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Mat Bowles ([personal profile] matgb) wrote2007-11-05 01:26 am
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Remember, remember the Fifth of November


Remember, remember the Fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,
I know of no reason
Why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes, t'was his intent
To blow up King and Parliament.
Three-score barrels of powder below
To prove old England's overthrow;
By God's providence he was catch'd
With a dark lantern and burning match.
Holloa boys, holloa boys, let the bells ring.
Holloa boys, holloa 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 ol' Pope is dead.
Hip hip hoorah!
Hip hip hoorah hoorah!

Of course, the anti-catholic/anti-popery vitriol is a little, well, disturbing by todays tastes (to say the least), but the fear of tyranny was well founded, if not actually as linked to catholicism as propagandists led the populace to believe. England's never really supported tyrants for too long, and we do tend to like a good party...
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[personal profile] matgb 2007-11-05 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
If you were 12, then I was 15, which explains it even better. Longest paper round in Torbay...

I'd make sure I got home for 6 though, Good Stuff was shown at 6. As I said, want to watch, just not got around to.

[identity profile] miss-s-b.livejournal.com 2007-11-05 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh. Star Trek. And The Man From UNCLE! And Land of the Giants!

I used to watch all the crap sci-fi at six with my daddy.
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[personal profile] matgb 2007-11-05 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
See, I knew I didn't have to tell you why getting home for 6 was essential.

But it was a seriously long route—if I reversed it, the people at the beginning would ring up to complain :-(

Loved it though, might be worth walking the route at some point, some of the nicer bits of scenery in the area. Wonder if the lunatics with the train in the back garden are still there?

[identity profile] miss-s-b.livejournal.com 2007-11-05 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh I hope they are!

Although when we went down to the beach there was a lady who shouted at Teh Shrub for walking on her garden wall...
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