The first verse of this is a traditional folk song upon which I decided to expand. The subsequent verses are my own.

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Traditional:
have you seen the ghost of John?
long white bones and the flesh all gone.
Oooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhh
wouldn't it be chilly with no skin on?

Fugli:
The English Isles were his domain.
He did not abdicate his reign
Oooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhh
War swept ore the Norman plains.

Papal homage did demand
that he obey ho-ly command
Oooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhh
Excommunication was his reprimand.

In distant cloister did he partake
Where a monk did plot his life to take
Oooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhh
of a poisonous drought, his thirst did slake