'The World Turned Upside Down' - English Anti-Commonwealth Song

[@MrMuppetLover]

According to legend, after the siege of Yorktown in the Revolutionary War, the British band played this song after Lord Cornwallis surrendered to the Americans and the French because the British denied the Americans the honors of war when they defeated them at Charleston.

[@jamesbhollingsworth5452]

You mean the same tune as When the King Enjoys His Own Again.

[@MrMuppetLover]

@@jamesbhollingsworth5452 Correct.

[@jaydunno8266]

Lord Cornwallis didn't actually surrender. He had a Tummy ache so he sent his second-in-command, Gen O'Hara in his place. O'Hara tried to surrender to the French General Rochambeau who waved him over to the Americans. He then tried to surrender to Washington, but Washington had him surrender to Gen Lincoln. Lincoln was the general who had surrendered to British at Charleston.

[@randombroski11]

@@jaydunno8266 Oof to Cornwallis

[@toddposton869]

Correct. But Cornwallis solely bears this responsibility, as he refused to surrender to the Patriots with honor, ordering his second in command to do so. When presented with his sword by his subordinate, Gen. Washington himself refused, instead ordering his own second in command to accept the sword under the same excuse that he too was "feeling unwell." The song was played by the British during the capture following the siege of Yorktown, as they were forced to march between more than a mile of Americans on one side, matched by a mile of French soldiers (whom the British long despised) on the other. It was also rumored that the Patriots countered "The World Has Fallen Upside Down" by playing Yankee Doodle Dandy, a song that was originally written by the British with the purpose of harassing the Colonists, yet flipped against them in defeat.

[@sakkra93]

The Tragedy of Cromwell, in a nutshell: 1640: "I am an English patriot, I seek reform, yet God Save the King!" 1649: "King Charles is planning to lead an Irish army to invade England!? Off with his head!"

[@AnotherHistorianWargamer]

"Parliament is the will of the people" "What's that? Parliament just did something I disagree with. Well clearly the Army is the will of the people" "The People" sure did seem to always align with whatever particular political motive the genocidal Christmas abolitionist had in mind at the time. Sort of like the whole "The King is the head of the Church of England" until of course until he does something Cromwell disliked and then he had no authority whatsoever.

[@MrImpossibroGaming]

@@AnotherHistorianWargamerthe king was undermining the people and thought he was infallible lol

[@RaffieFaffie]

@@MrImpossibroGaming He certainly did, Charles I and Cromwell both sucked, Charles II was a bit better but a bit too libertine

[@RhombusOfTheJ]

The king ditched the Magna carta, that's why he was executed. Cromwell ended up being awful too, but it started off well

[@BunglebottomInc]

1653: "I am his higness oliver cromwell Lord Protecter, no you can't be elected to join me"

[@ArcanaC]

For anybody wondering, this is Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band's version of the song from the Hang Up Sorrow And Care album. Maddy Prior is best known as the singer of Steeleye Span.

[@here_we_go_again2571]

❤❤❤❤❤❤👍👍👍👍👍👍😊😊😊😊😊😊

[@Ralphieboy]

I thought I recognized that voice.

[@PeterPan54167]

Remember guys, The Puritan regime literally banned Christmas. That’s some White Witch level of bullshit right there.

[@yulb.allwright]

White witch?

[@MrImpossibroGaming]

Based anti popery

[@PeterPan54167]

@@MrImpossibroGaming And he also banned sports, I don’t know why a Rugby fan would be so enthusiastic about having sports banned, but I suppose you have your reasons.

[@MrImpossibroGaming]

@@PeterPan54167 why are you stooping my profile 💀

[@MrImpossibroGaming]

@@PeterPan54167 maybe you could wrap your head around the idea that things were different 400 years ago

[@marklamoreaux6932]

Same melody as "When the King Enjoys his Own Again"

[@rogerhudson9732]

The regicides were all executed after the return of a king, some of them after they had died. Cromwell's head was on a spike in Whitehall for a long time.

[@Eskolivonia]

This song has made my Christmas song playlist for 2024

[@danielbondarenkoellingham1402]

True true

[@mikeor-]

Whether it is this song or "When the King Enjoys his own Again," we can all agree that this is better than the version in Hamilton.

[@kasunex1772]

No, the Hamilton version is definitely better.

[@JrPensacola]

They are both songs with different beats, eras, and lyrics. There is no need to compare them at all. True tomfoolery

[@virtualmall5756]

I like how the video ends with a slightly darker take on the movie's ending. Where Cromwell is now more alone and dictatorial that King Charles I ever was. He is alone in an empty and messy parliament. There's a sense he's ruined England and betrayed what parliament was ostensibly fighting for. He is now their Lord Protector and the lamentable times have begun.

[@DavidBear-js4qt]

And then came Tony Blair ,,, a reincarnation perhaps!!!

[@tomrainboro]

See the Putney debates and treatment of the Leveller movement

[@IESVSCHRISTVSDOMINVSNOSTEREST]

remember, those who fought for 'democracy' were almost always just petty, low-ranking nobles that wished themselves to be the oligarchs, or titleless merchants (often richer than many nobles) that wished it were possible to buy power rather than be granted it by the throne or inherit it from someone who was granted it. From the earliest days to the removal of the Seignior of Sark, it's never been the people, just a more petulant class of rival elites.

[@kappatalis5]

The whole Sark thing was absolutely atrocious

[@IESVSCHRISTVSDOMINVSNOSTEREST]

@@kappatalis5 Who needs a matured, predictable traditional system when you can have a new untested brand of ever-changing arbitrary diktats? Last time it wasn't REAL democracy.

[@NZC_Meow]

This is the best channel ever

[@SebastianForal]

Glad to see someone else loyal to the crown. Long live the king and long live christmas.

[@DampedGull2579]

0:58 I find it funny that the Irish harp is over England, and the English cross is over Ireland.

[@vicenteromerovega1480]

God save the king 🇨🇱❤️🇬🇧

[@sakkra93]

Thank you, Chilean friend.

[@jackwhitehead5233]

Viva Chile!! 🇨🇱

[@toddposton869]

God save the Republic!

[@robnewman6101]

God Save The King. Long Live The King.

[@OP-O1]

Long live Britain!

[@robruss62]

Yet in about 3 years he trebled the fleet and smashed Holland before going on to pummel Spain, leaving Britain by the time of his death the greatest power in the world. Charles II, William III, and Anne were blessed to inherit such an achievement, and to more or less build on it

[@jonathanoates1298]

He was indeed 'a great bad man'.

[@palastofhistory4026]

Great military comander but at the same time a bad shit crazy dictator and a traitor who in almost every way was a bigger tyrant then any Other English Monarch ever was

[@MaelPlaguecrow6942]

WE MAKING IT OUT OF YORKTOWN WITH THIS ONE!!🔥🗣🦞🔥🗣🦞🔥🗣🦞

[@EnglishOrthodox]

England after Keir Stalin bans Christmas:

[@ArminiusGloria]

The Royal English and Scottish Martyr King Charles, was a good person, with virtue and honour. He tried his best to be a good king and he cared for the welfare of his people. Unlike those roundhead creatures!

[@Sneed-mi3ov]

Yeah which is why he tried to invade scotland for not wanting to become anglican what a brave leader who "cared for the welfare of his people"

[@taehuikim3641]

This is the best version of this song I ever heard!

[@cauavicentelacerda4439]

This song is timeless ngl

[@DanielsPolitics1]

Fun fact: This was all re-enacted, because the socially conservative authorities would allow things like the regricidal trial to be filmed.

[@baseballisawesome]

What movie was used in the video?

[@palastofhistory4026]

Cromwell 1970

[@baseballisawesome]

Thansk

[@Jürgen_von_Schumacher]

God save the king and rule, Britannia! My second favorite empire

[@MarkTDeacon]

You are presenting a nice selection of historical material here; thanks. 🙂 FWIW, the obligatory lyrics at the bottom of the screen, and the initial signature "Rule Britannia" music are distractions, which I could do without. Your channel, of course.

[@Imperial_Britannia]

My channel has always been focused around my viewers, I have had numerous polls and suggestions. You are the first person to complain about lyrics being included with a song, ever. And the intro music, it’s three seconds, three. What is so distracting about having to wait three seconds to hear something? If you think that is distracting, then never look at any historical music channels again because the Duke of Canada’s is around 5, and Norwegian baron’s is around 7.

[@MarkTDeacon]

@@Imperial_Britannia It's not a big deal, which is why most people don't bother with comments such as mine. The only reason I commented is because while listening to one of your videos, I casually scanned the comments, and noticed someone else commenting on the initial music. So I added my 25 cents worth. I will refrain from comments on your channel in future, so chill.

[@Imperial_Britannia]

@@MarkTDeacon the only times I’ve gotten complaints about the intro is the old shite one. 10 - 15 seconds is different from 3. I do apologise if I came off as aggressive, it’s just I deal with so many people who are so removed from reality I forget that rational people can have criticism. In the last week I’ve had about 20 or more comments that I couldn’t even understand anything expect I’m bad and blah blah blah.

[@MarkTDeacon]

@@Imperial_Britannia No problem; as I said, my objections (?) were minor, and you have a good channel overall.

[@PrivateMcPrivate]

If you want just download the song and cut the intro out.

[@FlyingTooFast]

This is the song I was looking for… but no, I have to scroll endlessly through the musical shet…

[@Manpayi]

Also played as Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown!

[@k.umquat8604]

isnt there a christmas carol or something with the same melody? I've definitely heard something like this before. There's also "Ireland shall become whole again", but that's obviously not a carol

[@RenSavoy]

When the king enjoys his own again?

[@pantadeusz8452]

First heard of "Ireland shall become whole again"

[@yaboi672]

who sung this? i wonder if she has other english songs

[@Imperial_Britannia]

Maddy Prior

[@yaboi672]

thanks man@@Imperial_Britannia

[@LordValorum]

Cronwell was a total hypocrite

[@ryancarlson2763]

Why did the british play this after cornwallis was defeated

[@longjoshuap]

It was used to represent the feeling of ridiculousness in British soldiers surrendering to Americans.

[@here_we_go_again2571]

At the time of the defeat of the British at Yorktown, the British military was the strongest in the world. To the British, it was inconceivable that a bunch of rag-tag Colonials had rebelled and defeated their army. (Of course the Americans had a lot of help from the French and the Dutch -- But the average British soldier didn't think much about that , only about the defeat) Ironically the Colonials from New England were descended from the Puritans people with the same religious sympathies as the Roundheads with Cromwell However, most of the Colonials were Anglican (i.e. Church of England) some descended from the Scots-Irish, Scots, (Presbyterians) Dutch whose families had stayed after the British took over NYC (Protestants, very much like Presbyterians) with a few Catholics and even fewer Quakers as well as a handful Jews from NYC and Philadelphia. Most of the Loyalists, who migrated to Canada were people from the larger cities engaged in mercantile endeavors. Those rebels who were from the Frontier had little use for the King or Parliament.

[@zevnduck9904]

0:42 I see what you did here

[@insertacoin738]

0:42 huh Ireland ended up with the English flag and England with the Irish one, weird

[@Imperial_Britannia]

Yeah the first commonwealth flag was pretty odd you would think they would put the harp of Ireland on the left and St George’s cross on the right as Ireland and England are geographically, but then again the commonwealth of England was known for being that smart, like the song they banned Christmas.

[@patrykpytka5071]

I suppose it makes sense when the flag was just basically a blown-up coat of arms of the Parliamentarians/Commonwealth at the time, where it makes sense for the part representing England to come on the left, implying that country's primacy. Also, since flags were either all used mostly on ships and sometimes in war, rather than the more civil use of today, it probably didn't occur to them to superimpose them on the landmass that they claimed to control lol.

[@pshehan1]

@@Imperial_Britannia In heraldry, the most important emblem is on the right of the shield. That is the right of the bearer of the shield, or the left of the person looking at it. Thus the cross of St George is on the left to the observer.

[@LePetitNRVN]

Based diss on commonwealth

[@howardmctroy3303]

Mary Tudor would've turned Cromwell into paint.

[@Darryl_Francis]

Mary Tudor was a cow

[@EddieMillerStudios]

Y'all sleepin' on 1:28.

[@walterlv4093]

Please link this with "When the King enjoys his own again"

[@DemocraticConfederalist33]

Ok but why was Cromwell like that?

[@louthegiantcookie]

He was mentally ill. He had a huge mental breakdown earlier in his life and lived in an age before such things were understood - so went into religion HARD. Similar story to Rasputin in Russia or Hong Xiquan in China - all men who had these traumatic experiences and emerged far worse than before.

[@farzanamughal5933]

He was too based for his own good

[@Hail.layla-ym3sh]

Can someone tell me the singer name

[@Suth1172]

Maddy Prior

[@andrewwhitehead2353]

Maddy Prior ❤

[@HLLTAF]

What is anti commonwealth mean?

[@palastofhistory4026]

Basically Anti republic/pro Monarchy

[@HLLTAF]

@@palastofhistory4026 thanks

[@ifantsaurells3014]

OnePiece.....

[@lefoix4629]

Relevant again in 2024.

[@aldhadenglisc6937]

Is amusing when Cromwell is blamed for banning Christmas. Can clearly tell who’s been learning there facts from horrible histories on the kids channel 🤣

[@here_we_go_again2571]

The Puritans and the British Roundheads were opposed to celebrating Christmas in the traditional way (since the Middle Ages) They also banded dancing and music!

[@aldhadenglisc6937]

@@here_we_go_again2571that being said, Cromwell was a revolutionary of the period. The only man brave enough to stand up to tyranny.

[@here_we_go_again2571]

@@aldhadenglisc6937 Tyranny vs. Tyranny. Choose your preferred servitude. Old Boss vs. New Boss -- Tsar vs. Commissar -- Not much difference except for the chosen "religion" of the overlord(s).

[@ExUSSailor]

The song the Lobsterbacks played as they marched out, white flags flying, and, tails tucked firmly between legs, to surrender to the French, and, Americans at Yorktown.

[@W.LL1999]

@ExUSSailor Wrong war fool.

[@Dryhten1801]

Britain then proceeded to rebuild and create the largest empire the world ever saw, ruling as undisputed hegemon of the world for 100 years. 1815-1914. Remember that your founding fathers were Englishmen fighting for English rights denied them by parliament.

[@viaconcommander9876]

In my opinion one of Great Britain’s greatest betrayal’s. so much lost of life, just for them to loose their people. " the Founding fathers" didn’t just betray Great Britain but their people too, by sided with France. God save the king.

[@sakkra93]

That's because the Yanks didn't grant us the honour of playing one of their tunes, as was tradition at the time for the defeated to play one of the victor's tunes, so we played one of our own to spite them. It's rather ironic, really, since most of the American colonies (especially in the South, I. E. Virginia) were on the side of the King during the English Civil War. This had an effect centuries later, during the 19th century, when Southern Nationalists viewed themselves as Cavaliers against the Puritan Northern states.

[@Ridley369]

@@sakkra93 Maryland, and Virginia were completely Royalist, through and through. New England, of course, was pro-Parliament.

[@IroquoisPliskin-w1f]

O_O

[@walterlv4093]

It will be nice if you could make a another version that feature british surrender at yorktown

[@lucario2188]

They played when the King enjoys his own again.

[@walterlv4093]

@@lucario2188 i thought they usually play the enemy of the foes as honour of war before surrendering. But general washington apparantly refuse the honour and ask the musician to interrupt and play Yankee Doudle