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Anyone got the lyrics for this, i truely love the song and a few parts are a bit hazy to work out!

Crossing Blackfriars Bridge to Guy's
Then back to Bart's for a better prize
Our goods are dear but they're never shoddy
Tell me anybody need a body

From a Resurrectionist
Medical scientist

We've all got to earn ourselves a living
All it takes is a little bit of digging
By a Resurrectionist

I met a man down Thieving Lane
He told me he was in the same game
We both talked the same body language
On New Gate Street we saw the hanging

Of a Resurrectionist
Medical scientist

We've all got to earn ourselves a living
All it takes is a little bit of digging
By a Resurrectionist

Got a nice thing for the right punter
Used to be a [ ] hunter

We had a drink, then a couple of more
With the King of Denmark
And the Fortune of War

A handsome lad lay in a Hansom cab
Soon to be stiff
And on a slab

From the Resurrectionist
Medical scientist
From a Resurrectionist
Medical scientist

We've all got to earn ourselves a living
All it takes is a little bit of digging
By a Resurrectionist
Medical scientist

We don't bring them back to life
But we do bring them back from the dead

Thank you

Thanks a lot! Very unusual interesting lyrics. I wonder what inspired Neil to write this.

Vicki wrote:Thanks a lot! Very unusual interesting lyrics. I wonder what inspired Neil to write this.

He used to have a few friends that used to be bodysnatchers.

Nightlife wrote:

Vicki wrote:Thanks a lot! Very unusual interesting lyrics. I wonder what inspired Neil to write this.

He used to have a few friends that used to be bodysnatchers.

Kidnappers you mean or what? Sorry I'm not a native English speaker...

Vicki wrote:

Nightlife wrote:

Vicki wrote:Thanks a lot! Very unusual interesting lyrics. I wonder what inspired Neil to write this.

He used to have a few friends that used to be bodysnatchers.

Kidnappers you mean or what? Sorry I'm not a native English speaker...

Nah, friends of him came out of pods, I guess

Vicki wrote: Kidnappers you mean or what?...

Yeah, but the kidnapping of dead people!

It sounds like a reference to Burke and Hare who were grave robbers in the 1800's. I know Neil is getting on but I don't think he's quite that old .

Nightlife wrote:

Vicki wrote: Kidnappers you mean or what?...

Yeah, but the kidnapping of dead people!

Were they medical students or what did they need them for?

Bang wrote:It sounds like a reference to Burke and Hare who were grave robbers in the 1800's. I know Neil is getting on but I don't think he's quite that old .

fluffmoln wrote:A handsome lad lay in a Hansom cab
Soon to be stiff
And on a slab

Love that!

Vicki wrote:Thanks a lot! Very unusual interesting lyrics. I wonder what inspired Neil to write this.

He (Neil) said it was inspired by a book that he's been reading...can't remember which interview it was or what book, sorry

Certain "medical scientists" to used to acquire bodies from hospitals in order to perform their own procedures on them.

Hansom cabs can be seen in any Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes film - he and Watson used them all the time!

the book is “The italian boy" by Sarah Wise (Murder and grave-robbery in 1830s London)

fluffmoln wrote:Got a nice thing for the right punter
Used to be a [ ] hunter

I googled what a fogle hunter is and found this -

http://www.expat.ru/forum/archive/index ... 35572.html

Fogle-hunter (a 19th century thief specialising in silk handkerchiefs).

I guess I am getting bored with the usual routine lyrics about love that seem to dominate most songs on the radio that its always nice to have lyricists like neil who can make intelligent songs about weird subjects.