever I may roam,
And it’s dig and dig and dodge all the thunder
and battle the hunger and dig and dig
And heave and heave and slab on the concrete
and dance to the drum beat and breathe and breathe
And build and build and brick up the wish holes
and tot up the death tolls and build and build
And haul and haul and bar all the windows and look to the shadows
and fall and fall and fall…
Alderney, Remember me, I claim you as my home
Remember me, my Alderney, wherever I may roam,
Alderney, cicatrice si joli, est-que vous vous rappeller?
Alderney, vous avez marqué ma vie, je ne vous oublierai jamais
Alderney
Alderney, Remember me, I claim you as my home
Remember me, my Alderney, wherever I may roam,
Alderney
Alderney, Remember me, I claim you as my home
Remember me, my Alderney, wherever I may roam,
Alderney