Halloween Songs To Sing

Seeing a lack of festive holiday songs I penned these at breakfast. You should be able to figure what tunes they go to. With your help they might one day be sung on playgrounds everywhere.

Rudolph the Red Nosed Reinghost

Rudolph the red nosed reindeer
Had a very shiny nose
But he got hit by a truck
And he became a ghost
Now every Halloween night
Rudolph likes to fly around
When he sees trick-or-treaters
Rudolph tries to run them down

If you're out on Halloween
Better watch the skies
Rudolph the red nosed reinghost
Might just take you by surprise

He'll fly out of the dark night
Making things all eerie bright
If he gets his hooves on you
You won't make it home that night

Creepy the Ghostman

Creepy the ghostman
Is a haunted and lost soul
With hollow eyes and a rotted grin
And a bone chilling low moan
On Halloween night
Creepy flies around the skies
Shrieking here and there and everywhere
"I'm going to take your eyes!"

There must have been black magic in
His casket in the ground
'Cause he crawled out of his deep dark grave
And began hunting folks down

Creepy the Ghostman
Is as real as you and me
So be afraid be very afraid
When you're out this Halloween

Creakity crack crack
Clickity clack clack
Listen for Creapy's bones
Creakity crack crack
Clickity clack clack
He'll make your eyes his own

The Candy Stealer Is Coming To Town

Better not go out
This Halloween night
You should stay home
And turn out the lights
The Candy Stealer's coming to town

He's hairy and green
With big yellow teeth
Glowing red eyes
And claws on his feet
All he eats is Halloween treats

He sees you trick-or-treating
And follows you around
Just when you almost get home
He roars and knocks you down

He'll take your Snickers
Your M&M's too
Jelly beans and
Wax bottles of goo
The Candy Stealer's coming to town

Beautiful. BRAVISSIMO!!!!! and damn clever, too.

Quite catchy...easy to memorize. I'll sing them at work. Thanks

Boo!

On 2003-10-31 22:10, RevBambooBen wrote:
Boo!

Quit scaring me like that!

-Z

On 2003-10-26 21:49, woofmutt wrote:

Reinghost

YES! Finally, the name for my next death metal/Kraut Rock band.

Thanks,
Tiki Chris

I forgot about these until the other day and bumped 'em back into the present in the hopes that new blood and old might help them reach the under 10 set everywhere.

(This may seem like flagrant self promotion but anonymity in its purest form is one of my heart's greatest desires. Here's a flower.)

Here's one that Tikifish and I were fooling around with the other day. It is only a partial transcription from the ancient Coptic:

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I like King Tut and I can not lie
You other mummies can't deny
That when an undead corpse with an itty bitty waist
Disintegrates your face
You get sprung!
Wanna shout out to Amon
Cuz that Tut's got it goin' on!
Deep in the tomb he's raising
I'm hooked and I can't stop gazing
I shouldn't have read that inscription
...In ancient Egyptian
My homeboys tried to warn me
But Tut got my soul
Just like Sigourney
Weaver!
When the ghost of Zool wouldn't leave her
Ooh, walkin' out of that grave
You say you needa brand new slave?
Well Rule Me, Rule Me
cuz you aint that average Ghoulie

So Ladies (yeah?), Ladies (yeah?)
The Tigris and Euphrates! (yeah!)

Get on your knees
Act devout
Even Ramses II got to shout
The Mummy is Back!

[i]On 2004-10-08 12:55, Sabu The Coconut Boy
I like King Tut and I can not lie
You other mummies can't deny

Is that sung to the tune of Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back"? 8)

Is that sung to the tune of Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back"?

You are correct! There were too many verses to translate in one sitting. You got the Reader's Digest Condensed version.

Sabu

With this post I now have a personal Tiki Central Halloween tradition of bumping this topic to the surface at the appropriate time of the year.

From ghoulies and ghosties
And long-leggedy beasties
And things that go

BUMP

in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!

On 2003-11-01 08:22, Tiki Chris wrote:

On 2003-10-26 21:49, woofmutt wrote:

Reinghost

YES! Finally, the name for my next death metal/Kraut Rock band.

Thanks,
Tiki Chris

needs a umlaut above the "o".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBJ-BQ2YsuU&search=cramps%20music

Thanks Ben. Have you seen New York Doll yet, the bitter-sweet tale of Arthur "Killer" Kane. I wuz moved to tears. Great show.

Here's little ditty we whipped up for our Maikai Gents Halloween show:

"Ugly Hula Hands, stirring up a witch’s potion
Dreadful like a wreck in the ocean
Ugly Hula Hands

Ugly Hula Hands, Flailing in the air cold and lifeless
Clutching at the blades of your grass dress
Ugly Hula Hands

I can feel the rotting flesh drip
Off your hands, your Ugly Hula Hands

Tasty as a fresh made clam dip, as I scoop it up
And gobble the putrid nectar

Of your hula hands, fingertips so cold and boney
Pointing to my own tombstoney
Ugly Hula hands"

...And then I wrote:

"Tiny blood cells
In your veins
Make me feel thirsty
To drink your blood like champagne

Tiny blood cells
Make me warm all over
With a feelin' that
I'm gonna devour your heart and brains

We’ll dine ‘neath the golden moon
As we drink your bile for tea
While making a fine roast
Of you for me. (I’m hungry!)

Tiny blood cells
In your veins
Make me feel thirsty
To drink your blood like champagne"

I just polished off a whole bottle of Jack-O-Lantern Schnapps while addressin' my Halloween cards (What does the ghost beautician tell her clients? "Darling, you're BOO-tiful!" Ha-ha-ha!!! So cute!) and I drunkenly realized it was time to bump up this thread. Cuz what's a holiday without repetitious tradition?

Mutt to the rescue...deliver us to the wickedness of the ghoulish season. Looking forward to a card. :)

On 2007-10-04 21:34, woofmutt wrote:
I just polished off a whole bottle of Jack-O-Lantern Schnapps while addressin' my Halloween cards (What does the ghost beautician tell her clients? "Darling, you're BOO-tiful!" Ha-ha-ha!!! So cute!) and I drunkenly realized it was time to bump up this thread. Cuz what's a holiday without repetitious tradition?

Yeah, but did you mix the Jack-o-Lantern Schnapps with Ginger Ale?

On 2007-10-05 18:09, tekoteko wrote:

On 2007-10-04 21:34, woofmutt wrote:
I just polished off a whole bottle of Jack-O-Lantern Schnapps while addressin' my Halloween cards (What does the ghost beautician tell her clients? "Darling, you're BOO-tiful!" Ha-ha-ha!!! So cute!) and I drunkenly realized it was time to bump up this thread. Cuz what's a holiday without repetitious tradition?

Yeah, but did you mix the Jack-o-Lantern Schnapps with Ginger Ale?

You've been fluffed Woofmutt!

Here's a trip down memory lane for all you TC Munchkins:

5 Little Pumpkins sitting on a gate
The 1st one said, "My it's getting late!"
The 2nd one said, "There's bats in the air."
The 3rd one said, "I don't care."
The 4th one said, "Let's run run run."
The 5th one said, "It's only Halloween Fun."
And OOOOOOH went the wind
And out went the lights
And the five little pumpkins rolled out of site.

While attendin' a rather eventful party at The Bamboo Grove of Westwood I was havin' a chat with Seattle's Ghostess Jonelle***** and the subject of singin' Halloween songs came up.

"I didn't know there were Halloween sngs to sing!" exclaimed the Ghostess.

"Yes there are!" I exclaimed back, "I wrote some Halloween songs to be sang to already familiar tunes. Every year I bump-in-the-night them on Tiki Central."

"Oh, I don't get on Tiki Central enough," explained the Ghostess, "And if I do I don't read your posts."

Oh Ghostess! I appreciate your honesty and candor. And as a special surprise I have 3 dead bats in my freezer fer yer party punch bowl.

*****The Ghostess Jonelle throws a swell lil Jet City Halloween party. If yer interested PM her fer info.

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!

Unholy crap! I didn't bump-in-the-night this thread last year?

Fortunately I've remembered to do it this year just in the nick of time...The holiday tradition has been saved!

Here are 3 videos I posted on YouTube that I made of Halloween songs from the CD "Andrew Gold's Halloween Howls":

(1)
Halloween Party (David Cassidy, 1996, "Andrew Gold's Halloween Howls" album, composer Andrew Gold)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b_ShUCwD04
(2)
Don't Scream (Andrew Gold, 1996, "Andrew Gold's Halloween Howls" album, composer Andrew Gold)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htY0oKMdLG8
(3)
Gimme a Smile (Greg Prestopino, 1996, "Andrew Gold's Halloween Howls" album, composer Andrew Gold)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAnEgWg1MkM

The first already has sentimental value to me after I heard it with a date in a Dollar Tree in 2009. The second is fairly catchy, and is based on a blues chord progression. I find the third one too complicated to lodge in listeners' memories, but it's cute.

That CD was made with the idea of creating Halloween-specific holiday songs instead of using pop/rock/rap songs from the Top 40. I like the idea. After the Walmart Christmas stampede incident of 2009 that killed one shopper, one guy on a bus told me that people are nicer to each other on Halloween than Christmas. He had a very good point, I think. I predict that Halloween will become an increasingly important holiday for people, and will spur its own set of holiday music, analogous to Christmas carols. Aspiring musicians who want to write future holiday classics: take note!