There is no fourth verse. Look to your history. It is possible to find out what happened in the past, what did not happen in the past, and why things happened. Other countries use the tune that you call "that dirge" too. It is good to know what you're talking about. "Wikipedia" would be a useful place for you to start.
Labour / Keir Starmer
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My mistake in post 40, it is verse 6 that says to crush the Scots.
Verse 6: Lord grant that Marshal Wade, may by thy mighty aid, victory bring. May he sedition hush, and like a torrent rush, rebellious Scots to crush. God save the King!
With which I do not agree with, it should be the monarchy we are getting rid of.
There is no fourth OR sixth verse.
Look to your history. It is possible to find out what happened in the past, what did not happen in the past, and why things happened. Other countries use the tune that you call "that dirge" too. It is good to know what you're talking about. "Wikipedia" would be a useful place for you to start.
Why are you dismissing fact?
https://www.mylondon.news/news/uk-world-news/national-anthem-full-lyrics-including-25051609
Why are you favouring outpourings from Reach Group newspapers over real fact?
It looks pretty silly repeating the same guff, referring to a nearly 300 year old song and its partial history before it even became the National Anthem.
Look to your history. It is possible to find out what happened in the past, what did not happen in the past, and why things happened. Other countries use the tune that you call "that dirge" too. It is good to know what you're talking about. "Wikipedia" would be a useful place for you to start. Here you are. It's got lots of cross=references too:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_Save_the_King
And:
https://www.royal.uk/encyclopedia/national-anthem
Leave the ballcocks to the plumbers.
Are you a plumber?
There are 6 verses to the dirge for the hypocritical unelected freeloading sponger. They might not all get used, but they are there.
Ind spark
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Who voted you and Alan
Alan22
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The version that Google Ai provides includes the much disputed verse, so whatever the history it has stuck now, as a Scot I personally don't mind, to me it's just another fascinating reminder of how the UK defines itself by it's past glories that no longer mean anything.
Alan22
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Who voted you and Alan
Perceptions are strange things, I'm as far from being a monarchist as you are a brain surgeon
bright_Spark
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A long way thenPerceptions are strange things, I'm as far from being a monarchist as you are a brain surgeon
Ind spark
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I'm more into rocket sciencePerceptions are strange things, I'm as far from being a monarchist as you are a brain surgeon
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I'm shockedPerceptions are strange things, I'm as far from being a monarchist as you are a brain surgeon
The general public. You can, to some extent, look at the subsets of "the public", e.g. how men voted, how women voted, etc. "Alan"? Perhaps that's the one in my killfile. I wouldn't know, but I did not vote (you know how such polls use sampling, I assume).Who voted you and Alan
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My only beef with the monarchy is that it's governed by the church of England, odd though it may seem you can't actually have a King or Queen of the UK without a couple of vicars taking their clothes off and pouring water on them, not being a believer in the Jesus I find it strangely insulting that I have to bow to someone that needs the job that badly.
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Alan22
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CIA thing, Reg is an assassin.
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Oh