We Can Rule You Wholesale

[Hyman74Roth]

Man this is right up there with the Blazing Saddles theme song.

[GaladedridDamodred]

Ner ner ner ner :)

[GrigoriZhukov]

can't understand the stupid bird is singing...damn voice so high it cracked the crystal reciever for my modem.

[stigomaster]

Conducted by ... whom?

[FenrirStrife1]

I dunno...I always imagined it going along the lines of a football chant, lol... but this works too!

[grof2]

Excellent!

[KellsBells98]

I know the Ankh-Morpork national anthem better than I know my own..

[k4t4dragonX]

It must have been really wierd for the soprano who sang this to actually sing na na na...:))

[alicekdp]

I love this version.



[goldengloryz]

WIN!

[xUbastardx]

I got chills.

[Julkeee]

Y E S .

[omegathunderstorm]

Sometimes, I wish that my country had an anthem like this, rather than the dirge-like one we have now with outdated language.

[Tabbibubble]

just awesome

[morleydotes666]

yea! Onward Ankh-Morpork!

[arwenae]

Wow. So much awesomeness....

[lorddregan]

Ankh Morpork sounds like 4chan...

Also, that is no orc horn.

[GaladedridDamodred]

Oh wow. XD

[Maguskoopa]

A perfect venue to sell my sausages inna bun...

[dasmysteryman12]

Hail Ankh-Morpork! Morporkia forever!!!!

[glishev]

I want to visit AM!

[ClockworkIndustries]

No, you don't.

Trust me on this. You don't. :P

[sketchy2]

<- glishev

They'd mug you and then look at you very strangely for behaving like Twoflower.

[glishev]

@sketchy2

Yeah, you're right :) Nonetheless, I'd like even that :D

[LazarusOwenhart]

@glishev I can recommend a place called "The Shades", it's very quaint, very olde worldly and you'd fit right in.

[ZomboDeZany]

I love this song!

"We can rule you wholesale / touch us and you'll pay"

[oceandawn26]

This is probably the most fun the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra has ever had. ;) That Pratchett fella has some serious clout...and for good reason! When I first saw the title of the vid, I thought the anthem would be to the tune of 'We Will Rock You' - but this is great too :p

[PraiseDivineMercy]

@oceandawn26 "We Will Rock You" is the troll anthem.

[OutAtTheShow]

Wow... they even saved us the trouble of having to forget the words and sing half the song as "hner". I'm SO singing this next time anyone asks me to perform the national anthem (like that'll happen- I'm pretty horrid). Possible new favorite song.

[nuahavizu]

MORPORKIAAA! i could only wish for this to be on itunes....

[Kulsprutejojjo]

Genius. Absolutely genius. Terry Pratchett is literally a god at this.

[veritasreigns]

Why won't it play? :cries:

[googooshveelee]

YESSS MORPORKIAAAAA <3

[Myzelfa]

Sadly, the music doesn't really fit the lyrical structure.

[FaustianDreams]

Morporkiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[Glaerdrune]

^^ I know this off by heart, even the ners :P

[awkwardhawk]

Pax Morporkia: "If you fight, we'll call in your mortgages. And incidentally that's my pike you're pointing at me. I paid for that shield you're holding. And take my helmet off when you speak to me, you horrible little debtor."

[JamieeTheGreat]

''we own all your helmets, we own all your shoes. we own all your generals. touch us and you'll loose''

[pratchettfan359]

Brilliant...soprano perfect for it. Lord Vetinari should have Lady Sybil sing it at some point for a state function :D

[almightyrisk]

What about Agnes Nitt/Perdita X. Dream?

[pratchettfan359]

What about Agnes/Perdita and Sybil singing it in a duet, with Nanny Ogg performing an interpretive dance in the background? We could make millions here... ;)

[almightyrisk]

omg, thats actually ingenious!!

[Baalcebub]

Oh my, I can totally picture that. Nanny Ogg with her tutu and big boots from Maskerade... I'm gonna laugh to death!!!

Man, I miss Agnes/Perdita so much, I hope Pratchett brings her back for another book in the future.

[Idraena]

@pratchettfan359 That image pretty much made my entire week. +WIN for you.

[aliveinchrist13]

@pratchettfan359

Nanny's interpretive dances would not be suitable for state functions, I suspect.

[Geliaebrina]

@aliveinchrist13 That's where you're wrong. Nanny's dancing is always appropriate, it's her singing you should watch out for. (And never ever serve her a pickled onion during official dining, all the guests would be scared for life.)

[MarnaxCBRM]

@Geliaebrina Agreed.

[ChristineHTH]

I laughed so hard, hearing this, my family thought I'd gone mad or something:) Love it! And it's so true to the spirit of A_M, too.

"We sell them souvenirs..." LOL!!

[MetaforaVulgar]

I loved it!! And I love Ankh Morpork too!!

[youngnewsau]

I don't get the ner bit.

[Lightningvine]

In the real world, nobody knows the second verse of their national anthem anyway, so in the books the guy who wrote it decided it would be easier to have a second verse of ners because its what people would be doing anyway

[sandermall]

spoken like a true discworlder.

[Lightningvine]

Thanks :-)

[whitesentinix]

I'm not sure what's more brilliant...the song or your reason for the 2nd verse.

[Boleniana]

Personally, I know the Canadian anthem first verse (like everyone else), second verse (we sang it in high school), and French version (I thought it sounded interesting). But I'm an anomaly.

[jcolville]

@Lightningvine  Terry Prattchett is an effing genius

[Barcarolle]

May I just say that this is the most effing awesome thing I have ever heard.

[TheGreatGolem]

"We can rule you wholesale, touch us and you'll pay"

Almost as good as Nanny Ogg's Hedgehog Song.

[emomanxxx]

I love this so much! It's the funniest thing I've ever heard and yet it's soo true!!

xXxJamieexXx

''we own all your helmets, we own all your shoes. we own all your generals. touch us and you'll loose''

[xxwanting]

It's a pretty good tune! i can see why the watch were singing this when barricaded in Night Watch!

but now i want to kill the soprano because i keep humming it myself.

[Kamami7]

what book was that? i have a vuege memory of that...was it Night Watch?

[xxwanting]

yepyep

Vimes was back in the past and they were trying to deal with the mobs.

[marzian1]

Nice song, maybe a new video w\ her dressed as Lady Sybil would suffice.

[pixelkatten]

ner ner ner ner ner Ner ner her ner ner ner hner!

[Silvermoth2]

This is very good! I can imagine everyone singing this (or trying to sing this) while looking at a flag or a crest or something

[Kamami7]

me, too! only Sybil could do it...imagine vime's face!

*nha nha nha nha nha nha*

[StrangerUK01]

I've wanted to hear this since I first heard it existed. Many thanks for posting it! :)

[MariaMagdalena83]

Thanks for posting, that is so great.

I can really see Sybil standing there and sing this. It's brilliant.

[TotallyBursar]

Brilliant! I can so see the members of the watch lining up on Parade day to sing this. (Anyone standing near Nobby would probably being doing a lot more "Hner" ing though!)

[Ageoftotalitarianism]

VIVA NOBBY! A NATIONAL HERO!

[lol1893]

and long live his spoon

[Baalcebub]

Man, that was beautiful, I just wanted to raise and stand to attention... and maybe nick the wallet from the guy in front of me.

And if Sybil looks like that Claire Rutter, shes kinda hot...

[FuzzyStern]

Brilliant, been waiting for this

[Pedro10044]

...claro que si, esta Lady Sybil!!!

[Sonntam]

You're absolutely right.

[Pedro10044]

right as I think she must be after reading the books :-)

[rf232]

indeed, the singer here is the twin of Sybil yes

[mollificent]

*snicker* For some reason I keep picturing Sybil Ramkin-Vimes singing this. ;)

poor Pterry :~(