Plague Songs - Killer Matt / by Rich Hobbs

Harold Shipman down in hell looks up in envy;

In his Broadmore cell Pete Sutcliffe heaves a sigh,

For neither one could match

The speed and the despatch

Of KILLER MATT slapsticking who should die.

And Goering doffs his crown of deadly nightshade,

Holds it aloft and coos “See if this fits!

Let’s forget our wartime quarrels!

KILLER MATT deserves the laurels!

He’s killed off more than I did in the Blitz!”

Killer Matt! Killer Matt!

He knocks into a cocked hat

The tales of murderers in days of yore!

Killer Matt! Killer Matt! 

A machine-gun’s rat-a-tat

On the Western Front could not kill any more!

He’s killed your gran & grandad and their carers,

A super serial-killer, still at large

Whose Ambassadors of Death

Unaware killed with their breath

Untested when the poor souls were discharged!

Though uncowled, he’s both grim & mediocre,

And has spread more plague than a Sumatran rat:

With his first in PPE

He lies on the BBC

And he’ll get away with it, will KILLER MATT!

Killer Matt! Killer Matt!

Next he’ll cross-infect your cat!

He’s the Tory Party’s Fred West! Killer Matt!

And nobody can smirk 

And make it look like such hard work

As can the King of Killers, Killer Matt!

Killer Matt! Killer Matt!

Is that drool on his cravat?

Does he now exude a heady graveyard smell?

But he’ll get his just reward

When the murderers applaud

His inevitable homecoming in Hell.