Flanders & Swann

Song of Patriotic Prejudice
(The English are Best)
AT THE DROP OF ANOTHER HAT
on Broadway 1967

By Permission of THE FLANDERS & SWANN ESTATES

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Comedy
• Music
• Flanders
• Swann
• Hat
• Patriotic
• Prejudice
• English

[LeonPFB]

The song was pretty controversial when it was coined in 1963. They originally called it 'Anthem Anathema' - but that was too highbrow. Members of the audience would sidle up to them and say "We're so glad you feel this way too". So to make the satire totally explicit they renamed it 'Song of Patriotic Prejudice'. Some right-wingers still don't get it and trot it out as a quasi- national song. Twits!

[2sepgorillas]

These chaps are Brilliant!

Witty!

Musical!

And Entertaining!

And if they were alive today they would be flogged, crucified and ritualistically disembowelled.

Figuratively speaking, of course.

And then sent on a compulsory 3 month 'diversity' course, so they'd know more about 'tolerance'.

God, I hate political correctness!

I may be a one legged, mixed race Irish satanist (of indeterminate sexual orientation!)

But I will lay down my life for someone's right to have a laugh.

[TheBrataccas]

Im scottish and I love this O_O

[Krzyszczynski]

@snappo20 : Actually old boy it IS the St George Cross when you're referring to the flag. The George Cross (without the "St") is a medal, the highest non-military award for gallantry in the UK.

[beliso36]

If you had not been British you may have been French or German. If you vote to break up the Union between England and Scotland a nasty little man called Salmon will achieve what powerful Dictators with large armies failed to do!

[prothonotar]

@LeonPFB similar to neo-nazis appropriating 'Tommororw Belongs to Me', written by a homosexual for a play whose backdrop was the growing Nazi menace. :-/

[Sapphire848]

These guys are great! I remember sitting with my parents, loving the jokes that I got and watching my parents roar with laughter at the ones I was too young to understand :D.

[TheMimifur]

If you hadn't been born English, you could all be Spanish and waiting for the Inquisition!

[temporaldisplacement]

Proud to be english ...though self critical too, good old fashioned bluster still sounds and feels good, though the english no longer hold the monopoly on bluster; there is still a wealth of huberis here.

[niceguy1068]

These people are geniuses, and I'm Welsh! :D

[Kwodlibet]

I feel so foreign right now :)

[PuissantAlgernon]

@2sepgorillas - I don't how this song clashes with the values of those who promote tolerance, diversity or political correctness, given that it's actually satirising nationalism and racism.