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26 Jun 00 - 01:47 PM (#247130) Subject: Lyr Add: KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND (Vic Gammon) From: GeorgeH Someone asked for this recently, only I forgot to bookmark the thread and now I can't find it; sorry! Anyway, here it is! ^^
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26 Jun 00 - 01:55 PM (#247141) Subject: RE: Kings and Queens of England From: GeorgeH Oh, Ship!!!! The ADA web site is really: http://members.aol.com/adamailorder G. |
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26 Jun 00 - 02:33 PM (#247183) Subject: RE: Kings and Queens of England From: Pene Azul The older thread: Lyr Req: les barker?-knaves and fools (click) PA |
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27 Jun 00 - 04:13 AM (#247579) Subject: RE: Kings and Queens of England From: GUEST,art dear george h thanks for going to the trouble of sending those lyrics i appreciate it cheers bill |
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24 Jun 08 - 12:05 PM (#2373323) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Kings and Queens of England (Vic Gammon) From: GUEST,Gordon Greetings, oes anybody know who the Brave Harrison was/is. the closest I can come is George of the Beatles but he was alive when the song was written. All the best, Gordon |
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24 Jun 08 - 12:23 PM (#2373339) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Kings and Queens of England (Vic Gamm From: johnadams Brave Harrison? |
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24 Jun 08 - 04:47 PM (#2373516) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Kings and Queens of England (Vic Gammon) From: GUEST,Yes, thanks Greetings johnadams That whould be the one. Thanks! Was pretty sure it wasn't George... Gordon |
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01 Aug 10 - 01:06 PM (#2956177) Subject: Lyr Add: KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND (Vic Gammon) From: GUEST,Vic Gammon Thanks for the interest folks. Major General Thomas Harrison was a regicide who was executed - hanged, drawn and quartered on 13 October 1660 at Charing Cross. Pepys was at his execution and he died bravely: "I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition" " Several times he cried out, as he was drawn along, that he suffered in the most glorious cause in the world;" and when a low wretch asked him "Where's your good old cause now?" he replied " Here it is!" clapping his hand on his heart, "and I am going to seal it with my blood!" I am very pleased Pete Coe has sung this song a lot - it not only expresses my republican sentiments but has also earned me a little money! Pete has the words slightly different from the way I sing it (I have no problem with that) but here it is the way I do it: THE KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND 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 One of my inspirations for the song was Paine: "England, since the conquest, hath known some few good monarchs, but groaned beneath a much larger number of bad ones, yet no man in his senses can say that their claim under William the Conqueror is a very honorable one. A French bastard landing with an armed banditti, and establishing himself king of England against the consent of the natives, is in plain terms a very paltry rascally original. It certainly hath no divinity in it. However, it is needless to spend much time in exposing the folly of hereditary right, if there are any so weak as to believe it, let them promiscuously worship the ass and lion, and welcome. I shall neither copy their humility, nor disturb their devotion" Tom Paine – Common Sense p. 23 Someone wrote in a review of one of Pete's performances of "Vic Gammon's spiteful mockery of the royal lineage". Spiteful? Really? I would say honest! You don't have to make it up. I am quite happy with the rest of the quote. I have recently retired so may get round to recording my own songs at some stage. Good wishes! Vic Gammon |
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02 Aug 10 - 11:21 AM (#2956717) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Kings and Queens of England (Vic Gammon) From: alex s Excellent song, Vic. We republicans salute you! |
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09 Jul 12 - 04:21 AM (#3373849) Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Kings and Queens of England (Vic Gammon) From: GUEST,Steve Harrison Indeed we do salute you, and I'm proud that at least some bits of the song were written by Vic in our lounge. As a teenager, I was told by older relatives that we were descended from Thomas Harrison, but unfortunately this doesn't seem to be true since none of his children seem to have survived infancy. The song is also an answer to those simpletons who believe that history should be taught only as facts. |