There's a poem that I've set to this very useful melody:
>SONGS OF EDUCATION
>Gilbert Keith Chesterton
>
>The earth is a place on which England is found
>And you find it however you twirl the globe round
>For the spots are all red and the rest is all grey,
>And that is the meaning of Empire Day.
>
>Gibraltar's a rock that you see very plain
>And attached to its base is the district of Spain
>And the island of Malta is marked farther on
>Where some natives were known as the Knights of St. John.
>Then Cyprus, and east to the Suez Canal
>That was conquered by Dizzy and Rothschild his pal
>With the sword of the Lord in the old English way;
>And that is the meaning of Empire Day.
>
>Our principal imports come far as Cape Horn
>For necessities, cocoa; for luxuries, corn;
>Thus Brahmins are born for the rice fields, and thus
>The Gods made the Greeks to grow currants for us.
>Of earth's other tributes are plenty to choose,
> Tobacco and petrol and Jazzing and Jews
>The Jazzing will pass but the Jews they will stay;
>And that is the meaning of Empire Day.
>
>Our principal exports, all labeled and packed
>At the ends of the earth are delivered intact.
>Our soap or our salmon can travel in tins
>Between the two poles and as like as two pins.
>So that Lancashire merchants whenever they like
>Can water the beer of a man in Klondike
>Or poison the meat of a man in Bombay;
>And that is the meaning of Empire Day.
>
>The day of St. George is a nasty affair
>Which Russians and Greeks are permitted to share;
>The day of Trafalgar is Spanish in name
>And the Spaniards refuse to pronounce it the same.
>But the Day of the Empire from Canada came
>With Morden and Borden and Beaverbrook's fame
>And Saintly seraphical souls such as they;
>And that is the meaning of Empire Day.