Monty Python Oliver Cromwell Lyrics:
SPOKEN: THE MOST
INTERESTING THING ABOUT
KING CHARLES I IS THAT HE WAS 5'6"
TALL AT THE START OF HIS REIGN,
BUT ONLY 4'8" AT THE END OF IT...
BECAUSE OF...
Oliver Cromwell, Lord
Protecteur of England
PURITAN
Born in 1599 and died in 1658
SEPTEM
BER
Was at first
ONLY
MP for Huntingdon
BUT THEN
He led the Ironside
Cavalry at Marston Moor
in 1644 and won.
Then he founded the new
model model army
And praise be, beat the
Cavaliers at Naisby
And the King fled up North
like a bat to the
Scot
s.
SPOKEN: BUT UNDER THE
TERMS OF JOHN PIMM'S
SOLEMN
LEAGUE AND COVENANT, THE
SCOTS HANDED KING
CHARLES I OVER TO...
Oliver Cromwell, Lord
Protecteur of England
AND HIS WARTS
Born in 1599 and died in 1658
SEPTEMBER
But alas
OY VAY!
Disagreeme
nt then broke out
BETWEEN
The Presbyterian
Parliament and the
Military
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who meant
To have an independent bent.
And so...
The 2nd Civil War broke out
And the Roundhead ranks
Faced the Cavaliers
at Preston Banks
And the King lost
again, silly thing
STUPID GIT
SPOKEN: AND CROMWELL
SEND COLONEL PRIDE TO
PURGE THE
HOUSE OF COMMONS OF THE
PRESBYTERIAN ROYALISTS
LEAVING BEHIND ONLY THE
RUMP PARLIAMENT...
Which appointed a High
Court at Westminster
Hall
To indict Charles I for...tyranny
OOOOHH
H!
Charles was sentenced to death
Even though he refused to
accept that the court
had...jurisdiction
SAY GOODBYE TO HIS HEAD
Poor King Charles laid his
head on the block
JANUARY 1649
Down came the axe, and...
SPOKEN: IN THE SILENCE
THAT FOLLOWED, THE ONLY
SOUND
THAT COULD BE HEARD WAS A
SOLITARY GIGGLE,
FROM...
Oliver Cromwell, Lord
Protecteur of England
OLE
Born in 1599 and died in 1658
SEPTEMBER
Then he smashed
IRELAND
Set up the Commonwealth
AND MORE
He crushed the Scots at Worce
ster
And beat the Dutch at sea
In 1653 and then
He dissolved the Rump Parliament
And with Lambert's consent
Wrote the instrument of Government
Under which Oliver was
Proctector at last
The end.
Lyrics: Oliver Cromwell, Monty Python [end]