Oliver Cromwell
From Monty Python Sings.
By John Cleese and Frederick Chopin.
Sung by John Cleese and Eric Idle.
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" TALL AT THE END OF IT...
BECAUSE OF...
Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England
Puritan
Born in 1599 and died in 1658
September
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 army
And praise be, beat the Cavaliers at Naisby
And the King fled up North, like a bat to the Scots.
BUT UNDER THE TERMS OF JOHN PIMM'S SOLOMN LEAGUE AND COVENANT, THE SCOTS HANDED KING CHARLES I OVER TO...
Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England
And his warts
Born in 1599 and died in 1658
September
But alas
Oy vay!
Disagreement then broke out
Between
The Presbyterian Parliament and the Military who meant
To have an independant 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
AND CROMWELL SENT 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
Ooohhh!
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...
IN THE SILENCE THAT FOLLOWED, THE ONLY SOUND THAT COULD BE HEARD WAS A SOLITARY GIGGLE, FROM...
Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England
Olé
Born in 1599 and died in 1658
September
Then he smashed
Ireland
Set up the Commonwealth
And more
He crushed the Scots at Worcester
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 Protector at last.
The end.
