| Where is the flag of England?
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| Go North, South, East or West
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| Wherever’s there’s wealth to plunder
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| Or land to be possessed!
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| Wherever there’s feeble races
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| To frighten, coerce or scare
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| Oh, you’ll find a butcher’s apron
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| The English flag is there
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| It waves above blazing hovels
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| Where Africa’s victims die
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| To be shot by explosive bullets
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| Or wretchedly starve and fly
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| And where the pirate harries
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| In the isles of sovereign seas
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| At the peak of the hellish vessel
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| The English flag is free
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| The Maori often cursed it
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| With its bitterest dying breath
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| And the Arab hath hissed his hatred
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| As he spat in its fold in death
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| And the helpless Hindu feared it
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| And the Kenyan did the same
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| And the Irish blood has stained it
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| With a deep and indelible stain
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| Where is the flag of England?
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| Go North, South, East or West
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| Wherever’s there’s wealth to plunder
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| Or land to be possessed!
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| Wherever there’s feeble races
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| To frighten, coerce or scare
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| Oh, you’ll find a butcher’s apron
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| The English flag is there
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| It has floated o’er scenes of pillage
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| It is flaunted o’er deeds of shame
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| It has waved above foul marauders
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| As they ravished with sword and flame
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| It has looked upon ruthless slaughter
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| And massacre dire and grim
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| And it’s heard the shriek of victims
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| Drowned in the Jingo hymn
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| Where is the flag of England?
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| Seek lands where natives rot
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| Where decay and assured extinction
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| Must soon be a people’s lot
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| Go search for once-glad islands
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| Where death and disease are rife
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| And the greed of callous commerce
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| Now battens on human life
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| Where is the flag of England?
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| Go North, South, East or West
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| Wherever’s there’s wealth to plunder
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| Or land to be possessed!
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| Wherever there’s feeble races
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| To frighten, coerce or scare
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| Oh, you’ll find a butcher’s apron
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| The English flag is there
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| Where is the flag of England?
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| Go sail where rich boats come
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| With shoddy and loaded cottons
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| And beer and Bibles and guns
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| Go where brute force has triumped
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| And hypocrisy makes its lair
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| In your question you’ll find the answer
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| It was or still is there
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| Where is the flag of England?
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| Go North, South, East or West
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| Wherever’s there’s wealth to plunder
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| Or land to be possessed!
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| Wherever there’s feeble races
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| To frighten, coerce or scare
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| Oh, you’ll find a butcher’s apron
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| The English flag is there |