r/shortscarystories
4 yr. ago
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Do You Know the Muffin Man?
Oh, do you know the Muffin Man
The Muffin Man, the Muffin Man
Oh, do you know the Muffin Man
He lives on Drury Lane
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Oh, yes I know the Muffin Man
The Muffin Man, the Muffin Man
For he returns with dark demands
You've yet to pay your debt
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The illness struck your family
Your father suffered fev'rishly
Your sister's cough, unsavoury
Your mother struggled so
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The loved ones needed bread to eat
Their health required costly meat
And medicine with fruit so sweet
You made the call for help
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From Drury Lane, the Muffin Man
Responded to your plighted plan
A contract signed with your own hand
The binding pact was formed
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'Twas eighty pounds and shillings four
And food to stock the kitchen drawers
With medicine to soothe the sores
Your fam'ly could endure
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In leaving you, the Man implored
To pay the debt – you shan't ignore
For future pain (so much abhorred)
Would curse if you evade
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The seasons passed – with all your strength
You could not pay the funds you've take'd
Your loved ones, still with sickness, shake'd
The Muffin Man's arrived
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“Good sir, I cannot pay today
I beg you please, will you delay
My promises, I won't betray
Your trust, but please more time”
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The Muffin Man says, Time is done
Some men require livers young
And tender kidneys not high-strung
For then you see his blade
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When fam'ly wakes from sickness' hold
They call for you until they're told
The Muffin Man took heart and soul
Your loved ones wail in tears
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Oh, do you know the Muffin Man
The Muffin Man, the Muffin Man
Take care, be not trapped in his hands
He lives on Drury Lane