[joeysteele]

Actually if I'm not keen on a line of a song I often just adapt the words to ones I'd use when singing it anyway.

As I said earlier, I've never really liked Rule Brittania anyway.

The slave line always sounded ridiculous to me.
For any reason.
As for ruling the waves, REALLY!.

Land of hope and Glory.
I like very much, although I prefer it too just done without the words.
It's a beautiful melody.
Much like Elgar's Nimrod, which would sound so wrong with lyrics.

Jerusalem I love, one of my Aunt's used to sing that really loudly.
For me that's a more hopeful permanent fixture of Last Night of the Proms.

The BBC however is seeming to really digging deeper and deeper holes for itself.
Not just on this issue.
However across the board too.

It's news for instance, I've lost count of in news programmes now, where the newsreader is constantly saying, er, erm, hmm etc:

So perhaps when singing for instance, Rule Brittania, on lines anyone doesn't like.
Just hum that line, or stay silent and don't sing it.
Or just don't sing it at all.