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God Save the King 
God Save the King 
God save our gracious king, Long live our noble king, God save the king. Send him victorious Happy and glorious Long to reign over us God save the king. 
O Lord and God arise, Scatter his enemies And make them fall Confound their politics Frustrate their knavish tricks On Thee our hopes we fix, God save the king. 
Thy choicest gifts in store Oh him be pleased to pour, Long may he reign. May he defend our laws And ever give us cause To sing with heart and voice God save the king. 
Nor on this land alone, But be God's mercies known From shore to shore Lord, make the nation see That men should brothers be, And form one family The wide world o'er 
This tune, one of the best known in the world, is sung throughout the British empire as "God Save the King," in the USA as "My Country Tis Of Thee, " in the German Reich as "Heil Dir im Siegerkranz," and in many other countries under different names. The song has never been the official British national anthem, though it has been sung generally with that significance. But on October 20th 1946, in St. Paul's Cathedral, King George lent his 
presence and approval to a change in the traditional form. In an effort to express the ideal of world brotherhood, the second stanza above was dropped and the new fourth stanza, written almost a century ago by Rev. W.E.Hickson (1803-1870), was added to the end, but never generally accepted. DC