I once got to close out the Jeremy Vine show, this was in 2012, Diamond Jubilee.
The question was: who in this day and age knows the second verse of “God Save the Queen”?
I called in immediately and spoke to the researcher, and she loved the idea of it being the Pistols. And then the segment aired. Cue lots of retired major-generals huffing and puffing for about 30 mins, then Jezza got me on the line….
He built me up well beforehand I must say and I just went with the flow….I was quite blasé, explained that anyone born in the late 60s would know the lyrics, they were part of the national consciousness and I was surprised that this was even a question.
Off I went at his prompting:
God save the queen
We mean it man
We love our queen!
God saves….
God save the queen
The tourists are money
And our figurehead
Is not what she seems….
Fade to title music….. 🙂 I used to have it on mp3 somewhere.