Good grief! So full of righteous indignation are you two, Rafflesbear and MthGM! This song was written almost a century ago about something that happened centuries ago! I suppose you swoop in a spoil the fun of children singing "Ring Around the Roses," too. After all, it's a song about putting posies in your pocket to protect you from the Bubonic Plague, which was a remedy desperately postulated during the time. "Ashes, Ashes, " refers to the human ashes blanketing the earth from burning the bodies of those who died, and "we all fall down" is a direct reference the MILLIONS of people -- half the population of Europe -- who died horrible painful deaths. My point is that it's human nature to approach difficult subjects with either humor or disengaged academian attitudes. Which is worse? To dispassionately dissect and describe in detail, all in the name of knowledge or transparancy, of course, or to sing a farsical tale of one who was wronged getting their revenge? I don't think Anne Bolyn really cares what we sing about. I appreciate that you feel strongly that this song is unacceptable. You've made that very clear. I, for one, would love to be remembered so long after I'm gone... even in a song about my untimely and unseemly demise. So many from our own time are forgotten, and it seems to me that your abhorence, albeit genuine, is misplaced. It would be wonderful if, in the future, you would (please) make your heartfelt denunciations once and then move it to another thread. The rest of us just want to know the lyrics.