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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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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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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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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 |
