What is the meaning of the song The World Turned Upside Down?
What is the meaning of the song The World Turned Upside Down? "The World Turned Upside Down" is an English ballad. It was first published on a broadside in the middle of the 1640s as a protest against the policies of Parliament relating to the celebration of Christmas. It is sung to the tune of another ballad, "When the king enjoys his own again". Did the British really sing The World Turned Upside Down at Yorktown? The only shred of evidence for the song being performed at Yorktown is a memoir written by a man named Alexander Garden in 1828....