“The mob, which was immense... received with shouts the solitary wretch who found his way to the gallows out of the five or six who seem not less guilty than he.” - Sir Walter Scott, 28t h of January 1829
“...The town of Edinburgh was filled with an immense crowd of spectators, from all places of the surrounding country, to witness the execution of a Monster, whose crime stands unparalleled in the annals of Scotland.” - Edinburgh Broadsheet 1829
“Every effort [had been] employed to convert my misfortune into positive and intended personal guilt of the most dreadful character...” - Dr. Robert Knox 1829
“The sickly and the hale Were murder'd, pack'd up, and sent off To Knox's human sale That man of skill, with subjects warm Was frequently supplied Nor did he question when or how The persons brought had died!” - Edinburgh children's verse circa 1829
“That his class received him, in consequence of these horrid disclosures, with three cheers... that savage yell within those blood-stained walls is no more, to the voice of the public, than so much squeaking and grunting in a pig-sty during a storm of thunder.... and instead of serving to convince anyone... of their lecturer's innocence, it has had... the very opposite effect – exhibiting a ruffian recklessness of general opinion and feeling on a most appalling subject.” - Christopher North Blackwood, 1829
Dr. Knox: A “noxious” butcher, a name they will rue When their carcasses yield postmortem truths Although Burke and Hare, have their usefulness proved From their sordid acts, I stand far removed But now from the grave's final jape
I shan't emerge wholly unscathed From this calumny there's no escape A lifetime of work that may all go to waste A gentleman born, now stained by disgrace Once a surgeon, now a ghoul in his place
Dr. Knox: Death and life forever intertwined And within their vulgar minds The penny dreadful they seek they will find, they'll have their death revenge I plied my trade bound to the grave Now they've labeled me depraved My name and my work bear their stain, this is their death revenge
Hare: Burke alone stands judged for both our transgressions The hangman awaits him, then postmortem dissection Yet all that peers back from the looking glass Are the ghosts of my past, screaming to their last
Hare: And now my grave, final jape Is writ large on Burke's cadaverous face From the noose he shall have no escape Why let both of our lives go to waste? In my confession the blame lay misplaced Once a man, soon a corpse in his place
Hare: Forfeit his life to extend mine Thus ends our partnership in crime Lady justice though said to be blind, still takes her death revenge
Burke: I earned my living from the grave And committed acts depraved Life ends unsaved and betrayed, the price paid: Death Revenge
Solo – Matthew Harvey
Solo – Michael Burke
Dr. Knox / Hare: Death and life forever intertwined And within the morbid mind There's only darkness left to find, the final death revenge We lived our lives within the grave And in turn became depraved And now naught remains to be saved, the final death revengeTeksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.
