Fifth of November, The (Guy Fawkes Song)

DESCRIPTION: "Please to remember The fifth of November, Gunpowder treason and plot. I know no reason Why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1844 (Halliwell)
KEYWORDS: royalty technology homicide
HISTORICAL REFERENCES:
1605 - The botched "Gunpowder Plot"
FOUND IN: Britain New Zealand
REFERENCES (7 citations):
Sutton-Smith-NZ-GamesOfNewZealandChilden/FolkgamesOfChildren, pp. 61-62, "(Please to remember the fifth of November)" (1 text, plus another fragment that might be from another Guy Fawkes game and a partial reqire of "Chrismas Is Coming, The Goose Is Getting Fat")
Baring-Gould-AnnotatedMotherGoose #409, p. 194, "(Please to remember)"
Jack-PopGoesTheWeasel, p. 172, "Remember, Remember the Fifth of November" (1 text, with more verses than the usual)
Dolby-OrangesAndLemons, p. 48, "Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November" (1 text)
ADDITIONAL: Peter and Iona Opie, _I Saw Esau: Traditional Rhymes of Youth_, #151, "(Please to remember)" (1 text, which has a tag which appears related to "Christmas Is Coming")
Enid Porter, _The Folklore of East Anglia_, Batsford, 1974, p. 71, "(no title)" (1 text plus a Guy Fawkes begging song)
ADDITIONAL: Jacqueline Simpson, _The Folklore of Sussex_, B. T. Batsford, 1973, pp. 136-137, "(Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November)" (1 text, mostly about punishing Fawkes)
Roud #16916
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Guy Fawkes" (subject)
NOTES [12 words]: For background on the Gunpowder Plot, see the notes to "Guy Fawkes." - RBW
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