The Clancy's used to get audiences worked up with an ironic song called "God Bless England." One of the verses I recall:

Oh, When we were savage, fierce and wild,
Whack fol the diddle o the di dol day (approx)
She came as a mother to her child,
Whack fol the diddle o the di dol day.
She gently raised us from the slime,
And kept our hands from hellish crime...
And she sent us to heaven in her own good time!
Whack fol the diddle o the di dol day.