Anyone remember this- Elizabethan songs for kids

[Danni675]

At school we used to sing these modern songs about Elizabeth I. “Let us sing, hey hey, let us sing, hey nonny nonny nay”, “Sir Lionel was a barrister, a specialist at law”. Anyone else? I’ve been trying to find them on Google with no luck. Anything to stop dh going on about his school production of Joseph and the Multicolour Dreamcoat

I remember one that went "Aye father! Cried out little Roger. I wish I were nobbut a king." I haven't heard it for about 30 years but it still randomly pops into my head.

I don't remember those and I am long in t'uth.

Are you in Scotland? The oldest song I remember is this although not politically correct these days. Far better to just shoot them really as evidence suggests.

A-hunting we will go,
A-hunting we will go
To catch a fox and put him in a box
And never let him go

Then later verses were modified at the third line

"...a fish and put him on a dish..."
"...a bear and cut his hair..."
"...a pig and dance a little jig..."
"...a giraffe and make him laugh..."
"...a mouse and put him in a house..."

The 'hey nonny nonny' is sung by Emma Thompson as Beatrice in the film Much Ado About nothing; I really like it.

Greensleeves was that eta too I think.

No, the Much Ado song is Sigh No More from the original Shakespeare play. It is a nice setting in that film though.

I can't help with the Elizabethan songs - though I wonder if the Sir Lionel one was about a different historical period. They didn't have barristers as such in the 16th and 17thC (I think??) because the bar as a regulatory body was later?? There is a famous barrister in the 20th C called Lionel something.

Sorry- to be clear they are modern songs about the Elizabethan period. Definitely not Shakespeare. The Sir Lionel song was definitely supposed to be about an Elizabethan lawyer but of course it could be that the writer got it wrong calling him a barrister.

Sir Lionel was a barrister, a specialist at law
And that of course did mean perforce that he was far from poor
He’d wealth untold in jewels and gold but still he wanted more
More, more, more…

Sounds like the songs were from a themed "Singing Together" music book. At junior school we got a new book every term and it was always on a theme...sea shanties, songs from overseas .i.e Yellow bird, etc

Hello, I just came across your post. The musical was called Elizabethans All and I have the music book. Are you still on this channel?