Delta40
10-10-2010, 10:00 PM
Daisy was fresh laid at Greyfriars
to be snatched under cover of night.
Like weavers, bakers and cobblers
They would seize her kindred site.
Tho relatives kept a sharp vigil
planted heather branches in vain,
While the rich crafted steel cages
to protect their familial pain.
A few feet away from the dead,
some stealthful robbers dug
a makeshift turf trapdoor
with an old spade made of wood.
The bereft believed she was safe
from the fiery gates of Hell
as her corpse was thieved uknown
by men who could stand the smell.
You see, at Edinburgh University
trafficking the dead was nightly
the delivery of young Daisy
was a task not managed lightly.
Freshness rewarded a much higher price
I agree said Dr Knox.
The warmer they are the better
We'll even dissect their socks.
So murderous horror hit the street
led by the hands of Burke,
young Hare obliged to aide him
to promote their grisly work.
Mercifully dark deeds unravelled
like the resistance of 'Daft Jamie'
when the suffocated young man
failed to come home to mammie.
Finally a nosey neighbour
checked under Burkes framed bede
to uncover the final victim
as proof of treacherous deed.
Burke was hanged from his neck
vengeance commanded we should
have his death certificate signed
by a quill dipped in his own blood.
Today street urchins chant:
Burke was a butcher, Hare was a thief
and old Knox was willing
to pay pounds for their beef
to be snatched under cover of night.
Like weavers, bakers and cobblers
They would seize her kindred site.
Tho relatives kept a sharp vigil
planted heather branches in vain,
While the rich crafted steel cages
to protect their familial pain.
A few feet away from the dead,
some stealthful robbers dug
a makeshift turf trapdoor
with an old spade made of wood.
The bereft believed she was safe
from the fiery gates of Hell
as her corpse was thieved uknown
by men who could stand the smell.
You see, at Edinburgh University
trafficking the dead was nightly
the delivery of young Daisy
was a task not managed lightly.
Freshness rewarded a much higher price
I agree said Dr Knox.
The warmer they are the better
We'll even dissect their socks.
So murderous horror hit the street
led by the hands of Burke,
young Hare obliged to aide him
to promote their grisly work.
Mercifully dark deeds unravelled
like the resistance of 'Daft Jamie'
when the suffocated young man
failed to come home to mammie.
Finally a nosey neighbour
checked under Burkes framed bede
to uncover the final victim
as proof of treacherous deed.
Burke was hanged from his neck
vengeance commanded we should
have his death certificate signed
by a quill dipped in his own blood.
Today street urchins chant:
Burke was a butcher, Hare was a thief
and old Knox was willing
to pay pounds for their beef