| Bring out your dead!
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| Bring out your dead!
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| Roses blister on his skin, fill him full of lies
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| Withered posies crumbling in his hand
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| Destroy the lucky amulet, and damn us with the flies
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| Read the last rites
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| «Blessed be the people» is a mockery
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| From clergy which approve the kiss of death
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| Ring-a-ring the children sing, the black plague bells are heralding
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| Their funeral pyre, for beggar, priest and king
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| No, no, no — Nobility’s no sanctuary
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| Flee, flee, flee — The rat’s bubonic flea
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| But the scourge is everywhere, England weeps in her despair
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| And in misty eyes a cure cannot be seen
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| Raging pox and pestilence are dripping with the blood
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| The slavering black dog roams everywhere
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| Smites the ones he bites, and drags the ones he misses down
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| The worst is yet to come
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| As 1665 turns into 666
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| A dread like none before grips every man
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| As the prince of darkness sets aloose his wicked bag of tricks
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| Will the evil lord unleash his masterplan?
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| No, no, no — Nobility’s no sanctuary
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| Flee, flee, flee — The rat’s bubonic flea
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| But the scourge is everywhere, England weeps in her despair
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| And in misty eyes a cure cannot be seen
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| «This plague and the impending conflagrations are signs from God
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| And thus we, the flagellants, shall inflict punishment
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| Upon our bodily flesh and other earthly manifestations
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| To atone for the sins of the world»
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| Satan had sent out a plot as cruel as it was grand
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| To raze away the English capital
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| As the final time began, he brought the flames to make his stand
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| And thirteen times the baker shook his hand
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| In the hellish heat of his retreat, the Devil did a spy
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| The souls of London town are ripe for taking
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| From the depths of his disguise, through the black slits of his eyes
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| The fallen angel watched the city die, die, die, die
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| No, no, no — Nobility’s no sanctuary
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| Flee, flee, flee — The rat’s bubonic flea
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| But the scourge is everywhere, England weeps in her despair
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| And in misty eyes a cure cannot be seen
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| Fire, fire, fire — is burning London town
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| Try, try, try — to beat the flames down
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| But the heat is too intense, and it’s thirst cannot be quenched
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| And London’s burning to the ground
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| Ground!
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| London’s burning to the ground!
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| Ring-a-ring o’roses
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| A pocket full of o’posies
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| We all fall down! |