Well, a lot of girls would-a liked me.

But the stars we could reach were just starfish on the beach.

You may be brave and as bold as you're black
But I will be numero uno, torero fino.

But the stars we could reach were just starfish on the beach.

Well, a lot of girls would-a liked me.

Ah, yes! Doesn't that top the wish of everyone being lullabied -- to encounter in dreams a singing crocodile?

And sleeps ... and sleeps ... and sleeps ... This song appears to be a lullaby ... oh well it sure works!!!!

Lovely song generally, but the part about "safe from earthly danger" never fails to baffle me. If he WERE safe from earthly danger, why would his mom and dad soon have to flee with him to Egypt, to save him from Herod's deadly wrath?

It doesn't make sense for the singer to declare, on the one hand, that "Surely Maggie was made for mine," while on the other hand asserting that she is "fooling' another man." Sounds more like Maggie is a bane to multiple men than like she and the singer could be remotely dreamed to be "made for each other".

Historic accuracy is often absent from this otherwise charming little ditty about Anne Boleyn's ghost haunting the Tower Of London. These closing lines are perhaps the bext example of that lack of historic accuracy. Besides Anne Boleyn {Henry's second wife), the only other wife that he had behaeded was his fifth wife, Catherine Howard. So she was the only other one who would make much sense to make sense in the context of these final lines, where Henry wonders which one of his wifes is haunting him with her head tucked underneath her arm. Jane Seymour was his thrid wife, who died in childbirth, giving Henry his only male heir. By all accounts, Henry was genuinely mournful over her passing. So her reference in this context hardly fits. But even less fitting is the reference to Catherine Paar. She was Henry's sixth and last wife, who outlived him.

This delightful little whimsical ditty, about Anne Boleyn's ghost haunting the Tower of London, while Henry VIII was still King, is long on charm but short on historical accuracy. Even if some kind of 'poetic license' allows us to overlook the anachronism of members of the court of King Henry VIII having knowledge of American football, the reference to Army is still rather out of place. Red Grange played for the University of Illinois and for the Chicago Bears, never for Army.

This song is about King Henry VIII of England. Although wonders never cease as to what new things are revealed about historical figures, I've never heard of any suggestion that Henry VIII was gay in the predominant present day sense of the word. The song as originally written lends itself to little confusion on this matter, but might confuse some younger listeners today!

Woody Guthrie originally wrote this song in 1941, when there were 48 states. Then Alaska and Hawaii became states in 1959. Then the Kingston Trio covered the song in their 1961 album "Goin' Places". Sung in 1961 it would imply that the states the migrant has been to would include Alaska and Hawaii, even though that is in no way implied by the song as Guthrie originally wrote it.

King Henry VIII

Jane Seymour (wife of King Henry VIII, not to be confused with modern actress with same name)

this song is frightening it sounds like a song about the dropping of the atomic bomb

Allentown, Pennsylvania

In this song, a trader wants to take the daughter of an Indian chief west across the Missouri River.

"Ah! les fraises et les framboises et les bon vins que nous avons bus." is French and means "Oh, the strawberries and the raspberries, and the good wines that we have drunk."

This song has quite a rousing, uptempo tune. And yet it tells of finding one's love untrue and then finding her dead. What a tale to sing so blithely!

This bitterly satirical song first talks of human enmities, as well as natural disasters. Then in this climactic verse it speaks of the threat of nuclear annihilation. Throughout the song, it is done with ap upbeat and ostensibly celebratory tune and spirit, as the word "merry" in the title implies. Incidentally, some of the most poignant and / or ironic lines in this song, including "And we will all be blown away", were sung by Kingston Trio member Nick Reynolds, who died this month (October, 2008). RIP.

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