Love Rats is a song from the Horrible Histories TV series. It aired in Series 5, Episode 14 on February 14, 2014
Horrible Histories - Love Rats
A parody of "The Love Cats" by The Cure.
Lyrics[]
Henry: I'm Henry VIII, as you know, I'm the King who married six
But I'm not what you call romantic, though
In fact, in love, I was the pits.
Cath and Jane and Cath all ended up divorced or dead.
Nero: I'm just the same, Nero's the name
Killed my wife, sent my girlfriend the gift of her head.
Then Poppaea met a bad end
Kicked and beaten, I'm the worst boyfriend.
William: That's what I was doing
When I was wooing my wife Matilda
What? I never killed her!
All: Love Rats
William: I only married once,
Shouldn't be in this song.
All: Love Rats
Henry and Nero: William the Conqueror, you are wrong!
Cleopatra: It wasn't just men, some rats were wonderfully pretty.
I'm Cleopatra, loved a match that offered power.
Married one brother, he died, I wed another but he wasn't the one for me.
Julius Ceaser, my next romantic squeeze, ended up with Mark Anthony.
William: His death was your fault,
As I recall.
Cleopatra: Didn't mean for that to happen at all.
William: Still think I shouldn't be here,
I held my wife dear.
Edward: After you bullied her,
I'd say its fully fair.
All: Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba,
Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba.
Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba,
Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba.
Love rats
William: Who are you?
You don't look bad.
All: Love rats
Edward: Edward VIII,
Twentieth century lad.
Henry: Edward the Eighth?
Nero: Now there's no debate
Cleopatra, Henry, William and Nero: You really shouldn't be here!
Edward: I do agree,
Though love conquered me,
Abdicated the throne for Wallis Simpson, dear.
All: Love rats
Edward: Wallis divorced, so I was forced to pick.
All Love rats
Edward: Between love and crown
Cleopatra, Henry, William and Nero: You chose love, that's sick!
All: Love rats
Edward: Was a national crisis when I stepped down as King.
All: Love rats
Moonlight and roses,
Not really our thing!
Cast[]
Ben Willbond as Henry VIII
Jim Howick as Emperor Nero
Simon Farnaby as William I
Martha Howe-Douglas as Cleopatra
Mathew Baynton as Edward VIII
Notes[]
External Links[]
Love Rats on YouTube