{"id":1300,"date":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/burke-and-hare"},"modified":"2008-03-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T11:00:00","slug":"burke-and-hare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beerbellyband.com\/en\/burke-and-hare\/","title":{"rendered":"BURKE AND HARE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Irish traditional song lyrics \u2014 collected by Beer Belly Band.<\/em><\/p>\n

Chorus:
\nBurke and Hare were a terrible pair, their deeds were beyond belief
\nThey worked underground in Edinburgh town, the cruelest kind of thief
\nAye they stole the lives of the city’s poor, the city’s waifs and strays
\nGot them drunk and tied them tae a bunk and smothered the lives away<\/p>\n

And in the Tanner’s Close in the old Westport, those rottens had their lair
\nAnd manys a wretch from there was fetched in a box up to Surgeon’s Square
\nFor ten pounds each was the priced they reached for the contents of every box
\nAnd they denied folks lives to satisfy knives of anatomist Dr. Knox
\nChorus<\/p>\n

So sixteen souls departed this world at the hands of the villainous crew
\n“Well it sure beats work”, says lazy bugger Burke and Hare took a similar view
\nBut there evil ways and their drunken days, very soon were cut short
\nFor they grew to smart and let down their guard and very soon they were caught
\nChorus<\/p>\n

Ah, but William Hare he took a terrible scare, he turned super-grass with glee
\nHe snitched on mate and left him to his fate, while he got away Scot free
\nBut William Burke he dangled and jerked as the hangman ended his life
\nAnd in a final twist that famed anatomist cut him up with his surgeon’s knife
\nChorus<\/p>\n

For they stole the lives of the city’s poor, the city’s waifs and strays
\nGot them drunk and tied them tae a bunk and smothered the lives away
\nThe swine, smothered the lives away<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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