To "Dave the Gnome" Hi Dave, I found your verse for Peterloo Massacre. I usually sing it at this time of year. I took the liberty of amending it in true folksong tradition. Hope you don't mind. As a penance for ripping off your verse, I wrote an updated "last" verse which you can use or amend as you wish. Here are the two verses....
This fine hall it stood in tact 'till the new millennium turned Built with cotton money to remember lessons learned But the rich developers wanted the land On that site a hotel was planned Where concerts played, brash bars now stand, and history is spurned
Now each year in August marchers join in protest still As folk from cotton towns around demand both strong and shrill For a monument in memory to The folk who died at Peterloo In unity with strength anew, their goal they shall fulfil.