God Save the King (or Queen), the English national anthem. The authorship of both words and music is credited usually to Henry Carey. The story is that he was aided in composing the music by Dr. Thornton of Bath, some say by Christopher Smith, Handel's clerk. The song was published first in Gentleman's Magazine in 1745 in honor of George II. The music, according to another account, was composed by Anthony Young, an organist in London. Still another story is to the effect that the song was written originally for King James II, and read "God Save Great James our King," and that after the abdication of James, it was sung no more until 1740, when it was revived for King George. The tune was adopted in France in 1776. The national songs of Denmark, Prussia, and Germany are set to this air. It is found in Beethoven's National Symphony and in more than one of Weber's compositions. Our own America, written in 1843 by Samuel Francis Smith, is sung to the same tune.