Curbsquirrels London Fire Lyrics

London Fire Lyrics

September Second sixteen sixty six. 

"Fire, Fire," jane yells from
downstairs. 

Go back to sleep I think nothing at all 

and I wake up
at seven o'clock. 



I go to see what the comotion's about. 

Three-hundred houses are burned to the ground. 

Crowded streets packed
to the max 

with people who's houses are now ashes. 



Fire
Fire, the city is gone. 

It's too late now the fire has won. 

The
whole city has burned down to the ground 

and there's nothing we can do
about it now. 



Doesn't worry me too much I live far away. 

They'll stop it soon enough in less than a day. 

Hop in the boat to
see what's going on. 

It's getting late it's turning to dawn. 

I
tell the king to pull the houses down. 

The king tells me to go to the
mayor. 

The mayor orders them to pull it down, 

but no one hears
them at all. 



My plans have changed now the fire is close. 

I sent my money down to sir Rider's house. 

I don't know what to do, I
think I'll pick up my things. 

I started packing and it took me all day.




Two o'clock in the morning 

my wife calls me up and tells
me it's coming close. 

The fire's reached the barking church, 

which stands at the end of my land. 

I need to hide all my gold now.


I locked it up and told them not to leave the room. 



It
missed my house! Yippee! 

The fire has missed my house!