Mary Seacole
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Me name Mary Seacole, famous nurse
To de Crimean boys
No, me not Florence Nightingale
Dat mix up, me annoys!

Me learn me skills in Jamaica
Where me mother nursed de sick
And I tink it might be destiny child
To be a war medic!

If you're coughing
Then you should have a drink with it
If your diet's poor
You should really tink upon it
If it's cholera
Rehydration's best for it
If it's fever
Better take some rest for it

Wha-oh-oh, wha-oh-oh
Wha-oh-oh-oh!

When Crimean War broke out
Me apply for Florence's crew
She turn me down because me black
Yep, weird I know but true...

History still says me name
Cos me not one to moan
Me ask me friend Thomas Day for help
And set off on my own!

If you need it
Put a massive plaster on it
If you're bleeding
Shouldn't be disaster for it
If your leg broke
Going to need a plaster on it
If you're constipated
Take oil of castor for it

Wha-oh-oh, wha-oh-oh
Wha-oh-oh-oh!

Once here, in Crimea
Me became a pioneer
Me carpenters engineered
A hotel at the new frontier

Set up on the front line
In 1855
Independent woman
Saving soldiers lives!

Welcome to the British Hotel!

Me boarding house became de haunt
Of de great and good
Though it wasn't glamorous...
It was built of old bits of wood

Supplied the troops with kits and clothes
Served both de rich and poor
Me nursed upon de battlefield
While Florence worked far from de war!

I'm a nursing lady
Put a splint on it
Me see a wounded man
Better sprint to it
Earned fame from de war
And my stint in it
But the Crimean shame
Is me a skint from it...

When de war was done
Me never have a dime
Despite the work me do
Bankruptcy was mine...

I'm a fierce lady
Never fazed by it
Wrote a book
And earned funds raised by it

Me hotel
Men owed their lives to it
Going down in history
That's my prize for it!


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  Australia Song   Aztec Priests   Aztec Priests Song   Ballard of Victoria and Albert   Blackbeard   Blackbeard's Song   Blackbeard's Song   Blue Bloody Blues   Born 2 Rule   Boudicca   British Things   Burke and Hare   Burke And Hare Song   Caveman Love   Celtic Boast Battle   Charles Dickens   Charles II   Charles II- King of Bling   Cleopatra   Cleopatra: I Can't Go On   Cleopatra: I Can't Go On   Dick Turpin   Dick Turpin Or Stand And Deliver   Divorced, Beheaded, Died   English Civil War   English Kings and Queens   Evil Roman Emperors (Bad)   Flame   George IV Solo   Georgian Make-up   Georgian Make-Up Song   Georgian Navy   God Compare   Henry VII   Hieroglyphics   How to Make a Mummy   I'm A Greek (Parts I And II)   I'm A Knight   I'm Minted   I'm A Greek (Parts I And II)   I'm A Knight   I'm Minted   It's Not True   It's Not True   Joan Of Arc   Kings And Queens (Ruthless Rulers) Song   Literally: The Viking Song   Luddite   Luddite Revolts   Mary Seacole Song   Mary Tudor Song   Medieval Plague Song   Napoleon Bonaparte   Natural Selection   Norman Family Tree   Olympic Flame Song   Owain Glyndwr   Pachacuti   Pilgrim Rap   Richard III   Spartan High School Musical   Stone Age Song   Stupid Deaths   Suffragettes   The 4 Georges: Born 2 Rule   The Blue Blooded Blues   The Borgia Family   The Cowboy Song   The Monk Song   The Monks' Song   The Monks' Song   The Mummy Song   The Six Wives of Henry VIII   The Stone Age   The Suffragettes   The Thinkers   The Tudors   The Viking Song   Transportation   Victoria And Albert Love Ballad   Victorian Inventions   Viking Peace   We're History   We're History   William Shakespeare Song   William Wallace   Work, Terrible Work   World War II Girls   World War Two Girls

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