Post #413057 by procinema29 on Mon, Oct 13, 2008 11:23 AM

When I think about this song, I remember the smell of the rubber ghoul mask I got at Toys R Us that year. This would have been around 1975...and this was, I believe, originally a poem (written in the 1940's, possibly?), and it was later put to music and the poem altered slightly (if you look around, several variations of the poem can be found). The music is creeping and mischievous, haunting but not too scary. Somewhere I have a vinyl record of classroom songs that has a very "folksy" version of this.

~ HALLOWEEN ~
By Harry Behn

Tonight is the night
When dead leaves fly
Like witches on switches
Across the sky,
When elf and sprite
Flit through the night
On a moony sheen, on a moony sheen.

Tonight is the night
When leaves make a sound
Like a gnome in his home
Under the ground,
When spooks and trolls
Creep out of holes
All mossy and green, all mossy and green.

Tonight is the night
When pumpkins glare
Through sheaves and leaves
Almost everywhere,
When ghoul and ghost
And goblin host
Dance round their queen
For it's Halloween!