this song isn't about England, or about Britain, the song represents humanity, the idea that hope transcend borders, that freedom is an idea that cannot be killed, it recognises though we may have many flags and many languages, we are all human, and though the few will try and divide us, we are stronger together, our similarities outweigh our differences If people think this song, this idea of hope and glory is something that only the British deserve then you aren’t British at heart, we are one
Your comment is truly appreciated. Cheers! The old adage is so true: You can take the boy out of the country, but then, you know the rest! The 2010 Last Night of the Proms is certainly the best I have witnessed since the days of Sir Malcolm Sargeant.
@rogerpenna No. Given that the UK (England in this context) was deeply christian, the hymn is about building Jerusalem (Connotation of Heaven) in England's green and pleasant land.
@sthill1993 which is kinda funny, right, considering Jerusalem has been actually more like hell for over 2000 years, with so many different people trying to conquer it, and partially destroying it killing its inhabitants time and again.
@rogerpenna Yeah, it is really. I think it's not really the place itself, just the significance for Christianity. Shame that it cannot be accepted that it is part of Israel, the world would be a much more peaceful place today if it was recognised!
It doesn't. Jerusalem is a metaphor for a utopia and a holy city and the original writer was basically saying that we can build a utopia here in England.
@PiggusVomitus its based on the myth that during the "missing" years of jesus's life he travelled around a lot and he came to england on his travells , def not jesus was a brit
@PiggusVomitus I dont think that anyone in their right mind would suggest that Jesus is or was British. However everyone knows that God most certainly is.
@blackandproud75 Unique Skills = Pathetic Trolling. Seriously if that is your skill then you are surplus to requirements and should go back home! Get a life, learn some respect for other cultures, especially considering you live here and maybe people will give you respect back
@blackandproud75 You are RACIST through and through. Don't you realise that the people you hate so much created the NHS to give you free health care? A generous benefit system in case you are out of work? A State pension? Social housing? If you like this country its because its inhabitants made it what it is.
WHITE hating is just a bad as BLACK hating. Please, Hate leads to more hate and If you truly love living here, then try and let that hate go, so we can all live in a better country.
As an American I love this song and the Christian meanings behind it, and of England's and America's place in Biblical history. I have studied history and the Bible a lot and I do believe that the prophecy that Jacob/Father Israel gave to Joseph's son Ephraim in Genesis 48:19, that he would become a Commonwealth of Nations has come true in England, and the prophecy to his brother Manasseh that he would become a Great People has come true in America. Archaeology and Biblical timelines confirm.
This is the way all national anthems and patriotic songs should be sung. Not by pop stars or divas, but by huge crowds of people singing (sometimes out of time and off key) with all their hearts.
Interesting to compare the video with the one from 2006. A far greater number of English flags, and people standing up for a de facto English National anthem. All this in 5 years. Might even get our own parliament one day - not holding my breath!
@MaccaTheYido I am in the U.S. and this hymn gives me a buzz as well. It is beautiful. As to having two possible national anthems; well, Americans have somewhat similar ideas re: our national anthem. And though not thoroughly knowledgeable re: the "Proms", I certainly enjoyed looking at them here when possible. Thanks to Zeobet; most enjoyable.
in all honesty, i'm English but i learned this song from Monty Python ¬_¬ ("Now i have to stand in the tea chest....And did those feet in ancient times..." "Did someone say mattress to Mr Lambert?")
@headfirst1987 I may be a bit odd, but your frame of reference is extremely narrow. Also it was late at night and I was tired. But seriously, how can you not know where Jerusalem is?
@Shockwave474 What teh ****?! i know where Jerusalem is! I'm just not entire cognoscente with the dialects spoken in other countries. Nor do i see the link between Hebrew and the Monty Python Mattress Sketch
@headfirst1987 The connection is, one might say, quite oblique. All it is, is Hebrew is often spoken in Jerusalem—Jerusalem being in Israel. And the reason I said that part of your comment looked vaguely Hebrew is that you used some unusual punctuation that I'm not even sure how to type. And, as I said before, it was late at night and I was tired.
@blackandproud75 football, cricket, rugby, cars, television, radio, telephone, internet, trains, photography, steam engines, jet engines, electric motor, tanks, spitfire, radar, ipod, lightbulb to name a few, basically neally everything in your life. what about shakespeare and charles dickens? greatest playwrights and authours in history, discovered america and australia, LIBERATED NIGERIA, and of course won world war 1 and 2 which is the only reason you have the freedom to say this.
@MrWeeRhys That's cos it's done in England. Also, last time I checked, Rule Britannia (one of the last night songs) is done on behalf of Britain. Grow up. We're all British here.
@Um9zcw YEEES ive had that response of allot of people, but you cant surpass that their celebrating everything that's English not British ffs, you don't here the Scottish welsh or northern Ireland national anthem do you?!
@DeadHerrings ok and to answer my previous statement ''you cant surpass that their celebrating everything that's English not British ffs, you don't here the Scottish welsh or northern Ireland national anthem do you?!'''
@MrWeeRhys how does your point stand when I named two songs clearly British and Scottish. I know that the size of England and English arrogance means that the English tend to use British when they mean English, but they clearly go out of their way to show each home country singing along. Not sure why your getting so angry and accusive, just trying to pick your brain and see a different perspective.
Ah youtube comments; where the ignorant, spiteful, immature and loathsome come to put forward their worthless bigoted opinions.....why have the feature at all?
@blackandproud75 and don't forget, it was africans who sold other africans to the slave trade. they did it to get rid of rivals, and to get more territory. it wasn't only whites who had their hand in the pie. also, the biggest slave owner in the state of louisiana, was a black man..
I grew up in England - and have lived in numerous countries throughout the world including Jamaica, Ghana, Costa Rica, Switzerland & the USA. I respect my host countries, will stand for their anthems, honour their flags, but 40 years later, home is still England.
We are multiracial - English, Ghanaian, Jamaican, Hispanic (DR), & we all have children. They are no different -people need to learn to love one another. We are all educated professionals - my sister was a nurse in Kano for 5 years.
Seriously this country is great and has a great patriotic history thanks to the pureblood white british population and they are still what makes this country great today.
If you don't like it fuck off back to you own country you stupid monkey tree swinging banana eating black cunt!
The music, the atmosphere, the euphoria of a Century of Henry Wood's Promenade Concerts to a public. who could not afford to attend a concert
Those who do not understand our patriotism, our history, our traditions & our lifestyle have no right to be in Britain.
I do not live in Britain, but I understand patriotism & love of a country. I would fight for my country, but not against the country that feeds me, & treats me with civil liberties I never had.
@blackandproud75 What the fuck is your problem? Can't you be grateful to the people who allowed you to stay in the country you apparently love living in? I think you are judging an entire group of people by its bad apples. That sir, is racism.
@blackandproud75 Well if that's what floats your boat then fine, just don't complain about the country or people, It is the way it is, if you don't like it then you shouldn't be here. easy as.
@blackandproud75 If that's really what you think then why do you live here? And actually Britain has given a lot to the world. I would imagine you came here on something invented by a Brit.
@blackandproud75 It was the British who ended and outlawed the slave trade. Not only did they end it but they ENFORCED ITS DESTRUCTION! They went up and down the African coast freeing your people from forced labor and destroying slave holding sites. If you can't appreciate the offspring of the people who freed your forefathers than take your black ass back to Africa where people live in houses made out of animal shit and fight each other like a bunch of wild uncivilized apes.
Well, "poppym", If people wish to stand, whether moved by the music or the sentiment, then who the heck are you to pass judgement? It's unpatriotic people like you who are trying to undermine the greatness and resilience of the British People.
@MrWeeRhys I'm Scottish but i think your comment was unnecessary. Why call them that? Because people think Britain is England, so you have a chip on your shoulder because of that? When people say Kilts, what do we think of? When someone says Bagpipes what do we think of? When someone says Braveheart what do we think of? I think you need to think before you ink. You must be 14-15 to make a simple comment like that. I love England and Wales and N. Ireland just as much as Scotland!
Does anyone know if this will be sung at next years Olympic Opening Ceremony ? It should be in the British part of the ceremony. If not it will be a grand shame on the organizers. This has to be or I and a lot of other people will feel its an incomplete ceremony.
jerusalem is one of my very favourite songs. sometimes a song or a piece of music just grabs you by the throat, throws you against the wall and shouts "just feel it". it's like a sensory overload. polegnala e todora by the bulgarian ladies choir is one. nessun dorma, the three tenors. pachelbels canon in d, makes me think of my kids running around castle howard.
last night of the proms 2011 is broadcast on sat. 11th sept. on bbc with simultaneous radio broadcasts . as well as party in the park events around the country it will also be shown on the big screens in various towns and cities across the the u.k. you stand up to do any kind of singing, it puts more oxygen in your lungs. last night of the proms is very stirring stuff. it's a time to feel the music in your heart rather than just hearing it.
This song "Jerusalem" is sung at many weddings here in the UK, especially in England, as you would expect. We used to sing it regularly at school assembly each morning before the school day commenced. I know the William Blake words so well I could almost recite them backwards, but I don't really think I could sing them backwards - that would be too excuciating to hear. I have to admit it's all very stirring, especially when you are rambling along through England's pleasant pastures green!
Can anybody tell me when they're going to broadcast it this year? I can give you my email adress on a private message for you to remind me of this, THIS IS AMAZING.
Despite the differences I'm from Argentina but I love England as a country.
@Poppymodern It may seem inappropriate to you now, but obviously back then people felt that it was appropriate to get up, possibly because of the hymn-like charakter this tune has - I can't see anything wrong with it. Half of them was already standing anyway.
Well, considering that Jerusalem is the closest thing to a real English national anthem, and has been suggested as such multiple times, perhaps those who live in the greatest part of the UK felt that they needed to respect it as such.
@Poppymodern I was brought up to sing Jerusalem as a hymn, so yes, one should always stand up. And anyway, I suspect we would all have stood at Last Night!
@Poppymodern Where is it written that one does not stand for Jerusalem? It's a National Patriotic Hymn of at least England, if not Britain. Appropriate at all times.
@Poppymodern Jerusalem is a song about England and Jerusalem.
It is about England's beauty as a country.
If you don't think a song dedicated to the beauty and protection of England is worth standing up for, then you shouldn't dare call yourself English. If you wouldn't defend your honour, you're country and it's beauty in times of great need, then you are no Englishman.
@MrWeeRhys I think if Walesand Scotland and N.Ireland left the UK who the hell would notice? Apart from the fact that the English would have no need to sub. the Scots etcAnd please don't talk about "Scottish oil" the lazy Scottish gits didn't exploit it, it was left to the English and the Yanks to do it! Scotland became independent tue oil companies would just pipe it to Norway! Why don't the HAGGIS AND BAGPIPE brigade just belt up , you are losers who have to reply on English charity!
@Poppymodern shut up you whiney lil bitch they stood with pride for no matter whether they should or not they did stand as a matter of the song moving them emotionally not because its what has to be done
they need the sheets because they didnt go to school or pretended to, mummy and daddy paid for it but they spent most of their time in faggy little clubs pretending to be Sherlock Holmes or Winston Churchill, then waking up and thinking "shit what is my perpose in life"
@colemaster100 I totally agree! How embarressing people who have paid a fortune to be there don't even know the words! I am 59 and unemployed, but I know the words to our National Anthem and Jerusalem! The BBC should ban or make a mockery of these idiots who do not know that basics of music!
@colemaster100 Oh you poor fellow. Once your country was one of the pillers of Western Civilization that gave us Magna Carta and now your nation is burning to the ground and given over to the barbarians. But you did it to yourselves as we are here now doing to our selves here in the USA. May God save us both.
@Syphered08 The way we are going you may be right. No country or empire lasts forever. History has taught that all empires collaps from within and so it will be with us.
@mr1100112233 you talk bollocks now leave
mainlinecully 3 days ago
This has been flagged as spam show
this song isn't about England, or about Britain, the song represents humanity, the idea that hope transcend borders, that freedom is an idea that cannot be killed, it recognises though we may have many flags and many languages, we are all human, and though the few will try and divide us, we are stronger together, our similarities outweigh our differences If people think this song, this idea of hope and glory is something that only the British deserve then you aren’t British at heart, we are one
Mr1100112233 1 week ago
Angelcynn ǽfre tó alder!
danclay530 2 weeks ago in playlist Patriotic
Drunkest100
Your comment is truly appreciated. Cheers! The old adage is so true: You can take the boy out of the country, but then, you know the rest! The 2010 Last Night of the Proms is certainly the best I have witnessed since the days of Sir Malcolm Sargeant.
Taylorgentles 1 month ago
I dont know the lyrics of the song. Why the hell is a british hymn called JERUSALEM?? Does it exults british feats at the Crusades??
rogerpenna 1 month ago
@rogerpenna No. Given that the UK (England in this context) was deeply christian, the hymn is about building Jerusalem (Connotation of Heaven) in England's green and pleasant land.
sthill1993 1 month ago 3
@sthill1993 which is kinda funny, right, considering Jerusalem has been actually more like hell for over 2000 years, with so many different people trying to conquer it, and partially destroying it killing its inhabitants time and again.
rogerpenna 1 month ago
@rogerpenna Yeah, it is really. I think it's not really the place itself, just the significance for Christianity. Shame that it cannot be accepted that it is part of Israel, the world would be a much more peaceful place today if it was recognised!
sthill1993 1 month ago
@rogerpenna Jerusalem in this context is about a paradise.
tdcpm27 1 month ago
@rogerpenna
It doesn't. Jerusalem is a metaphor for a utopia and a holy city and the original writer was basically saying that we can build a utopia here in England.
cashcleaner 4 weeks ago
And in Africa china hong kong and many more Iraq Canada
Agorsan 1 month ago
I wish our brothers Australia new Zealand and all colonies rejoined us again :(
Agorsan 1 month ago
I wish Canada has the NHS system as in the UK.The British are so generous when it comes to health care.
larryman117 1 month ago
@larryman117 well, its either be generous, or dont be in government lol.... its called consensus.
14mead 1 month ago
Stirs the blood.
DarthCipient 2 months ago 3
This has been flagged as spam show
Hang on that was posted on my 14th brithday
Luckylolypop123 2 months ago
Hang on that was posted on 14th brithday
Luckylolypop123 2 months ago
God is an Englishman.
jimincairns 2 months ago
What a beautiful song. What a beautiful nation.
AJSProductions 2 months ago
Why does all this crap about race and culture always pop up, it's one of the greatest tunes out there, Can't we just appreciate that?
HarleyBalmerHowieson 2 months ago 3
@HarleyBalmerHowieson Here Here!!!!
chief2744 2 months ago
How can you all turn a Christian hymn into a racial and political slur!? If you cannot respect our country at least respect Jesus Christ.
ChristianL14 2 months ago
@ChristianL14 And fuck off at the same time.
lewislufc15 2 months ago
@lewislufc15 Why are you telling me to fuck off?
ChristianL14 2 months ago
@ChristianL14 I meant the people who disrespect our country
lewislufc15 2 months ago
Imagination? The last Englishman to have any musical imagination was Thomas Tallis.
Since Tolkien wrote the Lord of The Rings long before I was born, I have no feelings either way.
Butthurt? what are you? Twelve years old and I bet you still think farts are funny?
What do you want to be when you finally mature?
PiggusVomitus 2 months ago
These bunch Tory twats can even make Jerusalem look embarrasing
youngian 2 months ago
Bloody English arrogance, trying to make out that Jesus was a Brit!!
PiggusVomitus 2 months ago
@PiggusVomitus its based on the myth that during the "missing" years of jesus's life he travelled around a lot and he came to england on his travells , def not jesus was a brit
williedelahoya 2 months ago
@PiggusVomitus I like how you get mad at a persons imagination. Where you butthurt when Lord of the Rings was written.
vinsong 2 months ago
@PiggusVomitus I dont think that anyone in their right mind would suggest that Jesus is or was British. However everyone knows that God most certainly is.
kimblewood 2 months ago 20
Beautiful....gives goosebumps to hear so many voices raised in song....I only wish the Irish had gotten it first!! LOL...
jmmprime 3 months ago 2
This should be our National Anthem - Fantastic !
davedoubledeks 3 months ago 2
goosebumps seeing all those people rise from their seats x
maxximinus 3 months ago
願貴國長治久安千秋萬世
cwfkevin 3 months ago
Pround to be there
todd99123 3 months ago
Fantastic, amazing......!!!!!!Greetings from Italy
kneelandpray1 4 months ago
Stirring !!
PSYLLA2020 4 months ago
@blackandproud75 Unique Skills = Pathetic Trolling. Seriously if that is your skill then you are surplus to requirements and should go back home! Get a life, learn some respect for other cultures, especially considering you live here and maybe people will give you respect back
ewandougie 4 months ago 4
this sounds great, if only it had passionate footy fans. england united
untillambsarelions 4 months ago
@blackandproud75 You are RACIST through and through. Don't you realise that the people you hate so much created the NHS to give you free health care? A generous benefit system in case you are out of work? A State pension? Social housing? If you like this country its because its inhabitants made it what it is.
WHITE hating is just a bad as BLACK hating. Please, Hate leads to more hate and If you truly love living here, then try and let that hate go, so we can all live in a better country.
redskinkgroup 4 months ago 31
@redskinkgroup Oh yes, Socialism is so helpful for safety and development...
Fuckin` moron.
GLADish85 3 months ago
Comment removed
TriangleTop 4 months ago in playlist Britain #1
@TriangleTop your an animal
VoRlC 4 months ago
Very Impressive and moving!
Quentin2Montargis 4 months ago
wow that guy at 0:48 is keen
WhitehornMichael 5 months ago
Epic!
Alphahumphrey2011 5 months ago
"In England's green and pleasant land"!
farmerne 5 months ago
Very heartfelt. Lovely. :) Songs
Songsmirth 5 months ago
Stop arguing and listen..... Beautiful
WTFBBQ5 5 months ago 2
@WTFBBQ5 could not agree more,
xJAKEWx 5 months ago
As an American I love this song and the Christian meanings behind it, and of England's and America's place in Biblical history. I have studied history and the Bible a lot and I do believe that the prophecy that Jacob/Father Israel gave to Joseph's son Ephraim in Genesis 48:19, that he would become a Commonwealth of Nations has come true in England, and the prophecy to his brother Manasseh that he would become a Great People has come true in America. Archaeology and Biblical timelines confirm.
DeanCo7777 5 months ago
@DeanCo7777
The Bible's a book of fairy tales, sir.
bluemoonrising26 2 weeks ago
This is the way all national anthems and patriotic songs should be sung. Not by pop stars or divas, but by huge crowds of people singing (sometimes out of time and off key) with all their hearts.
cmurphy2826 5 months ago 5
Interesting to compare the video with the one from 2006. A far greater number of English flags, and people standing up for a de facto English National anthem. All this in 5 years. Might even get our own parliament one day - not holding my breath!
adventussaxonum 5 months ago
Jerusalem should be our national anthem, get such a buzz listening to it and don't get the same buzz hearing god save our queen.
MaccaTheYido 5 months ago 2
@MaccaTheYido I am in the U.S. and this hymn gives me a buzz as well. It is beautiful. As to having two possible national anthems; well, Americans have somewhat similar ideas re: our national anthem. And though not thoroughly knowledgeable re: the "Proms", I certainly enjoyed looking at them here when possible. Thanks to Zeobet; most enjoyable.
Tabornok4Star 5 months ago
Spotted the Breton flag at 2.43!! come on Bretons!!
Dmocr8C 5 months ago
in all honesty, i'm English but i learned this song from Monty Python ¬_¬ ("Now i have to stand in the tea chest....And did those feet in ancient times..." "Did someone say mattress to Mr Lambert?")
headfirst1987 6 months ago
@headfirst1987 It's so funny—part of your comment looks vaguely Hebrew. Oh, of course. That's a language commonly spoken in Jerusalem, isn't it?
Shockwave474 5 months ago
@Shockwave474 I have no idea i'm English...............and you are very weird
headfirst1987 5 months ago
@headfirst1987 I may be a bit odd, but your frame of reference is extremely narrow. Also it was late at night and I was tired. But seriously, how can you not know where Jerusalem is?
Shockwave474 5 months ago
@Shockwave474 What teh ****?! i know where Jerusalem is! I'm just not entire cognoscente with the dialects spoken in other countries. Nor do i see the link between Hebrew and the Monty Python Mattress Sketch
headfirst1987 5 months ago
@headfirst1987 The connection is, one might say, quite oblique. All it is, is Hebrew is often spoken in Jerusalem—Jerusalem being in Israel. And the reason I said that part of your comment looked vaguely Hebrew is that you used some unusual punctuation that I'm not even sure how to type. And, as I said before, it was late at night and I was tired.
Shockwave474 4 months ago
How moving!
861Sailor 6 months ago
Beautiful, wonderful, lovely old Blighty, I love you so! Thanks for posting this, just so wonderful to hear it. I miss England so much.
agramsci 6 months ago 5
@blackandproud75 Idiot.
Dendiol 6 months ago
Why do you put a bar at the top just to remove the BBC logo? It's pretty obvious that this is a BBC clip. 0_o
Pilkingtube 6 months ago
love the 'i sparticus' moment at 1:00
ghodium 7 months ago
@blackandproud75 football, cricket, rugby, cars, television, radio, telephone, internet, trains, photography, steam engines, jet engines, electric motor, tanks, spitfire, radar, ipod, lightbulb to name a few, basically neally everything in your life. what about shakespeare and charles dickens? greatest playwrights and authours in history, discovered america and australia, LIBERATED NIGERIA, and of course won world war 1 and 2 which is the only reason you have the freedom to say this.
rich19879 7 months ago
hmm last night of the proms annoys me, as a Scotsman its frustrating because there just celebrating everything that's English not British. :@
MrWeeRhys 7 months ago
@MrWeeRhys That's cos it's done in England. Also, last time I checked, Rule Britannia (one of the last night songs) is done on behalf of Britain. Grow up. We're all British here.
Um9zcw 7 months ago 3
@Um9zcw YEEES ive had that response of allot of people, but you cant surpass that their celebrating everything that's English not British ffs, you don't here the Scottish welsh or northern Ireland national anthem do you?!
MrWeeRhys 7 months ago
@MrWeeRhys I believe Auld Lang Syne was played on this very night, wasn't it? :) That's about as Scottish as they come.
DeadHerrings 7 months ago
@DeadHerrings ohh yh ONE Scottish song, are you actually kidding? was that a real attempt at outsmarting me?!
MrWeeRhys 7 months ago
@MrWeeRhys Not in the slightest my friend, I hope you don't think I was 'outsmarting' you. It wasn't my intention.
DeadHerrings 7 months ago
@DeadHerrings ok and to answer my previous statement ''you cant surpass that their celebrating everything that's English not British ffs, you don't here the Scottish welsh or northern Ireland national anthem do you?!'''
answer it SNOBY TWAT
MrWeeRhys 7 months ago
@MrWeeRhys Or the english one for that matter
drunkest100 1 month ago
@MrWeeRhys Rule BRITannia or Auld lang syne? not trolling just English with Scot blood so consider myself British.
Huibon71288 6 months ago
@Huibon71288 yh i bet u eint proud of ur scottish side
MrWeeRhys 6 months ago
@MrWeeRhys Well you lost that bet. Anything else you want to bet without knowing me, my backgroud or my family?
Huibon71288 6 months ago
@Huibon71288 my point still stands, this is celebrating everything thats english not british.
MrWeeRhys 6 months ago
@MrWeeRhys how does your point stand when I named two songs clearly British and Scottish. I know that the size of England and English arrogance means that the English tend to use British when they mean English, but they clearly go out of their way to show each home country singing along. Not sure why your getting so angry and accusive, just trying to pick your brain and see a different perspective.
Huibon71288 6 months ago
@Huibon71288 englishman: ohh britain is lovely we have mountains in the lake district we have beutiful beaches on the south coast!
scotsman: britains lovely, it has mountains up in the highlands AND ALSO NICE BEACHES DOWN SOUTH
MrWeeRhys 6 months ago 2
@Huibon71288 stop being a dick, it was the BRITISH empire, any ills or good were equally shared between us all
Syphered08 5 months ago
Ah youtube comments; where the ignorant, spiteful, immature and loathsome come to put forward their worthless bigoted opinions.....why have the feature at all?
Xozmal 7 months ago
@blackandproud75 and don't forget, it was africans who sold other africans to the slave trade. they did it to get rid of rivals, and to get more territory. it wasn't only whites who had their hand in the pie. also, the biggest slave owner in the state of louisiana, was a black man..
tranurse 7 months ago 6
I grew up in England - and have lived in numerous countries throughout the world including Jamaica, Ghana, Costa Rica, Switzerland & the USA. I respect my host countries, will stand for their anthems, honour their flags, but 40 years later, home is still England.
We are multiracial - English, Ghanaian, Jamaican, Hispanic (DR), & we all have children. They are no different -people need to learn to love one another. We are all educated professionals - my sister was a nurse in Kano for 5 years.
Taylorgentles 7 months ago 4
@blackandproud75 If you don't live living in Britain, LEAVE! No one is stopping you.
Dendiol 7 months ago
@blackandproud75
Seriously this country is great and has a great patriotic history thanks to the pureblood white british population and they are still what makes this country great today.
If you don't like it fuck off back to you own country you stupid monkey tree swinging banana eating black cunt!
mrmarshter 7 months ago
The music, the atmosphere, the euphoria of a Century of Henry Wood's Promenade Concerts to a public. who could not afford to attend a concert
Those who do not understand our patriotism, our history, our traditions & our lifestyle have no right to be in Britain.
I do not live in Britain, but I understand patriotism & love of a country. I would fight for my country, but not against the country that feeds me, & treats me with civil liberties I never had.
Taylorgentles 7 months ago 12
@Taylorgentles This has to be the nost eloquent, insightful and munificent comment I have ever read on utube. Well done Sir.
drunkest100 1 month ago
@TheKoryuJujutsu hear hear
sthill1993 7 months ago
@blackandproud75 What the fuck is your problem? Can't you be grateful to the people who allowed you to stay in the country you apparently love living in? I think you are judging an entire group of people by its bad apples. That sir, is racism.
redneckmarine87 7 months ago
@blackandproud75 Well if that's what floats your boat then fine, just don't complain about the country or people, It is the way it is, if you don't like it then you shouldn't be here. easy as.
sthill1993 7 months ago 2
@blackandproud75 If that's really what you think then why do you live here? And actually Britain has given a lot to the world. I would imagine you came here on something invented by a Brit.
sthill1993 7 months ago
@blackandproud75 It was the British who ended and outlawed the slave trade. Not only did they end it but they ENFORCED ITS DESTRUCTION! They went up and down the African coast freeing your people from forced labor and destroying slave holding sites. If you can't appreciate the offspring of the people who freed your forefathers than take your black ass back to Africa where people live in houses made out of animal shit and fight each other like a bunch of wild uncivilized apes.
redneckmarine87 7 months ago 4
@redneckmarine87 absolutely amazing response...good lad! :)
TheBiscuitjar 7 months ago
@TheBiscuitjar Thank you sir. Greetings from America by the way, lol.
redneckmarine87 7 months ago
this should be our national anthem..god save the queen is so dull. this song summs us up
guysey1 7 months ago 2
Well, "poppym", If people wish to stand, whether moved by the music or the sentiment, then who the heck are you to pass judgement? It's unpatriotic people like you who are trying to undermine the greatness and resilience of the British People.
vivneedle 7 months ago
snobs
MrWeeRhys 8 months ago
@MrWeeRhys I'm Scottish but i think your comment was unnecessary. Why call them that? Because people think Britain is England, so you have a chip on your shoulder because of that? When people say Kilts, what do we think of? When someone says Bagpipes what do we think of? When someone says Braveheart what do we think of? I think you need to think before you ink. You must be 14-15 to make a simple comment like that. I love England and Wales and N. Ireland just as much as Scotland!
ScotsmanTillDeath 7 months ago
This should be our national anthem. We can still sing God Save The Queen but it hasn't got quite as much meaning as it used to have.
Bethumps 8 months ago 2
So so proud to be English watching this - it gives me goosebumps!
Dendiol 8 months ago 3
This should be the English national athem, its got a lot of passion, just like us.
thereds1959 9 months ago 4
@thereds1959 it is.... unofficially....
jakeshortj 9 months ago
they played this song at U.S President Reagans funeral but the song was called "O love of god"
rdblue09 10 months ago
@rdblue09 Yeah I just checked that out :) But I prefer this because of the Orchestra it makes it sound so much more ...grand? :)
fishyollie 9 months ago
I swell up with pride every time i hear this!! Proud to represent our glorious nation.
dirteeh 10 months ago 2
Was happy to hear this hymn sung at William and Catherine's wedding last week!
arejayseeottawa 10 months ago 3
im 17 and we were taught it, seems to be the older people that dont know it
thirdlegUK 10 months ago
Absolutely brilliant!
outfromtheshadows 10 months ago
Does anyone know if this will be sung at next years Olympic Opening Ceremony ? It should be in the British part of the ceremony. If not it will be a grand shame on the organizers. This has to be or I and a lot of other people will feel its an incomplete ceremony.
miamiwestchester 10 months ago 26
When are they broadcasting another last night of the proms this year?
martinmaine1990 11 months ago 6
@martinmaine1990
The televised Last Night of the Proms 2011 will be on Saturday the 10th of September.
Ceybossy 10 months ago
@Ceybossy well, thank you very much :)
martinmaine1990 10 months ago
@martinmaine1990 its shown live bbc.co.uk/proms/
I'm going to buy a ticket or too this year I think
OJSlaughter93 10 months ago 2
jerusalem is one of my very favourite songs. sometimes a song or a piece of music just grabs you by the throat, throws you against the wall and shouts "just feel it". it's like a sensory overload. polegnala e todora by the bulgarian ladies choir is one. nessun dorma, the three tenors. pachelbels canon in d, makes me think of my kids running around castle howard.
picklelily1 11 months ago 4
last night of the proms 2011 is broadcast on sat. 11th sept. on bbc with simultaneous radio broadcasts . as well as party in the park events around the country it will also be shown on the big screens in various towns and cities across the the u.k. you stand up to do any kind of singing, it puts more oxygen in your lungs. last night of the proms is very stirring stuff. it's a time to feel the music in your heart rather than just hearing it.
picklelily1 11 months ago
This song "Jerusalem" is sung at many weddings here in the UK, especially in England, as you would expect. We used to sing it regularly at school assembly each morning before the school day commenced. I know the William Blake words so well I could almost recite them backwards, but I don't really think I could sing them backwards - that would be too excuciating to hear. I have to admit it's all very stirring, especially when you are rambling along through England's pleasant pastures green!
Gavestonful 11 months ago
I'm half french irish welsh but this should defo be the english anthem by far...simply beautiful
napowen 11 months ago 2
This has been flagged as spam show
April 23rd ...CELEBRATE IT
CharlieTheZombie 11 months ago
Can anybody tell me when they're going to broadcast it this year? I can give you my email adress on a private message for you to remind me of this, THIS IS AMAZING.
Despite the differences I'm from Argentina but I love England as a country.
martinmaine1990 1 year ago 2
Like this
tortie200 1 year ago
I think people who attend the last night of the proms need a grinectomy after because they had such a good time.
akarpowicz 1 year ago 2
This is MY national anthem.
Vinderville 1 year ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
You don't stand up for Jerusalem. The National Anthem and the Hallelujah Chorus, yes, but not Jerusalem.
Poppymodern 1 year ago
@Poppymodern It may seem inappropriate to you now, but obviously back then people felt that it was appropriate to get up, possibly because of the hymn-like charakter this tune has - I can't see anything wrong with it. Half of them was already standing anyway.
Zeobit 1 year ago 38
@Poppymodern I checked, it's traditional to stand for this song.
crystalfairie 1 year ago
@Poppymodern
Well, considering that Jerusalem is the closest thing to a real English national anthem, and has been suggested as such multiple times, perhaps those who live in the greatest part of the UK felt that they needed to respect it as such.
akafish77 1 year ago 2
@Poppymodern You might feel inclined to if you are one of the many who hold Jerusalem as the informal English national anthem.
coldfission 1 year ago
@coldfission -too right! Not only that, but I always stood up to sing a hymn,too!
adventussaxonum 1 year ago
Why not?....I'd stand up for Jerusalem a long time time before I'd stand up for your queen etc.
spooky1938 1 year ago
@Poppymodern I was brought up to sing Jerusalem as a hymn, so yes, one should always stand up. And anyway, I suspect we would all have stood at Last Night!
longeaton34 11 months ago
@Poppymodern Where is it written that one does not stand for Jerusalem? It's a National Patriotic Hymn of at least England, if not Britain. Appropriate at all times.
bill1745 10 months ago 2
@Poppymodern I think Jerusalem is regarded as the unofficial anthem of England.
jamieperrydude 10 months ago 2
@Poppymodern well a kinda unofficial anthem of England besides you can stand just to honor the genius of the composer who created this awesome music
sondano 8 months ago
@Poppymodern Jerusalem is a song about England and Jerusalem.
It is about England's beauty as a country.
If you don't think a song dedicated to the beauty and protection of England is worth standing up for, then you shouldn't dare call yourself English. If you wouldn't defend your honour, you're country and it's beauty in times of great need, then you are no Englishman.
dcfcsalloway 8 months ago
@dcfcsalloway fuck off half the people here think BRITAIN is ENGLAND forgeting that scotland wales and northern island is part. snoby bastards
MrWeeRhys 8 months ago
@MrWeeRhys I think if Walesand Scotland and N.Ireland left the UK who the hell would notice? Apart from the fact that the English would have no need to sub. the Scots etcAnd please don't talk about "Scottish oil" the lazy Scottish gits didn't exploit it, it was left to the English and the Yanks to do it! Scotland became independent tue oil companies would just pipe it to Norway! Why don't the HAGGIS AND BAGPIPE brigade just belt up , you are losers who have to reply on English charity!
Propylnitrite 4 months ago
@Poppymodern shut up you whiney lil bitch they stood with pride for no matter whether they should or not they did stand as a matter of the song moving them emotionally not because its what has to be done
brasher01 7 months ago 2
@Poppymodern Why not? I'm from germany and I'm curious! Thanks in advance
Rotebuehl1 7 months ago
@Poppymodern sit your ass down then the next time you hear it!
themistress46 7 months ago
@Poppymodern Plebs rule now! Protocole is over! They do what they want and in the end they wonder, why things are not going well! Hahaha
Rotebuehl1 6 months ago
@Poppymodern Stupid response. Clueless. Goodbye, and good luck. You'll need it.
winehousedrunk 6 months ago
they need the sheets because they didnt go to school or pretended to, mummy and daddy paid for it but they spent most of their time in faggy little clubs pretending to be Sherlock Holmes or Winston Churchill, then waking up and thinking "shit what is my perpose in life"
ajvega 1 year ago
@ajvega at least they probably learned how to spell 'pupose' ;-)
gentmartin 1 year ago
people need hym sheets for this? :p was taught it in school and think its a dam shame they dont anymore (im only 22 so not that long ago)
colemaster100 1 year ago 49
@colemaster100 I totally agree! How embarressing people who have paid a fortune to be there don't even know the words! I am 59 and unemployed, but I know the words to our National Anthem and Jerusalem! The BBC should ban or make a mockery of these idiots who do not know that basics of music!
lincsposter 1 year ago
@colemaster100 we're taught it in school, im 17, friends from other schools generally know it too
thirdlegUK 1 year ago
@colemaster100 We sing this at my school.
bakelitetim 1 year ago
@colemaster100 That's too bad. Dang! I'm american and I know the words.
akarpowicz 1 year ago
@colemaster100
i agree its a shame every englishman cant recite the lyrics im 21 i i can word for word.. i would die for the feeling this song gives me
tbrowniscool 11 months ago
@colemaster100 Britain isn't what it was anymore :|
CptBird 11 months ago
@CptBird only because we allow it not to be
lollyclan 11 months ago
@colemaster100 I'm 20 and I was never given such a privilege but at least I was able to teach myself God Save the Queen :)
UKMonarchist 8 months ago
@colemaster100 please tell me torquay boys' grammar school..?
JackEllis94 6 months ago
@colemaster100 Oh you poor fellow. Once your country was one of the pillers of Western Civilization that gave us Magna Carta and now your nation is burning to the ground and given over to the barbarians. But you did it to yourselves as we are here now doing to our selves here in the USA. May God save us both.
josephonwhidbey 6 months ago
@josephonwhidbey - to be fair, our country was in a far worse mess when Magna Carta was being signed, than it is now!
adventussaxonum 5 months ago
@adventussaxonum What you say may well be true but then, you were on the way up but now your on the way down.
josephonwhidbey 5 months ago
@josephonwhidbey usa will collapse before england, true story
Syphered08 5 months ago 6
@Syphered08 The way we are going you may be right. No country or empire lasts forever. History has taught that all empires collaps from within and so it will be with us.
josephonwhidbey 5 months ago
@colemaster100 i am 25 - and German - and already know the lyrics because i watched those videos so often ;)
tommyderthomas 6 months ago 3
Revolution!
Awaken Europe!
1688, 1789, 1917...2010!
AndrewMann552 1 year ago
@AndrewMann552
Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....!!!!!!
God Bless!
Rotebuehl1 1 year ago
@AndrewMann552 1848? Lmao the fucking biggest date there and you missed it. 1956? 1989? 1990? 1949?
The list goes on. None of them last.
insainiac33 1 year ago
Saw this the other night live - thanks for posting!
CrisisCake 1 year ago 5