# guinness commercial

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinness-commercial/34093>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 22, 2000, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinness-commercial/34093 "2000-09-22T02:49:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![nineiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e56c9b/32.png) [@nineiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nineiron)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinness-commercial/34093/1 "2000-09-22T02:49:57Z")

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OK, I really know nothing about music, so this may be a stupid question…

In that Guinness commercial on TV, where people on a train are singing, what is the song? Hopefully, someone out there is familiar with the ad I mean. It’s definitely something I’ve heard before, but like I said, I don’t know squat about music.

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**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinness-commercial/34093/2 "2000-09-22T03:39:32Z")

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You’re not the first person to wonder about this.

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=39055](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=39055)

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guinness-commercial/34093/3 "2000-09-22T03:43:56Z")

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One assumes you are referring to this[this](http://www.adcritic.com/content/guinness-spring.html)

If so, it was Carl Orff, O Fortuna.