'The Royal Head is Severed' - English Civil War Song

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'The Royal Head is Severed' - English Civil War Song

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‘The Royal Head is Severed’ is a 1649 ballad about the regicide of King Charles I, ending the English Civil War. It’s shown from three views. The first is that of Oliver Cromwell, de facto leader of the English Commonwealth. The lyrics express his own seizing of power, holding ‘the sceptre and crown’ as a metaphor for his military dictatorship overruling the populace and Parliament.
The second point of view is from the late King Charles, speaking of how Cromwell and the new regime was destroying his Image and reputation. The second half of the section expresses faith for his son, the future King Charles II, to regain the throne and bring revenge upon the Roundheads and Cromwell the ‘catif’ meaning coward.
The third point of view is the ideas and beliefs of the common Englishmen, the people of the country experiencing the tyranny of the new regime. It explains the depression and the new regime’s suppression against royalists and all else who don’t conform. It ends hoping for the return of the Monarchy and the exiled King Charles II.
Recording done by the band ‘Strawhead’ I don’t own the music in any way.

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@moraesneto9508 3 ай бұрын

Oliver Cromwell is simply the human personification of the phrase: Either you die a hero or you live long to see yourself become a villain

@jozebutinar44 2 ай бұрын

He was a villain at the moment he rebel he was like a lucifer who wanted to be god but he was cut down to the pit

@TravisLoneWolfWalsh 2 ай бұрын

He never was a hero

@moraesneto9508 2 ай бұрын

@@TravisLoneWolfWalsh There are two of us who believe in this then... But the fact is that he believed he was a hero, but his actions showed what he really was.

@uberfeel Ай бұрын

He never was a hero at the beginning, he was nothing but a power hungry sociopath who destroyed english history and legacy.

@jodofe4879 17 күн бұрын

Except that Cromwell never was a hero. He suffered from severe depression in the late 1620's and early 1630's as a result of personal troubles and disputes and came out of it with a case of extremely radical Puritanism and a god complex. Cromwell believed he was chosen by divine providence to drag all of England along with him in his personal redemption arc. The guy was such a massive narcissist he makes Donald Trump look like a normal person.

@ferretman6790 3 ай бұрын

Cromwell is the definition of: “you became the very thing you swore to destroy”

@ballgang367 3 ай бұрын

"Have i ever told you the tragedy of Cromwell the Covetous?"

@chriswashingtonbeats 3 ай бұрын

same as napoleon if i remember correctly?

@ferretman6790 3 ай бұрын

@@ballgang367 it’s a British legend

@jodofe4879 17 күн бұрын

Not from Cromwell's own perspective. Cromwell believed from the very beginning he was chosen by God to lead England and rid it of all sin (according to his own extremely radical Puritan interpretation of sin) and bring about the second coming of Jesus Christ. The guy was an extreme narcissist with a god complex. It was never about republicanism or anti-monarchism for him. Cromwell had nothing against the concept of a monarchy. Charles I just so happened to stand in the way of his divine mission. This is also why Cromwell kept dismissing parliaments and just ruled as a military dictator. He was never a genuine supporter of a parliamentary system, parliament just was a tool for him for seizing power that was discarded as soon as it had served its purpose and was no longer useful to his divine mission.

@Longshanks1690 3 ай бұрын

Was Charles II really called the Black Prince during his exile? If so, that’s honestly a pretty clever throwback to the medieval Black Prince, evoking the idea of a true King deprived of his throne as the realm is left in anarchy instead. (Just with Charles being deprived by circumstances whereas the original died)

@Imperial_Britannia 3 ай бұрын

It’s not very clear, but I’m pretty sure some called him it during the interregnum.

@AtlasGamingTX 3 ай бұрын

Isn’t that just prince Zuko from ATLA?

@dmvs-bt1hk 3 ай бұрын

It was because he had a Sicilian grandmother if recall and thus his skin was blacker than the norm, plus he was 6+ foot, when he escaped at Putney they put up posters for a "tall black boy".

@gustavusadolphus6097 3 ай бұрын

We wuz King Charles II and shieet @@dmvs-bt1hk

@jonathanoates1298 2 ай бұрын

When Titus Oates invented the Popish Plot in 1678 he claimed that the Catholic plotters referred to Charles II as being 'a black bastard' for it was claimed that his father was a black man, not Charles I. Nonsense, needless to say. In England in the 1650s the state put about propaganda that Charles II was utterly debauched; a myth scotched by Professor Ronald Hutton's excellent and far from uncritical, biography of Charles II.

@AtlasGamingTX 3 ай бұрын

As always, AMAZING!!

@TheofficialSirenheadr 3 ай бұрын

God save the king

@Weezerand... 3 ай бұрын

God didnt save charlie 1 from headlessnes or charlie 3 from cancer 💀

@TheofficialSirenheadr 3 ай бұрын

@@Weezerand... good thing I said “King” not Charles😊👍

@FranzJosephI. 3 ай бұрын

Long live the King! May Cromwell and his traitors rest in Hell!

@bladez2207 2 ай бұрын

Cromwell was true of heart, fought and won against a corrupt king who sought to make himself above the law of the land. The world has the peasants from the Fens for democracy.

@MrCreeperYT_Official Ай бұрын

I hove hearing these historical songs from obscure eras (at least to me). I'm an American so I didn't learn about Cromwell or the Commonwealth in school. May history never be censored!

@oliversherman2414 3 ай бұрын

God Save The King! 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@chriswashingtonbeats 2 ай бұрын

why? what makes him any different from you? If anything, you are probably far greater than some man who claims superiority based on divine right! wake up man!

@oliversherman2414 2 ай бұрын

@@chriswashingtonbeats American?

@chriswashingtonbeats 2 ай бұрын

@@oliversherman2414 na just british youth lol

@oliversherman2414 2 ай бұрын

@@chriswashingtonbeats well then you should know that it's just an expression we use

@chriswashingtonbeats 2 ай бұрын

@oliversherman2414 I know but I disagree with it bro. Isn't God save Britain, or God save the people better?

@oddish4352 Ай бұрын

History is written by the victors... but sometimes victory takes the long way around. As happened here.

@jonathanoates1298 Ай бұрын

History is written by anyone who cares to write it. Jacobite history is usually written by the losers.

@quasicroissant 8 күн бұрын

In every description you keep saying that these songs are actually from the 17th century but I find that to be very doubtful. Do you have a source for that?

@Imperial_Britannia 5 күн бұрын

Most of these songs are actually from the 17th century, if the song is an anachronism or has no clear date I’ll state it in the description. Here’s a link to the original ballad: ebba.english.ucsb.edu/printballad.php?i=BL_669f_14_022_2448x2448.jpg

@quasicroissant 4 күн бұрын

@@Imperial_Britannia Asked and answered. Thank you, I appreciate it

@mohi6699 3 ай бұрын

A chill ran down my spine at the black prince part.

@shrekusmenelusgargamelus6000 3 ай бұрын

Movies names?

@Imperial_Britannia 3 ай бұрын

Cromwell (1970) To Kill a King (2002) and majority of clips of Charles II are from two series, The First Churchills and New Worlds.

@ferretman6790 3 ай бұрын

@@Imperial_BritanniaThank you

@g.uk.m6757 3 ай бұрын

😢😢😢

@jacksonscr8 3 ай бұрын

can you do Tranent Muir?

@echobravo7499 3 ай бұрын

😭😭😭

@hmsqueenelizabeth-x3j 3 ай бұрын

Pack all Truobles in Your Old Kit Bag. Make that song

@Imperial_Britannia 3 ай бұрын

I already have, and that song is from 1916. Not WW2.

@geekmachine666 Ай бұрын

🫡may Charles I fare good in heaven

@hmsqueenelizabeth-x3j 3 ай бұрын

Cool video but you need make more videos about ww2

@avus-kw2f213 3 ай бұрын

WW2 Is overrated

@avus-kw2f213 3 ай бұрын

9th

@AvaT42 3 ай бұрын

🇨🇦 I did not like this song, the tune of it was terrible. It was a macabre happening though so, I suppose it fit.

@oddish4352 22 күн бұрын

There was plenty more of the same when Charles II returned. While he gave a pardon to most who served Cromwell's government, those who had signed his father's death warrant were hunted down, and about half a dozen of them were executed in a particularly nasty way.