What is your favourite Horrible Histories song?

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Me and DD have discovered horrible histories recently and it’s very funny not to say easy on the eyes. The songs are our favourites I think mine is Charles the 2nd King of Bling, though it’s very hard to chose one.

DS loves the Richard III song. I have seen it so many times I know all the words. He has a King Richard dressing up costume.

My Dad who was in the RAF loves the one about the Battle of Britain because it is really historically accurate.

I love King of Bling
Boudicca
Pachacuti

and this one!

Ra Ra cleopatra, famous beauty coming atcha

(tbf this was my favourite because I thought it was "famous booty"....)

We love literally, the bad emperors is great when Nero sings ‘of badness I’m the Daddy’. Love the Few, Dick Turpin, the Aztec Priests, Boudicca, William Wallace, Marcus Lucinius Crastas, the monks, The Greek thinkers, Spartan school musical, the one with the two Matilda’s Steven and Henry. Basically all of them! We always seem to have one we are humming.

Oh and the George the fourth one ‘at last my reign began, though I was now older than your Nan’. I’ve actually learnt a lot from them.

Alexander is another good one.

So hard to pick a favourite! We love the Kings and Queens song, Boudicca, Terrible Tudors and Magna Carta.

Norman family tree one with the Matilda’s.

Marcus licinius Crassus

That's like being asked what's your favourite child!!!

The Few
Luddites
Literally

OP you should look for the HH Prom on YouTube. It's magnificent

King of Bling! The live plays have great songs too, albeit a touring cast and not the TV ones, it is a riot!

We have watched it loved it.

How could I forget the Luddite song! It’s like you said so hard to chose one.

Too many, it’s just too hard to choose. The Few. Crassus. Spartan High School. Pachacuti. They’re all bloody genius. Oh, and the Cowboy song!

While I prefer anything that has the lovely, lovely Ben Willbond forefront, Matt is probably the best at impressions - his Charles Dickens/The Smiths one is absolutely pitch perfect

Honestly there's not a bad one among them. I have a real soft spot for I'm a Greek because I love how amazing they were as a civilisation.

Argh! So many good ones! Favs are Patchacuti(?) Suffragettes, Charles Dickens Morrissey style, Kings and Queens always, Aztec Priests, MLC, Bad Roman Emperors, Dick Turpin, William Wallace Scottish Rebel. The song specials they sometimes put on iPlayer are brilliant!

DCs and I spent most of the Easter hols learning the chorus to the kings and queens song 🎶

Ohhh, William, William, Henry, Stephen, Henry, Richard, John - oh!

Kings & Queens. But to be fair there's never been a bad song, they're all genius.

Also love the Stupid Deaths theme. And have a thing for Mathew Baynton.

Rosa Parks

Why has no-one mentioned the Bloody Mary one?!! That one is my absolute fave!

Omg, all of them!
LOVED watching HH when my kids were younger. And yea, they too can recite the kings and queens song which should be handy!

Such a talented group of individuals. If you haven't watched Ghosts, you should do. Has a lot of the cast in it.

We have watched Ghosts that’s how we came to find horrible histories. We have watched Yonderland and Bill too which we also enjoyed.

Another who can’t choose because they’re all genius.
Kings and Queens, if you twist my arm - dd9 knows it all with voices and facial expressions.
I’m contentedly planning her career as a academic historian.

There’s also a YouTube channel which shows the HH songs AND their inspirational song, hence DD’s extra curricular interest in popular tunes 1970-2000.