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