Oliver cromwell by monty python

[Globox2004]

Chopin & Monty Python... Nice :]

[xLREUS]

I need the dutch translation. ;(

[milkyway531]

Ms lettington- WHY?

[leesoarez]

English attempt to humor is the only real funny stuff the english have besides their food. Ha!

[drofkcots0ennear]

Haha. This is the definition of fun studying. 

[brutechopper95]

MR K'S APUSH CLASS!!!! YEAH!!!

[jcoogan14]

so unfunny. What a bunch of lemmings monty python fans are.

[bombomb218]

@jcoogan14 And yet you clicked on the video link to watch it. Just saying.

[jcoogan14]

@bombomb218 Why is that of significance to you? I watched it and I commented. What a weirdo you are.

[BlueWalrus99]

@jcoogan14 Fail Troll is Fail.

[wildsugarfly]

LOVE IT :D



[RockismyAir]

OY VEY

[Malusregnum]

Good song but it's accuracy is bullshit.

[utopianfubar]

@Malusregnum gonna post bullshit. send a link to prove it :)

[superpoweredrapist]

I was in quiz today and was able to answer the winning question about where Cromwell was MP for thanks entirely to this song

[Westsound191]

Oy Vey.

Stupid git.

[chaosfive55]

They summed up that bastard nicely!

[TReBoryitNE]

@chaosfive55 if they can make a great song like this about him he HAD to be kewl lololololo

[chaosfive55]

@TReBoryitNE LOL! Good point!!

[TReBoryitNE]

@chaosfive55 ty,, i try lololololo

[goblue122394]

I better get a 5 on this AP or those Irish will get slaughtered again. 

[iamachessaddict]

Alright, AP test in a few weeks. time to listen to this on replay for hours on end.

[Emodnet]

yay history =p

[leukorrivore]

Frédéric Chopin's Heroic Polonaise

[AsianHacker9999]

this helped quite a lot in my history essay.....

=D

most helpful part: 1:38 *stupid git*

=D

[AsianHacker9999]

this helped quite a lot in my history essay.....

=D

[luxuriousnax]

Funniest thing I've heard all day.

Cleese's put on voice in it sounds like Cleese's voice now.

[Dadutta]

Cromwell for president

[uzickimajmunac]

charles was pwned....

[Thunderossa]

It says a lot about the American education system when you need to learn about world history from Monty Python. :o\

[Triundi]

@Thunderossa How many Brits routinely know of US historic figures who had no influence on them? Jefferson Davis, for instance.

[leukorrivore]

@Triundi Most of them. But yeah there's nothing wrong with having supplements to education in Monty Python - I may have studied the political history of Germany from 1925 to 1939, but I wouldn't still remember the dates if I hadn't written a song about it!

[Moviefan6896]

AND HIS WARTS!!!! XD

[signorellil]

Please vote "like" all those who can't help wave their hand when the song goes "Say goodbye to his head"

[Lemontree23]

Great for my English history test! :)

[utopytgienel]

oh my goSh i love this song, whoever made it high 5!

[igotclassk]

My Tudor-Stuart professor encouraged us to think of this song if we needed help during our final.

[Avyncentia]

@igotclassk So did mine. I actually wrote down all the lyrics to this song as my "definition" for Oliver Cromwell and got full marks!

[Moviefan6896]

@igotclassk Same!!! XD Gotta love monty Python ;)

[MissHoov]

Use it in my World History class!

[saulyosk8s]

My E.P. Euro teacher played this song in class while dancing and conducting! It was great

[OriginalBasaliskos]

@saulyosk8s I want to ask if your teacher is Ethen?

[saulyosk8s]

@OriginalBasaliskos lol no

[clarinetmeister]

The piano piece sounds like Chopin...

[clarinetmeister]

@clarinetmeister Ah, thought so! (3:28)

[OriginalBasaliskos]

@clarinetmeister It is. It's his A-flat major polonaise. "Héroïque"

[lolchick95]

Funny song, hate Cromwell.

[Malkus11]

I was pushing to get this song played ine class.

The second I mentioned the source, the idea was killed thanks to people being "funny" by butchering Holy Grail quotes. -_-

[hayleyshikari]

SEP-TEM-BER :D lmfaooo 

[JuanMacready]

Oliver Cromwell is the greatest hero in history.

[cpat97]

its sophisticated humor...

[BrUSomania]

I'm doing a presentation on Oliver Cromwell for school. This helped a lot!

[hieudh]

and also Chopin fans

[mjrtommy]

it is not op55 , it's op53 !!!!!!!!!!

[davyhawk]

@welderjoe - the boy is clearly Irish, hence the resentment towards Cromwell...you can't pick and chose which bits of history you like. Cromwell was brutal in Ireland, accused of killing civilians etc

[SANDSER]

Burn in HELL cromwell You filthy english cunt!!

..May Brian Boru and Padraig Pearse piss on Your dispicable rotten soul!!

. .ERIN GO BRAGH.

[A0GP5YCH0]

@SANDSER

Hail Cromwell.

Lord protector!!!

[welderjoe100]

@SANDSER i dont know where youre from dickhead but cromwell was the founder of all freedom of speech , and why call him a cunt, did you know him personally, fuck you wherever you come from

[MsStBoom]

@welderjoe100 The founder of freedom of speech as long as you agreed with him.

What I think is funny is that the English tried him tried for treason, and then beheaded him, in 1661. Not that the bastard didn't deserve that and more, but he'd already been in Hell for nearly 3 years by then. Talk about insult to injury. lmfao.

I love this song though. Always how I remember the pertinent dates. (And Charles I height, should that knowledge be needed.)

[welderjoe100]

@MsStBoom ive just read your reply and can,t make head or fucking tail of it? did you agree about cromwell or agree with charles1, the king persacuted the irish before cromwell, then during the civil war after he,d been arrested tried to raise an irish army to fight for him, conceding that if he won the irish could practise their religion any way they chose. if you know about history you would know that cromwell asked the dutch{ protestant} to go into ireland to fight the catholic army. .

[MsStBoom]

@welderjoe100 You seem to be confusing your histories there, Joe. The Jacobite/Williamite War in Ireland started in 1688, well after both Charles I and Oliver Cromwell were dead. It was about religion, more or less, but it was a war between the Catholic King James II (Stewart) and Protestant King William of Orange. I've never quite understood why a Dutch Protestant was supposed to be a much better king of Ireland than an English (Scottish-ish) Catholic, but maybe you had to be there.

[MsStBoom]

@welderjoe100 The English have been harassing the Irish more or less since England turned up on the map. Right or wrong, Cromwell is the poster-child of the history of English oppression in Ireland. For a reason. (He might not have been the first one, he might not have been the last one, but By God he was good at it.) The fact is also that Cromwell was tried for treason in England, and beheaded, several years after his death. Which I find delightfully absurd.

[djsmurfie]

@MsStBoom England wasn't 'harassing' - Ireland was rightfully the possession of the Kings of England.

[MsStBoom]

@djsmurfie Different definitions of harassment I suppose.

As for Ireland being 'rightfully the possession' of the English monarchy... I'm still not clear on how they came to that conclusion. Probably something to do with that pesky strain of insanity that runs through the family.

[djsmurfie]

@MsStBoom It was given to them in a Papal Bull issued by Pope Adrian IV, so I'm afraid my original comment is correct.

[MsStBoom]

@djsmurfie lol

[djsmurfie]

@MsStBoom Why so funny?

[MsStBoom]

@djsmurfie Laughter would be standard response to any Papal bull-

Didn't the English monarchy stop recognizing the Pope's authority some time before Charles I and Cromwell? I suppose religious conviction only applied to the bits they didn't like.

[djsmurfie]

@MsStBoom Why?

Yes they did, but obviously not the in the twelfth century, which by the mid sixteenth century had allowed for England to cement its rightful rule in Ireland.

[MsStBoom]

@djsmurfie Why? Because that's all the response they deserve.

We could get into all sorts of reasons why the Pope thought he should - or even could - "give" Ireland to the English. Probably a bad idea in the long run, really.

However, the real issue isn't one of "ownership" but of human rights. No right of "ownership" over Ireland can excuse what Cromwell did to the Irish people. Imagine if you treated your children with the same attitude - losing custody of them would be the least of it.

[djsmurfie]

@MsStBoom Human rights? An absolute fiction. And the Pope could, infact he DID, give Ireland to the English Kings. I have more sympathy to the Welsh than I do the Irish: a bunch of primitive nomads, rightfully given to England. Adrian IV didn't give it to the English at a whim: the Irish inability to form a stable polity was their ultimate downfall.

Cromwell was completely justified, given the context. Hooray for Cromwell!

[MsStBoom]

@djsmurfie The only word that comes to mind, honestly, reading your last reply is "Eejit" but that doesn't help.

Of course he didn't give it on a whim, it was a politically calculated act. In return they promised to turn the Irish into proper Catholics. Ironically enough, they did - by trying to forcibly convert them to Protestantism.

Ethnocentric drivel really doesn't deserve a reply, speaking of fiction. But, then, it's strange the fictions people will kill and die for.

[djsmurfie]

@MsStBoom They were already 'proper Catholics' so that wasn't an issue at all. Adrian was tidying up unclaimed territory that existed throughout Europe: those lands that had no lord or king were bequeathed to specific monarchs; Ireland was an extraordinary case whereby for an entire island there was not an established and cemented polity.

You haven't really rebutted anything I've written. To argue against this Papal Bull by citing 'human rights' is laughable.

[MsStBoom]

@djsmurfie Unlike the English, the Irish were already Christians when missionaries from Rome showed up in the late first millennium. But they had a secular legal system, let their clergy get married. It was virtually Protestantism all over the place. Historically the Irish have almost always been slightly out of step with the mainstream RCC.

I argued against the Papal Bull on the grounds that the Pope was an idiot, I'd never count on the RCC to respect anybody's human rights.

[djsmurfie]

@MsStBoom What a load of rubbish.

If you think Celtic Christianity was basically 'protestantism' then I suggst you reread your books.

>>>I argued against the Papal Bull on the grounds that the Pope was an idiot<<<

Now that does deserve a LOL.

[MsStBoom]

@djsmurfie Sorry, the Protestantism comment was irony. I should have labeled it. The fact that it rather horrified Papal representatives is a matter of record though.

I didn't mean that Pope in particular, but the entire system is one of idiocy.

[djsmurfie]

@MsStBoom It didn't really. The differences were salient but minor.

[MsStBoom]

@djsmurfie Maybe horrified was a strong word. Again, my sense of dramatic and sense of humour tend to get the best of me from time to time. Christian history isn't really my strong point, (being of a Heathenish persuasion myself) although it's impossible to look at recent European history without it, but I believe that there was nearly a split between Ireland and Rome at one point.

Not too late for that, I don't suppose... it almost looks headed that way... that could be interesting.

[djsmurfie]

@MsStBoom There wasn't almost a split. The event you're referring to is the Synod of Whitby and it was convened to determine the correct way in deducing Easter.

[MsStBoom]

@djsmurfie Not what I'm thinking of, I don't think. But as I said, I'm far from an expert of Catholic/Christian history. And having only gone to school in England and the US, Irish history wasn't exactly emphasized either. I've learned most of what I've learned on the fly.

[JuanMacready]

@MsStBoom Irish history is bollocks.

[JuanMacready]

@MsStBoom What Cromwell did was fucking good. Thank fuck for the sieges of Drogheda and Wexford!

[MsStBoom]

@JuanMacready Run along and play, the grownups are talking.

[welderjoe100]

@MsStBoom this they did william of orange fought and defeated them , thats why today the protestants in ireland have their orange day parade.it allways makes me laugh when you get someone , who picks out parts of history, and leaves other parts out, you talk gobbledygook, if your irish or english you should know your history, yes sure cromwell did persacute the irish, but it was a job he was thrust into by charles being an arrogant, king that he was. so get your fucking facts right.

[cxmafia]

Only the Pythons could think there mere thought of doing something like this. Hail ye!

[UnnyGorey]

The "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" (ISIRTA) version, which was done before this (before Monty Python was formed) but was done by the same guys (almost), and that version was much faster and more up beat and random. Same lyrics though XD

[BlachAndWhite16]

I knew this off by heart in Y8, and I was doing a test about Oliver Cromwell in history so I sung this under my breath and remembered many different facts that I wouldn't have remembered otherwise. LOVE THE SONG!

[urbnplnr1234]

I'm going to try to memorize this song then hope that there's a FRQ about Oliver Cromwell on the AP test on Friday haha... Wish me luck!

[karkarola]

Music: Chopin.

[shopgirl157]

Oy vey, lol!

[sonic30605]

We listend to this song in my world history class today. I loved it!!!

[paperpetals]

Is it wrong that I am severly tempted to stick this in the bibliography of my assignment?

If only it mentioned more of Ireland I might get away with it...

[SethP666]

haha love this one :)

[free0fight]

totally funny!=]

[maisgenre08]

its so funny

[Jazgirl7]

I am studing Oliver Cromwell, so i was listening to this and studing at the same time. <3 it :D

[patboardr]

EXACTLY the same for me! lol =)

[Misterknock]

And also the same for me ! And I'm French. So, I thank the Monty Ponthy helping me to remember all those evenements.

[Jazgirl7]

yeah, i was in the middle of an essay test in APeuro on the English Revolution, and i bursted out laughing because i was writing about Oliver Cromwell. I got so many weird looks

[noremac94]

meh too my teacher played it sooooo funny

[hunteran]

@Jazgirl7 same here! Every time I saw his name on a test I would start cracking up because all I could hear was , "Oliver CROMWELL..." and so on a so forth. Great stuff.

[generalREDOSKI]

@Jazgirl7 happens to all of us...

[hunteran]

@Jazgirl7 In my AP Euro class my teacher had us listen to this song. During the next midterm I started chuckling whenever a question on Oliver Cromwell came up because every time I saw the words "Oliver Cromwell" I'd remember the chorus of the song. Hilarious stuff...

[PepeHorne]

@Jazgirl7 hahaha,me too... i'm a history student, so imagine happening that to you in a middle of an exam :-))))

[ElectricDeity]

I just linked this song to my friend who did not know who Oliver Cromwell is. He is Scottish. I am American.

[turdburglar123]

OLIVER CROMWELL IS A FANNY

[Adamalgorithm]

this is silly

[tnecklover]

It's meant to be.

[rubberductape]

מקסים :)

[disrealixgears]

stupid git

[zappbrannigan420]

At 1644 and won, lol

[babawax25]

מוקדש לתלמידי קורס העת החדשה באוניברסיטת בן גוריון.

[ProtestantIRA]

@babawax25 huh?