E A E Ours is a nation, it's one nation of old B A land built by heroes, their stories we've been told E A E Built upon a history of toil, sweat and tears B E A Christian land of over a thousand years. B A E But listen to me people, these words you can't ignore A B Today England needs her sons and her daughters like never before E A E Feel the pride, hear the call, from Land's End to Hadrian's Wall B E This is England, the land of Saint George. A E This is the land of the free where the white cliffs meet the sea B A thousand years of kings and queens E A E Oxford and Cambridge, English Law, Charles Dickens and Bobby Moore B E Drake and Nelson sailing the seven seas. B A E But listen to me people, these words you can't ignore A B Today England needs her sons and her daughters like never before E A E Feel the pride, hear the call, from Land's End to Hadrian's Wall B E This is England, the land of Saint George. A E I see the Downs and the Yorkshire Dales; the New Forest and the Lakeland Fells B And there I hear Wainwright calling me E A E Now every Englishman he knows the greatest beauty be an English Rose B E And within this land my spirit will ever be. B A E But listen to me people, these words you can't ignore A B Today England needs her sons and her daughters like never before E A E Feel the pride, hear the call, from Land's End to Hadrian's Wall B E This is England, the land of Saint George. F# B F# England, oh England, every woman every man C# What became of Jerusalem in this green and pleasant land? F# B F# I won't run, I'll never hide, they'll always see my English pride C# F# This is England, the land of Saint George C# F# C# F# This is England, the land of Saint George