It’d be utterly bonkers tbh. I do think the is a UK anthem is awful but there must be a middle ground between current dirge and 90s pop anthem.
Choose a decent poem (there are loads) rewrite to have a catchy chorus set it to something uplifting think the battle from gladiator.
The Lion’s Green Domain
(Verse 1)
From Dover’s white and fractured stone,
To where the northern moors are blown,
She wraps herself in cloaks of green,
A quiet and defiant queen.
But in her breast, the embers glow—
A fire the heedless world won't know.
(Pre-Chorus)
Let tempests howl and tyrants stare,
Her blood is salt, her breath is air!
Through every age, she bares her teeth,
With iron soil and roots beneath.
(Chorus)
The ancient blood begins to roar,
On every tide, on every shore!
For England stands, eternal, grand—
A blood-bought, fierce, and sacred land!
The lion wakes, the valleys sing,
And to the heavens, we shall cling!
(Verse 2)
Her sons are forged of oak and grit,
Where lightning strikes, they welcome it.
No foreign drum shall ever break
The spirit of the fen and lake.
(Pre-Chorus)
Let tempests howl and tyrants stare,
Her blood is salt, her breath is air!
Through every age, she bares her teeth,
With iron soil and roots beneath.
(Chorus)
The ancient blood begins to roar,
On every tide, on every shore!
For England stands, eternal, grand—
A blood-bought, fierce, and sacred land!
The lion wakes, the valleys sing,
And to the heavens, we shall cling!
(Bridge)
For every drop of crimson shed,
A rose shall bloom where cowards fled!
So raise the banner, sharp and bright,
A soaring soul of blinding light!
(Chorus)
The ancient blood begins to roar,
On every tide, on every shore!
For England stands, eternal, grand—
A blood-bought, fierce, and sacred land!
The lion wakes, the valleys sing,
And to the heavens, we shall cling!
I feel like there’s a tv show in there somewhere set all the chosen poems to orchestral music and broadcast in a night at the proms style and vote for your favourite.