Lloyd George Knew My Father (song)

"Lloyd George Knew My Father" is a 20th-century English schoolboy folk song. The simple lyrics consist of the phrase "Lloyd George knew my father/Father knew Lloyd George" sung to the tune of "Onward, Christian Soldiers". In the song, the two lines referring to Lloyd George (LG) are repeated incessantly, until boredom sets in. There are no lyrics other than those two lines.

The origin of the song is not known but there are several theories, one that it began as a music hall song making an oblique reference to David Lloyd George's supposed womanizing proclivities and rumours of adultery with the neglected wives of his benefactors and acquaintances (with the right timing and intonation and a well-placed wink, "father" could be taken to mean "mother", and "knew" in the biblical sense of sexual relations; thus the singer might even have been fathered by LG, "the Goat").

The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations attributes the song to Tommy Rhys Roberts QC, the son of a former law partner of Lloyd George, who literally knew him. According to David Owen, it was a World War I marching song.