Editing God Save the King (section)

=====Official peace version=====
A less militaristic version of the song, titled "Official peace version, 1919", was first published in the [[hymn]] book ''Songs of Praise'' in 1925.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Dearmer |first1=Percy|last2=Vaughan Williams |first2=Ralph |title=Songs of Praise|publisher=Oxford University Press| year=1925}}</ref> This was "official" in the sense that it was approved by the [[Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council|British Privy Council]] in 1919.<ref name="mwtppa" /> However, despite being reproduced in some other [[hymn]] books, it is largely unknown today.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.blackcountrybugle.co.uk/forgotten-national-anthem-sung-halesowen-service/story-20123427-detail/story.html |title=Forgotten National Anthem Sung at Halesowen Service |work=Black Country Bugle |date=15 March 2007 |access-date=20 January 2017}} {{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Source describes it as an "unusual and little known version of the national anthem ... taken from the order of service for the blessing of Halesowen's borough charter ... on Sunday, 20 September 1936."</ref>
{{poemquote|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!

One realm of races four{{efn|Referring to the [[English people|English]], [[Irish people|Irish]]/[[Northern Irish people|Northern Irish]], [[Scots people|Scots]] and [[Welsh people|Welsh]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1701880/full_content|website=Daily Kos|title="This National Anthem Thing - View from a country with no anthem, or 4, 5 or 6 or one nobody sings."|date=September 27, 2017|access-date=19 October 2024|archive-date=30 November 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241130141817/https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1701880/full_content|url-status=live}}</ref>}}  
Blest more and ever more
God save our land!
Home of the brave and free
Set in the silver sea
True nurse of chivalry
God save our land!

Of many a race and birth
From utmost ends of earth
God save us all!
Bid strife and hatred cease
Bid hope and joy increase
Spread universal peace
God save us all!
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