"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"[1][2] sung to the tune of "Onward, Christian Soldiers".
[A] In the song, the two lines referring to Lloyd George (LG) are repeated incessantly, until boredom sets in.
The origin of the song is not known[4] 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[5] with the neglected wives of his benefactors and acquaintances[6] (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").
[4] 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.