Civilization 5 OST - Elizabeth War - England - I Vow to Thee,My Country

Original Civilization V soundtrack by Geoff Knorr and Michael Curran.

[@Asianmattdog]

I should have just accepted that damn trade agreement with England...

[@rusler159]

You’ll accept it one way or another

[@thepepper191]

Holy fuck, no wonder we won ww2

[@michaeldey6078]

I absolutely love the harpsichord in the background behind the flutes at 1:28 +. So badass!

[@YellowJacket530]

I love the flutes

[@jackstrayfeald1007]

If you're an enemy of Great Britain and you hear this...you know your fucked.

[@jeffreymodesitt3345]

The last thing you hear before your cities are bombarded into submission by ships of the line

[@No_Superman10]

I mostly play as England when I play Civ, and more often than not I take a defensive style. So this music for me has a very distinct "Sick of your shit" vibe.

[@Kaito-kun]

I've fallen in love with this song. It alone has made me want to buy the game. Although, I wonder how many Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish have looked through these comments and become annoyed by everyone referring to England as Britain.

[@QuantumShock1]

We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France. We shall fight on the seas and oceans. We shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the landing grounds. We shall fight in the fields and in the streets. We shall fight in the hills. We shall never surrender! And even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.”

[@MrJatmesdragon]

+Quantum Shock We shall fight on the beaches. We shall fight on the fucking beaches. Best. Speech. Ever.

[@RichyRotondo]

Sometimes I just declare war on someone just to hear this song.

[@ungusbungus2486]

Imagine that happening in real life.

[@sedoskovelha123]

When you hear the pipe you know the shit is for real

[@_Quattr09]

This is one of the greatest songs I've ever heard in a video game. Absolutely fantastic.

[@Thevas11]

When the fife and drums kick in at 1:29 I can picture the ordered ranks of Redcoats advancing across the open field into firing range under their fluttering Union Jack standard, their captain with his sword held high, barking his commands as his well-drilled soldiers prep their muskets and unleash a storm of lead on their enemies.

[@masteeyes]

I felt it from the very beginning

[@reddeadbret4218]

listening to this, it baffles me that the infamous red coats are not in the game.

[@QuantumShock1]

Thats what mods are for mate :)

[@reddeadbret4218]

Quantum Shock I can't find one that has the red coats though. Dreadnaughts, Churchill, Spitfires, but no red coats :/

[@QuantumShock1]

RedDeadBret Look up ethnic units on workshop, it adds all of the historic skins plus fantasy ones for countries like America during the middle ages.

[@TeaLordTime]

I wouldn't say infamous. More heroic.

[@KillerSerpant6]

+MRENGLISHRULES101 Wholeheartedly agree.

[@civisterrae]

Such a beautiful composition...

[@McVillly]

Just finished playing with England, went on war with Inca on purpose, only to hear this one. By far the best track on soundtrack.

[@MrJatmesdragon]

*sees large ships off the shore of my city, and long bowmen coming from the land* Aww shit... I will always remember the first time I heard this. I was looking up walkthroughs to find out the best civs in civ 5 and I saw England's UU and UA. I knew that I had to try this out. The first time I declared war, Egypt settled way too close to me capital, and I declared war. It was the renaissance, and I had both the UU's. Little to say, I docked my boats, prepared my archers. I took the city at size 10 in 3 turns. This theme played the whole time, and I took down Egypt single handedly (maybe faster if their capital was bordering the ocean...) definitely my favorite civ of all time

[@MSF_Soldier_Alligator]

If you're fighting them on one of the island maps, all you can do is hope you make it past the renaissance.

[@MAINEVENT99]

this music gave me motivation to stop being lazy and start doing my gdamn homework

[@Alex911TheCanadian]

I was part of the Honour Guard for my school on Remembrance Day, and they played I Vow to Thee, My Country. It is a good song.

[@ice010]

3:04 is in fact the BEST PART!

[@Wanda_Maximoff832]

Of course it is

[@relunxet]

We shall never surrender!

[@tikletik]

I love the flutes. Flutes give such a feeling of hope against the odds! It's a brave sound

[@RoHuMemes]

The flute at 1:29 makes me think of Nelson and the ships of the line

[@sipodge]

This is an amazing version of this classic tune!

[@moonhitler]

I remember when I first got a domination victory, and this song played. I stared at the GAME OVER screen for ten minutes as the song looped, and I felt like God.

[@SirViette]

It gets good at 1:29. It gets GREAT at 1:53. When all the counterpoints get a harmony at 2:06, maximum awesomeness is reached. And then the choir kicks in at 2:22, and your head explodes! ... and we still haven't reached the crescendo yet!

[@raven800plays]

they did an AWESOME job ob this game. the dialog, as well as the music makes every action you take in the game feel like an amazing undertaking. It's a beautiful mix of Heroizm, Conquest and Responcibility. i would love to meet the person who orchestrated the music for this game. they're a friggen genius!

[@blackheartb7316]

No one : Germany : Mongolia: USA : France and Uk: this song since middle era

[@StanislawOstrovsky]

One of the best tracks on then game, didn't know it was for the English though

[@pl3101]

Tell Elizabeth that...

[@StanislawOstrovsky]

itis meh Elizabeth is one massive bitch. Anyone in the game is more friendly than her.

[@StanislawOstrovsky]

Yes, Alexander included

[@peterparqua]

Stanislaw Ostrovsky What about Ghandi?

[@StanislawOstrovsky]

Gandhi is one of the most friendly AIs

[@josh3658edwards]

The best part of this score is the flute. I love how it remains steady as it is slowly drowned out by the other instruments. It reminds of England in WWII, remaining strong and fighting despite the growing destruction around them. (I'm American, by the way. Not an English fanatic.)

[@Kinross07]

2:10 is in fact the bestest of parts. That tune just gets ingrained into your brain and will never leave. Like My Sharona's bass line.

[@Stewbone]

This is a definition of epic

[@dodec8449]

"a"?

[@helikon99]

England has not be completely invaded since 1066.

[@cmdtcenturion]

the final part brings up a tear into me eye...

[@bobwilson2122]

@Jendo305 England has been invaded by Anglo-Saxons (Angles and Saxons)? What the bloody hell is this? The English ARE the Anglo-Saxons, it was the Anglo-Saxons who settled in Britain and formed England.

[@Duzs32]

Noone gives the Druids any Love :(

[@unhooked25]

Bob Wilson: How right you certainly are. I couldn't have said that better myself.

[@beepIL]

britain WAS invaded by angles and Saxons... they settled there, much like the Normans later took Britain and settled there... englad today is a mix of many invading groups of people that got mixed into a people under one nation

[@bobwilson2122]

beepIL No it wasn't, the Brythonic kingdom was invaded by the Anglo-Saxons from Germany who pushed them back into what is now Wales and Cornwall and they called themselves the Englisc and eventually united as the kingdom of England. The Normans were invaders who destroyed English culture and language and created the false English language and culture we have now.

[@beepIL]

Thanks for the correction, you are correct :)

[@Jordan-bb4xt]

Beautiful

[@ludicrus32]

Yes. The Levant Company, an English Trading operation, was set up to handle trade exclusively within Ottoman territories, after a Commerce treaty was signed in 1580.

[@TheHalcyonTwilight]

God damn this makes me love being British. Pity actually being British is a bit meh, really.

[@herbivorethecarnivore8447]

I'm English and I'm proud of it.

[@beepIL]

have some sense of pride mate, england was a glorious nation and you have a lot to be proud of, from your humble roots to the british EMPIRE that ruled vast territories around the entire planet... chin up

[@freak4388]

beepIL yeah everything you were not part of, and you did never anything for it nothing of this you ever archieved, be proud about what YOU archieve not what someone else does...fucking nationalist

[@beepIL]

freak4388 chill out brah... i was not part of it because i am not british as well, so i dont know about nationalist... grumpy much?

[@TheHalcyonTwilight]

freak4388 *Scratches head in curiosity, decides not to attempt to engage in a lucid debate.*

[@DownMaster13]

definitely my favorite theme in Civ5

[@Tolgron34]

Galileo was sentenced to house imprisonment at one of his friend's rather comfortable villas on charges of heresy, although as with most history it's a lot more complicated than I can explain in five hundred characters. He died at the age of 77 from fever and heart complications and was buried (eventually) in the Basilica of Santa Croce. Other minds were similarly tried, but again such trials are hugely complicated and oversimplified. The so called "martyrs of science" were often anything but.

[@TheCrimsonSeven]

Being an American and having never heard the original version, I looked it up. This is much cooler.

[@OhaidereHowAreUTday]

I didn't find Civilization to be THAT epic, even though it's a far above average game... but the soundtrack! The creators of this are at the same level as any musical genius in our history!

[@Jokkkke]

best march song ever

[@caelalbridge3347]

So cool how this is the central theme to Holst’s Jupiter meanwhile the arrangers can make it sound like Mars.

[@warbledurbler7905]

I always played as England pretty much so that I could listen to this epic music!

[@Heyprinny]

What's more is that the people who were the main guardians of Europe's intellectual past was the Eastern Roman Empire and the different Arabian Caliphates, where the greatest advances in astronomy and physics took place for the majority of the middle ages. I dare say, the Crusades, though bloody, were some of the best things that happened to Western Europe for bringing back the greater body of works of Rome, Greece, and the Caliphates.

[@jakeshort1354]

No, he is correct, the phrase is 'ships of the line'.

[@brodie2005thegamer]

When you're a Prime Minister of 🇬🇧.

[@Kingpenguin-wd9hn]

In 1940s 🦮 In 1980s 🐞 In 2022: the queen is dead, i get out of here

[@henrids]

Dominating an archipelago map with armadas of ships of the line with this music playing. Civ V doesn't get any better than that

[@augustinetoth8715]

Very subtle clacking reminds me of horses, which the Brits were very fond of.

[@MidBosque]

The goose bumps pop up at 1:30 when the fifes strike up.

[@reichtangle9374]

1:28 good speacher the bassterd

[@linkincarnated]

you hear this in a movie scene where a british general walks through the door in the country's moment of need

[@JerkyMurky]

Am an American, an America loving American... and i have to agree with you.

[@thegmnk]

1:27 BEST PART!

[@Datsyukfan123]

This is why I always play as the British, and I'm always at war.

[@Gefallener08]

this is the most epic war song in the entire game.... in my opinion :D

[@rawsauc1011]

When you find out that you're 0.02% British

[@wyw201]

The British were drinking tea and the Japanese was drawn by the aroma

[@DesertFoxWITHAFREAKINGKNIFE]

shit just got real

[@Tolgron34]

I can't argue with that. The Renaissance was believed to have started when Byzantine scholars fled the fall of the Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire in 1453, seeking refuge in Italy. They brought with them numerous Classical texts preserved for centuries there. Likewise, Islamic scholars made great advances in science, medicine and mathematics during Islam's Golden Years.

[@VoiceOfTheEmperor]

Without. A. Doubt.

[@Kallaeum]

England. Conquering the world with Giant Death Robots since 1805.

[@lordhoot1]

@MrLuizzuc So goes the national myth. Henry Tudor in 1485 and William of Orange in 1688 had some English support, but still essentially conquered the kingdom after invading with foreign armies.

[@Leivve]

It was about to win the 100 year war, but France finally just said "We are done running." and not only stopped England from claiming victory it also reclaimed all it's original land and even conquered Cean(Normandy).

[@MidnightBlue766]

I heard my country calling, away across the sea, Across the waste of waters she calls and calls to me. Her sword is girded at her side, her helmet on her head, And round her feet are lying the dying and the dead. I hear the noise of battle, the thunder of her guns, I haste to thee my mother, a son among thy sons.

[@CBleck]

that wasn't so much a true military defeat as it was the British saying, "Fuck it, you guys ain't worth the hassle."

[@DocPainkillerGaming]

Not since the Civil War IIRC, technically not though, so the last was the Norman Conquest in 1066.

[@revolverA]

This song was used with the trailer!!!

[@AncientHunter]

This song is so BA!

[@iOnlySignIn]

Good Queen Bess. My fav leader throughout all the Civ games!

[@Drakelx555]

@thegmnk Ikr I can imagine an army of British Redcoats marching to that tune

[@Kronimiciad]

Golden years that are long since past?

[@JSND98]

Shit, I'd march to this any day.

[@Tolgron34]

@lordhoot1 I don't think Henry VII counts, since he was an English nobleman who won a civil war between feuding claimants to the English throne. It'd be like suggesting that General Washington conquered the 13 Colonies during the American Revolution. King William was, technically, invited by Parliament to replace James II after he became too Catholic and pro-French. That said, however, it was still technically an invasion, although it may be more accurate to think of it as a coup.

[@antred11]

Never mind, I just read the video description. ;)

[@yousaidthis]

This song is epic. I especially like how they introduce the flute & rennaisance piano later on. Makes it feel soley british. Good Show, ol' chaps!

[@YesIamEccentric]

This has the feel of the British Empire in it. It should make you all bow in fear or in humbility.

[@conconroro]

I heard this track in a game where England was the strongest military nation and it just so happens to be fighting America far away from its capital. I did an embark assault at London at the empty back end and this music came on - dangerous mission with dangerous music - this player was scared.

[@812gingerable]

June 23rd, Independence Day

[@dodec8449]

The beginning of the end.

[@Terron7979]

Plus Canadian/British/Native troops under British command invaded Detroit without single casualty.

[@PhantomSniper100]

Of course. Just putting it out there though. :P

[@twothousandgt]

3:19 My body is now ready

[@freak4388]

the church threaten him like many overs

[@bukashshshka]

2:53 rammstein - mein teil moment

[@MulchMr]

War of 1812 was pretty much a stalemate.

[@myrinecrame8442]

Me when somone bullies me me:

[@lordhoot1]

@Tolgron34 Henry was more Welsh than English, and you could argue William was a legitimate claimant in 1066. Nationality becomes a murky issue that far in the past I guess.

[@Sraye]

When I get my hands on this game. I may just declare war on England, or as England declare war just for the reason of "I am not hearing this theme enough."

[@Darthcaboose87]

@SirViette Agreed! This song is quite fantastic all the way through! Best part would be when the harpsichord kicks in at 3:41. The British are coming! The British are coming! AND THEY'RE BRINGING A BLOODY HARPSICHORD IN TOW!

[@BuddyFidler30]

I purposely pick fights with Elizabeth just to hear this song.

[@Metal00m]

I Bloody love England/Britain (being English) but this just makes me love it more!

[@PacifistDungeonMaster]

Epic Dramatic Music? check. Alright, homework, bring it on!

[@Sam-xd9xt]

I like the 'colonial' flutes. :)

[@yousaidthis]

@Citylife10 i was thinking harpsichord, but on second thought, i thought it was another name for the harp. Thanks

[@AtheAetheling]

To answer your question seriously, no. A dutch King, William of Orange, was invited to become king, and brought an army with him because he didn't think he would be popular, but the people welcomed him, and the British Army and Navy sided with him, against the unpopular monarch James the second. So there's that, its called the Glorious Revolution. Funny thing about England..all the invaders from the past just became English themselves rather than the English 'losing' their nation.

[@javier6926]

And practically all medieval scientists and philosophers were priests, and yes, they existed and they were important. The middle ages are not a time of ignorance and superstition, as many people believe it to be. No barbarians could have built Notre dame or written the Divine comedy. The church did a great service to knowledge translating and preserving the ancient works, and founding universities and schools all across Europe.

[@YesIamEccentric]

The Glorious Revolution. James II was attempting to restore Catholicism, but nobody really cared as James' heir was his Protestant daughters Mary and Anne, but then, James' wife gave birth to a boy, who'd undoubtedly be raised as a Catholic, so people were getting angry, so was Parliament, so Mary and her Dutch husband landed in the south of England and overthrew her father and became King William III and Queen Mary II, James' other daughter, Anne then became Queen as W&M never had children

[@eiffelTowerMan]

@TheCoolermaster24 about 1000 years ago England was captured by the Normans

[@Tolgron34]

@Atvishees Naw, England had existed for a century or so beforehand. It was properly unified under King Athelstan about 927-ish AD and had remained more or less that way ever since. William of Normandy didn't create an English kingdom, he conquered one.

[@FearAnUlaidh]

@AngelicWaffle Maybe, if their bonus wasnt 'Sun Never Sets' which was an attribute of the British Empire, not the English.