The Ballad of Sweeney Zuko

A boy of twelve with messy brown hair in a red uniform in a straight jacket sat in a chair in his cell. He was in an asylum that was under new ownership. But he remembered the former owner as well as many other people. He began to sing a song of insanity, greed, evil, love and revenge.

Attend the Tale of Sweeney Zuko,

His skin was pale and his eye was odd.

He shaved the faces of gentlemen,

who never thereafter were heard of again.

He trod a path that few have trod,

did Sweeney Zuko,

the demon barber of Yin Street!

He kept a shop in Ba Sing Se town,

Of fancy clients an good renown.

An what if none of their souls were saved,

they went to their maker impecably shaved!

By Sweeney, by Sweeney Zuko, the demon barber of Yin Street!

The boy stood up in his chair and looked out his window to see a coffin being carried down the street.

Swing you razor wide Sweeney!

Hold it to the skies!

Freely flows the blood of those who moralize!

His needs were few his room was bare,

A lavabo and a fancy chair.

A mug of suds, and a leather strop

An apron, a towel, a pail and a mop.

For neatness her deserves a nod,

Does Sweeney Zuko,
the demon barber of Yin street.



Inconspicous Sweeney was,

Quick, and quiet and clean he was.

Back of his smile, under his word,

Sweeney heard music that nobody heard,

Sweeney pondered and Sweeney planned,

Like a perfectly machine he planned,

Sweeney was smooth, Sweeney was subtle,

Sweeney would blink, and rats would scuttle,

Sweeney was smooth, Sweeney was subtle,

Sweeney would blink, and rats would scuttle,

Sweeney was smooth, Sweeney was subtle,

Sweeney would blink, and rats would scuttle,

Sweeney was smooth, Sweeney was subtle,

Sweeney would blink, and rats would scuttle

Sweeney! Sweeney! Sweeney! Sweeney! Sweeney!

Attend the Tale of Sweeney Zuko!

Attend the Tale of Sweeney Zuko!

He served a dark and avengeful God!

What happened then well that's the tale,

And he wouldn't want me to give it away...

Not Sweeney

Not Sweeney Zuko

The demon barber of Yin...

Street...

A guard came into the room and took the boy away. The boy then began to fear for the worst.