I'm almost young enough to be considered a Zoomer. In history lessons, essentially the curriculum was "everything bad whitey did" (South African Apartheid, How blacks were treated in America, slavery perpetuated by whites, N*z1 Germany, Russia), the "3 H's" (H1tl3r, Henry 8th, H0l0caust) as well as the shitty things that happened to the English ethnic group (the Black Death, the Norman Conquest, witch hunts, religious strife...)
"And each doth do his pleasure And hasten anarchy abroad And sin beyond all measure" "The tyrant's state subjects as all But cries democracy" If only they could see today's England.... Dear Lord
This song is awesome and surprisingly I learned over 12 new words(mostly old English words) from this song. The old English in it makes it sound so cool 😅.
This song is in early modern English (roughly 1485 - 1688), but has a lot of old English words, for example Churchill’s speeches were a lot of old English words, Early Modern English is where a lot of old English words stopped being used so commonly, if you look on my channel I have some more Early Modern English, ‘When the King Enjoys his own Again’ from the 1640s, ‘Eliza is the Fairest Queen’ which is from around 1580, ‘Pastime with Good Company’ from 1507. And if you want to see even older English songs, I have ‘Sumer is Icumen In’ which is from 1265, which is in Middle English (roughly 1066 - 1485)
@@julessamuels4588 I never knew about this, I had to google! It was because some believed KC1st died as a martyr, is a Catholic thing. Interesting stuff. Amazing the bits of history you learn on this site.
at 2:54 the actual lyrics are a bell of hollow ring which makes sense rather than vale of hollow ring. the person you got the lyrics from had to reupload his video aload of times because of mistakes and thats one of the ones he didnt fix
Yeah, I tried to get it as accurate as possible, using that video as a base. I keep the original video file for only a few days in case someone points out an inaccuracy so I can fix it, but you commented after the original file was deleted, so I can’t do anything unless I remake the entire thing.
Sorry mate. I pick up a lot of these songs from secondary sources, usually without authorship on them, looked through the videos on my channel and added a credit to the band on them.
A little bit late, but the OG comment is referring to Kaiserreich: the Legacy of the Weltkrieg, a modification for the Grand strategy video games series Hearts of Iron. In that universe, Kaiser Wilhelm decicied against restarting the unrestricted submarine warfare, thus render the American without a legitimate pretext to enter the war. Britain, alongside her entente power allies were defeated by the central power. Shortly afterwards France fell to syndicalism, a far-left ideology and in Russia the white army won the civil war with the combined help the entente during the early part, later the German and their new eastern europen client states take over in support the Russian, as the result, communism is successfully contained, and not the mainstream far-left ideology as it is in our timeline. As for Britain, the Empire seem to carry herself at first, at least she was, until a general strike broke out in 1925, a syndicalist revolution, the same ideology that has toppled France, sweep across the country, the Labour Party become radicalized. They take over the home Island, prompting the King, the Royal Family, aristocrats and political figures from both the Conservatives tory and Liberal whigs to go to exile in Canada. Fast forward to the present day of 1936, the United Kingdom, now rechristined "The Union of Britain" is firmly in the grip of the federalist faction of the Labour Party for two decades now, the other two factions are the Totalist faction lead by Oswald Mosley, who sided with the revolutionary during the event of 1925. His faction favoured a more centralised state, akin to that of Stalin's Soviet Union in our world, and if is, by the player's choice, in power can proclaim himself the "Grand Protector" of the union. The last faction in the Labour Party are the autonomist, who favour a more devolved state.
No it should stay dead or heavily restricted. You people always praise the “good kings.” But throughout history there were always more bad kings than good ones.
@@darklord7479 ok tell all the bad king of random Europeans nations history and then tell all the others that history has forgotten because they were just some normal good king who didn't do much
@@nikostsiantas4060 ah the classic “History is written by the victors.” Completely ignoring the fact that until the 1900s Europe was dominated by nobles.
We have a king, and yet no king, for he has lost his power! For 'gainst his subjects are imprisoned in the tower. We had some laws, but now no laws from which he held his crown, we had estates and liberties, but now they're voted down! It's a mad world masters, where kings may lose their crown! And commoners take coronets, set up, yet soon put down! We have no King, we are all kings, and each doth do his pleasure, and hasten anarchy abroad, and sin beyond all measure. The Crown and Sceptre're, out of date, the mitre low doth lie, the tyrant's state subjects us all, but cries democracy! It's a mad world masters, where kings may lose their crown! And commoners take coronets, set up, yet soon put down! We were free subjects born but now, we are by force made slaves, by those who we count our friends, but in the end proved knaves. And liberate from royal grasp, we find ourselves enchained, by demagogues of humble stock, who have our king arraigned. It's a mad world masters, where kings may lose their crown! And commoners take coronets, set up, yet soon put down! The freedoms we were told were ours by those who fought the king, have now been proved mere empty show, a vale of hollow ring. Where justice was to be our lot injustice rank now grows, and from the spring of liberty a saline trickle flows. It's a mad world masters, where kings may lose their crown! And commoners take coronets, set up, yet soon put down! Arise therefore, brave British men fight for your King and State, against those traitorous men who strive this realm to ruinate. 'Tis Pym, 'tis Pym and all of his ilk, that do our woe engender, naught but their lives, and end our woes and us in safety render. It's a mad world masters, where kings may lose their crown! And commoners take coronets, set up, yet soon put down!
A common thread in revolts were legal governments are replaced by ideologues of any species. The Parliamentarian, represented eventually led essentially by Cromwell, eventually were put down by Cromwell. He took the reins of power and essentially running a religious dictatorship with an extreme form of Christianity. Vehemently opposed to Catholicism, his actions in putting down Stuart sympathizers in Ireland helped feed the sectarian violence there since his time. My point is that offen th e preceived cure for bad government by revolt isn't the best option, like it or not, the US Constitution prevented ideologues from seizing power by making it d8fvicult for a demagogue from xiezing power.
The Royal English and Scottish Martyr king Charles, was a good person with honour and virtue! He did his best to be the best king possible, always respected the laws and caref for the welfare of his people! Unlike this roundhead creatures. This song is indeed a good description of the roundhead and the so called "freedom" they did bring. For the King and Monarchy!
I feel like this is the exact counter song to the world turned upside down (not a counter to “when the king enjoys his own again” even though they have the same Melody)
@@suchiuomizu Hm, come to think of it, "anarcho-totalitarianism" isn't that unusual in history. The Reign of Terror in France and the Cultural Revolution in China come to mind.
A majority of the film clips are from a documentary about the English Civil war from 92, just search ‘English Civil War Documentary 1992’ and you can see the full thing, it’s pretty good.
If you listen to the lyrics carefully, it's referring less to "the roundheads strangle over England"... and more to effectively a sort of Parliamentarian lamentation of realising that what they had fought for... 'restoring English Parliamentary Monarchy by limiting the power of the King to at least Elizabethan levels'... had not materialised. Why?, well everything went so wrong with Charles I being far to arrogant, uncompromising and unwavering belief in his and his father's unconstitutional claim of "indefeasible hereditary right", (something that was alien to Englishmen even at that time), despite losing the first Civil War, and then the second... and this traditional English concept of Parliamentary Monarchy being all but lost and thrown to the wayside by the likes of Pym. It should be mentioned that Oliver Cromwell was not the leader of the Parliamentarians until after Fairfax gave up his position as leader of the Parliamentarians in protest at not just the the execution of King Charles I but indeed his trial and also Fairfax was instrumental to the Restoration, both of which meant he was pardoned by King Charles II, unlike many other Parliamentarian leaders.
If you hate absolutism so much, you should really hate what we have now. Which is absolute democracy, where our dear elected leaders do as they please with zero regard for God & the ancient constitution of England. You can't even order your own wife to make you a sandwich in England. Some freedom.
Well that was something both the Cavaliers and early Parliamentarians had common ground on... until Charles I became more autocratic... which even Cavaliers like Monk, (who fought for the King until capture), were not very happy about... but still fought for the King... even the Jacobite's were worried about both of pretenders autocratic tendences. Hence why the Stuarts made themselves very unpopular and why the Jacobite Cause ultimately failed, that and the fact that by far the majority of Jacobite's, at least in 1715 were in fact protestant but James simply refused to concede to the conditions which he needed to accept if he was to have any hope of regaining the throne of Scotland let alone England and Ireland, (yes Ireland was minority protestant, but the governing class of Ireland was majority protestant), so his refusal to embrace Protestantism went down like a lead balloon. "Democracy" is fundamentally incompatible with Parliamentary Monarchy... we have been voting for our MP's to send to Westminster since Parliament began in the 13th century... but we were and still are not a "Democracy"... a wide franchise is the most we can have... but universal suffrage dose not nor will ever work.
@@DemocraticConfederalist33 no equality isn´t good, it´s never good in fact because it´s a fucking lie and people are not equal and as such no one can raise the naturally inferior up, so the only way to enact equality is to tear down those naturally superior individuals which is an injustice and a disservice, hence equality has nothing to do with justice or fairness.
Oliver Cromwell was fucking based, as in, his power-hungry attitude and great statesmanship and generalship. Supporting him is insane, but he was a definite genius.
@@Imperial_Britannia I'm curious, what do you think of the English dictator Roger Mortimer? And how do you think he compares to Cromwell? I don't think highly of regicides, but Mortimer is one of the most fascinating figures in English history. I've never seen a man with a more heroic story fall so hard into tyranny before.
I think it's important to understand Cromwell's circumstances and his suicidal refusal to accept the crown before making assumptions about his ambitions. The civil wars are epic tragedy akin to the Trojan War, and taking a side now is equally pointless. One side was fighting for traditional loyalties and the other for traditional rights. Both sides had a righteous cause but were gradually corrupted by the war. Let us beware how we follow their footsteps even as we emulate their conviction and courage.
We have a king, and yet no king, for he has lost his power! For 'gainst his will his subjects are imprisoned in the tower. We had some laws, but now no laws by which he held his crown, we had estates and liberties, but now they're voted down! It's a mad world my masters, where kings may lose their crown! And commoners take coronets, set up, yet soon put down! We have no King, we are all kings, and each doth do his pleasure, and hasten anarchy abroad, and sin beyond all measure. The Crown and Sceptre're, out of date, the mitre low doth lie, the tyrant's state subjects us all, but cries democracy! It's a mad world my masters, where kings may lose their crown! And commoners take coronets, set up, yet soon put down! We were free subjects born but now, we are by force made slaves, by those who we did count our friends, but in the end proved knaves. And liberate from royal grasp, we find ourselves enchained, by demagogues of humble stock, who have our king arraigned. It's a mad world my masters, where kings may lose their crown! And commoners take coronets, set up, yet soon put down! The freedoms we were told were ours by those who fought the king, have now been proved mere empty show, a vale of hollow ring. Where justice was to be our lot injustice rank now grows, and from the spring of liberty a sullied trickle flows. It's a mad world my masters, where kings may lose their crown! And commoners take coronets, set up, yet soon put down! Arise therefore, brave British men fight for your King and State, against those traitorous men who strive this realm to ruinate. 'Tis Pym, 'tis Pym and all his ilk, that do our woe engender, naught but their lives, and end our woes and us in safety render. It's a mad world my masters, where kings may lose their crown! And commoners take coronets, set up, yet soon put down!
