The World Turned Upside Down

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  • Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
  • A song about Christmas being cancelled by Oliver Cromwell. Boooo!
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  • @velociraptor3313
    @velociraptor3313 Місяць тому +14

    This is simply marvellous, I'm going to add this to my collection of traditional British Songs, ballads and English Royalist songs playlist. Greetings from Australia.

    • @jayandswift
      @jayandswift  28 днів тому +1

      That's amazing! We're so proud to be on someone's playlist!
      What else do you have on there: is it a public list?

    • @velociraptor3313
      @velociraptor3313 28 днів тому +2

      @@jayandswift It's on my phone playlist, I've also got imperial Japanese Military songs, German marching songs, 1980s, music, 1920s, 30s and 40s music and a little bit of Russian, French and North Korean music as well.

    • @jayandswift
      @jayandswift  28 днів тому +2

      @@velociraptor3313 wow! That's really diverse! It's cool you're into history and diving into the world as painted by the music of those times♡

    • @velociraptor3313
      @velociraptor3313 27 днів тому

      @@jayandswift I'm also a huge fan of Japanese enka and city pop music. I would love to explore Chinese music and Arab music. Also if you are interested there's an album by the druid called "Songs and music of the Redcoats" I think you will find it interesting. Here's the link. ua-cam.com/video/QeAtpoZbyEE/v-deo.htmlsi=iUN2JbCoBcm0ry7k

  • @dagreek3480
    @dagreek3480 Місяць тому +6

    I was doing my mandatory military service when you guys dopped this vid. It really made winter of 2022-23 more celebrative.

    • @jayandswift
      @jayandswift  28 днів тому +1

      Wauw, that's so amazing @dagreek3480! We're so glad this video made your winter lighter❤
      That's so what we would hope for with our songs♡

  • @SacredHeartEnjoyer
    @SacredHeartEnjoyer 15 днів тому +2

    This is an amazing cover! I wish people did more of this style!

    • @jayandswift
      @jayandswift  15 днів тому

      Hey, thanks so much! We hope to do more outdoor acoustic video's in the future!
      We take a folk approach to historical songs, because we feel that, as they were written for the people and not the rich, it brings it more home to an experience that is felt closer to home☆

  • @t-51bpower14
    @t-51bpower14 3 дні тому +2

    I just came across your channel and this song and i would like to say thank you for making this video. You both are extremely talented and have amazing voices. Again thank you for this video jay and swift i wish you all the best in your futures!!! 😇

    • @jayandswift
      @jayandswift  2 дні тому +1

      @@t-51bpower14 wow, thanks so much! We're really happy that our video made you so happy! We absolutely love bringing this music to life: those beautiful delicious words and having fun with them.
      Wishing you all the best too!

  • @krum1703
    @krum1703 4 місяці тому +11

    Peek couple activity right there!
    (Also that guy that was talking about a flute probably meant a fife)

    • @jayandswift
      @jayandswift  Місяць тому +1

      @@krum1703 Thanks so much, we appreciate that!
      Hmm.. a fife: that's one to remember!

  • @benjaminallars8698
    @benjaminallars8698 2 місяці тому +5

    Very cute and great tune. You two are lovely!

    • @jayandswift
      @jayandswift  Місяць тому

      @@benjaminallars8698 omg, thanks! We really do love having found a fellow folknerd in eachother!

  • @nafanarefour4564
    @nafanarefour4564 Місяць тому +3

    This is a really lovely rendition. Thank you so much for making this!

    • @jayandswift
      @jayandswift  Місяць тому +1

      @@nafanarefour4564 omg thank you so much for that!
      We love history and thought this would be a lovely addition to our Christmas set.
      Plus it's Jay's mother's favourite song.

  • @ArcanaC
    @ArcanaC 4 місяці тому +4

    Really great and enjoyable version

    • @jayandswift
      @jayandswift  Місяць тому

      Thanks so much♡ contributing an enjoyable version to the collective is exactly what we're aiming for♡
      We added the tune Fairy Dance to the song for extra freshness :)

  • @chiron14pl
    @chiron14pl Місяць тому +4

    One of my favorite songs from the civil war period, thx, lovely version

    • @jayandswift
      @jayandswift  Місяць тому

      Thanks very much as well! (Do you have other favourites you can recommend?)

    • @chiron14pl
      @chiron14pl Місяць тому +1

      @@jayandswift I also like the same tune to the royalist "When the king comes in his own again." I also think I may have read somewhere that "The girl I left behind me," aka "Brighton camp," also dated from Eng. civil war. As a yank, we had our own a couple of centuries later, also full of lovely songs from both sides

    • @jayandswift
      @jayandswift  Місяць тому

      @@chiron14pl that's amazing, thanks for those tips!
      I think we both know those tunes♡.
      The Girl I Left Behind me is often played in army marching bands, isn't it?
      And the lyrics of When the King are so lovely... maybe should learn those for the summer time♡ it's such a rich historical period isn't it?

    • @jayandswift
      @jayandswift  Місяць тому

      @@chiron14pl by the way, are you named after the astroid Chiron?

    • @chiron14pl
      @chiron14pl Місяць тому

      @@jayandswift No the centaur. He received the healing arts from Apollo and transmitted them to Asclapius, the Greek god of medicine. My profession was teaching clinical psychology, so an apt moniker I think

  • @thediamondtrucktdt
    @thediamondtrucktdt 16 днів тому +2

    This is really good

    • @jayandswift
      @jayandswift  16 днів тому +1

      @@thediamondtrucktdt Thank you so much!!! We hope to put up more video's like this one in the future!
      We live in 2 separate countries, so we're crossing our fingers a gig brings us to a beautiful place in the same country again, soon!

  • @robertlord1582
    @robertlord1582 8 місяців тому +8

    Bravo! I have always loved this tune and the song versions too. It looks like you could have played "Cold Frosty Morning" while you were out there. Brrrr!

    • @jayandswift
      @jayandswift  5 місяців тому

      How awesome to read you know and love this tune! Not many people do, eventhough it has a great richness of tradition in the lyrics.

  • @topgun3377
    @topgun3377 17 днів тому +2

    Great work guys 💪💪

    • @jayandswift
      @jayandswift  15 днів тому +1

      @Topgun3377, thank you so much for the support! We greatly appreciate it!

  • @wolfreplays88
    @wolfreplays88 3 дні тому +1

    This is amazing

    • @jayandswift
      @jayandswift  3 дні тому

      @@wolfreplays88 thanks so much! The view is stunning isn't it?
      We were really lucky to have such a calm clear morning to do this one shot video♡

  • @chuckcewrealoficial
    @chuckcewrealoficial 29 днів тому +3

    woooow thats awesome, thank you for the music

  • @tishomingo4524
    @tishomingo4524 3 місяці тому +4

    thank you!

  • @BRIAN_IVERSON_20
    @BRIAN_IVERSON_20 Місяць тому +3

    THANK YOU FOR RHYMING GATE AND THEREAT, THAT ALWAYS BOTHERS ME IN OTHER VERSIONS

    • @jayandswift
      @jayandswift  28 днів тому +1

      We salute you for noticing and being a fellow language nerd in this, you're awesome!❤

  • @cjed4562
    @cjed4562 Місяць тому +3

    Would love you two to do the Digger’s Song!

  • @snowguy
    @snowguy 2 місяці тому +3

    underated channel fr

    • @jayandswift
      @jayandswift  Місяць тому

      @@snowguy wow l, thanks so much, man! Appreciated ♡

  • @stephaniegandon4940
    @stephaniegandon4940 6 місяців тому +3

    Wonderful, loved every bit of this!

  • @Mandolin1944
    @Mandolin1944 6 місяців тому +4

    Excellent!

    • @jayandswift
      @jayandswift  5 місяців тому

      Thanks for your comment and appreciation, man!

  • @thomaswezwick5470
    @thomaswezwick5470 5 місяців тому +3

    YES!

    • @jayandswift
      @jayandswift  Місяць тому

      @@thomaswezwick5470 THANK YOU for that reaction!!! Truly♡

  • @infoscholar5221
    @infoscholar5221 5 місяців тому +7

    They need a flute.

    • @jayandswift
      @jayandswift  5 місяців тому

      What kind of flute were you thinking?

  • @avus-kw2f213
    @avus-kw2f213 3 місяці тому +27

    Still can’t believe people want to go back to a Republic

    • @jayandswift
      @jayandswift  Місяць тому +14

      @@avus-kw2f213 wouldn't it be something, though if we could go back to 12 days of celebrating Christmas? Instead of those 2 crummy days we were left with even after Cromwell?

    • @bryansammis998
      @bryansammis998 Місяць тому +6

      Democracy?? What can possibly go wrong??🙄

    • @StarsBarsAndCheese
      @StarsBarsAndCheese Місяць тому +8

      ​@@jayandswiftStandard Cromwell L.

    • @Oera-B
      @Oera-B 18 годин тому

      >Has a functional republic
      >Can't believe why people would want to make it official.
      Really, if the UK became the UR today, what would change tomorrow?

    • @avus-kw2f213
      @avus-kw2f213 18 годин тому +1

      @@Oera-B you would be surprised by how much

  • @Jcaeser187
    @Jcaeser187 17 днів тому +2

    Would kill the wonderful mood but you guys could pull off a great rendition of Greensleeves

    • @jayandswift
      @jayandswift  16 днів тому

      @@Jcaeser187 Thank you, maybe we will!
      We love out Tudor music!!!
      Jay's sea shanty band The Captain's Beard use Greensleaves in their song "Off with his head" :)

  • @worthingcommunityplay8120
    @worthingcommunityplay8120 5 місяців тому +6

    Great rendition. I was curious to know where it was filmed - Scotland, or North America - Canada?

    • @jayandswift
      @jayandswift  5 місяців тому +6

      Hello there! It was actually filmed in bonny old Germany! At a castle near Heimbach, during a Dickens Christmas Festival organised by Winterfoff Entertainment! Those are actual snow covered hilltops and freezing fingers in the video :D Very romantic

    • @jayandswift
      @jayandswift  5 місяців тому

      And thank you for the complement!

    • @worthingcommunityplay8120
      @worthingcommunityplay8120 5 місяців тому +2

      Thanks for letting me know, I didn't think it looked like anywhere in this country.@@jayandswift

    • @jayandswift
      @jayandswift  Місяць тому

      @@worthingcommunityplay8120 you mean you live in Germany yourself?

  • @here_we_go_again2571
    @here_we_go_again2571 3 місяці тому +6

    " *The World Turned Upside Down* "
    (All of the lyrics. To the tune of "When the King enjoys his own again"):
    """ Listen to me and you shall hear, news hath not been this thousand year:
    Since Herod, Caesar, and many more, you never heard the like before.
    Holy-dayes are despis'd, new fashions are devis'd.
    Old Christmas is kickt out of Town.
    Yet let's be content, and the times lament, you see the world turn'd upside down.
    The wise men did rejoyce to see our Savior Christ's Nativity:
    The Angels did good tidings bring, the Sheepheards did rejoyce and sing.
    Let all honest men, take example by them.
    Why should we from good Laws be bound?
    Yet let's be content, and the times lament, you see the world turn'd upside down.

    Command is given, we must obey, and quite forget old Christmas day:
    Kill a thousand men, or a Town regain, we will give thanks and praise amain.
    The wine pot shall clinke, we will feast and drinke.
    And then strange motions will abound.
    Yet let's be content, and the times lament, you see the world turn'd upside down.

    Our Lords and Knights, and Gentry too, doe mean old fashions to forgoe:
    They set a porter at the gate, that none must enter in thereat.
    They count it a sin, when poor people come in.
    Hospitality it selfe is drown'd.
    Yet let's be content, and the times lament, you see the world turn'd upside down.

    The serving men doe sit and whine, and thinke it long ere dinner time:
    The Butler's still out of the way, or else my Lady keeps the key,
    The poor old cook, in the larder doth look,
    Where is no goodnesse to be found,
    Yet let's be content, and the times lament, you see the world turn'd upside down.

    To conclude, I'le tell you news that's right, Christmas was kil'd at Naseby[1] fight:
    Charity was slain at that same time, Jack Tell troth too, a friend of mine,
    Likewise then did die, rost beef and shred pie,
    Pig, Goose and Capon no quarter found.
    Yet let's be content, and the times lament, you see the world turn'd upside down."""
    --- Wikipedia
    ____________
    "The World Turned Upside Down" is an English ballad. It was first published on a broadside in the middle of the 1640s as a protest
    against the policies of Parliament relating to the celebration of Christmas" -- Wikipedia
    It is reputed that after the defeat of the British Army at Yorktown, during the American Revolutionary War (1775--1783) following
    the formal surrender of General Cornwallis to General Washington, this was the song played by the British military band.
    _____________________________________________________________________________________
    1.) "The Battle of Naseby took place on 14 June 1645 during the First English [British] Civil War[2], near the village of
    Naseby in Northamptonshire. The Parliamentarian New Model Army, commanded by Sir Thomas Fairfax and
    Oliver Cromwell, destroyed the main Royalist army under Charles I and Prince Rupert. Defeat ended any real
    hope of royalist victory, although Charles did not finally surrender until May 1646." -- Wikipedia
    2.) British Civil Wars (1639-1653) aka: Wars of the Three Kingdoms (i.e. England, Scotland and Ireland)
    "The Wars of the Three Kingdoms, sometimes known as the British Civil Wars, were a series of intertwined conflicts fought
    between 1639 and 1653 in the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, then separate entities united in a personal union
    under Charles I. They include the 1639 to 1640 Bishops' Wars [with Scottish Covenanters], the First and Second English
    Civil Wars, the Irish Confederate Wars, the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland and the Anglo-Scottish War of 1650-1652.
    They resulted in victory for the Parliamentarian army, the execution of Charles I, the abolition of monarchy, and founding of the
    Commonwealth of England, a unitary state which controlled the British Isles until the Stuart Restoration in 1660." -- Wikipedia

    • @jayandswift
      @jayandswift  Місяць тому +1

      @@here_we_go_again2571 duuuuude! Thanks so much for putting all this up! Your time and effort is so appreciated!

    • @jayandswift
      @jayandswift  Місяць тому +1

      By the way: "When the King enjoys his own again" is a great song as well♡
      It's so cool you recognised it! Not many people know either tune... but I guess you're not many people♡

  • @davidstein1376
    @davidstein1376 29 днів тому +2

    Great! but the woman needs elocution lessons.

    • @jayandswift
      @jayandswift  28 днів тому

      Thanks for watching and I'll be sure to tell her ;)