Lyr Req: Britannia Waives the Rules

Subject: Brittannia Waves the Rules
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 08 Oct 01 - 05:32 AM

Anybody got the words for this song about our estemed British Royal Family. I know the chorus goes something like: Rule Brittannia Brittannia waves the rule (blah de blah de blah) and tyrants knaves and fools theres a good verse about Princess Di in it

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brittannia Waves the Rules
From: Wolfgang
Date: 08 Oct 01 - 05:39 AM

Found by a search right here in the Forum (note spelling!): Lyr Add: KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND (Vic Gammon)

Wolfgang

Link fixed. You had a bracket pointing the wrong way. --JoeClone, 8-Jan-02.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brittannia Waves the Rules
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 08 Oct 01 - 05:41 AM

Rings a bell, McF, but I don't know it. Sorry about this, but I'm here to correct your spelling!! "Britannia": one T and two Ns. "Waives" with an I in this sense. Don't think of this as criticism: think of it as your letting me help you to be an even better poster. (Otherwise I'd never get to sleep at nights!)

Steve

Subject: Lyr Add: RULE BRITANNIA
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 08 Oct 01 - 05:42 AM

Rule Britannia

When Britain first, at heaven's command,
Arose from out the azure main;
This was the charter of the land,
And guardian Angels sung this strain:

Rule, Britannia, rule the waves;
Britons never will be slaves.

The nations, not so blest as thee,
Must, in their turns, to tyrants fall:
While thou shalt flourish great and free,
The dread and envy of them all.

Still more majestic shalt thou rise,
More dreadful, from each foreign stroke:
As the loud blast that tears the skies,
Serves but to root thy native oak.

Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame:
All their attempts to bend thee down,
Will but arouse thy generous flame;
But work their woe, and thy renown.

To thee belongs the rural reign;
Thy cities shall with commerce shine:
All thine shall be the subject main,
And every shore it circles thine.

The Muses, still with freedom found,
Shall to thy happy coast repair:
Blest isle! with matchless beauty crowned,
And manly hearts to guard the fair.

-- James Thomson

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brittannia Waves the Rules
From: Wolfgang
Date: 08 Oct 01 - 05:45 AM

new try:
Lyr Add: KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND (Vic Gammon)

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brittannia Waves the Rules
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 08 Oct 01 - 05:47 AM

Being a rebellious Scot to be crushed. I accept my spelling mistooks but I was brung up reading the Grauniad. Have tried the clicky thing Wolfgang but didne work.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brittannia Waves the Rules
From: GUEST,Mc Fat
Date: 08 Oct 01 - 05:50 AM

Thanks Wolfgang got it now !! Now time to learn it !!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brittannia Waves the Rules
From: Wolfgang
Date: 08 Oct 01 - 05:52 AM

My mistake, but the next one works. It made me grin about myself that I spoke about correct spelling and misspelled the invisible fine print in my first link.

Wolfgang

Subject: Lyr Add: KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND (Vic Gammon)
From: Ralphie
Date: 08 Oct 01 - 06:12 AM

Written by Vic Gammon
Recorded by Pete Coe on his CD "Long Company" (BashCD45)
Title..."Kings and Queens of England"

V1

Now Charles the Second had eleven bastard children
George the Third went mad
And Edward the Seventh, they thought was Jack the Ripper
But, Richard the Third weren't as bad as people thought he was
Victoria, laid back and thought of England
Charles the First lost his head
Well the best thing about those Kings and Queens of England, is that most of them are dead....

Chorus

Singing, Rule Britannia, Britannia waives the rules
Kings, Queens, Jacks and Knaves and Tyrants
Cheats and Fools

V2

Now, William the Third was a Protestant and Dutchman
James the First was a Scot
And, George the First spoke nothing else but German
What a mixed up, interbred lot !
And, William the First, was a grasping Norman bastard
Beleive me, It's no lie
Well, there hasn't been an English King of England
Since, Harold got one in the eye

Chorus

V3

Now, She was a well heeled blue blood Cinderella
Him, Prince Charming with big ears
But, He had a thing going with the ugly sister
So, it ended all in tears
So, arise now you ghosts of old Oliver Cromwell
Brave Harrison and Tom Paine
Would you rid our land of this monstrous carbuncle
And bring sunshine after the reign....!!!

Chorus

A magnificent song....sorry can't do the tune on here..no talent for that, but the chorus is to Rule Britannia
Enjoy!!
Ralphie

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brittannia Waves the Rules
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 08 Oct 01 - 06:16 AM

Tune isn't a problem Ralphie I can remember it and it won't take long to get into the performance repitoire probably Thursday will be it's debut !! Thanks Ralphie and Wolfgang and you're right it is a cracker.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brittannia Waves the Rules
From: Ralphie
Date: 08 Oct 01 - 06:24 AM

MCF
My Pleasure !!!
Glad you got your country back, after all these years !!
Sorry for invading you. promise we won't do it again.
Regards Ralphie

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brittannia Waves the Rules
From: GUEST,MC Fat
Date: 08 Oct 01 - 06:28 AM

I suppose it's good we got 'our' country back but as I've been part of the advanced raiding party and have been living as a 'sleeper' in England for 27 years shagging your women , taking your jobs and drinking your beer it's nice but academic. I've a mate who says that all us 'Sweaties'are like hemaroids 'We come down but never go back up !!'

Subject: More spelling ...
From: GUEST,Steve Parkes
Date: 08 Oct 01 - 06:33 AM

"Hemaroids"? It's tempting, but I won't push my luck!

Steve

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brittannia Waves the Rules
From: Ralphie
Date: 08 Oct 01 - 06:36 AM

Steve
Don't even think about going there!
McF.....So, You come down here, have our women..!!
Shame on you ! LOL
What's wrong wi' "The Highland Lassies?"
Ralphie

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brittannia Waves the Rules
From: GUEST,PeteBoom (at work)
Date: 08 Oct 01 - 08:18 AM

And to think that all those years ago working on my BS, when asked in the final exam in a "History of England and the British Empire" course, to explain fully and completely the role of naval power in the development of Imperial power (one of two questions). I got full credit for my answer, which I remember to this day, yeah, though it be 20 years and more ago -

"If Brittania can rule the waves, Brittania can waive the rules."

Professor nearly fell out of the chair laughing when read this. Got the exam back with the comment "succinct and to the point" written on it.

Pete

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brittannia Waves the Rules
From: GUEST,Steve Parkes
Date: 08 Oct 01 - 09:20 AM

I knew it was an old joke, Pete ... good job he didn't mark your spelling--se my fisrt post

Steve

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brittannia Waves the Rules
From: GUEST,PeteBoom (at work)
Date: 08 Oct 01 - 09:35 AM

Steve - of course its an old joke. He got it tho - and spelling was never a strong piont of mine. Fortunately, it wasn't of his either. Now spell checkers have changed all that. Ah, well....

Any relation to Gordon?

Pete

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brittannia Waves the Rules
From: Herga Kitty
Date: 08 Oct 01 - 02:05 PM

Pete Coe is tonight's guest at Herga (the Royal Oak, Peel Road, Wealdstone, Middlesex), so we might just get to hear "Kings and Queens of England"....

Kitty

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brittannia Waves the Rules
From: Genie
Date: 08 Oct 01 - 02:15 PM

MC Fat, you wrote "... 'Sweaties'are like hemaroids 'We come down but never go back up !!'."
Then Steve Parkes replied, "Hemaroids"? It's tempting, but I won't push my luck!"

Not to be too "anal" about it, but it's "hemorrhoids."

Pete, if you think spell checkers have solved the problem, check out the spellcheck poem that is posted in the recent thread about "final 's'." It's pretty funny, and pretty much to the point.

Genie

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brittannia Waves the Rules
From: Genie
Date: 08 Oct 01 - 02:27 PM

Oops!
The spellchecker poem is posted in this thread:

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brittannia Waves the Rules
From: Snuffy
Date: 08 Oct 01 - 07:09 PM

haemorrhoids

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Brittannia Waves the Rules
From: GUEST,.gargoyle
Date: 17 Oct 01 - 07:33 PM

Rule Britannia Tune: Rule Britannia

Rule Britannia, marmalade and jam,
Five Chinese crackers up your asshole,
BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG!

Rule Britannia, marmalade and jam,
Four Chinese crackers up your asshole,
BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG!

Rule Britannia, marmalade and jam,
Three Chinese crackers up your asshole,
BANG, BANG, BANG!

Rule Britannia, marmalade and jam,
Two Chinese crackers up your asshole,
BANG, BANG!

Rule Britannia, marmalade and jam,
One Chinese cracker up your asshole,
BANG!

Rule Britannia, Britannia rules the seas,
Britons never, never, never shit green peas.