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.
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O Fortuna
Whoa…It’s like I’m the master of time and space here.
You’re entirely right. I’m very sorry.
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.
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.
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.
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
How about Nick Cave’s “Red Right Hand”? Just make sure you don’t mix it up with “Sharp Dressed Man” by ZZTop
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.
Carmina Burana.
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.
The first line of the song should be “Do not surround me with wreathes of flowers…”
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…)
I had that too! These appear to be a differnet set of Pumpkin Carols.
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
even better… the Masochism Tango…
“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
“Mrs. Raboo” - A dead lady who’s body won’t go away.
“Super Freak”
“Gypies Tramp and Theives”
“Workin in the Coal Mine”