English National Anthem?

[swanleyhoop]

How many people know the second verse of God Save The Queen?

Do you mean the one which starts
"Thy choicest gifts in store..."

That's actually the third verse!
The second one is never used because it's jingoistic to the point of racist.

[James1979]

land of hope and glory...great tune and the words relate to the country too

[Jamie]

How many people know the second verse of God Save The Queen?

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.

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.

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

[DeepcutHoop]

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.

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.

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

Arise rhyming with enemies?!

Cause and voice?

Who wrote this crap?!

[stanley75]

Most under rated verse imo....

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

which sort of explains why the sweaties lean toward flower of scotland

[swanleyhoop]

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.

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.

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

You can see why the royals miss out verse two and jump to verse 3!

[qpr]

They booed God Save the Queen when it was played for us.

That's almost like clapping someones death, awful :yush:

[UpperP]

Hate god save the Queen as our anthem as it relates to Britain and not England. our National song is Land of hope and glory which is used at the commonwealth games and always played straight after GSTQ at twickenham at every match,This is which i beleive we should adopt for all english national team games, Football,Cricket,Rugby etc or we should allow a composer/songwriter to write a new anthem for England

Dave I believe there is a verse in God Save the Queen about the English doing the Jocks but it doesn't get used any more.

[Nik29]

Singing the national anthem won't p.iss them off at all.. they hear it during 45 other games a season every season anyway.

I personally don't see the point in singing about England etccc against them when loads of our players and fans aren't English, and loads of their players ARE.

[Mellowhoop]

I for one will not be singing it. I dont like it..im as english as the next but our country is about as english as clinton morisson is irish...Qpr songs for me and as som1 else said they get it sung every game of the year apart from swansea.

[waterbuffalo]

So what would you say it is?

Those that attended the Wales v England game in Cardiff recently what was sung by the English supporters, or played before the game for England.

Wales have and played their own, i missed the game so cannot comment.

I know this is a day for club rather than country but it's St.Georges day ffs and we are an English club playing against a Welsh club in Wales on our National Day. Surely people can see that, plus it will wind them up too.

QPR wants to sing God Save The Queen!!???
Over my dead socialist white city previously unemployed body.

[dpmd]

Got to use the classic to Jay Bothroyd from the home game: "You might as well be Welsh". One of my top 5 songs of the season.

[waterbuffalo]

That's almost like clapping someones death, awful :yush:

yeah and in hampden you could not hear it for the whistling, remember when Paul Scholes scored and put his hand to his ear?
God that was beautiful.

[dave58]

If not land of hope and glory if it's to british then what about the song They'll always be an England

[waterbuffalo]

******** man, you represent south west London, not England, that is ********.