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♪ Terrible Tudors, Gorgeous GeorgiansSlimy Stuarts, Vile Victorians ♪
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♪ Woeful Wars, Ferocious FightsDingy Castles, Daring Knights ♪
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♪ Horrors that defy descriptionCut-throat Celts, Awful Egyptians ♪
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♪ Vicious Vikings, Cruel CrimePunishments from ancient times ♪
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♪ Roman, Rotten, Rank and ruthlessCavemen savage, fierce and toothless ♪
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♪ Groovy Greeks, Reigning stagesMean and Measley Middle Ages ♪
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♪ Gory Stories we do thatAnd your host a talking rat ♪
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♪ The past is no longer a mystery ♪
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♪ Welcome to Horrible Histories! ♪
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[narrator] Savage Songs.
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Hello there.
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Welcome to the Savage Songs special
which has given me a brilliant idea.
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All I've got to do is write a catchy song
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and I'll be as famous as the great
Greek leader, Alexander the Great.
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[audience cheering]
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♪ Alexander is my nameMacedonia's most famous commander ♪
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♪ History calls "The Great"But I prefer "The Greatest" ♪
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♪ A king aged only 20When my dad assassinated ♪
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♪ Advisors called for calmBut frankly peace is overrated ♪
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♪ Crushed rebels in Greek city states ♪
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♪ So thousands of them martyrs ♪
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♪ Made short labour of my neighbours ♪
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♪ And that was just for starters ♪
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♪ Alexander ♪
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♪ Full-time fighter ♪
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♪ Made my home rule secureBut that wasn't enough ♪
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♪ I wanted more, more, more! ♪
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♪ And so began my master planTo conquer by invasion ♪
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♪ Started with dad's enemyThe famous Persian nation ♪
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♪ Ruler Darius had far more troopsAn inconvenience ♪
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♪ But I won, then thrashed EgyptI'm a military genius ♪
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♪ Founded Egypt's Alexandria ♪
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♪ Named for the greatest man alive ♪♪ I was now Pharaoh and King of Persia ♪
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♪ Not bad for 25 ♪
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♪ Alexander ♪
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♪ Victorious fighter ♪
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♪ "The Greatest" sounds flatHow about "The Living God"? ♪
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♪ Yeah, I'll buy that ♪
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♪ My loyal followers saidThat's the stuff ♪
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♪ But I, a born warrior, saidIt's not enough ♪
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♪ Let's take IndiaLast man there is a fool ♪
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♪ Started wearing Persian clothesBoy, I looked so cool ♪
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♪ But made my troops suspicious ♪
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♪ Men called me too ambitious ♪
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♪ Said they wouldn't follow me ♪
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♪ Guitar solo, Ptolemy ♪
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[guitar solo]
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♪ Because of me, Ptolemy, he'll go far ♪
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♪ He'll found the dynastyThat ends with Cleopatra ♪
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♪ Then there's HephaestianMy best friend, of course ♪
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♪ Unless you count BucephalusBut he's a horse ♪
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♪ Why the long face, my friend? ♪
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[neighing]
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♪ Anyway, together it was going grand ♪
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♪ Till Heph and Bucy diedAnd my men took a stand ♪
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♪ I wanted to continueBut my hands were tied ♪
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♪ So I sat in my tent and I cried ♪
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♪ Ooh! ♪
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♪ Alexander ♪
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♪ No more a fighter ♪
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♪ Adventures had to stop ♪
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♪ Cos 323 B.C. ♪
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♪ Saw me drop ♪
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♪ Dead ♪
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Alexander the Great may have been famous,
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but was he as rich as Roman politician
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Marcus Licinius Crassus? I doubt it.
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[techno music playing]
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♪ I'm Marcus Licinius Crassus ♪
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♪ No rich man could ever surpass us ♪
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♪ Wanted people to say I was brave ♪
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♪ But lost my first fightAnd hid in a cave ♪
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♪ Living there could beA pauper's nightmare ♪
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♪ But if you're rich like meThen you don't care ♪
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♪ I called my slave to the caveTo ask it ♪
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♪ To cook a feast and lower in a basket ♪
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♪ There's Romans think they're minted ♪
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♪ But they ain't rich like me ♪♪ You can't call yourself loaded ♪
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♪ Till you can buy an army ♪
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♪ Ran Rome with Pompey and Caesar ♪
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♪ They're more famous than me ♪
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♪ But I'm the world's richest geezer ♪
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♪ There's no one richer than me ♪
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♪ I'm minted! I backed General Sulla ♪
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♪ Every day my wallet got fuller ♪
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♪ Took the land off our enemiesTo flog it ♪
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♪ Used to the cash to fill my pocketIf I heard of a house on fire ♪
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♪ I'd rush over, be a quick cash buyer ♪
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♪ My firemen would then douse the flamesBoom! Another big house to my name ♪
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♪ There's Romans think they're mintedBut they ain't rich like me ♪
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♪ You can't call yourself loaded ♪
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♪ Till you can buy an army ♪
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♪ Ran Rome with Pompey and Caesar ♪
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♪ They're more famous than me ♪
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♪ But I'm the world's richest geezer ♪
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♪ There's no one richer than me ♪
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♪ I'm minted!I bought an army for fighting Spartacus ♪
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♪ At the start, my men lost heart-acus ♪
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♪ I killed one in ten in a killing spree ♪
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♪ So they were more scared of meThan the enemy ♪
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♪ Smashed the slaves, it got real gory ♪
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♪ But then Pompey stole my glory ♪
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♪ To show it was meThat crushed the horde ♪
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♪ Nailed up the slavesLike on a billboard ♪
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♪ They're splinted!Not enough to be a politician ♪
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♪ Wanted triumphTook my army on a mission ♪
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♪ Got owned by the Parthian Persians ♪
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♪ They killed meBut you'll hear two versions ♪
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♪ The famous one's quite hard to followThey gave me boiling gold to swallow ♪
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♪ But the true way they made me pay? ♪
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♪ They used my head as a prop in a play ♪
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♪ Embarrassing ♪
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♪ There's Romans think they're minted ♪
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♪ But they ain't rich like me ♪
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♪ You can't call yourself loaded ♪
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♪ Till you can buy an army ♪
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♪ Ran Rome with Pompey and Caesar ♪
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♪ They're more famous than me ♪
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♪ But I'm the world's richest geezer ♪
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♪ There's no one richer than me ♪
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[laughing] I love it!
Tell me you don't love it.
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I haven't written the song yet.
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This is a list of some of the things
I plan to do
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when I'm a rock 'n' roll star.
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[laughs] Mainly,
touring the world and trashing places.
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A bit like being a Viking.
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Although, Vikings weren't
just violent invaders.
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Oh, no.
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[calming guitar music playing]
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♪ We Vikings have an awful reputationWith your nation ♪
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♪ But when we'd finishedPlundering and pillages ♪
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♪ Made nice villages ♪
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♪ Any place name endingThorpe or Kirk or By was us you see ♪
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♪ Scunthorpe, Ormskirk, Wetherby ♪
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♪ Scarborough fair ♪
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♪ We named them, yeah ♪
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♪ We split your isles diagonally ♪
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♪ From South East to North West ♪
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♪ Our section called the Danelaw ♪
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♪ King Alfred ruled the rest ♪
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♪ Think we're scary? No, don't flee ♪
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♪ Conquered Saxons would find we ♪
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♪ Settled and lived in ♪
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♪ Harmony ♪
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♪ Vike-Eng-Land ♪
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♪ Though we began as raiders ♪
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♪ So well planned ♪
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♪ You accepted us as traders ♪
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♪ We introduced some new terms ♪
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♪ Husband, Gasp, Egg, Awkward, Nag, Leg ♪
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♪ More than 50 words to leave your lingo ♪
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♪ To your liking, thank a Viking ♪
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♪ Your little town of Swansea City ♪
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♪ Named for our King Sweyn ♪
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♪ Waterford and Dublin ♪
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♪ Us old Norse Vikings again ♪
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♪ As farmers, we made doubly sure ♪
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♪ To respect agriculture ♪
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♪ With us, locals felt secure ♪
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♪ Norse-Scot-Land ♪
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♪ Large parts of that whole region ♪♪ Norse got land ♪
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♪ Were improved by Norwegians ♪
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♪ London Bridge is falling down ♪
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♪ The nursery rhyme comes from our time ♪
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♪ Vikings played key roles ♪
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♪ In 1014, it was pulled down ♪♪ By Olafr Haraldsson ♪
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♪ You can call him Ol ♪
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♪ In a dispute with King Canute ♪
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♪ Olafr's side won ♪
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♪ Ethelred returned as King ♪
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♪ And could be heard proclaiming ♪
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♪ Here's to you, Olafr Haraldsson ♪
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♪ Vike-Eng-Land ♪
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♪ We swapped our life of violence ♪
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♪ Norse-Scot-Land ♪
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♪ To enjoy the sound of silence ♪
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♪ There's no doubt under Viking rule ♪♪ Britain did improv-y ♪
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♪ Feelin' groovy ♪
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♪ And that's noLie, la, lie, la, la, lie ♪
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[humming]
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Oh!
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You know, writing a hit song
may not be all that easy.
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I really need to concentrate on this.
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Look, you watch the story of a
remarkable French teenage girl
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and I'll get on.
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-[up-tempo beat]
-Okay.
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Pamplemousse.
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Baguette and brie.
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Are you ready?
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♪ I'm Joan of Arc from Domremy ♪
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♪ Religious visions came to me ♪
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♪ God said save France from the English ♪
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♪ And make Dauphin Charles king ♪
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♪ Dauphin means heir to the throne ♪
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♪ But England claimedThe crown as their own ♪
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♪ We'd had 100 years of warThis girl had to do something ♪
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♪ So I did it like a dude, cut my hair ♪
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♪ Gave up wearing dresses, bought a pair ♪
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♪ Of trousers, no blouses saidI wanna fight Angleterre! ♪
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♪ Charles let me joinThe army, army, army ♪
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♪ Though that might soundBarmy, barmy, barmy ♪
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♪ I proved impressive ♪
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♪ Hit by an arrow and lived ♪
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♪ English troops areOver-ranny, ranny, ranny ♪
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♪ Defeated them at Patay, Patay, Patay ♪
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♪ We saved Orléans ♪
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♪ And Charles was crowned tres bon ♪
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♪ Me leading troops a long shot ♪
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♪ But I was a lucky mascot ♪
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♪ Inspired soldiers with braveryFought injured and survived ♪
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♪ But in 1430 ♪
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♪ Burgundians captured me ♪
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♪ King Charles wouldn't pay my ransom ♪
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♪ No one told me why ♪
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♪ Being a prisoner was not my style ♪
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♪ Tried escaping from my captors vile ♪
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♪ But then the English who'd fought meBought me, made me stand trial ♪
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♪ So where wasKing Charlie, Charlie, Charlie? ♪
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♪ He'd given upAnd left me, left me, left me ♪
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♪ In the English snare ♪
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♪ Whole thing so unfair ♪
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♪ Said, put me in uh-huh, nunnery ♪
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♪ They said, don't be uh-uh, funnery ♪
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♪ If you dress like a male ♪
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♪ We'll put you in men's jail ♪
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♪ Joan of ArcYou're charged with sorcery ♪
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♪ You're just jealousCos God speaks to me ♪
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♪ You say you speak to saintsIn this discourse? ♪
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♪ What language do they speak? ♪
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♪ French, of course! ♪
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♪ Pah! Now you're in prisonThey have failed yer ♪
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♪ I say it's God's planThat you're my jailer! ♪♪ Here's a trick question, in that case ♪
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♪ Do you think that you areIn God's grace? ♪
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♪ If I am not, may God put me there ♪
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♪ And if I am, may God so keep me ♪
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♪ Oh, your smart remarksGo round the houses ♪
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♪ You're guilty of heresyAnd wearing men's trousers ♪
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♪ Despite my testimony, mony, mony ♪♪ Condemned for reasonsPhoney, phoney, phoney ♪
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♪ But my will did not break ♪
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♪ So they tied me to a stake ♪
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♪ Burned alive wasMy destiny, tiny, tiny ♪
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♪ And here is the irony, rony, rony ♪
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♪ My death led FranceTo put on war paint ♪
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♪ And crush the EnglishSo now, I'm a saint ♪
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I've got it!
I've got the first line at last!
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♪ God save our gracious Queen ♪
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Hang on, that sounds vaguely familiar.
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Oh! Time for a song about a monarch.
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Here's Henry VII,
the father of the whole Tudor dynasty.
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Of all the Kings called Henry,
I'm the one you've rarely heard.
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Shakespeare wrote
IV, V, VI, VIII, but VII? Not a word.
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People think I'm dreary.
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To some extent I am.
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But look a little closer...
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♪ Glam bam, thank you, ma'am! ♪
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[slow rock music playing]
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♪ I didn't agree with King Richard three ♪
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♪ So I fought him at Bosworth FieldAnd won victory ♪
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♪ How cool does this sound? ♪
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♪ I'm the King who found ♪
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♪ Rich's crown in a hedgeOn the winning battleground ♪
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♪ The only way to end warAnd avert further disaster ♪
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♪ There's got to be a way to uniteYork and Lancaster ♪
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♪ I'm the original Tu-tu-tu-Tudor ♪
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♪ Founder of that dynasty ♪
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♪ The man who closesThe Wars of the Roses ♪
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That's right, that's right, that's me
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♪ I launched attacksOn Lords who earned stacks ♪
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♪ Mine was a noble causeTo tap them all for tax ♪
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♪ They paid their share, was only fair ♪
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♪ To make England richAnd, me a millionaire ♪
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♪ Elizabeth York became my wife for lifeThat make me a bore? ♪
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♪ Joined our family seat, that's neatMade my rule secure ♪
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♪ I'm the original Tu-tu-tu-Tudor ♪
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♪ Returning power to the state ♪
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♪ Seemed quite toothless ♪♪ But actually ruthless ♪
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♪ I make the monarchy great ♪
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♪ Spent a long time fighting ♪
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♪ Pretenders to the throne ♪
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♪ Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck ♪
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♪ Said my throne was their own ♪
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♪ They claimed they'd been princes ♪
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♪ In the tower, their rule delayed ♪
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♪ I said this crown ain't big enoughFor the three of us and had one slayed ♪
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♪ I'm the original Tu-tu-tu-Tudor ♪
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♪ King of foreign policy ♪
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♪ To end hostile relations ♪
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♪ With enemy nations ♪
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♪ I asked them to make friends with me ♪
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♪ Yeah, the original Tu-tu-tu-Tudor ♪
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♪ They say dullness's my main trait ♪
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♪ Well, that's a sad indictment ♪
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♪ Cos if you're looking for excitement ♪
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♪ My son was Henry the Eighth ♪
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I'm getting there, I'm getting there!
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Time for some more inventive types.
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♪ With imagination ♪
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♪ Inspiration ♪
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♪ Innovation ♪
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♪ And perspiration ♪
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♪ We revolutionised transportation ♪
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♪ Stephenson's the name ♪
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♪ And my steam engine's the bestYou will find ♪
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♪ It was the RocketIt was called the Rocket ♪
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♪ It pulled a train to carry passengersAnd was the first of its kind ♪
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♪ Caused a commotionDoing the locomotion ♪
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♪ Was best by miles ♪
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♪ And won top prize ♪
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♪ At the Rainhill trials ♪
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♪ The Lords said it was dangerousThen saw how many tickets could sell ♪
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♪ The toffs were off itTill they saw a profit ♪
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♪ And so he paved the way for me ♪
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♪ I'm Isambard Kingdom Brunel ♪
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♪ An engineer, and famous pioneer ♪
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♪ Railways off pat ♪
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♪ A massive hat ♪
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♪ And to top that ♪
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♪ I was a tunnel-building, bridge-creatingHard-grafting, ship-crafting ♪
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♪ Polymath in search of a way ♪
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♪ To take my train through my tunnelAcross my bridge to my ship ♪
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♪ And sail me fastest to the USA ♪
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♪ My steam shipIt made the trip in just 14 days ♪
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♪ There across the ocean wasClever old me, I'm quite a star ♪
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♪ He's Henry Ford, yesThat's what he's called ♪
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♪ My assembly line's the firstTo make it cheap to buy a motor car ♪
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♪ From Henry Ford, cars you can afford ♪
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♪ I think you'll findMade just one kind ♪
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♪ But never mind ♪
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♪ I was the fastest rating carCreating introducing mass producing ♪
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♪ Original Model T guy ♪
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♪ We took his engine a bird wingSome bike skills worked ♪
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♪ Until we found outHow machines could fly ♪
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♪ Not just a hop ♪
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♪ But non-stop ♪
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♪ Gonna get high, high, high ♪
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♪ I'm Orville, was the brainsThe brawn, my brother Wilbur Wright ♪
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♪ We refined the planeThat made the first sustained flight ♪
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♪ Our engine small, but powerful ♪
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♪ Propelled to a great height! ♪
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[instrumental]
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♪ They were supreme, our mean machines ♪
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♪ The stuff of dreams ♪
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♪ We were creative, inventiveProgress our incentive ♪
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♪ Always searching for a solution ♪
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♪ We took some steel and a wheelMade a plane car and train ♪
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♪ And created a revolution ♪
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♪ Hard to believe what we achieved ♪
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♪ Looking back, we helped change tack ♪
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♪ Transport was duller ♪
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♪ We added colour ♪
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♪ Well, as long as it's black ♪
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Time to meet someone
who could really write. Good day.
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[up-beat music playing]
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♪ I lived a happy lifeTill I was 10 years old ♪
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♪ When debt landed Dad in prisonAnd our country house was sold ♪
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♪ Lodged with a ladyIn her London flat so cold ♪
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♪ Worked at a boot polish factoryLabelling jars, quite dull all told ♪
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♪ Goodness only knows ♪
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♪ I was a miserable soul ♪
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♪ For a time, I went to schoolBut then I found a job ♪
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♪ As a clerk to a lawyerOh, it made my poor head throb ♪
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♪ I failed to be an actorDespite my loud gob ♪
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♪ Ended up reporting speechesOf the Parliamentary mob ♪
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♪ Then as everybody knows ♪
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♪ I started writing prose ♪
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♪ Put my life into my books ♪
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♪ Friends and enemies and crooks ♪♪ Legal bosses, up they crop ♪
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♪ In the Old Curiosity Shop ♪
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♪ Fagin in Oliver Twist ♪
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♪ A factory pal, you get the gist ♪
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♪ And although my memory's quite foggy ♪
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♪ Got Scrooge from the grave of Ebenezer ♪
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♪ Scroggie ♪
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♪ My first book wasAn overnight sensation ♪
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♪ But I drove myselfToo hard to enjoy the adulation ♪
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♪ Despite my wealthMy family begged for money ♪
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♪ I wrote of it in ChuzzlewitWhich people said was funny ♪
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♪ Didn't sell like books before ♪
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♪ My family still asked for more ♪
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♪ Little Dorrit is a tale ♪
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♪ About my dad in debtors' jail ♪
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♪ While Hard Times tells my life ♪
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♪ About when I tried to leave my wife ♪
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♪ Little Nell's death wasMy poor dear departed sister-in-law ♪
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♪ And David CopperfieldWorking in a factory ♪
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♪ I must confess thatThat was really me! ♪
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♪ In my life, felt shameAbout poverty in childhood ♪
388
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♪ Wrote about sadnessSuffering and fears ♪
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♪ Also wrote about peopleWith funny names ♪
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♪ Bumble, Smallweed, Scrooge, Uriah Heep ♪
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♪ And Wackford Squeers! ♪
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♪ Whilst writing Edwin Drood ♪
393
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♪ A train crash didn't help my mood ♪
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♪ Still I drove myself on ♪
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♪ With readings far across the pond ♪
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♪ Died before I wrote Drood's end ♪
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♪ This sort of thingDrove me round the bend ♪
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♪ So Dickens take a, Dickens take a bow ♪
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♪ And Heaven knows I'm miserable ♪
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♪ Now ♪
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Alright, I give up!
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Unlike American heroine, Rosa Parks,
who simply refused to.
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[jazz music playing]
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♪ I'm Rosa Parks ♪
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♪ My story marksThe first step towards civil rights ♪
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♪ Racial inequality, American policy ♪
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♪ Till I kicked off a fight ♪
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♪ What act of mine left havoc to ensue? ♪
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♪ How come I caused such fuss? ♪
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♪ What shocking behaviour did I do? ♪
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♪ Well ♪
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♪ I sat on a busYou sat on a bus? ♪
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♪ I sat on a bus ♪
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♪ You sat on a bus? ♪
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♪ You wanna know why? ♪
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♪ Go ahead tell us ♪
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♪ I sat on that busYou sat on the bus ♪
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♪ In the 50s all buses divided ♪
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♪ Whites in front, blacks behind ♪
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♪ You serious?If the bus filled up ♪
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♪ We had to give upOur seats or we'd be fined ♪
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♪ That's ludicrous ♪
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♪ I made a stand in my hometown ♪
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♪ Montgomery, Alabama ♪
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♪ That's dangerous ♪
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♪ Refused to stand for a white man ♪
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♪ So they put me in the slammer ♪
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♪ Discourteous! ♪
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♪ December five, 1955My trial notorious ♪
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♪ Black people stood side by side ♪
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♪ And no one ♪
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♪ Got on the bus ♪
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♪ We stayed off the bus ♪
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♪ They stayed off the bus ♪
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♪ We stayed off the busI meant business! ♪
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♪ She inspired us!So they stayed off the bus ♪
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♪ We stayed off the bus ♪
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♪ We organised a boycottOf public transportation ♪
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♪ To win R-E-S-P-E-C-TAnd force new legislation ♪
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♪ Dreamed of the dayThe USA had no implementation ♪
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♪ Of S-E-G-R-E-G-A-T-I-O-N ♪
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♪ Spells segregation ♪
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♪ From that day on, we walked or cabbed ♪
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♪ Led by Martin Luther King ♪
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♪ Attacked by mobs, our houses bombed ♪
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♪ Though, peace was our thing ♪
447
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♪ Our plight, it made the national news ♪
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♪ Which was mighty strange ♪
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♪ Mysterious ♪
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♪ When word reached the President ♪
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♪ He had to make a change ♪
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♪ Delirious ♪
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♪ One year on, we'd finally won ♪
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♪ A victory momen-tuss ♪
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♪ The fight for national civil rightsWas begun ♪
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♪ 'Cause I sat on a bus ♪
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♪ -She sat on a bus-I sat on a bus ♪
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♪ -She sat on a bus-I sat on a bus ♪
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♪ Got on the bus ♪
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♪ -I sat on a bus-She sat on a bus ♪
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♪ Our story owes a huge debt to Rosa ♪
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♪ We all agree ♪
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♪ She made history ♪
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♪ She sat on the bus ♪
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♪ For all of us ♪
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♪ -I sat on that bus-She sat on the bus ♪
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♪ -I sat on the bus-She sat on the bus ♪
468
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♪ She sat on the bus ♪
469
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I think I'll leave the songwriting
to Gary Barlow.
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I'll try something a bit easier.
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Like writing a bestselling novel.
Cue the big finale.
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[soft piano music playing]
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♪ Stone Age brought you speech ♪
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♪ Farms, the wheel and fire ♪
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♪ Then metal was explored ♪
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♪ Which meant we could make swordsTo kill and build empires ♪
477
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♪ Think Ancient Egypt was nicer? ♪
478
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♪ Pharaoh's tombs, lovely shrines ♪
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♪ But some were living gravesFor hundreds of poor slaves ♪
480
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♪ And pig's eye was our cureFor the blind ♪
481
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♪ Greek Civilisation, our creation ♪
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♪ Drama and philosophy ♪
483
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♪ But Sparta praised lyingCelebrated dying ♪
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♪ And Hippocrates drank wee ♪
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♪ We're history ♪
486
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♪ We brought you bloodshed ♪
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♪ Greek excursionsTo battle the Persians ♪
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♪ Disembowelling our dead ♪
489
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♪ Together we made the worldA little bit grim ♪
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♪ We're history ♪
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♪ Could be fairly dim ♪
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♪ We Romans brought you roads ♪
493
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♪ And public medicine ♪
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♪ Gladiator fightingFeeding men to lions ♪
495
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♪ Burning ChristiansThat kinda thing, you know ♪
496
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♪ Then came the Middle Ages ♪
497
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♪ Saxons, Normans, Vikings, Celts ♪
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♪ A time of invasion, feudalism, famineAnd Black Death, bubos and welts ♪
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♪ 1066 saw Harold in a fixAs William conquered all ♪
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♪ What was the bettin'An arrow in his retina ♪
501
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♪ Would lead to his downfall? ♪
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♪ We're history ♪
503
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♪ We brought invasion and strife ♪
504
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♪ We attacked monasteries ♪
505
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♪ Said, give us gold please ♪
506
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♪ Then we took your life ♪
507
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♪ Our crusades meant slaughterWherever we'd go ♪
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♪ We're history ♪
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♪ Was it pretty? No ♪
510
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♪ Tudor, Stuart, Georgian monarchsNext in line ♪
511
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♪ Brought progress in science and art ♪
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♪ Also beheadings, burnings, civil war ♪
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♪ Greed and colonies for a start ♪
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♪ We're history ♪
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♪ We gave you plague and disease ♪
516
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♪ Travelled, found the Incans ♪
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00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:35,480
♪ Spread smallpox in a blink ♪
518
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♪ And brought them to their knees ♪
519
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♪ Dogs, cats and the French blamed ♪
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♪ For plague along the way ♪
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♪ We're history ♪
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♪ Not such happy days ♪
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♪ Victorian technology wentHand in hand with poverty ♪
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♪ Kids up chimneys and down mines ♪♪ Improvements to the world did pick upDespite some violent hiccups ♪
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♪ Two World Wars, millions died ♪
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♪ We're history ♪
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♪ Our times smelly and gory ♪
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♪ We reigned over youAnd told you what to do ♪♪ And that is this story ♪
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♪ Thought we were amazing ♪♪ Though you may quibble ♪
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♪ We're history ♪
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♪ And we made it horrible! ♪
532
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♪ We're history ♪
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