Black Death - HD VERSION ("Hollaback Girl" by Gwen Sefani)
January 15, 2021
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as posted by the channelOur original 2007 version brought on a "fleas on rats" revolution...now the HD version is here!
LYRICS
Uh huh, it’s the plague…
Gonna kill you in a few days
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
Oooooo, ooooo 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 that book by Boccaccio
Or you could be a flagellant, girl
Flog yourself till you repent, girl
Oooooo, ooooo Fleas on rats, fleas on rats
Five kilometers 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 some serious persecution
People carried pouches of herbs to protect them from the smell
Doctors didn’t know what caused it
Bolt your door if your family’s afflicted
Bodies in the carts, girl
Skeletons in the art, girl
But the decreased population
Led to the amelioration
Of the peasant folk, hey
They could ask for more pay
Oooooo, ooooo Fleas on rats, fleas on rats
Let me hear you say:
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
Oooooo, ooooo Fleas on rats, fleas on rats
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