Guy Fawkes Night
Remeber, remember, the fifth of November
Fire powder is in the air...
Outside the firework is playing, sounds like a bomb
Guy was a terrorist 300 years ago
Now people wear his masks to celebrate
Britain is run like an old classic machine
But anarchy here never dies
The orginal rhyme:
Remember remember the 5th of November,
The Gunpowder, Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason
should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, 'twas his intent
to blow up the King and the Parliament.
Three score barrels of powder below,
Poor old England to overthrow:
By God's providence he was catch'd
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, make the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, God save the King!
Hip hip hoorah!
A penny loaf to feed the Pope.
A farthing o' cheese to choke him.
A pint of beer to rinse it down.
A faggot of sticks to burn him.
Burn him in a tub of tar.
Burn him like a blazing star.
Burn his body from his head.
Then we'll say ol' Pope is dead.
Hip hip hoorah!
Hip hip hoorah!
(Photo Credit:Dougie Macdonald)
posted by Max.L @ 11:57 PM
3 Comments:
November 5th is essentially the UK national day. It commemorates the establishment of the Protestant Religion and the defeat of attempts to re-introduce Roman Catholicism. Significantly Novermber 5th is the date not only of the 'gun powder plot' but of the invasion of England 1688 of the Protestant King of Holland who took the throne and politically and militarily routed Catholic forces. In some parts of the country on November 5th they burn the Pope (eg Lewes in Sussex) and in other places (northern Ireland) there's an element of anti-Catholic bigotry about it.
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