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They took dead Cromwell from his grave	A
And stuck his head on high	B
The Merry Monarch and his men	C
They laughed as they passed by	B
The common people cheered and jeered	D
To England s deep disgrace	E
The crowds who d ne er have dared to look	F
Live Cromwell in the face	E
	-
He came in England s direst need	G
With law and fire and sword	H
He thrashed her enemies at home	I
And crushed her foes abroad	J
He kept his word by sea and land	K
His parliament he schooled	L
He made the nations understand	K
A Man in England ruled	L
	-
Van Tromp with twice the English ships	M
And flushed by victory	N
A great broom to his masthead bound	O
Set sail to sweep the sea	N
But England s ruler was a man	P
Who needed lots of room	Q
So Blake soon lowered the Dutchman s tone	R
And smashed the Dutchman s broom	Q
	-
He sent a bill to Tuscany	N
For sixty thousand pounds	S
For wrong done to his subjects there	T
And merchants in her bounds	S
He sent by Debt Collector Blake	U
And you need but be told	V
That by the Duke of Tuscany	N
That bill was paid in gold	V
	-
To pirate ports in Africa	W
He sent a message grim	X
To have each captured Englishman	Y
Delivered up to him	X
And every ship and cargo s worth	Z
And every boat and gun	Y
And this all this as Dickens says	A2
Was gloriously done	Y
	-
They d tortured English prisoners	B2
Who d sailed the Spanish Main	C2
So Cromwell sent a little bill	D2
By Admiral Blake to Spain	C2
To keep his hand in by the way	E2
He whipped the Portuguese	F2
And he made it safe for English ships	M
To sail the Spanish seas	F2
	-
The Protestants in Southern lands	G2
Had long been sore oppressed	H2
They sent their earnest prayers to Noll	I2
To have their wrongs redressed	H2
He sent a message to the Powers	B2
In which he told them flat	H2
All men must praise God as they chose	J2
Or he would see to that	H2
	-
And when he d hanged the fools at home	I
And settled foreign rows	J2
He found the time to potter round	H2
Amongst his pigs and cows	K2
Of private rows he never spoke	L2
That grand old Ironsides	M2
They said a father s strong heart broke	L2
When Cromwell s daughter died	H2
	-
They dragged his body from its grave	A
His head stuck on a pole	I2
They threw his wife s and daughter s bones	N2
Into a rubbish hole	I2
To rot with those of two who d lived	H2
And fought for England s sake	U
And each one in his own brave way	E2
Great Pym and Admiral Blake	U
	-
From Charles to Charles throughout the world	H2
Old England s name was high	B
And that s a thing no Royalist	H2
Could ever yet deny	B
Long shameful years have passed since then	C
In spite of England s boast	H2
But Englishmen were Englishmen	Y
While Cromwell carved the roast	H2
	-
And in my country s hour of need	H2
For it shall surely come	O2
While run by fools who ll never heed	H2
The beating of the drum	O2
While baffled by the fools at home	I
And threatened from the sea	N
Lord send a man like Oliver	P2
And let me live to see	N

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