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Songs about life in Tudor times. Pavans and pageantry is aimed primarily at KS1, the other songs at KS2. With more songs to follow.
Pavans and pageantry
Vocal version
PAVANS AND PAGEANTRY
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Pavans and pageantry
Back in Tudor times
Join in with dancing tunes
Songs and poems and rhymes
Pavans and pageantry
Back in Tudor times
1 Henry the Eighth
Loves to joust and to sport
Fine clothes and banquets
And music at court
Chorus
2 Elizabeth the First
Travels round the nation
Entertained with elegance
And much celebration
Chorus
Backing track
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Going to the play
Vocal version
GOING TO THE PLAY
We’re going to the play
It’s been a busy day
This morning there was some poor wretch
Whose neck the axe-man’s axe did catch…
Now we’re going to the play!
Instrumental
We’re heading for the Globe
But there we’ll not disrobe
It’s open-air and we will stand
In hope the raindrops will not land…
Oh, we’re heading for the Globe!
Instrumental
We’re here at the the-ay-tre
There’s Shakespeare! Play creator!
His words’ll keep our mouths agog
When they aren’t full of nuts and grog…
Oh, we’re here at the the-ay-tre!
Instrumental
The play is nearly done
We’ve had a lot fun
The finest actors made us roar
The bad ones got an apple core!
Yes, the play is nearly done!
Instrumental
We’re going home again
All thoroughly entertained!
The rich, the poor, ladies and gents
A bargain price - just a few pence!
Now we’re going home again!
Instrumental
Backing track
Blood and guts and gore!
Vocal version
BLOOD AND GUTS AND GORE
In Tudor times life ain’t so nice
With traitors losing their heads in a trice
The executions are public shows
They entertain us with blood that flows!
Blood and guts and gore, you say?
Oh, we will see the stuff every day!
Blood and guts and gore are fine
So long as I’m safe and none of it’s mine.
So Shakespeare’s plays tell things as they were
With battles and plots and gruesome murder!
We pay a few pence to see blow for blow
Which means we’re expecting some blood to flow!
Blood and guts and gore, you say?
Oh, we will see the stuff every day!
Blood and guts and gore are fine
So long as I’m safe and none of it’s mine.
Macbeth and Hamlet and Richard Three
Knife-wielders each, I’m sure you’ll agree!
So off to the theatre we happily go
To see how they’re causing that blood to flow!
Blood and guts and gore, you say?
Oh, we will see the stuff every day!
Blood and guts and gore are fine
So long as I’m safe and none of it’s mine.
Blood and guts and gore, you say?
Oh, we will see the stuff every day!
Blood and guts and gore are fine
So long as I’m safe and none of it’s mine.
So long as I’m safe and none of it’s mine!
Backing track
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