Quote from: WeeWars on 14 January 2016, 01:59:45 AM
I thought it was Knees Up Mother Brown.

It's got to be Flanders and Swann

IanS 

I think it should be this (from 1m 40s onward I tell thee)



Changed me mind. I want this!

Flanders and Swan.

The English have fought just about everyone, so why have the national anthem just insulting the Scots, lets annoy them all!

I think anthems should in some way  reflect the past and ancestry of a country

So could you just not take a verse from each of  German, French and each of The Scandinavian countries and mix them up😀

I'd be tempted to go all Euro, and use Ken McLeod's quote, maybe set to some German techno-noise.

""Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones of our ancestors, and the stones of their works, are everywhere. Our liberties were won in wars and revolutions so terrible that we do not fear our governors: they fear us. Our children giggle and eat ice-cream in the palaces of past rulers. We snap our fingers at kings. We laugh at popes. When we have built up tyrants, we have brought them down. And we have nuclear *f***ing* weapons.""

Otherwise, perhaps just sing Eton Rifles. Sums us up pretty well, sadly.

Quote""Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones of our ancestors, and the stones of their works, are everywhere. Our liberties were won in wars and revolutions so terrible that we do not fear our governors: they fear us. Our children giggle and eat ice-cream in the palaces of past rulers. We snap our fingers at kings. We laugh at popes. When we have built up tyrants, we have brought them down. And we have nuclear *f***ing* weapons.""

I rather like that, where did it come from, the only Ken McLeod I can find on Google has a lot of stuff about Buddhism which doesn't chime quite right with the quote.

Second hit on Google

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_MacLeod

Even misspelt without the "a", my fault

I highly recommend his books - very good reading, especially the "Fall Revolution" series. That quote came from a response to someone posting Heinlein's rather unpleasant and inaccurate "cowards and weaklings" quote about the glorious founders of the Americas.

Never mind Europe, you might as well lob the whole world in. And surely when the Anglo-Saxons began to settle they must have fancied some of the Britons and vice versa, so you can't leave the Celts out.

How about:

Engerland, Engerland, Engerland ,(pause for breath) Engerland, Engerland,Engerland, (repeat as often as you wish!

I think that's the one!

Lager-lager-lager!

Quote from: Leman on 15 January 2016, 08:18:50 AM
Never mind Europe, you might as well lob the whole world in. And surely when the Anglo-Saxons began to settle they must have fancied some of the Britons and vice versa, so you can't leave the Celts out.

Good  Idea!  So, perhaps to emphase England's historic mission, something like the old Coca Cola advert, "I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony" would be appropriate?   

Mollinary

Think you could replace the words with, "I'd like to rule the world again, In a red coat like Michael Caine." Should please the Daily Mail readers!

Now I do like the song "Born Slippy" but, my word, reading the lyrics they make absolutely no sense what-so-ever. Like if you were on drugs or something! 

Also, I'd rather have a pint of John Smith's "Magnet" Best Bitter. [this maybe only available here in the North East?]

Quote from: Leman on 16 January 2016, 02:35:56 PM
Think you could replace the words with, "I'd like to rule the world again, In a red coat like Michael Caine." Should please the Daily Mail readers!

Daily Mail?

They won't be choosing anything by Foreigner then?