In the sheet music for Bobby Pickett’s novelty song “Monster Mash” (in a book of Novelty Songs I bought), the lines of music are shown only once, with treble line, bass line, chords, etc., along with the lyrics for the first verse; subsequent verses are printed in text form after the last line of music. However, one “verse” is sort of a “bridge,” and the melody, of course, doesn’t fit (this is the part including “Dracula and his son”). Pickett’s publisher apparently goofed and left out the music and chords to go with the bridge.
A similar situation exists with John Hartford’s “Gentle on My Mind,” in which the last part of the fourth verse is several syllables shorter (at least in the version recorded by Glen Campbell), but the lines of music don’t make any allowance for this.
Can any Dopers help me match chords and meter to the parts of the lyrics the sheet music didn’t make allowance for? Thanks very much. 