king henry

• pete seeger şarkısı, sözler de şöyle:
  
  king henry marched forth, a sword in his hand
  two thousand horsemen all at his command
  ın a fortnight the rivers ran red through the land
  the year fifteen hundred and twenty
  
  the year it is now nineteen sixty five
  ıt's easier far to stay half alive
  just keep your mouth shut while the planes zoom and dive
  ten thousand miles over the ocean
  
  simon was drafted in sixty three
  ın sixty four, sent over the sea
  last month this letter he sent to me
  he said, "you won't like what ı'm saying"
  
  he said, "we've no friends here, no hardly a one
  we've got a few generals who just want our guns
  but it will take more than that if we're ever to win
  why, we'll have to flatten the country"
  
  "ıt's my own troops ı have to watch out for," he said
  "ı sleep with a pistol right under my head"
  he wrote this last month, last week he was dead
  and simon came home in a casket
  
  ı mind my own business, ı watch my tv
  complain about taxes but pay anyway
  ın a civilized manner my forefathers betray
  who long ago struggled for freedom
  
  but each day a new headline screams at my bluff
  on tv some general says we must be tough
  ın my dreams ı stare at this family ı love
  all gutted and spattered with napalm
  
  king henry marched forth, a sword in his hand
  two thousand horsemen all at his command
  ın a fortnight the rivers ran red through the land
  the year fifteen hundred and twenty
  
  the year it is now nineteen sixty five
  ıt's easier far to stay half alive
  just keep your mouth shut while the planes zoom and dive
  ten thousand miles over the ocean
• steeleye span şarkısı, sözleri de şöyle:
  let never a man a wooing wend
  that lacketh things three,
  a store of gold, and open heart,
  and full of charity;
  and this was seen of king henry
  though he lay quite alone,
  for he's taken him to a haunted hall
  seven miles from the town.
  
  he's chased the deer now him before
  and the doe down by the den
  till the fattest buck in all the flock
  king henry he has slain.
  his huntsmen followed him to the hall
  to make them burly cheer,
  when loud the wind was heard to sound
  and an earthquake rocked the floor.
  
  and darkness covered all the hall
  where they sat at their meat,
  the grey dogs, yowling, left their food
  and crept to henry's feet.
  and louder howled the rising wind
  and burst the fastened door,
  and in there came a grisly ghost
  stramping on the floor.
  
  her head hit the roof-tree of the house,
  her middle you could not span,
  each frightened huntsman fled the hall
  and left the king alone,
  her teeth were like the tether stakes,
  her nose like club or mell,
  and nothing less she seemed to be
  than a fiend that comes form hell.
  
  some meat, some meat you king henry,
  some meat you give to me,
  go kill your horse you king henry
  and bring him here to me;
  he's gone and slain his berry brown steed
  though it made his heart full sore,
  for she's eaten up both skin and bone
  left nothing but hide and hair.
  
  more meat, more meat you king henry
  more meat you give to me,
  go kill your greyhounds king henry
  and bring them here to me;
  and when he's slain his good greyhounds,
  ıt made his heart full sore,
  she's eaten them up both skin and bone,
  left nothing but hide and hair.
  
  more meat, more meat you king henry
  more meat you give to me,
  go fell your goshawks king henry
  and bring them here to me;
  and when he's slain his gay goshawks,
  ıt made his heart full sore,
  she's eaten them up both skin and bone,
  left nothing but feathers bare.
  
  some drink, some drink now king henry
  some drink you give to me,
  oh you sew up your horse's hide
  and bring in a drink to me,
  and he's sewed up the bloody hide
  and a pipe of wine put in,
  and she's drank it up all in one draught
  left never a drop therein.
  
  a bed, a bed now king henry,
  a bed you'll make for me,
  oh you must pull the heather green
  and make it soft for me;
  and pulled has he the heather green
  and made for her a bed,
  and taken has he his gay mantle
  and o'er it he has spread.
  
  take off your clothes now king henry
  and lie down by my side,
  now swear, now swear you king henry
  to take me for your bride.
  oh god forbid, says king henry,
  that ever the like betide,
  that ever a fiend that comes from hell
  should stretch down by my side.
  
  when the night was gone and the day was come
  and the sun shone through the hall,
  the fairest lady that ever was seen
  lay between him and the wall.
  ı've met with many a gentle knight
  that gave me such a fill,
  but never before with a courteous knight
  that gave me all my will