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We're History
Horrible Histories

Stone Age brought you speech, farms, the wheel and fire.

Then metal was explored which meant we could make swords to kill, and build empires.

Think Ancient Egypt was nicer? Pharaoh’s tombs, lovely shrines?

But some were living graves for hundreds of poor slaves and pig's eye was our cure for the blind.

Greek civilisation our creation, drama and philosophy.

But Sparta praised lying; celebrated dying and Hippocrates drank wee.


We're History.

We brought you bloodshed.

Greek excursions to battle the Persians.

Disembowelling our dead.

Together we made the world a little bit grim.

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Could be fairly dim.


We Romans brought you roads and public medicine,

Gladiator fighting, feeding men to lions, burning Christians. That kind of thing, you know.

Then came the Middle Ages; Saxons, Normans, Vikings, Celts,

A time of invasion, feudalism, famine, Black Death, bubos and welts.

1066 saw Harold in a fix as William conquered all.

What was the bettin' an arrow in his retina would lead to his downfall?


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We brought invasion and strife.

We attacked monasteries, said Give us gold, please, then we took your life.

Our crusades meant slaughter wherever we’d go.

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Was it pretty? No.


Tudor, Stuart, Georgian monarchs next in line

Brought progress in science and art.

Also beheadings, burning, civil war

Breed an economy, for a start.


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We gave you plague and disease.

Travelled, found the Incans, spread smallpox in a blink and brought them to their knees.

Dogs, cats and the French blamed for plague along the way.

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Not such happy days.


Victorian technology went hand-in-hand with poverty,

Kids up chimneys and down mines.

Improvements to the world did pick up despite some violent hiccups;

Two World Wars, millions died.


We're History.

Our times smelly and gory.

We reigned over you and told you what to do

And that is this story.

Thought we were amazing though you may quibble.

We're History and we made it horrible.

We're History!


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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   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   William Shakespeare Song   William Wallace   Work, Terrible Work   World War II Girls   World War Two Girls

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