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Victorian Poison

from Victorian Poison by Hard Red Spring

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Edward's boot upon her neck
One too many times
The burns her children noticed
Over nursery rhymes

Violet saw little choice
If they were to survive
Sharpened up her best scissors
Taught herself to drive

The best Victorian poison
Was probably cyanide
Odourless and colourless
And mostly husbands died

Sisters had to cull the field
So they could hit their stride
The best Victorian poison
Was prob'ly cyanide

Ada in the cellar locked
All the weekend long
Came up with a bill of fare
And put it in a song

"Strychnine soup for starters
Stew of leopard's bane”
A man deserves a final meal
Before he goes away

Pretty Polly and Crazy Mary
Chemistry and apothecary

Elizabeth got arsenic
From the cattle vet
A little drop in his evening scotch
And watched his spirit let

The kids were with their grandfather
Nursing sweet black eyes
Elizabeth moved in that night
And let her story rise

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from Victorian Poison, released October 20, 2022
Words and music by Jenny Burman, Matthew Hunter, Darin Barney and Hard Red Spring

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Hard Red Spring is a mighty rock band from Montreal.

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