A SPECIAL PLACE IN HELL
...A special place in hell
The devil sits upon his throne
In the fiery pits of hell
He casts his eye over his special place
While he beats an ominous bell.
Surrounded by pure evil
In a wicked wi...
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Categories:
sawney, evil, fantasy, fear, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
The Ballad of Agnes Bean
...From ‘The Woe of Roanoke ‘
It wasn’t just the gale that chilled his skin
As he mulled on the cannibal captured within.
In trembling state he clenched close his cane
To rap tap the gate of the jai...
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Categories:
sawney, abuse, death, evil, gothic,
Form: Narrative
Would I Were a Yellow Bird
...Would I were a yellow bird,
No woes would be on me
I’d fly me past the Sawney roofs
And past the canopy,
O I’d fly so high above this earth
Above this great frontier,
You’d think me but a yello...
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Categories:
sawney, animals, depression, happiness, hope,
Form: Lyric
Sawney Bean, Legend of a Cannibal - Written In Broad Scots Dialect
...Thar was nae richt ae laddie sair
wha heft a cave 'side Galloway,
wi' nae jaiken he griftit dare
as he was nae tae lippen tae.
Ill-naitur'd fishwife he haud in wi',
the twa 'greed tae gang the'gith...
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Categories:
sawney, history,
Form: Quatrain