Mary's Rhapsody
In 1586 Mary Queen of Scots was on trial, charged with treason for her involvement in the Babington Plot. Mary, how do you plead?
PARODY OF
Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
MUSIC BY
Richie Webb
FROM
Series 6 Episode 4
LYRICS:
Is this a fair trial or just a mockery?
I am Queen Mary with no escape from your trickery
No lawyer to depend on or witnesses to defend me.
Your honour, I killed no-one
You expect me to confess that I’d bump of old Queen Bess.
Treason, I call Walsingham
Lord Altrincham, ‘cos these letters are fakes.
Phoney, you’re going down
I can prove they’re real
And I was Queen of Scotland once you clown.
Please do not carry one, you’re guilty now admit it.
Mary’s refusing to admit her guilt
What a shock, what a shame, what a complete an utter scandal
Babington says Queen Bess, you never done in.
To the scaffold, to the scaffold, to the scaffold, to the scaffold, to the scaffold
she must go.
I’m Queen, you’re vile, I demand a fair trial.
Goodness gracious, is that the time already?
Don’t spare the horses, time to go home.
If she’s guilty then I must sentence her to die
But that would make me a killer queen, so I
Scary, don’t want to do this Mary
Not gonna get out, of signing her death warranty.
Her death really matters,
She made me enemies…
Her death really matters to me.
(That’s not how my wig goes).