Remember, remember the Fifth of November

[matgb]

Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intent
To blow up King and Parliament.
Three-score barrels of powder below
To prove old England's overthrow;
By God's providence he was catch'd
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!
A penny loaf to feed the Pope
A farthing o' cheese to choke him.
A pint of beer to rinse it down.
A faggot of sticks to burn him.
Burn him in a tub of tar.
Burn him like a blazing star.
Burn his body from his head.
Then we'll say ol' Pope is dead.
Hip hip hoorah!
Hip hip hoorah hoorah!

Of course, the anti-catholic/anti-popery vitriol is a little, well, disturbing by todays tastes (to say the least), but the fear of tyranny was well founded, if not actually as linked to catholicism as propagandists led the populace to believe. England's never really supported tyrants for too long, and we do tend to like a good party...

Comments

[silentgreeneyes.livejournal.com]

This country, and indeed America, needs a change of parliament, and preferably not just the Tory/Labour parties... why is it they always seem to turn into eachother whenever one is in power?
I sadly don't think the lib dems will get it this year, yet again.

Thankfully the US is deffinately getting a new president next election.

[matgb]

It's the system that's the problem, not the specific parties—it takes a lot of effort at times for me to reign in my anarchist tendencies, Burke was right, unfortunately.

New President, but unfortunately not a new system, and their system is significantly worse than ours :-(