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Time to stop asking God to save our monarch, surely! We have one of the worst and most demeaning national anthems of any. Most countries have anthems bigging up the virtues of their homeland and rattling sabres at foreigners, songs that play on the national emotions. Yet we just ask God to save the monarch!! How stupid! Makes me feel like I live in North Korea. No wonder Britain’s disintegrating. Let’s have a new British anthem about our island homeland, one that doesn’t mention God or the monarch!
If there is any place for ‘God save the Queen’ it should be reserved specifically for royal occasions, where it has a bit more relevance.
We need the new British national anthem to be about love for our common homeland and the bond between our people – but not too PC. I think the ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ melody would be good, but with the lyrics changed a bit and an extra verse or two to reflect the best of contemporary Britishness rather than the defunct British Empire.
God save our gracious Queen,
Long live our noble Queen,
God save the Queen!
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us;
God save the Queen!2. O Lord our God arise,
Scatter her enemies
And make them fall;
Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks,
On Thee our hopes we fix,
God save us all!3. Thy choicest gifts in store
On her be pleased to pour;
Long may she reign;
May she defend our laws,
And ever give us cause
To sing with heart and voice,
God save the Queen!4. Not in this land alone,
But be God’s mercies known,
From shore to shore!
Lord make the nations see,
That men should brothers be,
And form one family,
The wide world over.5. From every latent foe,
From the assassins blow,
God save the Queen!
O’er her thine arm extend,
For Britain’s sake defend,
Our mother, prince, and friend,
God save the Queen!6. Lord grant that Marshal Wade
May by thy mighty aid
Victory bring.
May he sedition hush,
And like a torrent rush,
Rebellious Scots to crush.
God save the Queen!theres the odd sabre rattled there id say
Lord grant that Marshal Wade
May by thy mighty aid
Victory bring.
May he sedition hush,
And like a torrent rush,
Rebellious Scots to crush.
God save the Queen!charmed im sure..
Dont you dare mess with me fave itune!
Who needs an official national anthem anyway? I only care about Flower Of Scotland when it’s part of an international fixture, and I’d rather they skipped it and got on with the feckin game, the rest of the time I’m not fussed to be honest. A song doesn’t make me proud to be Scottish. A song doesn’t make me proud of who I am. I’m perfectly capable of doing that myself.
David Lee Roth sang ‘This is the national anthem’ in Yankee Rose, so let’s all take a leaf out of his book.
I was thinking that it is lucky that both “King” and “Queen” have one syllable, apiece. Can you imagine how it would upset the rhythm if King were Kingle? It wouldn’t sound at all regal to say Kingle. Kingle needs a jingle; which would make a mockery of Nationalism.
Thank GOD for the uni-syllable of King and Queen. :D
Stephen1
I like it
maybe we should have something like the Eurovision Song contest
A New National Anthem Contest
Imagine the entries
No don’tDon’t change what isn’t broken
I was looking up national anthems on YouTube while ‘researching’ for my original post. Among the gems I found a Cornish national anthem, which was rather a stirring song.
Cornwall, so it now appears, rather embarassingly, has never officially been part of England. When the Saxons, Danes, Angles etc. were all united under King Alfred, first king of England, Cornwall wasn’t part of the new realm. Part of the UK, yes, definitely, but England….well, there’s nothing to say it is, apparently!If you don’t know the claimed Cornish national anthem, yerr t’ez!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMJYzyty2Z8&feature=related
It’ll bring a tear to your eye! Cornwall is a superpower, judged on the basis of anthems!!
It’s a bit like the ‘Grand old Duke of York’, but better.It is a corker.
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