Monty Python - Oliver Cromwell lyrics

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

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 model army

And praise be, beat the Cavaliers at Naisby

And the King fled up North like a bat to the

Scots.

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!

Disagreement then broke out

BETWEEN

The Presbyterian Parliament and the Military

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

OOOOHHH!

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 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 Proctector at last

The end