Whitefriars Lane

Oh what a crowd in Whitefriars Lane!

They’ve set trestles in a row.

With a scaffold and the blade

And a pail of bran below.

Come good people to Whitefriars Lane.

Come see the merry show.

 

The headsman rose at crack of dawn,

A long day’s work at hand–

Chopping heads off generals,

Princes, priests and admirals;

All the highest in the land.

What a crowd in Whitefriars Lane.

 

See them standing in a line,

Ladies and gentlemen, so refined.

But their heads have got to go,

Heads and hats roll down below.

Come good people to Whitefriars Lane.

Come see the merry show.

 

Winter 1978

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