The National Anthem

I’ve been thinking the same Floradora9 we need a good uplifting anthem about our country, and God Save The King is a real draggy song anyway.

DH was hoping our new Monarch may change our dreary National Anthem but not heard a mention of it.

It’s a dirge.

It's so awful.

Billy Connolly on the National Anthem 😂

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9nnnM-__JQ

It’s fine as it is.

It is a dirge and we should be singing about our diverse country, not the king.
It was actually originally sung when there was a threat from Prince Charles Edward Stewart to please one of the Hanoverian Georges. I asked the same question about two years ago. Got lots of answers but no agreement.
Maybe with a bit of luck, King Charles will commission a new one. Or I vow to thee my country or land of hope and Glory if not a new one?Come quickly to mind.

I Vow to thee my Country
and Land of Hope and Glory are good tunes, but the words are every bit as unsuitable as God Save The King.

My OH has been saying for years that we need a more uplifting National Anthem. ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ would be my choice, but open to other suggestions.

Jerusalem

Do Wales, Scotland and NI have ‘official’ national anthems? They each have their own football and rugby teams and I can’t imagine they all sing God save the current hereditary monarch.

I think that if we are going to change it we need a new one to be written, with words that are not about spreading our boundaries wider or making us mightier yet .

Something that represents all races and religions would be good, and if it talks about unity and pulling together, and has a jolly tune, so much the better.

Jerusalem was a protest song.

I’m always bemused as to why England think it is their anthem to sing. IMHO it could equally be claimed and used by Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. England’s rugby team does the same. Just a thought!

grannydarkhair

Billy Connolly on the National Anthem 😂

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9nnnM-__JQ

Totally agree good enough for the Archers good enough for everyone.

It is the ‘official’ national anthem for the whole UK, but the other nations use their own ‘unofficial’ national anthems in preference. Wales may have lost at the football tonight, but we won on the national anthem front.

That Welsh anthem brings me to tears everytime I hear it .
I'm the same with this ,which I would be happy to have as the Scottish one as F of Scotland is a dreary dirge

youtu.be/rmxqjzCxNEE

Been discussed so many times and though I don’t mind the National Anthem for UK, espeI agree. National Anthem for UK, but I’d love something to sing when parts of the UK are playing against each other.

Blossoming

Do Wales, Scotland and NI have ‘official’ national anthems? They each have their own football and rugby teams and I can’t imagine they all sing God save the current hereditary monarch.

Wales has an Anthem, Scotland sings an unofficial Anthem (but I'm sure the Scots could choose something more uplifting), N Ireland doesn't have one as far as I know.

I think we need something forward looking for a progressive country F of Scotland is dragging us back and the past has gone we have to look to a better future .315 years of WM rule hasn't been a success for us ,we can and will do mch better for ourselves.

Maybe Living on a Prayer would do. Quite apt and everyone always sings along.

Callistemon21

Blossoming

Do Wales, Scotland and NI have ‘official’ national anthems? They each have their own football and rugby teams and I can’t imagine they all sing God save the current hereditary monarch.

Wales has an Anthem, Scotland sings an unofficial Anthem (but I'm sure the Scots could choose something more uplifting), N Ireland doesn't have one as far as I know.

Northern Ireland is the Londonderry Air, aka Danny Boy. None of them are official though, they are not recognised legally - not that it matters at all, they are adopted.

I think for England to change theirs though it will be people power at sporting events that does it, I don’t think a song is chosen, it’s more that it chooses you? (Eg why was Sweet Caroline the song for the Queen’s Jubilee?)

I can’t say I’m particularly bothered as how often is it actually used apart from the football? Do you remember when it used to play at the cinema at the end of the film and we all had to stand? Not any more. Most National Anthems are pretty dire imo and few get sung just mimed to.

Zoejory

Maybe Living on a Prayer would do. Quite apt and everyone always sings along.

😂