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God Save the Queen

Is it true that the song "God Save the Queen" has
a stanza which asks God to sabotage and subvert the ranks of the Queen's enemies?
  

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[nq:1]Is it true that the song "*** Save the Queen" has a stanza which asks *** to sabotage and subvert the ranks of the Queen's enemies?[/nq]
Here's one version. Possibly the experts here will have some interesting comments on the less common verses:
http://ingeb.org/songs/godsaveo.html
Best regards,
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[nq:1]Here's one version. Possibly the experts here will have some interesting comments on the less common verses: http://ingeb.org/songs/godsaveo.html[/nq]
I didn't know the Scots were still rebellious!
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[nq:2]Here's one version. Possibly the experts here will have some interesting comments on the less common verses: http://ingeb.org/songs/godsaveo.html[/nq]
[nq:1]I didn't know the Scots were still rebellious![/nq]
You obviously don't know many Socts.
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[nq:2]Here's one version. Possibly the experts here will have some interesting comments on the less common verses: http://ingeb.org/songs/godsaveo.html[/nq]
[nq:1]I didn't know the Scots were still rebellious![/nq]
But you're of little doubt that Marshal Wade's still around to "crush" them?
Rob
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Okay, so this one time? In band camp? (Email Removed) was all, like:
[nq:1]I didn't know the Scots were still rebellious![/nq]
Be fair, the Union of the Crowns was only four hundred years ago...these things take time..r
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[nq:1]Is it true that the song "*** Save the Queen" has a stanza which asks *** to sabotage and subvert the ranks of the Queen's enemies?[/nq]
Confound their politics
Frustrate their knavish tricks
On Thee our hopes we fix
*** save the Queen!

Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
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Thus spake Spehro Pefhany:
[nq:2]Is it true that the song "*** Save the Queen" ... to sabotage and subvert the ranks of the Queen's enemies?[/nq]
[nq:1]Here's one version. Possibly the experts here will have some interesting comments on the less common verses: http://ingeb.org/songs/godsaveo.html[/nq]
Th
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[nq:2]Here's one version. Possibly the experts here will have some interesting comments on the less common verses: http://ingeb.org/songs/godsaveo.html[/nq]
[nq:1]I didn't know the Scots were still rebellious![/nq]
Some are, some aren't. It's the rebellious ones we've always been keen on crushing. The likes
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[nq:1]Is it true that the song "*** Save the Queen" has a stanza which asks *** to sabotage and subvert the ranks of the Queen's enemies?[/nq]
**** Yes.
But she's such a nice person that 'ranks' conveys an idea of magnitude that, frankly, doesn't exist.
But there are a few enemies here and there and their knavish tricks are going to be frustrated. O Yes.

John Dean
Oxford
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[nq:1]personae grata.[/nq]
Oy!
David

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