Burke and Hare - Macabre

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