Some Goth college friends of mine are going Halloween caroling, and they’re looking for suggestions for creepy songs, modern or traditional, so they can go door-to-door and sing for people until they get candy so they’ll go away and bother the neighbors.
Suggestions?
Our daughter MilliCal keeps trying to come up with Halloween Carols, using Christmas Carols as templates. My favorite is “Batty the Blue-Nosed Bat”, which includes the line:
“…then one foggy Halloween
Dracula came to say…”
As I’m sure everyone will say, you can always go with Bobby “Boris” Picjkett’s “Monster Mash”. Just make sure you know all the words beforehand.
Just sing anything, the idea of a bunch of goth college students swinging by my house to sing a song is creepy enough as it is.
Marc
Tom Dooley
On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at
Where 'as tha been since ah saw thee, ah saw thee ?
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at ?
Where 'as tha been since ah saw thee, (2x)
On Ilkla Moor baht 'at ? (3x)
I Put a Spell on You
Someone really needs to set the Ia!Ia! Cthulhu fthaghn! to music.
Monster Mash? The theme song from Ghoulie Get-Together?
Not around here, it ain’t… we worry more when the straight-laced people walk up to our door. Buncha dang Coleman supporters.
Why don’t you leave the trick-or-treating to little children, and act your damn age?
It annoys me terribly when teenagers come to the door asking me for candy, let alone people in college. Don’t they have beer and pot anymore? You’re Goths, right? I’m assuming then costumes aren’t a problem?
Halloween isn’t solely a kid’s holiday, but adults typically have a party.
Will your mommy be going with you around the neighborhood, to keep you safe?
Sting’s Moon Over Bourbon Street is about a vampire, IIRC.
Congo Square from Sonny Landreth’s South of I-10 is about voodoo, and it’s spooky.
That Old Black Magic
I Put a Spell On You Howlin’ Wolf did it, then later Arthur Brown.
Ghost of the St. Louis Blues --Leon Redbone
It’s Witchcraft “It’s witchcraft, coocoo witchcraft/And although I know it’s strictly taboo/When you arouse the need in me/My heart says yes, indeed in me…” --Sinatra
Fire (the “I am the god of Hellfire” one.) --Arthur Brown
Every Breath You Take --Sting It’s about a stalker; pretty creepy, when you think about it.
The ancient Pretty Polly and Banks of the Ohio are murder ballads. Tom Dooley is, too.
I Got A Man That Makes Me Wanna Kill from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
Is that weird enough for you?
To the tune of Rudolph:
Cthulu the tentacled old one
Had a very evil brain
And if you ever saw him
You would go completely insane
All of the puny mortals
Used to laugh and call him names
They never let poor Cthulu
Join in any mortal games
Then one hellish deadly day
Cthulu came to say
Mortals with your souls so bright
I will dine on you tonight
Then how the mortals feared him
As they shouted out with pain
Cthulu the tentacled old one
Argh!
I recommend that your friends do this at other friends’ houses, not for the whole neighborhood.
Have you seen the ghost of Tom? is also a nice traditional scary song.
Somebody needs a caramel apple very badly…
Well, Mr. Moto, looks like we’re in the minority…
Wasn’t there a song that started, “They’re coming to take you away, ha ha…”
I believe it was later considered politcally uncorrect for some reason, but they used to play the song on the radio every Halloween.
A bit long, but the Celtic song The Widow and the Devil is both bawdy and creepy. 
You have to include **Alice Cooper’s ** “I Love the Dead”!
I assume The time-warp is already on the list?
When I was a kid, I had a booklet of Pumpkin Carols, featuring the Peanuts gang. With a little Googling, I managed to scare up the lyrics online.
Monster mash is a great album(if it’s still in print).It includes Hurry Bury Baby and Popeye the Gravedigger
Bela Lugosi’s Dead requires little singing-- just a bit of humming, then some enthusiastic "Undead! Undead! Undead!"s.
I’d fork out big time for a bunch of Goths sweetly singing Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered.
But why not just get to the point and sing I Want Candy?