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Gene C · (This post was last modified: 09-13-2022 08:54 PM by Gene C.)

(09-12-2022 03:00 PM)David Lockmiller Wrote: "I do not profess to be posted in history," Lincoln answered. "On all such matters I will turn you over to Seward. All I distinctly recollect about the case of Charles I, is, that he lost his head in the end."

To get a brief summary of Charles I, Wikipedia has a good entry on him and the trouble he got himself into
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_I_of_England
To make a long story short read the first three paragraphs.

And this reminds me of a song - Adam and Eve
(the first words to the song)

Here are the lyrics to the song and a little background information from the web site "Mainly Norfolk: English Folk and Other Good Music"
https://mainlynorfolk.info/steeleye.span...ndeve.html

I'm sorry to say I don't remember ever learning this song as a child
But here it is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohi7guabp6Q

EPILOGUE
Charles son, Charles II, regains the throne 12 years after his fathers execution. Oliver Cromwell has been dead for a few years, but that doesn't stop Charles II from getting his revenge. Cromwell's body is exhumed, dragged through the streets (They bored a hole in Oliver's nose and put therein a string, And drew him around about the town), then had his body hung on a gallows for public display. Then they chop off his head, stick it up on a pole and left it up there for a few years more for everyone to see.
Now you know why it was such a popular children's song for 300 years.