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THEY DUG UP DIRTY DICK - Did you hear the news
Did you hear about King Richard? Seems they dug the old bloke up
from beneath a car park somewhere out near Leicester.
He wasn’t taking up much room, most folks were unaware
that his medieval bones were there to fester.
It seems a metal arrow was still lodged deep in his spine.
Puts a different slant upon metal detecting.
Perhaps they thought they’d discovered some buried treasure there
I doubt old Dick was what they were expecting.
Forensic tests and xrays tell us he had scoliosis,
his spine it seems was as crooked as he
and now they plan to run some of those DNA type tests
to see if this bloke is real monarchy
He was in battle killed we’re told in fourteen eighty five
at Bosworth. They just wrapped him in a shroud
and buried him au- natural without a coffin dark,
hardly a burial to do him proud.
And now a dental visit they are subjecting Dick to
just pulling out a molar here and there.
This made the news in Scotland but it didn’t make it here
so one presumes that Aussies really just don’t care.
But now the tests are all confirmed and the body is Dick
with a hole in his skull for all to see.
The powers that be decided it was best to leave him there
A car park grave for long dead monarchy.
Commuters have parked with kings on the Grey Friars old plot
but now King Dick is set to move away
to be buried with honours in a more exalted spot
at Leicester Cathedral so they say.
And cousin Liz may well attend, but then again may not
some protocol no doubt will be in place.
The last of the Plantaganets, a Shakespeare character
will finally have rest in state of grace.
Maureen Clifford © 09/12 amended 02/13
