THE BATTLE OF BIRMINGHAM
Brum is Burning, Brum is Burning
Fire…..Fire……Fire…..Fire
King Charles Prince Rupert
Was marauding
Throughout the Town
Throughout the Town
Brum was Roundhead
Not for Royalists….
Ride them down…..
Ride them down…..
Rupert killed them
Torched their houses
For supporting
Parliament…..
NOT The Crown;
NOT The Crown
Many murdered…..
Many murdered…..
By Rupert’s Cavalry
Cut them down…!!!
Cut them down…!!!
Yet at Shireland
Was a Skirmish
Where Earl Denbigh
Met his end
Shot him down……!!!
Shot him down……!!!
No Justice!!!
No Justice!!!
For Brummagem!
For Brummagem!
Brum is Burning
Brum is Burning
Fire….Fire…..Fire…Fire
Battle’s over
Battle’s over……
Poor Birmingham
POOR Birmingham…….
BRUMMAGEM!
Keith Bracey the Brummie Bard Birmingham & Black Country poet & writer 
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My #BrumPoem “The Battle of Birmingham” telling of the time that the German mercenary Prince Rupert laid waste to the little town of Birmingham for supporting Parliament against the King
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