[00:00.00]Oliver Cromwell (Explicit) - Monty Python
[00:38.16]The most interesting thing
[00:39.38]About King Charles the First
[00:41.67]Is that he was 5 foot 6 inches tall
[00:44.58]At the start of his reign
[00:46.26]But only 4 foot 8 inches tall
[00:48.78]At the end of it
[00:50.65]Because of
[00:53.30]Oliver Cromwell
[00:55.56]Lord Protector of England  Puritan
[00:58.40]Born in 1599  Died in 1658  September
[01:04.71]Was at first  only
[01:07.19]MP for Huntington  but then
[01:09.84]He led the Ironside Calvary
[01:12.70]At Marston Moor in 1644 and won
[01:16.66]Then he founded the new model army
[01:20.52]And  praise be
[01:22.72]Beat the Cavaliers at Naisby
[01:25.94]And the King fled up North
[01:27.97]Like a bat
[01:28.70]Toward the Scots
[01:32.38]But under the terms of
[01:33.41]John Pimm's Solemn league and covenant
[01:35.95]The Scots handed King Charles the first
[01:38.38]Over to
[01:39.26]Oliver Cromwell
[01:41.50]Lord Protector of England  and his warts
[01:44.52]Born in 1599  Died in 1658  September
[01:50.79]But  alas  Oy vey
[01:53.12]Disagreement then broke out  between
[01:55.90]The Presbyterian Parliament
[01:57.68]And the military who meant
[01:59.65]To have an independent bent and so
[02:02.85]The second Civil War broke out
[02:06.58]And the Roundhead Ranks faced
[02:08.43]The Cavaliers at Preston Banks
[02:11.62]And the King lost again  silly thing
[02:14.94]Stupid git
[02:19.17]And Cromwell sent Colonel Pride
[02:20.74]To purge the House of Commons
[02:22.06]Of the Presbyterian Royalists
[02:23.92]Leaving behind only the rump Parliment
[02:26.77]Which appointed a High Court
[02:29.43]At Westminster Hall
[02:31.18]To indict Charles the First for
[02:34.31]TYRANNY  Ooohhh
[02:39.02]Charles was sentenced to death
[02:41.67]Even though he refused to accept
[02:44.46]That the court had
[02:46.90]Jurisdiction
[02:48.93]Say goodbye to his head
[02:52.76]Poor King Charles  laid his head
[02:59.76]On the block
[03:01.94]January 1649
[03:04.47]Down came the ax  gasp
[03:08.47]And in the silence that followed
[03:11.18]The only sound that could be heard
[03:13.42]Was a solitary giggle  from
[03:16.96]Oliver Cromwell
[03:19.32]Lord Protector of England  Ole
[03:21.94]Born in 1599  Died in 1658  September
[03:28.48]Then he smashed  Ireland
[03:30.91]Set up the commonwealth  and more
[03:33.83]He crushed the Scots at Worcester
[03:36.14]And beat the Dutch at sea in 1653
[03:40.04]And then
[03:41.83]He dissolved the Rump Parliament
[03:45.92]And with Lambeth's consent
[03:47.99]Wrote the Instrument of Government
[03:51.71]Under which Oliver was Protector at last
[03:55.86]The End