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  • Where was this recorded?

  • GREAT!

  • I always want to snap tall when I hear this song. All my people came from the UK and I'm proud of my British and Scottish heritage.

  • @oldwarrant4 Yes. I'm sure the redcoats sang this every night during the Revolutionary War, since it debuted in 1740.

  • rule britannia marmalde and jam

    5 chineese crackers up your arsehole

    bang bang bang bang......

  • One of the finest patriotic anthems ever. Rule Britannia!

  • nhs ?? shut up fool this is about music and being british

  • im british and proud !!!!!!!!!

  • superb........................­...

  • Glorious song. It makes me want to enlist for the British Army, and I'm an American.

  • nice

  • specially that dutch flag after 15 secs :P

  • why are ther TWO CONDUCTORS????

  • EPIC

  • Well the US is good too :P

  • @SqwishSqwash I believe the equivalent song is "America F*ck Yeah!"

  • The problem is, Britain--like most of European countries are slaves to both socialism and multiculturalism. When a leader emerges from the doldrums of those societies with the stones to restore that part of the world to it's prior dominance, then there will be something to stand up and sing about.

  • @rinceresource Socialism gave us the NHS. Never forget that.

  • @BasilFawlty4444

    Socialism didn't give us the NHS. The idea of a welfare state was introduced in this country after the Boer War, after which, due to the embarrasment of a handful of boers giving the British empire the run around, it was discovered that 3 out of 5 men were unfit for war for health reasons due to poverty and the such. The idea of a NHS, i.e. the welfare state was PRIMARILY a means of ensuring that Great Britain was able to defend herself and commit forces for any eventuality.

  • @o0AlterEgo0o If you think that the NHS was formed out of some ulterior motive, that is, ensuring that the British people were FIT enough to go to war, you are sorely mistaken.

    Attlee descimated the budget of the armed forces to pay for it. You need only look at how badly he slashed the Navy to do see....

    The idea that the NHS exists only to ensure the British people are health enough to go to war is just insane!

  • @BasilFawlty4444 All you gave us was debt!!!

  • @oldgeeze1 Little known fact is... this country has been continuously in debt since the reign of Queen Elizabeth... the FIRST!

    If you don't like the NHS, you're either mad... or further to the right than Glenn Beck!

    Sure, the NHS isn't perfect, I'd be the first to admit that, but if the government ever tried to get rid of it, I would be on the front line of the revolution that would follow.

  • @oldgeeze1 The NHS is one of the reasons that I am proud to have been born British.

  • I'm an American and I think that this is a very moving song. It's regrettable that we do not have something equivalent. I'm afraid that "American the Beautiful" doesn't have quite the same, volatility, if you will. Incidentally, does anyone know how "God Save the Queen/King" came to be American the Beautiful?

  • Mr Tomlinson has the appearence of a rough sleeping vagrant,not my idea of a Royal Albert Hall performer.Half a day in a gents hairdressers,for a thorough wash, cut and shave,would be the order of the day if i was his agent.

  • @uptonmanor Surely you jest!!!!

  • Hmm, it's quite funny that you guys are arguing about the Nazis and the Germans. Queen Elizabeth II is a German Monarch, the house of Windsor is REALLY the house of Saxe-Coeburg and Gotha (a German Dynasty). They changed the name to Windsor in the early 1900's to make it sound more "British" because there was a large amount of anti-German sentiment in the UK during WWI. Britain's monarchs have been German since the early 1700s with King George I. XD And English people are Anglo-Saxons (Germans).

  • @ashtonmadhatter As Blackadder said, when Captain Darling said he was "as British as Queen Victoria!"

    "Ah, so your mother's a German, your father's a German, you married a German, and the Kaiser's your grandson, eh?"

  • RULE BRITANNIA - GOD BLESS AMERICA

  • @HaiLsKuNkY i rather not find an patriotic german video

    because only nazis feel patriotic to germany

    i dont gloat over the weak britsh economy it just piss me of if someone screams my country is the best and all other country suck and swallow

  • I agree with you. Some people get offened if muslim women wear there cloths around there head (aparantly thats raciest) but if we want to be patrotic that offend muslims well lets be honest why should that offend them its a flag get over it

  • yes. And, in spite of what it may appear, winning the world cup only encouraged a part of the population ( the one very keen on socccer ), but left indiferent the rest; in adittion, one must very much take into account that "soccer patriotism" is not real patriotism; its just a superficial and vanishing feeling. 

  • I envy the British with their Nationalistic pride with us in the Netherlands we don't have that or at least not as much as in Britain. Europe should be more proud on the good things they have done like give this world a proper Western civilization and less focus on the bad things. If we do we can rule the world and then this song can be made into reality.

  • @juultjuh99

    Pride? it's now illegal to wave the English flag because it offends Muslims.

    Seriously, MUSLIMS ARE NOT BRITISH. We shouldn't stop waving the flag because Muslims get offended that British are proud of who we are.

  • @WolfytheWolf5667 Is that really true? We also got problems with muslims but not that worse.

  • I envy the patriotism of the British... I am Spanish, and very sorry for the lack of pride and self respect. Unimaginable such a patriotic exhibition like this in my country... why????

  • @aljaca Even after the world cup???

  • @aljaca go to the germany there is not a lack of pride and self respect there is an black hole

  • @SSeth123 : I thought it was different in Germany; at least, you´ve got better leaders, apparently; here in Spain our politicians ( left and right ) are a disaster; corruption, waste of public funds, and nepotism, as well as a total disregard towards the public insterests and public good. I´m afraid the future for Europe is going to be very sad.

  • @aljaca nope its not different here

    better leaders? i dont think you know our Merkel westerflaute and company

    our politicians ( left and right ) are a disaster; corruption, waste of public funds, and nepotism, as well as a total disregard towards the public insterests and public good

    plus with an picture of our kanzlerin in the nude you could deter the pirat @ somalia

  • @aljaca

    to be honest I hate all those affiliated with the European Union. Guess why?

    EVERYBODY IN IT IS BANKRUPT!

    Everybody from it's creaton has been Bankrupt. Or had a long and bloody fascist, racist, or terrible past.

    Now they try to force Britain to become a European Unionist. As if, we conquered the world once, why should we join a comitte of pathetic countries squabbling over Dollars, when our money is worth more than euros or dollars?

  • @WolfytheWolf5667 oh is there one upset that england lost its empire

    and is nower days the bitch of the usa??? that you are obselet and now one cares for your pity nad bankrupt little island?

  • @SSeth123

    Says the one that can see every inch of the word, I CAN FIND AREA 51 ON FUCKING GOOGLE EARTH, yet you can't find Al Qaeda? YOU RUN IRAQ FOR FUCK SAKE! It's a puppet government, controlled by America but not exposed so Americans get all their precious Oil.

    I hope the Britannian Empire comes to life and burns everyone down, we should have a modern day Lelouch.

  • @WolfytheWolf5667 im not american so why should i find al qaeda or control Iraq??

    there will never be a new britannian empire! why?? they are too insignificent to weak

    do you know for what britain ist famous nower days? for you bad teeths and fucked up country

  • @SSeth123

    Firstoff, I said BRITANNIA not the BRITISH EMPIRE.

    Learn to listen dumbass, Britannian Empire. Not British.

    and we're better than you, mainly because we don't say "ist famous nower days", you illiterate idiot.

    But out of curiosity, WHERE do you come from then?

    I hope it is not Europe. Everyone there is bankrupt. And most of them are just robots, NOBODY in the EU has independance. Why do you think they never have parades or wave flags?

  • @WolfytheWolf5667 god knew why he put your degenerated kind on an island

    by the way bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11920548 and vrevaskiyaywosi.blog.com/2010/­11/12/uk-national-debt-breakdo­wn/

    britain is truely a part of europe, bankrupt as the rest

  • @SSeth123

    Britain is NOT a part of Europe.

    AND WILL YOU STOP REFERRING TO BRITAIN.

    I keep saying the HOLY EMPIRE OF BRITANNIA, not the damned British.

    Besides, atleast we had Empire Day. Nobody else had an empire that controlled 1/4 of the entire world.

  • @WolfytheWolf5667 HOLY EMPIRE OF BRITANNIA? oh you mean the gayland of Dumpfuckistan

  • @SSeth123 germany is a beautiful country with beautiful people you don't need to come on here to get attention go and enjoy a Germany patriotic video and leave us alone. as for the economy Germany and uk are strong trading partners we make up 7.9% of ur export market, a weak British economy will have a knock on effect on German jobs... so dont gloat

  • @SSeth123

    ...No, I mean the Holy Empire of Britannia.

    We need another Lelouch?

    don't you even know what I am referring to?

    CODE GEAS YOU DAMNED MORON!

  • @WolfytheWolf5667 hm funny

  • @WolfytheWolf5667 we don't exactly have a clean past. just sayin'

  • outstanding

  • 1:25 Karl Marx?

  • @Nixonfan2011 lol

  • @Nixonfan2011 No, sir John Tomlinson, a British bass who sang Wotan (bass-baritone role) at the Bayreuth festival. But he kept on singing Hunding and agen by the way. Anyway, I must admit he looks like Karl Marx.

  • i want to be british.I will gve my life for the monarchy!

  • Britannia is the Best God save our Queen

  • You've got to love British understatement.

    The last notes fade, the crowd comes to it's feet in cheers, the house comes down, and the comment is:

    "Well, I believe that was a success..."

    But my favorite comment comes at (04:42) :

    "Della Jones receives a kiss from Barry Wordsworth, and John Tomlinson... Eh, doesn't."

  • Beautiful !

  • Look at the nutters in the front row! The proms are such fun - you can be a total loon for the night and no-one batts an eyelid :)

  • @Knappa22 being a loon is half the fun!

  • bleah!

  • Klasse!

  • eine herrliche Musik,einfach super!

  • Both Della and John compliment each other. Rule Britannia!!! Top notch version and this is from a Yank!!!

  • God bless you Dickie Baker! More like him back on the BBC please!

  • Fabulous song though I really do think people take it too seriously. It's ostentatious and vulgar, best taken these days slightly tongue-in-cheek.

  • Never seen my country show this much patriotism in recent years. At least Britain still has that!

  • Some bloke or bloke'ess from a couple of weeks ago reckoned they hadn't seen a decent version,obviously they didn't see Sarah Connolly or Bryn Terfel's versions,all i can say is "get up and hava'go ya self ya mug",the bloody day you can't find something patriotic out of a song,piss off somewhere else,hmmmm,Iraq?

  • @anzackiaus

    Hay numbskull i was refering to the usa nat anthem, sang by the likes of madonna and such celebs

    is anzackiaus iraqi for fascist or faggot

  • @kje1957 Hahaha,you can't even spell right and if you want to criticise the USA anthem get on the right page,sounds like you are a little boy with nothing better to do than criticise the talents of others,go get a life,as i said if you can do better get up and have a go yourself,mug

  • If you sing a patriotic song in my homeland (Spain) people call you fascist. Yes, it's sad and stupid. So, I see England and I shout... Spain sucks! RULE BRITANNIA!!!

  • Britania is becoming slaves to Islam....

  • @InfallibleProof Sadly we are, that's why we must do everything in our power to stop it.

    Rule Britannia!!

  • @InfallibleProof let us sing this song now as often as we can while we can.join in the crusade . dont listen to prince charles .islam must be crushed

  • Gee whiz, Madonna and the Star-Spangled Banner doesn't compare very favorably. God love the UK...

  • @verstengenericks

    Just watched a few versions of it done by differant celebs and your right , there is no real guts to it .

    or is it just the crap celebs

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  • Thanks for uploading this. Beautiful.

  • ALL HAIL BRITANNIA

  • This is the best patriotic song in the world

  • lol We only put on this proud patriotic front once a year at the Last Night of the Proms. Then we go back to being quiet and toned tone..

    There's something rather un-British about overt patriotism. I think people find it a bit creepy, like watching a pompous parade or show of force in a shouty/majestic country like North Korea or the United States.

    Britain prefers to fit in and think of itself as just another country among many great countries.

  • If you can't be proud of what your country has done then North Korea might a be a suitable destination for you. Great Britain and America have done more good for the world in modern times than all the rest of the countries combined. Their citizens have sacrificed enormously in blood and wealth to ensure freedom. Let them sing such songs more frequently!

  • GREAT SONG! WOO!

  • For every Bariton like me...

  • ... and me better Bariton...

  • And me as better Bariton...

  • i wish a was a Briton

  • Sad that nowadays, due to the imposition of a police state in Britain, Britons HAVE become slaves.

    All those hard-won freedoms, tossed away as rubbish, gradually, one by one. Britons surveilled, subjected to the EU, subjected to unelected despots, guilty until proven innocent, without privacy, without dignity.

    Now it's: "Britons never, ever, ever shall be slaves except by consent, through cowardice and intellectual slovenliness."

    (Things aren't much better here in the U.S.)

  • I wish I could give your comment more than one thumbs up. Well said.

  • @Bachalicious

    Thank you for your comments. However, don't worry about Britain. Every few centuries, the government of this country oversteps its bounds. In due course, it is put back in its box. And if you base your view of Britain on British media, you need to be aware that it is the British way to run down and disparage our own country. Even something like "Rule Britannia" is only meant in a tongue-in-cheek sense. The Last Night of the Proms is a kind of self-parody.

  • What absolute rubbish!

  • Great Britain!!!!

    Not Rubbish Britain......

    GREAT Britain.

    I am so proud of this nation and of my people.

  • @brad130978 by god you should be! God Save your queen. best wishes from the USA

  • Great Britain needs a new leader to make this Great Nation rise again!

  • @zeboczulu ask the germans perhaps they have some spare parts

  • We'll give you George Bush Jr.

  • @zeboczulu it's a terrible thing to lose an empire.

    

  • Its the United Kingdom that made Britain great.

    UNITED. It makes me teribly sad to hear the scots nationalists carrying on.

    Even Cornish nationalists for heavens sake!

    Pathetic people who want a little bit of power, disregarding near a thousand years of unity.

  • Remeber English brothers that Wales and Scotland are apart of this U.K!

  • Magnificent! Although not an Englishman Rule Britannia moves me no end. God Bless and long life to our oldest and most trusted friends of the United Kingdom!

  • white people :-P

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  • @djmarkcotter I might punch you.

  • @WakaTakaB um im white? so go ahead see what happens

  • I'll hold your coat.

  • 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

    Rule Britannia!!!

    Britannia rule the waves!!!

    Britons never ever ever !!!

    Will Be slaves!!!

  • Gostrid2012 is a clone which seriously needs to be institutionalized. He has absolutely no life! Somebody help this guy, he really needs it!

  • I love England. No matter what some of you may say about us, it's impossible for me to hold it against you! No country is dearer to me but my own. Never change!

  • Great song! Stirring tribute to a great people!

  • I have always thought this should be the British anthem

  • @sailingforde04 -me too

  • its actually based on equality and you can't help but feel patriotic to it :D

  • Da iawn Della Jones! Y Ddraig Goch Ddyry Gychwyn!

  • oh Why - 1 for me ?

    I like those two singers and this song .....even if i m not english. Rule Britannia with rolled R is very nice .

    I was only joking , sports is not war and perhaps because i like to hear '' Rule Britannia sang in by Opera singers ' , like i admire the Russian anthem .

    People everywhere seem to become less and less funny . What a pity !

  • Very nice Rule Britannia.

    Be fair play and gentlemen , this song is so nice , i adapt it for encourage Algerian football team before a very difficult football match next june against your very good national team with the incredible and talented leader from Liverpool Steven Gerrard .

    Only for humour and sports and friendly joke , i 'd say and sing .

    ''Rruuule Algeria, Algeria forever

    Algerians will never renounce''

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  • Do you not see, we Americans ARE the most hated people in the world, even our closest ally the British, hate us. We have be come self rightists and arrogant. We need to stop and pull back and bring all of our troops home from all over the world, and close all of our military bases all over the world. The World dont want nor to they need us.

  • Why would we hate you?

    Thats a very assumption attitude,

    You cant base the feelings of a nation off a few individules, especially on youtube,

    Dissaproving of a few things doesnt mean hate

  • i agree thunderaphyo, im a travelling Brit and never have I found any nation or peoples with such wonderful peculiaritys!! Makes me proud!!

  • I love how you Westerners are engaged in cross Atlantic hatred for each other. This is great, while you are all distracted.

    The Celestial Empire is on the rise!

  • Daj Boze da vam se vrati svo zlo koje nanosiet drugima posebno srpskom narodu

    Ne sutra, ne prekosutra vec danas

    Neka zamre vasa monarhija, vasa krljica, njeni unuci, vas ponos neka netragom nestane, neka izdahne vasa slava kao da vas nikaad nije bilo

    neka vasa zemlja i vasa istorija budu iabrisane iz knjige zivih i ponosnih naroda

    jednostavno, idite tamo gde vam je i mesto

    I TAKO CE I BITI

  • a mess...

  • We Americans thought that everyone loved us now that we were stupid enough to elect Obama president. At any rate, GREAT BRITAIN ROCKS!

  • Rule Britannia! God save the Queen! Fuck the US of A! I agree with gostrid2012, American consumerism has destroyed world economy. Great Britain has a rich and hoary past, rich traditions and history. British people have roots, the Americans only have the dollar...Fucking obese Americans!

  • The British Financial system collasped before the U.S.

  • @rags015 Your name reflects the effects of two wars Britan had with the USA. Keep up the effort.

    Stiff upper lip you know!

  • Bloody limeys !

    I am joking, I love Britain, used to live there, there is no such a peculier country in Europe suc as the UK...

  • You TOM are proof that republicans are little more than uneducated, illmannered animals. You lost the election because your ideas are bankrupt. Get the hell out of this country if you dont like democracy. Its not like anyone will miss your white trash ass. You are meaningless turds. Go to flocking hell, or Russia or wherever pure evil goes you waste of breath. To think MY taxes support your worthless pile of shat arse. Go to hell.!!!

    RULE BRITTANIA!! FUCK USA!!!

  • Britannia*

    Take your time when you type.

  • This song lifts my spirit more than any other song i've ever heard. Absolutely beautiful.

  • Apart from beautiful Christian, Classical Music...this is really blood marvelous..I agree with you JCW...

  • Superb!

  • Let Britian rule the Waves all the way ,

    Rule Rule Rule all the way....

  • Nope It's how it is And columbus Was hoping for asia when he saw the red skinned freaks he thought they were from india

  • Well Gostridr2012 we Don't care that we ruined Africa or killed the indians We proud we exploited everyones land thats who we are we help ourselfs to anything we want and thats why we love being British.

  • Sir John Tomlinson is the bass-baritone par excellence! It is the voice of an Old Testament prophet. I love a wide-ranging bass who possesses what I can only describe as a crustiness in every key. I sound just like that ......in the bath!

  • I agree ..and in the shower it's really good!!!

  • hahaha

  • And you write like one.

  • @DominicMetal1979, and so did Marx. oh how appearances can decieve....

  • Marx was a dishonest piece of sh*t.

  • @DominicMetal1979

    Why not apply for the job yourself?

  • @DominicMetal1979 worst comment I have ever read on youtube, and there are a few really stupid people around.

  • I love how absolutely anything imaginable on youtube can become the basis for inane, hate-filled comments and trolls bringing up argument and bigotry over the most irrelevant things. Is a comment board for this video really the best place to vent against British Imperialism? All I can say is that this is a beautiful, passionate song which fills me with pride, even though I'm not even from Britain. I am part British by descent and what a grand heritage! An epic classic song.

  • Viva a Inglaterra, Viva Isabel II!

  • RULE BRITANNIA!!

    the greatest in the world

  • For the detractors of the USA. Are you part of Europe that we saved, or are you part of Europe whose ass we kicked?

    If I were not American, I would rather be a Brit than anything else out there. Americans and Brits....the most decent people on the planet.

  • It is true Americans and Brits are the most decent people on the planet. God has obviously blessed our empire all through history.

  • world war 2 was an atrocity against Europe and Britons by multiracial Huns.

  • the only slavery that ever existed with British people was that imposed on us by the wog entitlement lobby when they become so greedy they began deporting Britons from their own lands. Blame the Huns and communists for slavery, the British people bought civilization.

  • @gostridr2012: Sorry, man, I think you misunderstood me here. I meant that the Brits WERE part of the problem, and yes, the U.S. government was allowing atrocities to happen as well.

    And yes, you're right about serfs: they, too could also be considered slaves in a way.

  • it is not MY empire. I only tried to provide information to people. To teach a little about how it all really was..

  • man you dont speak for the USA - did you know the Americans fought in Australian, Canadian and British Uniforms in the first world war? In the crunch - the Americans are with the British - to are just some loser who feels and probably is inferior arn't you...

  • the conflicts in Europe have always been mostly immigrant race related, until the Prussians and Austro Hungarian Empires were finally Annihilated in the first and second world war...now you are just a dying relic.

  • who is we? something imaginary you cannot tell me about?...go on try...

  • you still come to us begging for food and wish you were white or you would not be here - it eats you up because you know you depend on us.

  • naw, Europeans did not fight against each other - the Indo Iranic Prussians are not European they just wished they were - they are immigrants who moved there - Huns - savages and primitives...

  • I think the reality is the world is crying out for the Brits, French, Spanish and Dutch to resume colonial administrative duties don't you?

  • @cranyonrye: Sad truth is, they were the ones who started all of these major problems in Africa in the first place, via colonization policies, as well as slavery. Had these countries decided on peace and trading instead, Africa would be much, much better off today{But sadly, this isn't what happened, thanks to the globalists}.

  • the reality is Europeans have always had to interact with the colored people you cant complain about the colonization process because its self evident we have a parental civilizing role otherwise why are we accepting so many migrants?  We have always lived with them by their choice for thousands of years. Slavery was conducted by Germanic, & middle eastern people, you are culturally distorted in perspective. Germanic people are not white Europeans.

  • @cranyonrye: Thousands of years? Now that's definitely a stretch...................100 years, maybe.

  • who is us? you have no people, Europeans have a civilizing responsibility to people like you who on the one hand DEMAND independence and on the other hand cling to us like the children you are. you still wish you were white otherwise why are you obsessed with this video?

  • Galileans were the same as ethnic Europeans, their language is Gallic, their culture everything about them was Western - you have no identity - yours is wrapped up in the people who have ruled you these thousands of years.

  • How stupid of you not to be able to grasp they were our race, as were the Galatians and the Galileans.

  • Huns have lived under the tutelage of Europeans and Britons for thousands of years as we have guided and civilized them patiently. The borderlands of the Roman empire is the native lands of Cro Magnon European man of whom Britons belong. You have no identity.