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Uh huh, it’s the plague

Gonna kill you in a few days

A pandemic so so severe

The Black Death caused such horror and fear

And there ain’t no cure for that, girl

You’ll be dead in no time flat, girl

You’ll get acral necrosis from the yersinia pestis

And it makes your tongue all black, girl

Gonna bury you out in back, girl

Ooh, fleas on rats (fleas on rats)

Started in China don’t know how

But the Mongols used biological warfare

At Kaffa hurled plagued corpses at the Genoese

The Italians fled back to Sicily and in 1347

Black Death said “hello” to Europe in the form of infected fleas

From port cities along trade roads

Buboes swellin’ in the nodes

And it spread real fast like that, girl

Better flee when you see a rat, girl

People livin’ for the now, bro

Like the book by Boccaccio

Or you could be a flagellant, girl

Flog yourself till you repent, girl

Ooh, fleas on rats (fleas on rats)

5 kilometres a day and in 5 years

Killed two-thirds of the population

Some blamed the lepers or Jews

Did they poison the wells?

It led to peasant revolts, loss of faith

And serious persecution

People carried pouches of herbs

To protect them from the smell

Doctors didn’t know what caused it

Bolt your doors if your family’s afflicted

Bodies in the carts, girl

Skeletons in the art, girl

But the decreased population

Let to amelioration

Of the peasant folk, hey

They could ask for more pay

Ooh, fleas on rats (fleas on rats)

Let me hear you say:

This plague is Bubonic B-U-B-O-N-I-C

This plague is Bubonic B-U-B-O-N-I-C”

A pandemic so severe

The Black Death caused such horror and fear

And there ain’t no cure for that, girl

You’ll be dead in no time flat, girl

You’ll get acral necrosis from the Yersinia pestis

And it makes your tongue all black, girl

Gonna bury you out in back, girl

Ooh, fleas on rats (fleas on rats)

#plagu3 #plague #black death

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