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Posted By: GUEST,Diolch
24-Mar-23 - 01:41 PM
Thread Name: Songs for King Charles's Coronation
Subject: RE: Songs for King Charles's Coronation
THE KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND, by Vic Gammon

Charles the Second had eleven bastard children and
       George the Third went mad
Edward the Seventh they think was Jack the Ripper and
       Richard the Third weren't as bad (as Shakespeare said he was)
Victoria lay back and thought of England
       Charles the First lost his head
The best thing about the kings and queens of England is that
       Most of them are dead

Singing Rule Britannia, Britannia waives the rules,
Kings, Queens, Knaves and Jacks and tyrants, cheats and fools

William the Third was a Protestant and Dutch man and
       James the First was a Scot
George the First spoke nothing else but German
       What a mixed up, interbred lot!
William the First was grasping Norman bastard
       And not one word is a lie
There hasn't been an English king of England
       Since Harold got one in the eye

She was a well-heeled, blue blood Cinderella
       Him Prince Charming with big ears
But he had a thing going with the ugly sister.
       So it ended all in tears
Arise now you ghosts of old Oliver Cromwell
       Brave Harrison and Tom Paine
Rid our land of this monstrous carbuncle
Bring sunshine after the reign

Performed by Pete Coe, with his version of the lyrics in the amusing video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKuZi-CElGs

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKuZi-CElGs

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