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 +====== Anne Boleyn ======
  
 +by R.L. Weston and Bert Lee
 +
 +In the Tower of London, large as life,
 +The ghost of Anne Boleyn walks, they declare.
 +For Anne Boleyn was once King Henry's wife,
 +Until he had the headsman bob her hair.
 +Oh, yes, he did her wrong long years ago,
 +And she comes back at night to tell him so.
 +
 +Chorus:
 +With her 'ead tucked underneath her arm,
 +She walks the bloody Tower,
 +With her head tucked underneath her arm,
 +At the midnight hour.
 +
 +She comes to haunt King Henry, she means giving him what-for
 +Gadzooks, she's going to tell him off, for spilling of her gore.
 +And just in case the headsman wants to give her encore,
 +She has her head tucked underneath her arm.
 +
 +Now sometimes gay King Henry gives a spread,
 +For all his pals and gals, a ghastly crew,
 +The 'eadsman carve the joint and cuts the bread,
 +When in comes Anne Boleyn to queer the do.
 +She holds her head up with a wild war whoop,
 +And Henry cries, "don't drop it in the soup!"
 +
 +She walks the endless corridors, for miles and miles she goes,
 +She often catches cold, poor dear, it's drafty when it blows,
 +And it's awfully, awfully awkward for the queen to blow her nose,
 +With her head tucked underneath her arm.
 +
 +The sentries think that it's a football that she carries in,
 +And when they've had a few they shout, "Is Army going to win?"
 +They think that it's Red Grange instead of poor old Anne Boleyn
 +With her head tucked underneath her arm.
 +
 +One night she caught King Henry, he was in the canteen bar,
 +He said, "Are you Jane Seymour, Anne Boleyn, or Catherine Parr?
 +Well, how are?
 +With your head tucked underneath your arm?
 +
 +Recorded in the early 30s by, of all people, Rudy Vallee; also
 +(later, I think) by Stanley Holloway. RG
 +Note: Henry VIII only beheaded two of his wives -
 +Anne Boleyn and Kate Howard. Remember : divorced
 +(Katherine of Aragon), beheaded(Anne B), died (Jane
 +Seymour); divorced (Anne of Cleves), beheaded (Kate
 +Howard), survived(Kate Parr). (SOF)
 +
 +
 +
 +"The guards all think that it's a football that she carries in
 +And when they've had a few, they shout "Is Arsenal going to win?"
 +They think that it's Alec James instead of poor old Anne Boleyn etc."
 +
 +and
 +"for how the sweet san fairy ann do I know who you are"
 +
 +(a later addition)
 +The sentries think that Anee is hauling 'round a rugby ball;
 +When dinner's done they'll push the chairs and tables to the wall
 +And then the'll choose up sides and kick the Queen around the hall!
 +With 'er 'ead tucked underneath 'er arm!
 +
 +<abc>X: 1
 +T: Anne Boleyn
 +C: R.L. Weston and Bert Lee
 +M: 2/4
 +L: 1/16
 +Q:1/4=120
 +% Last note suggests Phrygian mode tune
 +K:C % 0 sharps
 +% Anne Boleyn
 +% By R.P. Weston & Bert Lee
 +% Generated by NoteWorthy Composer
 +V:1
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 +% Anne Boleyn
 +% By R.P. Weston & Bert Lee
 +% Generated by NoteWorthy Composer
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