Thread #53720   Message #828541
Posted By: Kenny B (inactive)
17-Nov-02 - 03:20 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Burke & Hare (by Robin Laing)
Subject: Lyr Add: Burke & Hare (by Robin Laing)

BURKE & HARE
(Robin Laing)

Chorus
Burke & Hare were a terrible pair, their deeds were beyond belief
They worked underground in Edinburgh town, the cruellest kind of thief,

1. For they stole the life from the city's poor, the city's waifs & strays
They got them drunk, laid them on a bunk, And smothered their lives away,

2. Doon Tannoch's Close in the old West port, the rottens had their lair,
And many poor wretch, the pair would fetch, in a box to surgeon's square

3 Ten Pounds each was the deal they'd reached for the contents of every box
And denied folks' life to satisfy the knife o' anatomist Dr Knox, ....Chorus

4. Sixteen souls departed this life, at the hands of the villainous crew
"Sure beats work", said lazy bugger Burke, and Hare took a similar view,

5.   But their evil ways and their drunken days, in nine months were cut short,
For they grew too smart, in their devilish art, and they very soon were caught, .... Chorus

6. William Hare got a terrible scare, turned supergrass with glee,
Snitched on his mate, left him to his fate and he got away scot free,

7. William Burke dangled an jerked, as the hangman ended his life,
As a final twist, the town anatomist, cut him up with his surgeons knife, .... Chorus +

For they stole the life from the city's poor, the city's waifs & strays
They got them drunk, laid them on a bunk, And smothered their lives away,

The swine, ...... they smothered their lives away,

Robin Laing Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIH91SoRMNs