Pastime with good company - King Henry VIII

[sethmanrockandroll]

The drum sounds a bit like the one in Be My Baby. Bum... bum, bum.

[galwguitar87]

I wish they should have shown Henry composing this song on The Tudors instead of "Greensleeves", since we know for sure he wrote this song!!! It wouldn't hurt them to be a little more accurate!

[PapagenoHannover]

@galwguitar87

[rabidmaniac]

@galwguitar87 Not familiar with the show Tudors, I mean I don't live under a rock, just Australia, but I don't watch the Tudors. Do watch the Borgias though, but getting back to the point here; you'd find that a curt composer or someone probably did write this, but King Henry being, King Henry, probably had his head and claimed the song for himself because he likes it so much. Unless you know otherwise.

[ariamanos98]

im singing by myself at my chorus concert

[MushroomedAnymore]

I think the performance of this song in King Henry VIII's Court would have been a tad...Five or Seven Minutes longer! The fear to improvise is cause for BEHEADING! ;-)

[wydra4]

He was the only king, who had a talent for composing

[TheBattalionmasterpb]

@ultraviolent29 Is that you, Yuvraj?

[attatel]

@Pierrelestafier: True, that was the situation which triggered it but it was the support of Cromwell and others that made it happen, and they were thinking of the political advantages as well. And the money. (Besides, any monarch doing anything 'all for love' has pretty much always been a TERRIBLE IDEA!!!)

[attatel]

@ultraviolent: that's quite a romantic view of history you have there. All for love? Not political at all?

[Pierrelestafier]

@attatel

Though the hope for an heir was notorious factor in that decision then he was also pretty lustfull for Anne Boleyn. Lust and love is probably not the same.

[Pierrelestafier]

Just finished a huge assignment on Henry VIII.

[califotec]

Awesome! Every time I hear this I just want to get jiggy with it! xD

[pbrick6301]

This song no doubt once sparked terror in Americans as it was Henry the 8th who massacred hundreds of us colonists and hung Nathan Hale and Patrick Henry for sedition. Under Henry the 8th American colonists were forced to pay millions of dollars or pounds in tax and were regularly beaten on the streets by redcoat soldiers.

[666HPS]

@pbrick6301 Huh? wasn't all that roughly two hundred years after Henry died in 1547 :P

[manthasagittarius]

@pbrick6301 Um -- George the Third? Henry VIII was dead before 1550.

[Norwegiangrrl]

Youtube should really get an auto-replay button.

[coolbrian15]

He looks like my dad at a Medieval fair lol

[ThomasYorkshire]

God, Gryphon was such a fucking awesome band for those first few albums.

[ultraviolent29]

he's probably the most famous King that ever lived.

[TheAIKa7777]

@ultraviolent29 after Ludwig II. ;)

[ultraviolent29]

@TheAIKa7777 Did Ludwig II have 6 wives and decapitate 2 of them? I didn't think so.

[TheAIKa7777]

@ultraviolent29 Have Henry VIII build 4 castles: Schachenhaus, Neuschwanstein, Linderhof, Herrenchiemsee. Alone Neuschwanstein was visited by over 70 Million tourists.

Besides Ludwig II was the last true King because he had an absolutistic reign kind.

He his much popularer than Henry VIII.

[ultraviolent29]

@TheAIKa7777 Hmm I'm not so sure... I can tell you're not from England

[derkylos]

@TheAIKa7777 No, Henry built 30 castles between 1539 and 1543, along with a series of smaller fortifications to guard the southern coast of England. In fact, it's hard to visit the south coast without running into one of his "Device Forts"...

Also, Ludwig was king in the 19th century, whilst Henry was such in the 16th. Ergo, describing Ludwig as the "last true king" has no relevance whatsoever to Henry's reign.

[ultraviolent29]

@derkylos Good chap!

[TheSmithersy]

@TheAIKa7777: I don't think so. Henry VIII never went insane nor was deposed. That is a clear sign that Henry VIII was more popular

[TheAIKa7777]

@TheSmithersy I my eyes is killing two of his own wifes also wenting mad and Henry burned Catholic churches down and draw the treaures. He was also mad.

[666HPS]

@TheAIKa7777 He didn't burn churches down, at all. He reformed them. Failing hourses were closed, and stripped of all assets, but not literally destroyed. It was all part of England's liberation from the See of Rome.

[tulitula]

@ultraviolent29 A great king, no doubt, but not the most famous ever. What about Louis XVI whose head was cut off by the revolution? Then you have Charles Magne, who built Europe, Louis XIV, the King Sun, Carlos V of Habsburg, King of Spain and Emperor of the Holy Empire, Richard Heart of Lion, who fought in the Crusades, and of course, Arthur, legendary but real and many others from different countries who had a decisive hole in history,

[ultraviolent29]

@tulitula They're just names in the pages of history, but Henry is not just a name. He is the definition of king, of unparalled and unsurmountable power. He defied the Pope. No other European monarch had the balls to do that. And why? For love. That is proper kingship. 

[Pierrelestafier]

@ultraviolent29

Not true. King Louis the something during Henry VIII's rule did infact defy the papacy and as a result he was invaded by Henry VIII and the Holy ROman Emperor.

[TheMegoCoolMego]

@JamieWayneRothery That's because he is Phil Mitchell from eastenders :P

[TheEmil135]

gryphon!!!!!!

[Ipswichonian]

Excellent.

[Arghgl]

very nice

[Rashchanin]

just great!

[dopejoel]

dubstep remix?

[fissionesque]

@dopejoel No, they shall not ruin this.

[dopejoel]

@fissionesque hell naw

[IdrilSilmaure]

@dopejoel OMG please!!