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Date of issue: 30.01.2011
Age restrictions: 18+
Record label: Nuclear Blast
Song language: English
Burke and Hare |
In the Scottish slums of Edinburgh lived a horrid pair |
Two Irish immigrants named William Burke and William Hare |
They ran a squalid boarding house and an old man died in there |
Who owned four pounds rent and William Hare said that’s not fair |
So Hare and his friend Burke came up with a morbid plan |
To make a profit from medical science’s demands |
They filled the old man’s coffin with tree bark then sold the man |
To Doctor Knoxs' medical school for dissection |
Burke and Hare were a very greedy pair |
Selling bodies to climb their financial stairs |
Burke and Hare lured victims to their lair |
Selling the cadavers for pretty decent fare |
Doctor Knoxs' staff said cadaver were in demand |
And they would pay good money for some fresh specimens |
Still one question then remained how to acquire them |
So once again Burke and Hare devised a greedy plan |
They cut off the air of sickly bordered types |
Killing the old people who couldn’t put up a fight |
For money the very greedy pair would snuff out human life |
Then take their corpses to Doctor Knoxs' knife |
The remaining boarders weren’t sick so they couldn’t take their lives |
Then Burke and Hare decided they should go for some different types |
They recruited Burke’s mistress and Hare’s common law wife |
The women then would lure in street people in the night |
The desperate street people went back to Burke’s and Hare’s lair |
And became dissection specimens once they were inside there |
With a steady supply of liquor the poor victims weren’t prepared |
For easy suffocation by the greedy Burke and Hare |
Snuffing ou the homeless the quite evil pair were prone |
But they had no qualms about killing close to home |
Like Burke’s girlfriend’s cousin and a wash woman as they grown |
Then took them to Doctor Knox who cut them to the bone |
The last victim a woman snuffed out inside their lair |
Two lodgers found her body and reported Burke and Hare |
Hare blamed Burke, got off without a care |
They hung Burke in the airr and Hare got away from there |