The World Is Turned Upside Down
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- Опубліковано 24 гру 2010
- "The World Is Turned Upside Down" performed by Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band on the album "Hang Up Sorrow and Care" (Park Records, 1995, posted with permission).
In the 17th century, Cromwell and the Puritans seized power in England. Offended by singing and dancing and drinking, they banned the celebration of Christmas for years in Britain and its colonies. Something of a folk music scholar, Maddy Prior unearthed this historic song to share with us.
It is intriguing to read Puritan literature referring to Christmas as "humbug" and then to see Scrooge, two centuries later, observing conventional Puritan prudery toward Christmas while neglecting all its charity.
Note that this melody is also the melody for an earlier Royalist song (dated 1643) called "When the King Enjoys His Own Again." Anti-Puritan sentiments probably inspired the later composers of "World Turned Upside Down" to employ an already well-known Royalist melody.
An appropriate song for 2020
It's becoming more appropriate by the day.
5 Puritans disliked this video. Cromwell's lads must still be salty hehe.
Best comment ever.
fantastic to think that englishman likened the american revolution to the protestant reformation.
They likened the American Revolution to the English Civil War which preceded it by a century and a half and was fought over constitutional principles which were much the same as the American Revolution, only with sectarianism laid over all of it so as to make inarticulate to modern ears what was essentially the same rallying cry.
Rhetoric employed by the American revolutionists borrowed a lot from Puritan rhetoric (and ideas) during the English Civil Wars.
I've read that it is highly unlikely this tune was played at the Yorktown surrender.
different tune with fife and drums but same name and similar sentiment
Interesting. Where did you read that
I couldn’t post the link, but there’s a scholarly article about it on the Mount Vernon website.
Who are you talking to right now? Who is it that you think you see? Do you know how much I make a year? I mean, even if I tell you, you wouldn’t believe it. Do you know what happens if I suddenly decide to stop going into work? A business big enough it could be listed on the NASDAQ goes belly-up. Gone. It ceases to exist without me. No, you clearly don’t know who you’re talking to so let me clue you in. I am not in danger, Skylar. I am the danger. A guy opens his front door and gets shot, and you think that of me? No. I am the one who knocks.
^The exact moment Walter White turned into Heisenberg.
Fitting lyrics at the Battle of Yorktown!
I don't think I understand what you mean about the American Revolution. The governor of the colony of Massachusetts enforced the Puritans' embargo on Christmas celebrations, but that happened in the 1600s.
Cornwallis' band played it during his surrender...
i feel like a mug.
ok me
the music for when you've had enough cannon balls blow down the Yorktown walls
...and Bingo was his name-o!
Sounds like our current situation.
Levellers, to horse - watch out, you hobgoblin bastards!
Am I only the second person to comment on this since Hamilton opened?
Long Live King Charles!
God Save the King!
Or maybe John II Casimir Vasa?
Who else is here because they can't get enough HAMILTON????
Me.
ive been completely obsessed with Hamilton all year and this song has become one of my favourites
*throws down gun*