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Lewes November 5th
Well here's the jolly rhyme which traditionally accompanies Bonfire Night...quite gruesome as you can see.
Tonight Lewes has its night and the town becomes really quite anarchic...you have to be there to 'get it'.
Remember, remember the Fifth of November
The Gunpowder Treason and plot
I see no reason why 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
Holler boys, holler boys, ring bells ring
Holler boys, holler boys, God Save the King!
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 old Pope is dead
Hip Hip Hoorah!
Hip Hip Hoorah!
Hip Hip Hoorah!
5 comments:
I'm with that poem, all the way.
I'm sure it would go down well in your neck of the woods! ;-)
Brilliant - I've never heard the full rhyme before. Shouldn't Guy Fawkes be heralded as a national hero? Discuss.
Of all the holidays in Australia after WW2, school children loved Guy Fawkes night more than any other. Our fathers had returned from the war in better or worse condition, but they all tried to give their children a fun night of crackers, bonfires and a guy.
I too only remember the first four lines off by heart:
"Remember, remember the Fifth of November
The Gunpowder Treason and plot
I see no reason why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot".
Happy holidays to you!
Ignoramus that I am, I had no idea that Guy Fawkes night was celebrated in Australia...but why not? After all, William Cobbett described the celebration of bonfire night in the American colonies in his journal 'A year in New England'.
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