The World Turned Upside Down

A song about Christmas being cancelled by Oliver Cromwell. Boooo!
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[@velociraptor3313]

This is simply marvellous, I'm going to add this to my collection of traditional British Songs, ballads and English Royalist songs playlist. Greetings from Australia.

[@jayandswift]

That's amazing! We're so proud to be on someone's playlist! What else do you have on there: is it a public list?

[@velociraptor3313]

@@jayandswift It's on my phone playlist, I've also got imperial Japanese Military songs, German marching songs, 1980s, music, 1920s, 30s and 40s music and a little bit of Russian, French and North Korean music as well.

[@jayandswift]

@@velociraptor3313 wow! That's really diverse! It's cool you're into history and diving into the world as painted by the music of those times♡

[@velociraptor3313]

@@jayandswift I'm also a huge fan of Japanese enka and city pop music. I would love to explore Chinese music and Arab music. Also if you are interested there's an album by the druid called "Songs and music of the Redcoats" I think you will find it interesting. Here's the link. kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5akpaOlj8ese6csi=iUN2JbCoBcm0ry7k

[@ricardocannone2427]

Hi, just had to reply, while the song are those things it was also the tune Cornwallis think had to play at the British Defeat for Washington when the U.S. won its' Revolutionary War. So it's also part of American history. And I've always heard it was also originally a German song. Cheers

[@Roi_de_Rome1811]

man it's unbelievable how good is the quality of this recording from 1640s feels like straight from history.

[@jayandswift]

@@Roi_de_Rome1811 one of the 17th centuries' best kept secrets :)

[@brucebostick2521]

i once saw pete seeger interview, when he was asked; "is folk music dying out?" after he finished laughing, he answered; "folk music is the music of the people! as long as there are people, there'll be people's music!!"

[@hillbillyhorse9674]

The folk music and scenery is fabulous! Loving the outfits too

[@jayandswift]

Thank you so much! It's a castle that is still in use and yes, the view into the valley is stunning, isn't it? We were playing at a Dickens Fair and dressed for the part (a thing we looove to do)!

[@davidbraun6209]

That tune (so a legend from the 1880s has it) was played by the British Army band at the surrender to Washington at Yorktown in 1781.

[@jayandswift]

@@davidbraun6209 that's so interesting! How is this tune mentioned: under this name?

[@dagreek3480]

I was doing my mandatory military service when you guys dopped this vid. It really made winter of 2022-23 more celebrative.

[@jayandswift]

Wauw, that's so amazing @dagreek3480! We're so glad this video made your winter lighter❤ That's so what we would hope for with our songs♡

[@robertlord1582]

Bravo! I have always loved this tune and the song versions too. It looks like you could have played "Cold Frosty Morning" while you were out there. Brrrr!

[@jayandswift]

How awesome to read you know and love this tune! Not many people do, eventhough it has a great richness of tradition in the lyrics.

[@mitchmatthews6713]

I've always loved performing this song! Well done!

[@BRIAN_IVERSON_20]

THANK YOU FOR RHYMING GATE AND THEREAT, THAT ALWAYS BOTHERS ME IN OTHER VERSIONS

[@jayandswift]

We salute you for noticing and being a fellow language nerd in this, you're awesome!❤

[@SacredHeartEnjoyer]

This is an amazing cover! I wish people did more of this style!

[@jayandswift]

Hey, thanks so much! We hope to do more outdoor acoustic video's in the future! We take a folk approach to historical songs, because we feel that, as they were written for the people and not the rich, it brings it more home to an experience that is felt closer to home☆

[@benjaminallars8698]

Very cute and great tune. You two are lovely!

[@jayandswift]

@@benjaminallars8698 omg, thanks! We really do love having found a fellow folknerd in eachother!

[@krum1703]

Peek couple activity right there! (Also that guy that was talking about a flute probably meant a fife)

[@jayandswift]

@@krum1703 Thanks so much, we appreciate that! Hmm.. a fife: that's one to remember!

[@sanataj]

@@jayandswift There's an old song ''Oh Soldier Soldier, won't you marry me? With your musket, fife and drum'. >>> 'Oh no, sweet maid, I cannot marry you, for I have no ____ to put on.' (Each verse the noun changes). Anyway, it seems that the fife was an instrument carried by some soldiers? Is it smaller and lighter than a flue?

[@llvienna]

It is also the same time of When The King Gets His Own Again! (King Charles II) Same tune opposite meaning! So the Brits could be thinking one thing, and the Americans the other!

[@jayandswift]

Hi there♡ Yes, it is the same, isn't it neat? I think in those days they often used existing popular tunes for songs: so people would immediately know how to sing them.

[@WORKERS.DREADNOUGHT]

Cancelling Christmas directly caused the Second Civil War.

[@nafanarefour4564]

This is a really lovely rendition. Thank you so much for making this!

[@jayandswift]

@@nafanarefour4564 omg thank you so much for that! We love history and thought this would be a lovely addition to our Christmas set. Plus it's Jay's mother's favourite song.

[@chuckcewrealoficial]

woooow thats awesome, thank you for the music

[@jayandswift]

Thanks a lot, Chuck!

[@MrPHart]

He is playing a Irish Bouzouki a rather new musical instrument!

[@jayandswift]

@@MrPHart that's right :) We are a folk duo, inspired by history and our instruments reflect that :)

[@ArcanaC]

Really great and enjoyable version

[@jayandswift]

Thanks so much♡ contributing an enjoyable version to the collective is exactly what we're aiming for♡ We added the tune Fairy Dance to the song for extra freshness :)

[@stephaniegandon4940]

Wonderful, loved every bit of this!

[@jayandswift]

Thanks you so much!

[@cjed4562]

Would love you two to do the Digger’s Song!

[@jayandswift]

We'll keep it in mind❤

[@chiron14pl]

One of my favorite songs from the civil war period, thx, lovely version

[@jayandswift]

Thanks very much as well! (Do you have other favourites you can recommend?)

[@chiron14pl]

@@jayandswift I also like the same tune to the royalist "When the king comes in his own again." I also think I may have read somewhere that "The girl I left behind me," aka "Brighton camp," also dated from Eng. civil war. As a yank, we had our own a couple of centuries later, also full of lovely songs from both sides

[@jayandswift]

@@chiron14pl that's amazing, thanks for those tips! I think we both know those tunes♡. The Girl I Left Behind me is often played in army marching bands, isn't it? And the lyrics of When the King are so lovely... maybe should learn those for the summer time♡ it's such a rich historical period isn't it?

[@jayandswift]

@@chiron14pl by the way, are you named after the astroid Chiron?

[@chiron14pl]

@@jayandswift No the centaur. He received the healing arts from Apollo and transmitted them to Asclapius, the Greek god of medicine. My profession was teaching clinical psychology, so an apt moniker I think

[@t-51bpower14]

I just came across your channel and this song and i would like to say thank you for making this video. You both are extremely talented and have amazing voices. Again thank you for this video jay and swift i wish you all the best in your futures!!! 😇

[@jayandswift]

@@t-51bpower14 wow, thanks so much! We're really happy that our video made you so happy! We absolutely love bringing this music to life: those beautiful delicious words and having fun with them. Wishing you all the best too!

[@powellmountainmike8853]

This is the song that the British Army band played as they marched past the Continental Army for their surrender at Yorktown in 1781.

[@jayandswift]

@@powellmountainmike8853 this spectacular backstory is very cool! I had no idea they recorded the songs played, at specific historical events!

[@powellmountainmike8853]

@@jayandswift I believe that the fact was recorded was because it reflected the feelings of Cornwallis' army realizing that they had been defeated, and, for all intents and purposes, the war was over. They never expected that the greatest military power on earth could lose to a rag tag bunch of colonists. The song was so appropriate to the situation.

[@snowguy]

underated channel fr

[@jayandswift]

@@snowguy wow l, thanks so much, man! Appreciated ♡

[@donnyMoore-w9s]

Cute hats ^-^

[@jayandswift]

@@donnyMoore-w9s thank you! Cute hats are EVERYTHING and they keep you warm♡ To be honest, we started this band so we could wear the hats. Also: they help the other weirdo's recognize their people.

[@radiojet1429]

Wonderful - I subscribed!

[@jayandswift]

@@radiojet1429 thank you for your support! You are awesome!

[@here_we_go_again2571]

" *The World Turned Upside Down* " (All of the lyrics. To the tune of "When the King enjoys his own again"): """ Listen to me and you shall hear, news hath not been this thousand year: Since Herod, Caesar, and many more, you never heard the like before. Holy-dayes are despis'd, new fashions are devis'd. Old Christmas is kickt out of Town. Yet let's be content, and the times lament, you see the world turn'd upside down. The wise men did rejoyce to see our Savior Christ's Nativity: The Angels did good tidings bring, the Sheepheards did rejoyce and sing. Let all honest men, take example by them. Why should we from good Laws be bound? Yet let's be content, and the times lament, you see the world turn'd upside down. Command is given, we must obey, and quite forget old Christmas day: Kill a thousand men, or a Town regain, we will give thanks and praise amain. The wine pot shall clinke, we will feast and drinke. And then strange motions will abound. Yet let's be content, and the times lament, you see the world turn'd upside down. Our Lords and Knights, and Gentry too, doe mean old fashions to forgoe: They set a porter at the gate, that none must enter in thereat. They count it a sin, when poor people come in. Hospitality it selfe is drown'd. Yet let's be content, and the times lament, you see the world turn'd upside down. The serving men doe sit and whine, and thinke it long ere dinner time: The Butler's still out of the way, or else my Lady keeps the key, The poor old cook, in the larder doth look, Where is no goodnesse to be found, Yet let's be content, and the times lament, you see the world turn'd upside down. To conclude, I'le tell you news that's right, Christmas was kil'd at Naseby[1] fight: Charity was slain at that same time, Jack Tell troth too, a friend of mine, Likewise then did die, rost beef and shred pie, Pig, Goose and Capon no quarter found. Yet let's be content, and the times lament, you see the world turn'd upside down.""" --- Wikipedia ____________ "The World Turned Upside Down" is an English ballad. It was first published on a broadside in the middle of the 1640s as a protest against the policies of Parliament relating to the celebration of Christmas" -- Wikipedia It is reputed that after the defeat of the British Army at Yorktown, during the American Revolutionary War (1775--1783) following the formal surrender of General Cornwallis to General Washington, this was the song played by the British military band. _____________________________________________________________________________________ 1.) "The Battle of Naseby took place on 14 June 1645 during the First English [British] Civil War[2], near the village of Naseby in Northamptonshire. The Parliamentarian New Model Army, commanded by Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, destroyed the main Royalist army under Charles I and Prince Rupert. Defeat ended any real hope of royalist victory, although Charles did not finally surrender until May 1646." -- Wikipedia 2.) British Civil Wars (1639-1653) aka: Wars of the Three Kingdoms (i.e. England, Scotland and Ireland) "The Wars of the Three Kingdoms, sometimes known as the British Civil Wars, were a series of intertwined conflicts fought between 1639 and 1653 in the kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland, then separate entities united in a personal union under Charles I. They include the 1639 to 1640 Bishops' Wars [with Scottish Covenanters], the First and Second English Civil Wars, the Irish Confederate Wars, the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland and the Anglo-Scottish War of 1650-1652. They resulted in victory for the Parliamentarian army, the execution of Charles I, the abolition of monarchy, and founding of the Commonwealth of England, a unitary state which controlled the British Isles until the Stuart Restoration in 1660." -- Wikipedia

[@jayandswift]

@@here_we_go_again2571 duuuuude! Thanks so much for putting all this up! Your time and effort is so appreciated!

[@jayandswift]

By the way: "When the King enjoys his own again" is a great song as well♡ It's so cool you recognised it! Not many people know either tune... but I guess you're not many people♡

[@avus-kw2f213]

Still can’t believe people want to go back to a Republic

[@jayandswift]

@@avus-kw2f213 wouldn't it be something, though if we could go back to 12 days of celebrating Christmas? Instead of those 2 crummy days we were left with even after Cromwell?

[@bryansammis998]

Democracy?? What can possibly go wrong??🙄

[@קעז-מענטש]

​@@jayandswiftStandard Cromwell L.

[@Oera-B]

>Has a functional republic >Can't believe why people would want to make it official. Really, if the UK became the UR today, what would change tomorrow?

[@avus-kw2f213]

@@Oera-B you would be surprised by how much

[@topgun3377]

Great work guys 💪💪

[@jayandswift]

@Topgun3377, thank you so much for the support! We greatly appreciate it!

[@worthingcommunityplay8120]

Great rendition. I was curious to know where it was filmed - Scotland, or North America - Canada?

[@jayandswift]

Hello there! It was actually filmed in bonny old Germany! At a castle near Heimbach, during a Dickens Christmas Festival organised by Winterfoff Entertainment! Those are actual snow covered hilltops and freezing fingers in the video :D Very romantic

[@jayandswift]

And thank you for the complement!

[@worthingcommunityplay8120]

Thanks for letting me know, I didn't think it looked like anywhere in this country.@@jayandswift

[@jayandswift]

@@worthingcommunityplay8120 you mean you live in Germany yourself?

[@wolfreplays88]

This is amazing

[@jayandswift]

@@wolfreplays88 thanks so much! The view is stunning isn't it? We were really lucky to have such a calm clear morning to do this one shot video♡

[@GregEdgings]

Superb

[@jayandswift]

Thank you, kind sir!❤

[@Jcaeser187]

Would kill the wonderful mood but you guys could pull off a great rendition of Greensleeves

[@jayandswift]

@@Jcaeser187 Thank you, maybe we will! We love out Tudor music!!! Jay's sea shanty band The Captain's Beard use Greensleaves in their song "Off with his head" :)

[@Mandolin1944]

Excellent!

[@jayandswift]

Thanks for your comment and appreciation, man!

[@thediamondtrucktdt]

This is really good

[@jayandswift]

@@thediamondtrucktdt Thank you so much!!! We hope to put up more video's like this one in the future! We live in 2 separate countries, so we're crossing our fingers a gig brings us to a beautiful place in the same country again, soon!

[@Sonny-m1f]

A health to king James!

[@infoscholar5221]

They need a flute.

[@jayandswift]

What kind of flute were you thinking?

[@Trajan32]

Very good rendition

[@jayandswift]

@@Trajan32 very much apreciated, thank you!

[@hughjosephfeely]

I sing a song called “The World turned upside down” but it’s much different to this, where’d you get this one from?

[@jayandswift]

@@hughjosephfeely hi! This song as we sing it was taught to Jay by his mother. There are many versions online. We're very curious about your version! In a quick search I couldn't really find the source, although I think it must have come from a printed Broadside Ballad. Maybe the wiki link can shed some more light. Have a great day! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Turned_Upside_Down

[@hughjosephfeely]

@@jayandswift ah interesting, thanks for sharing

[@thomaswezwick5470]

YES!

[@jayandswift]

@@thomaswezwick5470 THANK YOU for that reaction!!! Truly♡

[@MrPHart]

I wonder how long it took for those instruments to get used to that outside temperature?

[@jayandswift]

@@MrPHart not long: they are very stable, good instruments: all metal strings (no gut strings). The bouzouki needed the most tuning.

[@tishomingo4524]

thank you!

[@jayandswift]

@@tishomingo4524 thank YOU!

[@Lychieaz]

wtf this isn't hamilton jk this song is great either way

[@davidstein1376]

Great! but the woman needs elocution lessons.

[@jayandswift]

Thanks for watching and I'll be sure to tell her ;)

[@brucebostick2521]

played as briits surrendered to rebels at yorktown!

[@jayandswift]

@@brucebostick2521 perhaps this explains why so many American listners love this song🤔

[@brucebostick2521]

@@jayandswift i LOVE, collect song of people's rebellion!