Tim McGuire
| Leon Rosselson |
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| Little Tim MacGuire loved to play with fire Always hated water, never used to wash Loved the smell of burning, of bonfires burning Loved to play all day with his little tinder box He chased the sparks as they flew into the evening Hailed the flash of lightning and the burning sun When I'm a man then I'll become a fireman Then I can light a fire for everyone When he was four they dressed him in a uniform Sent him to a school with iron railings all around Hated the school and the rules and the railings Took his little tinder box and burnt it to the ground Oh how he laughed and danced in the firelight Oh how he laughed as the flames leapt to the sky When I'm a man I'm going to be a fireman Keep a bonfire burning until the day I die When MacGuire grew older they made him wear a bowler Set him to work in an office in the town Hated the pens and the pins and the papers Had just one ambition, to burn the office down Little Tim MacGuire loved to play with fire Loved the blaze of roses and the golden grain Loved the leaves of autumn, the red leaves of autumn Loved a slender girl with a smile like a flame The judge said at his trial, Your behaviour has been vile You're a menace to society though you may think you're big You have to go to prison - and then, what a commotion For smoke and fire were pouring from the judge's wig Oh how he laughed and danced in the courtroom We took him down, we locked him in the darkness of the cell Never saw the sun or heard the songbirds calling Saw the prison bars and heard the prison bell Then early one morning just as the day was dawning A great wheel of fire spun skywards from the jail The iron bars melted, the stone walls crumbled No one in the prison lived to tell the tale No one ever found Tim MacGuire's little tinder box No one ever found a trace of Tim MacGuire Perhaps he's up in heaven setting light to angels' haloes Perhaps he's down in hell dancing round the fire This page has been viewed 5875 times |
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