Songs about what it means to be British
Songs about what it means to be British#1
Posted: 10/21/16 at 2:06pm
Just because.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/29/08
Songs about what it means to be British#2
Posted: 10/21/16 at 2:15pm
Try the West End board. Unless you're just trying to be funny
Songs about what it means to be British#3
Posted: 10/21/16 at 2:28pm
Look at Gilbert and Sullivan, i.e. "He is an Englishman" from HMS Pinafore.
Songs about what it means to be British#4
Posted: 10/21/16 at 2:36pm
Oh Canada, advance Australia fair, star spangled banner.
Songs about what it means to be British#5
Posted: 10/21/16 at 3:19pm
"We Are Gentlemen of Japan" from THE MIKADO
Songs about what it means to be British#7
Posted: 10/21/16 at 5:21pm
"Why Can't the English" in My Fair Lady
Noel Coward's "London Pride"
Songs about what it means to be British#8
Posted: 10/21/16 at 5:57pm
"Britain's Coming Home (The Brexit Song)"
Songs about what it means to be British#9
Posted: 10/21/16 at 11:16pm
"You're So London" (sung by Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett in their "Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall" performance)
Updated On: 10/21/16 at 11:16 PMSongs about what it means to be British#11
Posted: 10/21/16 at 11:40pm
The Lambeth Walk from ME AND MY GIRL. What a fun show, saw the Tim Curry tour twice here in San Francisco. Must be twenty years ago.
Songs about what it means to be British#12
Posted: 10/22/16 at 2:51am
You're as English As (Kwamina)
Stiff Upper Lip (Crazy For You)
Take it on the Chin (Me and My Girl)
Ascot Gavotte (My Fair Lady)
Typically English (Stop the World, I Want to Get Off)
Songs about what it means to be British#13
Posted: 10/22/16 at 4:49am
There's No Place Like London-Sweeney Todd ![]()
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Songs about what it means to be British#14
Posted: 10/23/16 at 11:09pm
This by Sarah Louise Young & Michael Roulston, very British humor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jymTok5nsg
Songs about what it means to be British#15
Posted: 10/24/16 at 4:24am
Solidarity Billy Elliot - more to do with unions than being British
Songs about what it means to be British#16
Posted: 10/24/16 at 9:27am
If you mean British aristocrats in the Victorian era specifically- the entire score of Gentleman's Guide. Hehe
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/24/09
Songs about what it means to be British#18
Posted: 10/28/16 at 2:02am
Camelot, although it certainly took place before there was a Great Britain, as opposed to England.
Some of the Brigadoon songs. (Scotland).
Is there something from 1776?
A British Bank, from Mary Poppins (movie).
Songs about what it means to be British#19
Posted: 10/28/16 at 12:47pm
"Lion-hearted Land" from The Likes of Us. Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice.
Songs about what it means to be British#20
Posted: 10/28/16 at 12:52pm
"The Life I Lead" from Mary Poppins (the film, insanely cut from the stage musical).
It's grand to be an Englishman in nineteen-ten!
King Edward's on the throne, it's the age of men!
I am the lord of my castle! The sovereign! The liege!
I treat my subjects, servants, children, wife
With a firm but gentle hand, noblesse oblige
Songs about what it means to be British#21
Posted: 10/28/16 at 2:13pm
On the obscure side, "Little Island" from Randy Newman's Faust
Songs about what it means to be British#22
Posted: 10/28/16 at 2:32pm
"Western People Funny" - The King And I.
(Yes, it's a joke. Relax.)
Songs about what it means to be British#23
Posted: 10/28/16 at 3:02pm
They cut "The Life I Lead" from the stage version?!?!?! WHAT
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