Tragic Tuesdays: Tunes

This song...I had no idea it was actually a real song until I googled it.  Crazy!

Any-who why this crazy song?  Well, it was on this day in 1422 that Henry VI became King of England and the shallow age of just 9 MONTHS.  A little wet behind the ears to be crowned King, dontchya think?

Here's an extremely brief history lesson for you:  (thanks to the Writer's Almanac)

Henry the VI  "was King Henry V's only child. In 1423, the year after he ascended to the throne, English nobles from around the land swore loyalty to their toddler king. They also set up a regency council to make government decisions until he was old enough to do so.  

It was about a century and a half later that William Shakespeare wrote a historical trilogy of plays about Henry VI. To get information about King Henry's life and times, Shakespeare used a reference book called The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Families of Lancaster and York, written by Edward Hall and published in 1548. The three Henry VI plays were among Shakespeare's earliest plays, and they were huge box office successes, helping to establish him as a major living playwright. These days they're hardly ever performed anywhere.  Still, there are many quotable Shakespearean lines in the Henry VI plays, like:

"Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends."

And,
"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer."

And, "Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep."

So, even though this song is about Henry VIII, not Henry VI, I thought it would still be fun.