Odyssey Music Recs

[PrivateTim]

For the Glorious First of June!

 

[Mark Arbour]

For the Glorious First of June!

 

 

Good choice! Hearts of Oak is the ditty they used to beat to quarters.

[PrivateTim]

Best ever version of Rule Britannia. The last night of The Proms is something everyone should experience at least once.

 

 

When Britain first, at heaven’s command,

Arose from out the azure main,

Arose, arose, arose from out the azure main.

This was the charter, the charter of the land,

And guardian angels sang the strain.

 

Rule Britannia!

Britannia rule the waves.

Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.

Rule Britannia!

Britannia rule the waves.

Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.

 

The nations not so blest as thee,

Must in their turn to tyrants fall,

Must in their turn, must in their turn,

To tyrants fall,

While thou shall flourish,

Shall flourish great and free,

The dread and envy of them all.

 

Chorus.

 

Still more majestic shalt thou rise,

More dreadful from each foreign stroke.

More dreadful, more dreadful

From each foreign stroke.

Loud blast above us, loud blast that tears the skies,

Serves but to root thy native oak.

 

Chorus.

 

Thee haughty tyrants ne’er shall tame,

All their attempts to bend thee down,

All their attempts, all their attempts

To bend thee down,

Will but arouse thy generous flame.

But work their woe and thy renown.

 

Chorus.

 

To thee belongs the rural reign,

Thy cities shall with commerce shine,

Thy cities shall, thy cities shall

With commerce shine.

All thine shall be the subject main,

And every shore it circles thine.

 

Chorus.

 

The muses still, with freedom found,

Shall to thy happy coast repair,

Shall to thy happy coast,

Thy happy coasts repair,

Best isle of beauty,

With matchless beauty crowned,

And manly hearts to guard the fair.

 

Chorus.