I saw the Don McLean concert at Hampton Court Palace last night with Martin & Patrick. The songlist was fairly dull although American Pie went down well and the venue was a great setting for his closing number about the ghost of Anne Boleyn.
With Her head tucked underneath her arm
In the tower of London, large as life,
the ghost of Anne Boleyn walks they declare.
Poor Anne Boleyn was once King Henry’s wife
until he made the headsman bob her hair.
Ah, yes, he did her wrong long years ago
and she comes up at night to tell him so,
Chorus:
With her head tucked underneath her arm
she walks the bloody tower,
With her head tucked underneath her arm
at the midnight hour.
She comes to haunt King Henry. She means giving him what for.
Gadzooks, she’s going to tell him off. She’s feeling very sore,
And just in case the headsman wants to give her an encore,
she’s has her head tucked underneath her arm.
(Chorus)
Sometimes gay King Henry gives a spread
for all his pals and gals and ghostly crew.
The headsman craves the joint and cuts the bread
then in comes Anne Bolyn to queer the do.
She holds her head up with a wild war whoop
and Henry cries, “Don’t drop it in the soup!”
(Chorus)
One night she caught King Henry, he was in the canteen bar.
Said he, “Are you Jane Seymour, Anne Bolyn, or Katherine Parr?
How the sweet san perryann do I know who you are
with your head tucked underneath your arm?”
(Chorus)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_McLean
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampton_Court_Palace
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Pie_(song)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_Her_Head_Tucked_Underneath_Her_Arm
