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Thursday, 3 September 2020

Rule Britannia – alternative lyrics for the 2020 BBC proms

When Britain first went looting abroad

Taking death and disease

Taking, taking death and disease

This was the charter

The charter of the land

And Guardian Angels wept in pain

 

Rule Britannia

Britannia ruled the waves

Built its wealth and fortune

With the blood of slaves

 

Centuries of murder,

Rape and misery

So Englishmen could claim

Superiority

 

Still more avaricious with every decade

More dreadful with each foreign raid

More dreadful dreadful with each foreign raid

 

As the loud blasts

The blast that tears the skies

Serves but to wreck humanity

 

Rule Britannia

Britannia ruled the waves

Built its wealth and fortune

With the blood of slaves

 

Centuries of murder,

Rape and misery

So Englishmen could claim

Superiority

 

The muses became psychotic trolls

And needed locking up

And needed locking up

Blasted lives with countless lost and drowned

20 million souls

Ground into the dirt

 

Rule Britannia

Britannia ruled the waves

Built its wealth and fortune

With the blood of slaves

 

Centuries of murder,

Rape and misery

So Englishmen could claim

White supremacy


These hastily cobbled together lyrics do scan if you shoe-horn them in as you have to with the dreadful originals. Have a go yourself with that other favourite of the proms -  Land of Hopeless Tories...