🤠🎶 Swing into Tudor Times with Henry’s Hoedown!

Twirl your Tudor partner round and round with Henry’s Hoedown! – a rip-roaring primary school history song that teaches children all about Henry VIII’s six wives (cue the executioner’s axe! 🪓). With its lively hoedown style, this song is guaranteed to get feet tapping while bringing history to life in a fun and unforgettable way.

🎶 What’s Included in Your Song Pack

• Vocal track – perfect for learning the song step by step

• Hoedown-style backing track – packed with energy for a lively performance

• Printable sheet music – melody line, piano/keyboard, and lyrics

• Lyrics (PDF and PowerPoint) – ready for printing or showing on screen

💡 Music Education Benefits

• Reinforces Tudor history in a fun and memorable way

• Builds rhythm, timing, and ensemble singing skills

• Encourages movement, drama, and performance creativity

• Makes complex history easy to remember through music

🌟 A Must-Have for Your Tudors Topic

With its catchy choruses, limited note range, and options for singing or choral speaking, Henry’s Hoedown! is perfect for younger singers as well as older classes looking for a bit of dramatic flair.

👉 Download your Henry’s Hoedown! Song Pack today and let your pupils sing, stomp, and swing their way through Tudor history – just don’t lose your head! 👑

Looking for more history song inspiration? Explore our full History song collection for schools – a great resource to develop both historical knowledge and musical skills.

Included in your song pack:

1. audio file of backing track with instruments playing the melody in mp3 format
2. audio file of vocal track in mp3 format
3. song words in PDF format
4. sheet music in PDF format
5. PowerPoint of song words

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Henry’s Hoedown! – Lyrics

V1
Now Henry was a Tudor king
Who gave six gals a wedding ring,
He hoped a son to him they’d bring,
He gave them jewels and everything!
But he got mad and plates did fling
When only one had male offspring,
Some were divorced but here’s the thing
For two of them the axe did swing! 

Chorus
Henry oh Henry!
The Tudor king who had six wives,
Henry oh Henry!
His temper meant that two of them
Lost their lives!

V2
Catherine was the first he wed,
Then Anne Boleyn who lost her head,
Jane Seymour died, he mourned it’s said,
And Anne of Cleves he was misled,
With Kathryn Howard he saw red,
So yet another to behead,
He got so large and overfed
He widowed Katherine Parr when dead! 

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 wives that Henry picked.

Chorus
Henry oh Henry!
The Tudor king who had six wives,
Henry oh Henry!
His temper meant that two of them
Lost their lives!  

Repeat Chorus

His temper meant that two of them
Lost their lives!

© A M Dilkes 2020 primarysongs.co.uk

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