'It's a mad world my masters' - English Civil War Song

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  • @thoorwulfn9z383
    @thoorwulfn9z383 3 місяці тому +127

    "The tyrant's state subjects us all, but cries democracy" hits a whole different level in this day and age

    • @ThatGooberSpartan_1776
      @ThatGooberSpartan_1776 Місяць тому +3

      true

    • @sakkra93
      @sakkra93 Місяць тому +7

      Spineless Starmer's Britain in a nutshell!

    • @Kerys23a
      @Kerys23a 24 дні тому

      Democracy is just the tyranny of the majority.

    • @Sonny-m1f
      @Sonny-m1f 20 днів тому

      ​@@sakkra93Trump won. Expect change.

  • @OlavEngelbrektson
    @OlavEngelbrektson 10 місяців тому +73

    I really appreciate the accuracy of the lyrics!

  • @olekcholewa8171
    @olekcholewa8171 8 місяців тому +140

    "And each doth do his pleasure
    And hasten anarchy abroad
    And sin beyond all measure"
    "The tyrant's state subjects as all
    But cries democracy"
    If only they could see today's England.... Dear Lord

    • @oddish4352
      @oddish4352 5 місяців тому +5

      Not just England... 😔

    • @csnyc-community-announcements
      @csnyc-community-announcements 3 місяці тому

      Look up what "anarchy" actually means, it's the highest human state

    • @oddish4352
      @oddish4352 3 місяці тому +10

      @@csnyc-community-announcements It could only work in a world where no human is capable or doing wrong to any other. We do not live in that world.

    • @olekcholewa8171
      @olekcholewa8171 3 місяці тому +6

      @@csnyc-community-announcements You're joking right?

    • @csnyc-community-announcements
      @csnyc-community-announcements 3 місяці тому

      @@olekcholewa8171 absolutely not, study history and science

  • @julessamuels4588
    @julessamuels4588 10 місяців тому +52

    Don’t forget to remember his feast on the 30th! Another great video.

    • @AvaT42
      @AvaT42 10 місяців тому

      Feast on the 30th?

    • @julessamuels4588
      @julessamuels4588 10 місяців тому +13

      @@AvaT42 Charles I was canonised by the Anglican Church and his feast day is January 30th, the day of his martyrdom.

    • @AvaT42
      @AvaT42 10 місяців тому

      @@julessamuels4588 I never knew about this, I had to google! It was because some believed KC1st died as a martyr, is a Catholic thing. Interesting stuff. Amazing the bits of history you learn on this site.

    • @Robespierre228
      @Robespierre228 10 місяців тому +8

      ​@@AvaT42On 30 January 1649 he was publicly beheaded in Whitehall opposite the banquet hall.

  • @hitomihuang1831
    @hitomihuang1831 9 місяців тому +63

    This song is awesome and surprisingly I learned over
    12 new words(mostly old English words) from this song. The old English in it makes it sound so cool 😅.

    • @Imperial_Britannia
      @Imperial_Britannia  9 місяців тому +25

      This song is in early modern English (roughly 1485 - 1688), but has a lot of old English words, for example Churchill’s speeches were a lot of old English words, Early Modern English is where a lot of old English words stopped being used so commonly, if you look on my channel I have some more Early Modern English, ‘When the King Enjoys his own Again’ from the 1640s, ‘Eliza is the Fairest Queen’ which is from around 1580, ‘Pastime with Good Company’ from 1507. And if you want to see even older English songs, I have ‘Sumer is Icumen In’ which is from 1265, which is in Middle English (roughly 1066 - 1485)

  • @sirruadhri3316
    @sirruadhri3316 10 місяців тому +19

    Brilliant song

  • @AvaT42
    @AvaT42 10 місяців тому +17

    This was good. A serious tone to the song but the music was lighter. But, serious stuff that civil war!

  • @cee9110
    @cee9110 10 місяців тому +21

    at 2:54 the actual lyrics are a bell of hollow ring which makes sense rather than vale of hollow ring. the person you got the lyrics from had to reupload his video aload of times because of mistakes and thats one of the ones he didnt fix

    • @Imperial_Britannia
      @Imperial_Britannia  9 місяців тому +7

      Yeah, I tried to get it as accurate as possible, using that video as a base. I keep the original video file for only a few days in case someone points out an inaccuracy so I can fix it, but you commented after the original file was deleted, so I can’t do anything unless I remake the entire thing.

  • @olekcholewa8171
    @olekcholewa8171 9 місяців тому +216

    "It's a mad world my masters" and "The world turned upside down" perfectly describe how ridiculous the Puritan Protectorate was.

    • @teambridgebsc691
      @teambridgebsc691 8 місяців тому +5

      Not about right now then?

    • @olekcholewa8171
      @olekcholewa8171 8 місяців тому +26

      @@teambridgebsc691 Might be about right now as well.

    • @MrImpossibroGaming
      @MrImpossibroGaming 8 місяців тому +16

      Being an absolute monarchist in 2024 is crazy 😂

    • @olekcholewa8171
      @olekcholewa8171 8 місяців тому +39

      @@MrImpossibroGaming Not wanting to be ruled by corrupt politicians and corporations who do nothing but get rich off people is crazy?

    • @MrImpossibroGaming
      @MrImpossibroGaming 8 місяців тому +15

      @@olekcholewa8171 yes monarchs never became corrupt or got rich off the people 💀

  • @londonassassin9894
    @londonassassin9894 8 місяців тому +12

    Sounds greatly similar to the present.

  • @The_landsknecht
    @The_landsknecht 9 місяців тому +6

    30 January We don't forget it!

  • @CaesarASchanzenbachReloaded
    @CaesarASchanzenbachReloaded 10 місяців тому +6

    Wonderful.

  • @JuliusDofarios
    @JuliusDofarios 8 місяців тому +72

    How The UK does not teach its history to its youth is just... unspeakable to me.

    • @olekcholewa8171
      @olekcholewa8171 8 місяців тому +1

      It repeats itself. Republican charlatans again want to overthrow the monarchy and establish their godless dictatorship

    • @potassium1311
      @potassium1311 7 місяців тому +18

      It doesn't? British youth here (or was, like 4 years ago)! We still learn about the civil war, the empire, etc. In secondary school history.

    • @randomtheorist251
      @randomtheorist251 7 місяців тому +8

      Bruh what 💀 our teacher literally played us The World Turned Upside Down. It's one of the recommended historical references for exam questions.

    • @chriswashingtonbeats
      @chriswashingtonbeats 6 місяців тому +6

      what? its drilled into us like crazy. not necessarily a bad thing but it gets boring after a while

    • @Anglisc1682
      @Anglisc1682 6 місяців тому

      I'm almost young enough to be considered a Zoomer. In history lessons, essentially the curriculum was "everything bad whitey did" (South African Apartheid, How blacks were treated in America, slavery perpetuated by whites, N*z1 Germany, Russia), the "3 H's" (H1tl3r, Henry 8th, H0l0caust) as well as the shitty things that happened to the English ethnic group (the Black Death, the Norman Conquest, witch hunts, religious strife...)

  • @Dbear39
    @Dbear39 6 місяців тому +108

    King Charles I: The only king to enter parliament at 6’0, but leave at 5’6.

    • @CCFoxxen
      @CCFoxxen 6 місяців тому +16

      That's vile.

    • @JD-sz5js
      @JD-sz5js 6 місяців тому +5

      @@CCFoxxen lol

    • @oddish4352
      @oddish4352 5 місяців тому

      Charles II was even taller, and it made smuggling him safely out of England very difficult.

    • @w.reidripley1968
      @w.reidripley1968 4 місяці тому

      His head was that tiny?

    • @richardmcarthur8568
      @richardmcarthur8568 4 місяці тому +1

      No, Charles I was not considered tall.

  • @malcgibbons971
    @malcgibbons971 7 місяців тому +7

    Would it be possible to credit the band "Strawhead " for this song ? We are all members of PRS. Thank you.

    • @Imperial_Britannia
      @Imperial_Britannia  7 місяців тому +3

      Sorry mate. I pick up a lot of these songs from secondary sources, usually without authorship on them, looked through the videos on my channel and added a credit to the band on them.

    • @malcgibbons971
      @malcgibbons971 7 місяців тому +2

      @@Imperial_Britannia Thank you !

  • @wigster600
    @wigster600 10 місяців тому +12

    Give credit to Strawhead at least mate.

  • @TheBaptistAnglican
    @TheBaptistAnglican 6 місяців тому +1

    I feel like this is the exact counter song to the world turned upside down (not a counter to “when the king enjoys his own again” even though they have the same Melody)

  • @lucy-sr3wr
    @lucy-sr3wr 4 місяці тому +1

    Beautiful just beautiful👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌

  • @rock280258
    @rock280258 8 місяців тому +2

    Great song

  • @kademcarthur5362
    @kademcarthur5362 8 місяців тому +10

    This song would be perfect for Kaiserreich

    • @Imperial_Britannia
      @Imperial_Britannia  7 місяців тому

      Is that some German monarchist thing or something?

    • @golf_supa
      @golf_supa 6 місяців тому +6

      ⁠A little bit late, but the OG comment is referring to Kaiserreich: the Legacy of the Weltkrieg, a modification for the Grand strategy video games series Hearts of Iron.
      In that universe, Kaiser Wilhelm decicied against restarting the unrestricted submarine warfare, thus render the American without a legitimate pretext to enter the war. Britain, alongside her entente power allies were defeated by the central power.
      Shortly afterwards France fell to syndicalism, a far-left ideology and in Russia the white army won the civil war with the combined help the entente during the early part, later the German and their new eastern europen client states take over in support the Russian, as the result, communism is successfully contained, and not the mainstream far-left ideology as it is in our timeline.
      As for Britain, the Empire seem to carry herself at first, at least she was, until a general strike broke out in 1925, a syndicalist revolution, the same ideology that has toppled France, sweep across the country, the Labour Party become radicalized. They take over the home Island, prompting the King, the Royal Family, aristocrats and political figures from both the Conservatives tory and Liberal whigs to go to exile in Canada.
      Fast forward to the present day of 1936, the United Kingdom, now rechristined "The Union of Britain" is firmly in the grip of the federalist faction of the Labour Party for two decades now, the other two factions are the Totalist faction lead by Oswald Mosley, who sided with the revolutionary during the event of 1925. His faction favoured a more centralised state, akin to that of Stalin's Soviet Union in our world, and if is, by the player's choice, in power can proclaim himself the "Grand Protector" of the union. The last faction in the Labour Party are the autonomist, who favour a more devolved state.

  • @Flavius-Timasius
    @Flavius-Timasius 23 години тому

    really enjoy it

  • @avus-kw2f213
    @avus-kw2f213 6 місяців тому +27

    May all those who died fighting for the king Rest In Peace :(

    • @Lightofseer
      @Lightofseer 3 місяці тому +3

      @@avus-kw2f213 RIP to the parliamentarians too, they were awesome especially once the New Model Army was formed.

    • @linli2071
      @linli2071 26 днів тому

      @@avus-kw2f213 Agreed! May Charles I rest in peace.

  • @Dayborne
    @Dayborne 8 місяців тому +12

    We have a king, and yet no king, for he has lost his power! For 'gainst his subjects are imprisoned in the tower. We had some laws, but now no laws from which he held his crown, we had estates and liberties, but now they're voted down! It's a mad world masters, where kings may lose their crown! And commoners take coronets, set up, yet soon put down! We have no King, we are all kings, and each doth do his pleasure, and hasten anarchy abroad, and sin beyond all measure. The Crown and Sceptre're, out of date, the mitre low doth lie, the tyrant's state subjects us all, but cries democracy! It's a mad world masters, where kings may lose their crown! And commoners take coronets, set up, yet soon put down! We were free subjects born but now, we are by force made slaves, by those who we count our friends, but in the end proved knaves. And liberate from royal grasp, we find ourselves enchained, by demagogues of humble stock, who have our king arraigned. It's a mad world masters, where kings may lose their crown! And commoners take coronets, set up, yet soon put down! The freedoms we were told were ours by those who fought the king, have now been proved mere empty show, a vale of hollow ring. Where justice was to be our lot injustice rank now grows, and from the spring of liberty a saline trickle flows. It's a mad world masters, where kings may lose their crown! And commoners take coronets, set up, yet soon put down! Arise therefore, brave British men fight for your King and State, against those traitorous men who strive this realm to ruinate. 'Tis Pym, 'tis Pym and all of his ilk, that do our woe engender, naught but their lives, and end our woes and us in safety render. It's a mad world masters, where kings may lose their crown! And commoners take coronets, set up, yet soon put down!

  • @RonaldTrumpOfficial
    @RonaldTrumpOfficial 7 місяців тому +65

    If only they could see modern Britain, they’d be having multiple seizures

    • @desdichadochado
      @desdichadochado 4 місяці тому +1

      What do you mean by this?

    • @DFzonefd
      @DFzonefd 4 місяці тому

      @@desdichadochado Britain is soon to be a Pislamic state

    • @aldogonzalez9731
      @aldogonzalez9731 4 місяці тому

      @@desdichadochado is a shift great Britain culture is decandecne woke And árabs. Destroy. Great Britain

    • @PeaceAndQuiet._.
      @PeaceAndQuiet._. 3 місяці тому +7

      @@desdichadochado some britons now woke or self hating which is sad because britain is the most influential people in history

    • @csnyc-community-announcements
      @csnyc-community-announcements 3 місяці тому +1

      ​@PeaceAndQuiet._. Woke just means aware, ie of colonialism which is now just billionaires colonizing everyone in different ways

  • @leighluvsrats
    @leighluvsrats 7 місяців тому +3

    Where did you get the awesome footage

    • @Imperial_Britannia
      @Imperial_Britannia  7 місяців тому +2

      Mostly from a documentary about the war, it’s on UA-cam, ‘English Civil War Documentary 1992’

  • @EveryCarpet
    @EveryCarpet 3 місяці тому +1

    How do you make the beat for this? Is there any way to upload this to Spotify?

  • @arthurmosel808
    @arthurmosel808 8 місяців тому +12

    A common thread in revolts were legal governments are replaced by ideologues of any species. The Parliamentarian, represented eventually led essentially by Cromwell, eventually were put down by Cromwell. He took the reins of power and essentially running a religious dictatorship with an extreme form of Christianity. Vehemently opposed to Catholicism, his actions in putting down Stuart sympathizers in Ireland helped feed the sectarian violence there since his time. My point is that offen th e preceived cure for bad government by revolt isn't the best option, like it or not, the US Constitution prevented ideologues from seizing power by making it d8fvicult for a demagogue from xiezing power.

  • @foundationofBritain
    @foundationofBritain 10 місяців тому +27

    If you listen to the lyrics carefully, it's referring less to "the roundheads strangle over England"... and more to effectively a sort of Parliamentarian lamentation of realising that what they had fought for... 'restoring English Parliamentary Monarchy by limiting the power of the King to at least Elizabethan levels'... had not materialised.
    Why?, well everything went so wrong with Charles I being far to arrogant, uncompromising and unwavering belief in his and his father's unconstitutional claim of "indefeasible hereditary right", (something that was alien to Englishmen even at that time), despite losing the first Civil War, and then the second... and this traditional English concept of Parliamentary Monarchy being all but lost and thrown to the wayside by the likes of Pym.
    It should be mentioned that Oliver Cromwell was not the leader of the Parliamentarians until after Fairfax gave up his position as leader of the Parliamentarians in protest at not just the the execution of King Charles I but indeed his trial and also Fairfax was instrumental to the Restoration, both of which meant he was pardoned by King Charles II, unlike many other Parliamentarian leaders.

    • @The_Christian_Cavalier
      @The_Christian_Cavalier 10 місяців тому

      You really like speaking bollocks don't you?

    • @JonathanSaxon
      @JonathanSaxon 9 місяців тому

      If you hate absolutism so much, you should really hate what we have now. Which is absolute democracy, where our dear elected leaders do as they please with zero regard for God & the ancient constitution of England. You can't even order your own wife to make you a sandwich in England. Some freedom.

    • @danielmaher964
      @danielmaher964 5 місяців тому

      Great comment, this history is so relevant for our future yet so many rushing to take a side aren't learning anything

  • @ArminiusGloria
    @ArminiusGloria 6 місяців тому +5

    The Royal English and Scottish Martyr king Charles, was a good person with honour and virtue! He did his best to be the best king possible, always respected the laws and caref for the welfare of his people! Unlike this roundhead creatures. This song is indeed a good description of the roundhead and the so called "freedom" they did bring. For the King and Monarchy!

  • @dominiquepemberton3935
    @dominiquepemberton3935 13 днів тому

    Only 1640's kids will remember this banger.

  • @antoniozavaldski
    @antoniozavaldski 4 місяці тому +3

    So was the Commonwealth a time of populist anarchy or totalitarian theocracy?

    • @suchiuomizu
      @suchiuomizu 3 місяці тому +2

      Yes

    • @antoniozavaldski
      @antoniozavaldski 2 місяці тому +4

      @@suchiuomizu Hm, come to think of it, "anarcho-totalitarianism" isn't that unusual in history.
      The Reign of Terror in France and the Cultural Revolution in China come to mind.

    • @tateranus4365
      @tateranus4365 14 днів тому

      both at once, it deepened on where you were.

  • @thomasveen2955
    @thomasveen2955 9 місяців тому +1

    From where have you taken those videos?

    • @Imperial_Britannia
      @Imperial_Britannia  9 місяців тому +3

      A majority of the film clips are from a documentary about the English Civil war from 92, just search ‘English Civil War Documentary 1992’ and you can see the full thing, it’s pretty good.

    • @thomasveen2955
      @thomasveen2955 9 місяців тому

      @@Imperial_Britannia Thank you for the info.

  • @KongoMüller420
    @KongoMüller420 7 місяців тому +42

    Monarchism should rise once more

    • @Sir_Guardus
      @Sir_Guardus 6 місяців тому +8

      No it should stay dead or heavily restricted. You people always praise the “good kings.” But throughout history there were always more bad kings than good ones.

    • @nikostsiantas4060
      @nikostsiantas4060 5 місяців тому +7

      ​@@Sir_Guardus ok tell all the bad king of random Europeans nations history and then tell all the others that history has forgotten because they were just some normal good king who didn't do much

    • @meislouis1381
      @meislouis1381 3 місяці тому +1

      ​@@Sir_GuardusAnd Charles I wasn't even a good king he was one of the shitters

    • @Sir_Guardus
      @Sir_Guardus 3 місяці тому +3

      @@nikostsiantas4060 ah the classic “History is written by the victors.” Completely ignoring the fact that until the 1900s Europe was dominated by nobles.

    • @linli2071
      @linli2071 26 днів тому

      @ Santafelipe I Agree with you! Long live Great Charles, Our king!

  • @MaelPlaguecrow6942
    @MaelPlaguecrow6942 6 місяців тому +8

    King Charles I never really could keep his head on straight, huh?

  • @jamesbaker8831
    @jamesbaker8831 2 місяці тому

    that's a bell of hollow ring, not a vale

  • @Spindacre
    @Spindacre 10 місяців тому +2

    GSTK

  • @Percievingeyes
    @Percievingeyes Місяць тому +1

    Monarchy prevails always

  • @Sonny-m1f
    @Sonny-m1f 2 місяці тому

    🦄⚔️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿⚔️🦄

  • @mohi6699
    @mohi6699 7 місяців тому +18

    Oliver Cromwell was fucking based, as in, his power-hungry attitude and great statesmanship and generalship. Supporting him is insane, but he was a definite genius.

    • @Imperial_Britannia
      @Imperial_Britannia  7 місяців тому +15

      I’m an adamant monarchist, but I can concede that it’s quite impressive how Cromwell managed to drag himself to his position of absolute authority.

    • @louthegiantcookie
      @louthegiantcookie 6 місяців тому +5

      @@Imperial_Britannia I'm curious, what do you think of the English dictator Roger Mortimer? And how do you think he compares to Cromwell? I don't think highly of regicides, but Mortimer is one of the most fascinating figures in English history. I've never seen a man with a more heroic story fall so hard into tyranny before.

    • @danielmaher964
      @danielmaher964 5 місяців тому +3

      I think it's important to understand Cromwell's circumstances and his suicidal refusal to accept the crown before making assumptions about his ambitions. The civil wars are epic tragedy akin to the Trojan War, and taking a side now is equally pointless. One side was fighting for traditional loyalties and the other for traditional rights. Both sides had a righteous cause but were gradually corrupted by the war. Let us beware how we follow their footsteps even as we emulate their conviction and courage.

  • @Ggdivhjkjl
    @Ggdivhjkjl 10 місяців тому +36

    Commoners should never have been allowed any governing power. It's like asking a giraffe to fish. They're simply not made for it.

    • @foundationofBritain
      @foundationofBritain 10 місяців тому +5

      Well that was something both the Cavaliers and early Parliamentarians had common ground on... until Charles I became more autocratic... which even Cavaliers like Monk, (who fought for the King until capture), were not very happy about... but still fought for the King... even the Jacobite's were worried about both of pretenders autocratic tendences. Hence why the Stuarts made themselves very unpopular and why the Jacobite Cause ultimately failed, that and the fact that by far the majority of Jacobite's, at least in 1715 were in fact protestant but James simply refused to concede to the conditions which he needed to accept if he was to have any hope of regaining the throne of Scotland let alone England and Ireland, (yes Ireland was minority protestant, but the governing class of Ireland was majority protestant), so his refusal to embrace Protestantism went down like a lead balloon.
      "Democracy" is fundamentally incompatible with Parliamentary Monarchy... we have been voting for our MP's to send to Westminster since Parliament began in the 13th century... but we were and still are not a "Democracy"... a wide franchise is the most we can have... but universal suffrage dose not nor will ever work.

    • @DemocraticConfederalist33
      @DemocraticConfederalist33 10 місяців тому +10

      equality is good, actully

    • @jonhstonk7998
      @jonhstonk7998 10 місяців тому

      @@DemocraticConfederalist33 no equality isn´t good, it´s never good in fact because it´s a fucking lie and people are not equal and as such no one can raise the naturally inferior up, so the only way to enact equality is to tear down those naturally superior individuals which is an injustice and a disservice, hence equality has nothing to do with justice or fairness.

    • @christovitchjames5612
      @christovitchjames5612 10 місяців тому +10

      There should be a balance. But before any Emperor, Christ is King.

    • @DemocraticConfederalist33
      @DemocraticConfederalist33 10 місяців тому +3

      @@christovitchjames5612 Ther should be nothing above the indavidual, nor below

  • @NetheritePig
    @NetheritePig 3 місяці тому +5

    This is modern day lol

    • @lucario2188
      @lucario2188 Місяць тому +1

      No, you can find the song on the book Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 of Charles Mackay.

  • @mikerilling6515
    @mikerilling6515 5 місяців тому +5

    It’s crazy to me that for several years during the 17th century,
    you had no king
    and yet for some reason you chose to restore the monarchy

    • @קעז-מענטש
      @קעז-מענטש 5 місяців тому +13

      Because Monarchy is þe best form of government.

    • @Zadir09
      @Zadir09 5 місяців тому +2

      @@קעז-מענטשhe doesnt get it yet.

    • @קעז-מענטש
      @קעז-מענטש 5 місяців тому +10

      @@Zadir09 He hasn't been crownpilled yet 😔

    • @danielmaher964
      @danielmaher964 5 місяців тому

      Interesting isn't it 😏

  • @RhombusOfTheJ
    @RhombusOfTheJ 6 місяців тому +2

    Down with the Tyrant!

    • @uploade1019
      @uploade1019 6 місяців тому +2

      Cromwell or King Charles? there's more than one lol

    • @danielmaher964
      @danielmaher964 5 місяців тому +1

      ​@uploade1019 too many tyrants even now

    • @RhombusOfTheJ
      @RhombusOfTheJ 5 місяців тому

      Well for when this was written Charles the First lol. Then Cromwell.​@@uploade1019

  • @andrewwhitehead2353
    @andrewwhitehead2353 3 місяці тому +1

    Parliament every time

    • @reluctantheist5224
      @reluctantheist5224 3 місяці тому +1

      @@andrewwhitehead2353 Except this Parliament voted a King( well Lord Protector) , who dissolved Parliament.. In the same way the previous King had

  • @DemocraticConfederalist33
    @DemocraticConfederalist33 10 місяців тому +12

    Hot take: both sides of the English Civil War were awful

    • @Spindacre
      @Spindacre 10 місяців тому +24

      Cavaliers the better side, however you look at it.

    • @DemocraticConfederalist33
      @DemocraticConfederalist33 10 місяців тому +4

      @@Spindacre Why is an absolute monarchy good?

    • @Spindacre
      @Spindacre 10 місяців тому +22

      @@DemocraticConfederalist33 I think an absolute monarchy would’ve been preferable to Cromwell by far, had I been living at the time.

    • @DemocraticConfederalist33
      @DemocraticConfederalist33 10 місяців тому +1

      @@Spindacre Why would a absolute monarchy be any difrent from Chromwells system?

    • @JonathanSaxon
      @JonathanSaxon 9 місяців тому +1

      How can you ask that? The Stuarts were not Puritans, so would not have banned Christmas and the Theatre for a start.@@DemocraticConfederalist33

  • @Bearded_Tattooed_Guy
    @Bearded_Tattooed_Guy 3 місяці тому +4

    We have a king, and yet no king,
    for he has lost his power!
    For 'gainst his will
    his subjects are imprisoned in the tower.
    We had some laws, but now no laws
    by which he held his crown,
    we had estates and liberties,
    but now they're voted down!
    It's a mad world my masters,
    where kings may lose their crown!
    And commoners take coronets,
    set up, yet soon put down!
    We have no King, we are all kings,
    and each doth do his pleasure,
    and hasten anarchy abroad,
    and sin beyond all measure.
    The Crown and Sceptre're,
    out of date, the mitre low doth lie,
    the tyrant's state subjects us all,
    but cries democracy!
    It's a mad world my masters,
    where kings may lose their crown!
    And commoners take coronets,
    set up, yet soon put down!
    We were free subjects born but now,
    we are by force made slaves,
    by those who we did count our friends,
    but in the end proved knaves.
    And liberate from royal grasp,
    we find ourselves enchained,
    by demagogues of humble stock,
    who have our king arraigned.
    It's a mad world my masters,
    where kings may lose their crown!
    And commoners take coronets,
    set up, yet soon put down!
    The freedoms we were told were ours
    by those who fought the king,
    have now been proved mere empty show,
    a vale of hollow ring.
    Where justice was to be our lot
    injustice rank now grows,
    and from the spring of liberty
    a sullied trickle flows.
    It's a mad world my masters,
    where kings may lose their crown!
    And commoners take coronets,
    set up, yet soon put down!
    Arise therefore, brave British men
    fight for your King and State,
    against those traitorous men
    who strive this realm to ruinate.
    'Tis Pym, 'tis Pym and all his ilk,
    that do our woe engender,
    naught but their lives,
    and end our woes and us in safety render.
    It's a mad world my masters,
    where kings may lose their crown!
    And commoners take coronets,
    set up, yet soon put down!