Lyr ADD: Peter McCreep (Halloween song)

Subject: Lyr Req: Peter McCreep (Haloween song)
From: GUEST,nobunnyclue
Date: 31 Oct 12 - 08:12 PM

There is a song from a 1973 anthology of folk music for children called Peter McCreep. It was on LP when I was in gradeschool and I want to sing it for my kids but I remember about all of two lines. Unbelievably, turned up nearly nothing with web search for this one!

Can anyone help me out with lyrics?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Peter McCreep (Haloween song)
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Nov 12 - 07:12 PM

Bump - nobody else with a memory of this one?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Peter McCreep (Haloween song)
From: GUEST,999
Date: 09 Nov 12 - 08:03 PM

If you are the original poster, it would possibly be helpful were you to post the lines you recall.

http://www.chipublib.org/search/details/cn/663829

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Peter McCreep (Haloween song)
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Mar 19 - 07:15 PM

when peter mccreep was asleep....on halloween halloween night

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Peter McCreep (Halloween song)
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Jul 20 - 05:46 PM

On Halloween, Halloween night
Peter McCreep was awake

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Peter McCreep (Halloween song)
From: cnd
Date: 29 Jul 20 - 08:23 PM

This is the album: https://www.discogs.com/Unknown-Artist-Songs-About-Halloween/release/8327048

Not on YouTube, as best as I can find

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Peter McCreep (Halloween song)
From: GUEST,Sylvia Peck
Date: 19 Oct 22 - 05:59 PM

YouTube!!!
https://youtu.be/YrlJPM3N6mI

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Peter McCreep (Halloween song)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Oct 22 - 03:25 PM

From https://www.discogs.com/Unknown-Artist-Songs-About-Halloween/release/8327048

Songs About Halloween
Unknown Artist - Songs About Halloween album cover
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Label:        Classroom Materials Company – CM 1200
Format:        
Vinyl, LP
Country:        US
Released:        1973
Genre:        Non-Music, Children's
Style:        Nursery Rhymes, Sound Art, Spoken Word

A1                Halloween
A2                Peter McCreep
A3                Witches Are Coming
A4                Poor Tom Round
A5                The Cat Came Back
A6                Three Little Devils
A7                Dem Bones
B1                Black And Gold
B2                Old Woman
B3                A Scary Story
B4                Halloween Talking Blues
B5                Anne Boleyn
B6                Witches

It's a nice collection of songs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrlJPM3N6mI

Subject: ADD: Peter McCreep (Halloween song)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Oct 22 - 03:54 PM

The song is here: https://youtu.be/YrlJPM3N6mI?t=92, and here's my transcription.

PETER McCREEP
(Jill Margot Wisoff, 1972)

On Halloween night, all the town was asleep,
Except for one small boy named Peter McCreep.
He was awake 'cause he had a bad cold,
So he watched from his window the street far below.

On Halloween, Halloween night, Peter McCreep was awake.
On Halloween, Halloween night, Peter McCreep was awake.

Well, it couldn't have been twelve o'clock that night,
When right down the street danced this ghastly sight
Of weird-looking things holding lanterns ablaze,
Singing 'bout all of the trouble they'd made.

On Halloween, Halloween night, Peter McCreep was awake.
On Halloween, Halloween night, Peter McCreep was awake.

Well, the black cats were screaming, the witches were singing (?),
The hobgoblins danced and the pumpkin heads pranced;
Peter McCreep at his window above,
Had to cover his ears from that dreadful hubbub.

On Halloween, Halloween night, Peter McCreep was awake.
On Halloween, Halloween night, Peter McCreep was awake.

Well, the roosters (?) go down all around the town,
The hobgoblins dived into holes in the ground,
Who saw the black cats and witches flew home (???)
For the pumpkin heads left out on doorsteps alone.

So Peter, Peter McCreep Went straight into bed and to sleep.
So Peter, Peter McCreep Went straight into bed and to sleep.

Well, that's a start. Can anybody fix what's wrong with this? Thanks to Sylvia for finding the recording. When we work together on this stuff, we do pretty darn well.