{"id":192,"date":"2019-12-08T10:53:29","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T10:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/?page_id=192"},"modified":"2025-12-13T07:26:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T07:26:04","slug":"henery-the-eigth-i-am","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/folksongandmusichall.com\/index.php\/henery-the-eigth-i-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Henery the Eighth I am"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Lyrics<\/strong><\/td>Fred Murray<\/td>Music<\/strong><\/td>RP Weston<\/td>Roud Index<\/strong><\/td>V53401<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Music Hall performers<\/strong><\/td>Harry Champion<\/td><\/tr>
Folk performances<\/strong><\/td>Graeme Knights<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
You don't know who you're looking at\n Now have a look at me, I'm a bit of a nob I am\nI belong to Royaltee\n I'll tell you how it came about\n I married widow Burch\n And I was King of England\n When I toddled out of church\n Outside the people started shouting, \u201cHip hooray\u201d\n Said I, \u201cGet down upon your knees its Coronation Day.\n\n I'm Henery the eighth I am, Henery the eighth I am, I am\n I got married to the widow next door\n She's been married seven times before\n Everyone was a Henery she wouldn't have a Willie or a Sam\n I'm her eighth old man named Henery, I'm Henery the eighth I am.<\/em>\n\n I left the Duke of Cumberland a pub up in the town\n Soon with one or two moochers I was holding up the Crown\n I sat upon the bucket that the car men think their own\n Surrounded by my subjects I was sitting on the throne\n Out came the potman saying, \u201cGo on home to bed\u201d\n Said I, \u201cNow say another word and off'll go your head.\n\n Now at the waxworks exhibition not so long ago\n I was sitting among the Kings I made a lovely show\n To good old Queen Elizabeth I shouted, \u201cWotcha Liz!\u201d\n While people poked my ribs and said, \u201cI wonder who this is?\u201d\n One said, \u201cIts Charlie Peace.\u201d and then I got the spike\n I shouted, \u201cShow your ignorance!\u201d as waxy as you like.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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Another Cockney music hall song from the repertoire of Harry Champion<\/a>\u00a0. Harry worked for almost 60 years in the halls, his first appearance was in 1882, his last in 1941.The song was written for him by Fred Murray<\/a> and RP Weston<\/a>. A recording or download of this song can be purchased from Windyridge CDs.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Harry C sings it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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