# Halloween Caroling suggestions
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-caroling-suggestions/327846
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [October 25, 2005, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-caroling-suggestions/327846 "2005-10-25T17:32:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2005, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-caroling-suggestions/327846/21 "2005-10-26T02:13:35Z")
**Mr Moto** , you’re out of order here. The OP is looking for suggestions for songs, and that’s what this thread is about. If you want to Pit trick-or-treaters over a certain age, go to the Pit forum to do it. Not here.
Official Moderator Warning: Personal insults are not permitted in Cafe Society.
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### Author:  [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2005, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-caroling-suggestions/327846/22 "2005-10-26T03:26:27Z")
O Fortuna
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### Author:  [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2005, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-caroling-suggestions/327846/23 "2005-10-26T03:41:42Z")
> [@dangermom](#):
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> _Have you seen the ghost of Tom?_ is also a nice traditional scary song.
Whoa…It’s like I’m the master of time and space here.
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### Author:  [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2005, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-caroling-suggestions/327846/24 "2005-10-26T10:24:12Z")
> [@C K Dexter Haven](#):
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> **Mr Moto** , you’re out of order here. The OP is looking for suggestions for songs, and that’s what this thread is about. If you want to Pit trick-or-treaters over a certain age, go to the Pit forum to do it. Not here.
>
> Official Moderator Warning: Personal insults are not permitted in Cafe Society.
You’re entirely right. I’m very sorry.
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### Author:  [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2005, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-caroling-suggestions/327846/25 "2005-10-26T12:29:55Z")
Apology accepted, very happily.
Nothin’ makes us Mods happier than calling someone on a goof, and having them apologize. It’s inspiring. Seriously. (Far more often, people don’t recognize their own goofs – I guess it has to do with acknowledging imperfection? – and that’s what leads to bannings and hard feelings etc.)
So, thanks for that, **Mr Moto** , and I in return will delete the memorandum in the Moderator’s Record Book of Naughty and Nice… so you’re clean.
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### Author:  [@delphica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/delphica)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2005, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-caroling-suggestions/327846/26 "2005-10-26T12:39:17Z")
Warren Zevon’s _Werewolves of London_ is always a favorite.
The theme from _The Addams Family_
Okay, they’re more goofy than creepy, but I think they would go over well on Halloween.
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2005, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-caroling-suggestions/327846/27 "2005-10-26T13:11:50Z")
> [@Beadalin](#):
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> Then t’worms will come an’ eat thee oop
The worms crawl in
The worms crawl out
The worms play pinochle on your snout
(etc.)
Also, Tom Lehrer’s **I Hold Your Hand In Mine** and that Irish ballad: _About a maid I’ll sing a song, sing rickety tickety tin_…
Also also, Shriekback’s _The Dead Come Home_. I personally can vouch that it was sung at more than one Halloween party at the University of Michigan in the late 1980s.
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### Author:  [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2005, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-caroling-suggestions/327846/28 "2005-10-26T14:18:03Z")
Trout Fishing in America’s
**Big Trouble**
The chorus goes like this:
Oh, I’m gonna be in big trouble when my parents get back today.
Cuz this after noon the monsters came to my house to play
It features visits by a vampire, a witch, a mummy, Frankenstein’s monster, a werewolf, a ghost, The Fly, The Blob, etc
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### Author:  [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2005, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-caroling-suggestions/327846/29 "2005-10-26T14:27:28Z")
How about [Nick Cave’s “Red Right Hand”](http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Nick-Cave/Red-Right-Hand.html)? Just make sure you don’t mix it up with “Sharp Dressed Man” by ZZTop
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### Author:  [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2005, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-caroling-suggestions/327846/30 "2005-10-26T14:43:56Z")
> [@DMark](#):
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> Wasn’t there a song that started, “They’re coming to take you away, ha ha…”
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> I believe it was later considered politcally uncorrect for some reason, but they used to play the song on the radio every Halloween.
That one would be “They’re Coming To Take Me Away, Ha, Haaa!” by Napolean XIV. Released in 1966.
As for my song suggestion, I’ll say “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper,” by Blue Oyster Cult is suitably Goth.
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2005, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-caroling-suggestions/327846/31 "2005-10-26T19:55:10Z")
Carmina Burana.
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### Author:  [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-caroling-suggestions/327846/32 "2005-10-26T20:30:07Z")
Oo! I forgot _Burial Waltz_! by Ed Sanders and Warren Smith, performed by the Fugs.
(an excerpt)
"Do not surround with wreathes of flowers,
Nor place upon my body the signs of a fetish,
Nor crescent, cross, phallus, or sun,
But bury me in an apple orchard that I may touch your lips again.
Bury me in an apple orchard that I may touch your lips again.
…taste of me when your lips taste the froth
foaming out of the apple meat…"
Oh, yeah. Romance after death. I love it.
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### Author:  [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-caroling-suggestions/327846/33 "2005-10-26T20:36:58Z")
The first line of the song should be “Do not surround **me** with wreathes of flowers…”
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### Author:  [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2005, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-caroling-suggestions/327846/34 "2005-10-31T13:52:54Z")
> [@saoirse](#):
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> How about [Nick Cave’s “Red Right Hand”](http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Nick-Cave/Red-Right-Hand.html)? Just make sure you don’t mix it up with “Sharp Dressed Man” by ZZTop
Or ‘The Curse of Millhaven’ - Who could resist a song in which a character called Stinky Bohoon nails a dog to a door? (And that’s minor compared to what the protagonist gets up to…)
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2005, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-caroling-suggestions/327846/35 "2005-10-31T19:42:49Z")
> [@Thudlow Boink](#):
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> 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](http://www.nationallonghouse.org/Resources/Songs/Sg-hallo.html) online.
I had that too! [These appear to be a differnet set of Pumpkin Carols](http://www.paganlibrary.com/music_poetry/peanuts_pumpkin_carols.php).
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### Author:  [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2005, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-caroling-suggestions/327846/36 "2005-10-31T19:57:32Z")
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2005, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-caroling-suggestions/327846/37 "2005-10-31T20:17:45Z")
even better… the Masochism Tango…
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2005, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-caroling-suggestions/327846/38 "2005-10-31T21:27:55Z")
“When Father Papered the Parlor” - Victorian Folk Song
A link for the above, and this is an amature singers site so try not to ofend the people. A very few songs are good. [http://www.daretosing.com/?class=submission&action=view&id=28646](http://www.daretosing.com/?class=submission&action=view&id=28646)
“Mrs. Raboo” - A dead lady who’s body won’t go away.
“Super Freak”
“Gypies Tramp and Theives”
“Workin in the Coal Mine”
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### Author:  [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2005, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-caroling-suggestions/327846/39 "2005-10-31T23:14:27Z")
[_Mary Jane’s Last Dance_](http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Tom-Petty/Mary-Jane-s-Last-Dance.html)
[_Like A Sunday In Salem_](http://www.lyricsdownload.com/gene-cotton-like-a-sunday-in-salem-the-amos-and-andy-song-lyrics.html)
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### Author:  [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)
#### Post date: [November 1, 2005, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-caroling-suggestions/327846/40 "2005-11-01T01:03:42Z")
[Dry Bones](http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/bones.htm)
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