All of the Prime Ministers of the UK in the form of a song

Literally just all of the Prime Ministers of the UK as of January 2022 but in the form of a song. Lyrics included!

Historical facts may have been twisted and simplified for reasons of rhyming. Also got William Cavendish-Bentinck's name wrong (somehow managed to squeeze an extra syllable in!) As someone who studied English and creative writing instead of history and politics, I know where my priorities lie.

Lyrics by myself. Music faffing by Alex Wilson-Razzell. Sung (badly) by the both of us.

Lyrics:
The office at 10 downing street
For centuries has been the seat
Of people rich and sinister
Great Britain’s Prime Ministers

(The) Man who first began the role
Was our own Robert Walpole
Worked the job for twenty years
then Spencer Compton took the lead

Henry Pelham
Had to fight the Jacobites
Thomas Pelham-
Holles was next but not too bright

Two years later
France and Britain do declare (the)
Seven Years’ War
Then Cavendish in the chair

John Stuart was the first Tory
Grenville upset colonies
Watson-Wentworth’s one year bender
Soon followed by Pitt the elder

August FitzRoy would commit
Just two short years before he quit
Boston Harbour filled with tea
Under Lord North’s authority

Watson-Wentworth
Back in 1782
Helped the poor but
Three months in he died of flu

William Petty
Tried for peace but caused a stink
Soon replaced by
Will Cavendish-Bentinck

It’s Pitt the younger on the scene
Henry Addington was keen
Grenville passed the Slave Trade Act
Then Spencer Perc’val after that

His leadership did not go well
Assassinated 1812
Next was Robert Jenkinson
George Canning then Robinson

Arthur Well’sley
Infamously combative
Earl Charles Grey then
William Lamb’s term was short-lived
Sir Robert Peel
Britain’s first Conservative

Lord
John Russell had Dickens
Dedicate a book to
Him and Edward Smith--
Stanley had three sp’rate terms
George
Hamilton-Gordon was
Lord Byron’s own cousin
Henry Temple first Lib’ral leader

Benjamin Disraeli next
Queen Victoria was impressed
William Ewart Gladstone’s fine
Elected in four separate times

It’s Robert Gascoyne-Cecil’s turn
A frail man who loved to learn
Archie Primrose had a horse
That won the Derby racing course

Arthur Balfour
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
H H Asquith
Brings us into world war one

David Lloyd George
Final liberal in the post
Bonar Law next
Resigned when he lost his voice

Stanley Baldwin up to plate
Told Edward Eight to abdicate
R MacDonald, socialist
First labour leader on our list

The next PM at Downing Street
Wanted peace and went to meet
Adolph Hitler who said ‘nein’
So Neville Chamberlain resigned

Winston Churchill
Led to World War Two success
Clement Atlee
Helped to launch the NHS

Anthony E-
-den has a disastrous run
Then Macmillan
Fixed his messes one-by-one

Sir
Alec Douglas-Home’s dull
Labour resumes control
Harold Wilson took
a stink bomb to the eye then
Ted
Heath had worker problems
Tried and failed to solve them
Then Callaghan’s term of Discontent

Iron Lady, Maggie Thatcher
Falkland Isles and milk snatcher
Made a lot of miners frown
By closing all their coal pits down

John Major’s amendment act
Introduced the council tax

Tony Blair
On the racks
Aggravations in Iraq
9/11
7/7
Blair faces Rebellion

When
Blair resigned, Gordon Brown
Tried to turn the war round
Pulled out British troops
And signed the climate change act
Dave
Cameron had Brexit
So he made his exit
For Theresa May the dancing queen

In
10 Downing Street now the
Man with all the power
Boris Johnson is
Hiding from a pandemic
But
No one lasts forever
Somewhere his successor

Will take his place-a
whoever…(current nutter, in the gutter)
wherever… (unless he earns, another term)

Who be comes the next prime mins’ter
In the Palace of Westminster
That depends on who you next vote in
Could it be you?


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