BONFIRE NIGHT

Why do we light fireworks and have bonfires... learn the story behind the celebrations. At the Duck and Drake met a Catholic gang They didn’t like King James so they hatched a plan They wanted to be free but went to the extreme This is the tale - of bonfire night... On bonfire night they tried to light up the sky And blow up the King in a ball of fire But the fuse never burned their plot was overturned And that’s why we light fireworks tonight They rented a room under parliament Rolled in thirty barrels in the dead of night Filled with gunpowder there would be no survivors This is the tale - of bonfire night... Give a penny for the guy ’cos they all survived On November the 5th back in 1605 Their leader from York was called Guy Fawkes This is the tale - of bonfire night...