Horrible Histories - Richard III lyrics

I was sure that you'd love me

To that hope, I did cling

'Cause I'm... Richard the third

And... everybody loves a king!

Thought I did a good job

Why do you disagree?

There's a lot of people

Spreading nasty rumors 'bout me

Every word is a lie

So I'm singing this song

'Cause the history books

Have been telling it wrong!


I Never had a limp

Always walked my full height

Never had a hump

And my arm was all right

Never took the crown

With the ilegal power

Never killed my nephews

The princes in the tower

Tudor proper ganda

It's all absurd

Time to tell the truth

'Bout King Richard the third


My brother Edward, died

His kids too young to rule

So... I took the throne

Why not? I'm nobody's fool!


Thomas More wrote a history

Said I'd murdered Edward's boys

Shakespeare said their death

Was an evil ploy

But I say those two

Are historical vandals!

They've ruined my image!

I mean, what a scandal!


Never bumped off

Those harmless young heirs

Never buried them

Under the Tower of London stairs

Never poisoned my wife

Bumped off her daddy

This is me, sweet Richard

Do I look like a baddy?

Never was two-faced

Sure you'll agree

I was misunderstood

King Richard three


Can you imagine it?

I'm the last Plantagenet

Beaten by Henry

In the Wars of the Roses

The Tudor dynasty

Didn't care that much for me

Now I'm painted as a baddy

That's why one supposes... (continues while next verse is sang)


Never forget

When you hear of my crimes

Never drowned my brother

In a massive vat of wine

Never said 'a horse!

My kingdom for a horse! '

Who made that up?

Why, William Shakespeare, of course!


Now my tale is told

You won't hear a bad word

About a special ruler

King Richard the third

Arg it's a wasp it's a wasp






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