Lyr/Chords Add: Rump's Finis

Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Rump's Finis (CHORDS)
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 01:03 PM

See Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads for a contemporary broadside edition:

The second part of St. George for England Wood 416(54)

Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: RUMP'S FINIS
From: chico
Date: 17 Apr 05 - 02:12 AM

The Second Part of St. George for England.
To the Tune of, To drive the cold Winter away;

         Am          C                  G          Am
Now the Rump is confounded, there's an end to the Round-head,
          Dm          F             E
Who hath been such a bane to our Nation;
       Am             C            G               Am
He hath now plai'd his part, and 's gone out like a f--t,
   Dm          F         E
Together with his 'Reformation'.
    C          G             Dm            F
For by his good favour, he hath left an ill savour,
          Am            E            G   (7)
But's no matter, we'll trust him no more;
            C          G          Dm             F
Kings and Queens may appear, once again, in our sphere,
          C          E          Am
Now the Knaves are turn'd out of door.

Scot, Nevil and Vane, with the rest of that train, are into 'Oceana' fled;
Sir Arthur the brave, that's as arrant a Knave,
Has Harrington's 'Rota' in's head.
How good wits did jump, in abusing the Rump,
Whilst the House was press'd by the Rabble;
But our Hercules Monk, though it grievously stunk,
Now hath cleansed that Augean-stable.

'Tis true, there are some who are still for the Bum
Such tares will grow up with the wheat;
And there they will hum till a Parliament come
That can give then a total defeat.
But yet, I am told, that the Rumpers do hold
That the Saints may swim with the tyde;
Nor can it be treason, but Scripture and Reason,
Still to close with the stronger side.

But I hope, by this time, hee'l confess 'twas a crime
To abet such a damnable crew,
Whose Petition was drawn by Alcoran Vane,
Or else by Corbet the Jew.
By it you may know what the Rump meant to do,
And what a Religion to frame;
So 'twas time for St. George that Rump to disgorge,
And to send it from whence it first came.

Finis for the Rump's Finis.


(63) An allusion to James Harrington's Oceana.

(64) James Harrington, a remarkable political writer of this time,
had founded a club called the Rota, in 1659, for the debating of
political questions. This club met at Miles's Coffee-house, in Old
Palace Yard, and lasted a few mouths. At the beginning of the
present year was published the result of their deliberations, under
the title of The Rota or, a Model of a Free State, or Equall
Commonwealth; once proposed and debated in brief, and to be again
more at large proposed to, and debated by, a free and open Society
of ingenious Gentlemen. 4to, London, 1660 (Jan. 9).