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Burke & Hare (What A Horrible Pair)This is the tale of Burke and HareA greedy and a gruesome pair Tooled up with a pick and spade At night they'd go out robbing graves Burke and Hare, what a horrible pair They stole the bodies of the dead But when they needed fresher corpses They simply murdered them instead They'd sell the contents of the coffins To unscrupulous medical boffins Who paid them highly, cash in hand But supply couldn't meet demand They'd buy a drink for a stranger they'd meet And smother them while they were asleep But their murder spree came to an end And Hare testified against his friend William Burke was executed For 16 murders and the graves they had looted Their names will live in infamy But Burke was hanged while Hare stayed free |