What is your favourite Horrible Histories song?

I'm hoping that the TSR crowd is just about the right age to have grown up watching Horrible Histories – so the big question: which song is your fave?

Mine is a slightly unusual choice:

I still get it as an earworm sometimes – when I was living in Cambridge there was a George IV Street around the corner and I would always get it stuck in my head.

Honourable mentions to the group performance, Born 2 Rule, as well as the Kings and Queens song!

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Reply 1

DS13990609

Alexander The Great - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwbQ7xtBwWw&pp=ygUmaG9ycmlibGUgaGlzdG9yaWVzIGFsZXhhbmRlciB0aGUgZ3JlYXQ%3D

Reply 2

cyberhex

I am definitely of the age to have watched it - I was a true CBBC kid growing up, watched the entirety of series 1-5 of HH and had all the books lol - so this is a hard question! We're History has a real nostalgia to it but Burke and Hare might have to be my favourite, esp since I'm doing science at uni so we've had dissections :smile:

(also not technically a song but the "call a llama farmer" song skit is tied for favourite because it is catchy as anything)

Reply 3

mqb2766

As you say, its hard to top

Though Charles II is close

Reply 4

cyberhex

Original post by DS13990609

Alexander The Great - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwbQ7xtBwWw&pp=ygUmaG9ycmlibGUgaGlzdG9yaWVzIGFsZXhhbmRlciB0aGUgZ3JlYXQ%3D

ooh great pick!

Reply 5

cyberhex

Original post by mqb2766

As you say, its hard to top

Though Charles II is close

the monarch song is fr the only reason I know the monarchs of England xD

Reply 6

Saracen's Fez

Original post by cyberhex

the monarch song is fr the only reason I know the monarchs of England xD

It's the only reason I could list them in order for sure :rofl:

Reply 7

mqb2766

Original post by cyberhex

the monarch song is fr the only reason I know the monarchs of England xD

Remember talking to some history students and they said pretty much the same thing.

Reply 8

CatusStarbright

THE **** TURPIN SONG!

Reply 9

CatusStarbright

Oh yes, that name hit the swear filter :lol:

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Reply 10

Pxnyl_

Original post by catusstarbright

the **** turpin song!

yes yes yes !!!

Reply 11

taylor2317

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I love the King Henry VIII's wives song and the Charles Darwin Natural Selection song :biggrin:

Reply 12

CatusStarbright

Original post by Pxnyl_

yes yes yes !!!

It's not even a particuarly catchy song for the most part, but the line 'that's not John Palmer's hand, it's **** Turpin's! He cried' pops into my head randomly every now and then :colondollar:

Reply 13

A____J

Original post by CatusStarbright

THE **** TURPIN SONG!

omgg yas my faveee

Reply 14

Pxnyl_

Original post by CatusStarbright

It's not even a particuarly catchy song for the most part, but the line 'that's not John Palmer's hand, it's **** Turpin's! He cried' pops into my head randomly every now and then :colondollar: