Oliver Cromwell (Explicit) - Monty Python

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 Huntington

But then

He left 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 vey

Disagreement then broke out

Between

The Presbyterian Parliament

And the Military who meant

To have an independent bent

And so

The second 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 head 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