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Advertisement: PlagueAway, the Pestilence Potion
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Comical fake advertisement for a medieval product to get rid of the Bubonic Plague. Recorded for my Renaissance Festival Podcast.
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Marc Gunn is an Irish and Scottish folk singer with a strange affinity for Celtic ballads, drinking songs and cats, and he is the lead singer for the Brobdingna
Marc Gunn is an Irish and Scottish folk singer with a strange affinity for Celtic ballads, drinking songs and cats, and he is the lead singer for the Brobdingnagian Bards.
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Genre
World • Traditional Celtic
Charts
Peak #320
Peak in subgenre #26
Author
words Marc Gunn/Lorella Loftus
Rights
Marc Gunn
Uploaded
February 23, 2006
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MP3 1.2 MB • 128 kbps • 1:20
Story behind the song
Recorded for my Renaissance Festival Podcast at http://www.renaissancefestivalmusic.com/
Lyrics
NARRATOR: Do you suffer from lumps in your groin? Are your armpits swelling up? You may be have the bubonic plague? MAN: Betty, I got something under my arm? WOMAN: Away and boil your hed! MAN: Boil! Aye it's a boil. It's HUGE! WOMAN: Don't be stupid. MAN: I' is. It's got hairs on it and it's all purple. WOMAN: Ahhhh… Oh Jimmy. I think it's the plague. NAR: That's right. Jimmy is suffering from the bubonic plague. Luckily, there's a new ointment to soothe away Jimmy's pestilence-PlagueAway Potion is just what Jimmy needs. Made from the finest and freshest organic material, like ground boar snout [pig squeals], saliva of Werewolf, giant's toenail, and revolutionary flakes of leper skin. Now available at your local apothecary. APOTHECARY: Good morrow, mistress. How may I help you? WOMAN: Good morrow [whispering] My husband's got… he's got… APOTHECARY: Ahhh. No need to say anymore. [lowers voice] We just got a new order of PlagueAway. It's a miracle cure. WOMAN: Oh! Thank you, thank you! NAR: Betty went home and applied PlagueAway to Jimmy's boils. In just three days, Jimmy felt relief. JIMMY: O Betty. Come to bed. And bring the PlagueAway. WOMAN: Aye Jimmy. NAR: Jimmy lived to the ripe old age of 32. And you can too with PlagueAway, the pestilence potion.
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