to be embarrassed about our national anthem?

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its a hideous depressing sounding dirge

not meaning to offend anyone but genuinely interested in how others feel

Maybe you'd prefer this instead?

Tremble, tyrants and traitors
The shame of all good men
Tremble! Your parricidal schemes
Will finally receive their just reward
....
Who regret to take up arms against us.
But not these bloody despots,
These accomplices of Bouillé,
All these tigers who pitilessly,
Ripped out their mothers' wombs!

I remember going to a Scotland football match as a young child, had never been to a football match before and hearing Flower of Scotland being sung. I still remember it clearly, it definitely is a great song, Pictish.

I would go for Highland cathedral in 2nd place.

I vow to thee my country is a bit rubbish, but anything is better than god save the queen.

Welshandproud :) :) :)

Beat that England!

Its a song with spirit that reflects our history and national pride

?

At our village Remembrance Sunday service in the memorial hall we sang Mae Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau followed by God Save The Quee, it sounded wierd.

Welshandproud

Welshandproud

Hwyl! Cymru am Byth! XXXX Even if the English win we Welsh are united and a proud nation.

Bydd Cymru yn dod ynol! :) x

Nos da
we will live to fight another day!

Nos da welshandproud

God save the queen is bloody awful and TBH I know quite a few people who refuse to sing the damn thing - doesn't mean they are not patriotic, just means they dislike the national anthem refering to someone "born to reign over us" and all that crap. Not to mention anyone who doesn't believe in God or the monarchy is going to be left feeling cold by it. There really isn't any mention of national pride or things that make Britain great (especially in the first verse which is the one most people know). It doesn't make me feel patriotic at all, it makes me cringe!

My vote goes to Land of hope and glory or Jerusalem, though I would quite honestly prefer the Birdy song to what we've got now .

yabu

bloody hell
I started this and then went and watched the rugby

never realised so much was to be said lol

yes I meant God save the queen

its a britsh national anthem so england doesn't even have its own AND its totally shite

I feel scottish in a silly way as my dh was and two of my kids were born in scotland

I'm not but by fuck the flower of scotland is much better

I agree - it wasn't even written as a National Anthem - it was adopted as it.

Other countries have written new anthems - why can't we???

exactly baroque

you should be embaressed, its not a national anthem, its yay one person.
Pile of wank.

IT always feels to me (when I'm playing or singing it) a bit like a dirge.

It doesn't have that uplifting feel like so many others have.

I vote for the Proclaimer's 5000 Miles for the Scottish National Anthem.

Can you imagine a crowd of 200,000 rugby fans hollering "If I haver" and the dum de dum bit at the Queen?

YANBU, it's the dreariest anthem imaginable, my heart sinks lower than my boots when I have to sing it. And one can't even indulge enjoyable shocked giggles at the embarrassing verse because it always gets left out.... Rule Britannia would be far more fun or indeed Jerusalem.

On the subject of anthems, I think the Russian/ex-Soviet anthem is fantastic... whoever composed that knew what they were about!

Dewin - "the ones speaking Brittonic, which developed into Welsh..." AND CORNISH.

Sorry, just had to get that in, the Welsh and Cornish are the leftover Britons. :o Our "national anthem" is even more bonkers though, being about a bishop who almost nobody could tell you anything about.

I agree that God Save the Queen is crap, but then as another one of those Celtic renegades I can't imagine being behind it whatever it was. Jerusalem is at least a beautiful song though, even if written by a madman. Also questions like "And was the holy Lamb of God on England's pleasant pastures seen?" do beg the answer "absolutely not".

Like this as a kind of anti-English national anthem

God Save the Queen is a friggin waltz! I always thought National Anthems were supposed to stir the heart etc. Waltzes are never going to do that... compare Strauss' waltzes to Radetzky March for example...

Presuming this thread's been inspired by the Rugby, we've got the fab Italian Anthem to come this weekend with it's very random mid-section (can't remember exactly how it goes but I do know I listen out for it every year).

Somewhere else uses the same tune as God Save the Queen I think....Lichtenstein perhaps? Yep - that's the one.

I think we should have Right Said Fred by Bernard Cribbins.

Or

I'm too Sexy by Right Said Fred.

That would be great at the Olympics.

I only really like the Welsh one.

God Save The Queen is a joke. Jerusalem would be ok.

YANBU - it's a dirge. I'd vote for the Archers theme.

YANBU, sucks ass.

It's awful. I always mime to it

I'm liking Idlewilds suggestions of Land of Hope and Glory complete with bobbing.
Problem is England are not allowed to be patriotic. Everything that stands for England has been stolen and used by racist bigotted arseholes.

I also think that footballers should be made to sing. You watch the lineups, in the football one player may be singing. Watch the rugby there might be one player not singing.