John Johnson

You will know this man by another name
A man who played a dangerous game
With a band of men who, for England’s sake,
Hatched a plan at the Duck and Drake.

The plan for a remedy dreamed up by this band
Was to quell a disease across the land.
By this, they referred to the Protestant King,
Whom the Catholics saw as a dreadful thing.

Thirty-six barrels of gunpowder to blow
The king and his ministers, high and low.
Protestants out and Catholics in.
Oh, what a terrible, treasonable sin.

But the plan was detected before they set light
To the barrels, and murdered the king that night.
When arrested this man gave not his true name,
But John Johnson, we know as Guy Fawkes, by fame.