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OXFORDSHIRE GUY FAWKES' SONG by ANONYMOUS

First Line: "REMEMBER, REMEMBER / THE FIFTH OF NOVEMBER"
Last Line: AND THE WORSE FOR YOU
Subject(s): "COUNTRY LIFE;GUNPOWDER PLOT;OXFORDSHIRE, ENGLAND;" GUY FAWKES;

REMEMBER, remember
The Fifth of November.
Bonfire Night—
We want a faggot
To make it alight.
Hatchets and duckets,
Beetles and wedges,
If you don't give us some,
We'll pull your old hedges;
If you don't give us one,
We'll take two:
The better for us
And the worse for you!



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