Flesh and Hair - Pyogenesis

Let me spare the rod

And spoil the child

Sear me, so help me god

I forced a smile

Who doesn’t know slovenly peter

The dreadful story of matches

Consumed is all (so) sweet and fair

The total child (both) flesh and hair

Flesh and hair

Consumed is all so sweet and fair

Flesh and hair!

How could we let the parent know?

And mintz and mountz sit sighing

With breaking hearths and crying

While round that ash pile glowing

In brooks their tears keep flowing

Flesh and hair

Consumed is all so sweet and fair

Flesh and hair!

But ah, the flame it caught her clothes

Her apron, too and higher rose

Her hand is burnt, her hair’s afire

Consumed is the child entire

Flesh and hair

Consumed is all so sweet and fair

Flesh and hair!