Oh The Weather The Weather!

At the battle of Waterloo, Two days torrential rain Hammered into the ground. Thunder & lightning Rent the gloomy heavens Up to the ankles in mud,42,00 died The night the Titanic sank, No moonlight, No clouds, Calm waters Frozen to the very bone 1,500 drowned or died in the sea Pale as the ice floes floating silent round When the bomb destroyed Nagasaki There were tropical rain squalls Flashes of lightning Nothing as bright as the death That fell from the skies, Snapping trees like matchsticks Vaporising people 39,000 gone The Great Fire of London Was a horror waiting to happen A long, hot, rainless summer An easterly wind Took a spark to ignite a tinderbox 90% of houses wiped away At the execution of King Charles 1st Black frost turned roads dangerous The skies were grey and cold Ice floes sailed in the Thames Wearing two shirts, the monarch Walked to the block On February 13th 1692 At night, under cover of sleep A blizzard howling Red coat soldiers, Campbells Rose to slit the throats Of their hosts of several days 38 killed where they lay Some say in the hills And along the wider glen 300 more were slaughtered The weather finished off Those the soldiers missed