Many thanks for everyone's help with these lyrics. The Wikipedia article references several songs including the Shave the Monkey one, but with no lyric link for it. There are lyrics to a number of other witchfinder general songs on Google, but the only Google link to these particular lyrics is to this thread. So for the sake of completeness, here's the consensus lyrics: WITCHFINDER GENERAL (Carolyn Sheppard & Bryan Causton) He will find you, he'll come searching, innocent or guilty yet He will ask and you must answer, condemned to die by Pyewackett Are you listening Matthew Hopkins, are you sleeping sound Can you hear us scratching from our graves in the ground We're a widow and a wife, we are Reid and West We are Clarke and Mills and our souls cannot rest Lizzie Clarke was just the start, many more hung by her side For not bleeding when you pricked us with a knife that cut no hide Are you listening Matthew Hopkins, are you sleeping sound Can you hear us scratching from our graves in the ground We are four hundred strong, we are dead by you We are lost to the church, to the devil we are due Torturing the weak and feeble, townsmen paying you in gold Feeding fever in the fearful, murdering the poor and old Are you listening Matthew Hopkins, are you sleeping sound Can you hear us scratching from our graves in the ground You're the witch finder general, you are bold and strong You are rich and respected, most of all you are wrong He will find you, he'll come searching, innocent or guilty yet He will ask and you must answer, condemned to die by Pyewackett Are you listening Matthew Hopkins, are you sleeping sound Can you hear us scratching from our graves in the ground We're a widow and a wife, we are Reid and West We are Clarke and Mills and our souls cannot rest Are you listening Matthew Hopkins, are you sleeping sound Can you hear us scratching from our graves in the ground You're the witch finder general, you are bold and strong You are rich and respected, most of all you are wrong
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