[Chorus]
Where is the flag of England? Go north, south, east or west,
Wherever there's wealth to plunder or land to be possessed,
Wherever there's feeble races to frighten, coerce or scare,
Oh, you'll find the butcher's apron, the English flag is there.
[Verse]
It waves above blazing hovels where Africans victims fly,
To be shot by explosive bullets or wretchedly starve and fly,
And where the pirate harries in the isles of southern seas,
At the peak of the hellish vessel, the English flag is free.
The Māori often cursed it with his bitterest dying breath,
And the Arab has hissed his hatred as he spat in its fold in death,
The helpless Hindu feared it and the Kenyan did the same,
And Irish blood has stained it, with a deep and indelible stain.
[Chorus]
Where is the flag of England? Go north, south, east or west,
Wherever there's wealth to plunder or land to be possessed,
Wherever there's feeble races to frighten, coerce or scare,
Oh, you'll find the butcher's apron, the English flag is there.
[Verse]
It has floated above scenes of pillage and flaunted o'er deeds of shame,
It has waved above foul marauders as they ravaged with sword and flame,
It's looked upon ruthless slaughter and massacres dire and grim,
And it's heard the shriek of victims, drowned in the Jingo hymn.
Where is the flag of England? Seek lands where natives rot,
Where decay and assured extinction must soon be a people's lot,
Go search for once-glad islands where death and disease are rife,
And the greed of callous commerce, now battens down human life.
[Chorus]
Where is the flag of England? Go north, south, east or west,
Wherever there's wealth to plunder or land to be possessed,
Wherever there's feeble races to frighten, coerce or scare,
Oh, you'll find the butcher's apron, the English flag is there.
[Verse]
Oh, where is the flag of England? Go sail where rich boats come,
With shoddy and loaded cottons, with beer, bibles and guns,
Go where brute force has triumphed and hypocrisy makes its lair,
In your question you'll find the answer, it was or still is there.
[Chorus]
Where is the flag of England? Go north, south, east or west,
Wherever there's wealth to plunder or land to be possessed,
Wherever there's feeble races to frighten, coerce or scare,
Oh, you'll find the butcher's apron, the English flag is there.