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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
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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
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Going to the play
Vocal version
GOING TO THE PLAY
We鈥檙e going to the play
It鈥檚 been a busy day
This morning there was some poor wretch
Whose neck the axe-man鈥檚 axe did catch鈥
Now we鈥檙e going to the play!
Instrumental
We鈥檙e heading for the Globe
But there we鈥檒l not disrobe
It鈥檚 open-air and we will stand
In hope the raindrops will not land鈥
Oh, we鈥檙e heading for the Globe!
Instrumental
We鈥檙e here at the the-ay-tre
There鈥檚 Shakespeare! Play creator!
His words鈥檒l keep our mouths agog
When they aren鈥檛 full of nuts and grog鈥
Oh, we鈥檙e here at the the-ay-tre!
Instrumental
The play is nearly done
We鈥檝e 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鈥檙e going home again
All thoroughly entertained!
The rich, the poor, ladies and gents
A bargain price - just a few pence!
Now we鈥檙e going home again!
Instrumental
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Blood and guts and gore!
Vocal version
BLOOD AND GUTS AND GORE
In Tudor times life ain鈥檛 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鈥檓 safe and none of it鈥檚 mine.
So Shakespeare鈥檚 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鈥檙e 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鈥檓 safe and none of it鈥檚 mine.
Macbeth and Hamlet and Richard Three
Knife-wielders each, I鈥檓 sure you鈥檒l agree!
So off to the theatre we happily go
To see how they鈥檙e 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鈥檓 safe and none of it鈥檚 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鈥檓 safe and none of it鈥檚 mine.
So long as I鈥檓 safe and none of it鈥檚 mine!
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