[Unrepentant VN Vet]

What was the name of that song? “There’ll Always Be an England”????

...y’know, I don’t remember the tune anymore myself.

(My Great e13 grandfathers are likely all doing turns for 40kts right now...even if they were only nominally “English”.)

[naturalman1975]

I give you a toast, ladies and gentlemen.
I give you a toast, ladies and gentlemen.
May this fair dear land we love so well
In dignity and freedom dwell.
Though worlds may change and go awry
While there is still one voice to cry

There'll always be an England
While there's a country lane,
Wherever there's a cottage small
Beside a field of grain.
There'll always be an England
While there's a busy street,
Wherever there's a turning wheel,
A million marching feet.

Red, white and blue; what does it mean to you?
Surely you're proud, shout it aloud,
"Britons, awake!"
The empire too, we can depend on you.
Freedom remains. These are the chains
Nothing can break.

There'll always be an England,
And England shall be free
If England means as much to you
As England means to me.

The problem is that there are too many people in the UK to whom the last verse no longer applies - England - Britain - no longer means all that much to them.

[dfwgator]

More like the Kinks’ “Living on a Thin Line” (But there’s no England, now)

[moose07]

:D

Gibraltar has called : 20171.Total. 19322 Remain.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

I remember the song “There’ll Blue Birds Over The White Cliffs Of Dover” from WW2. Makes me cry every time I hear it.