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15 Oct 01 - 04:23 PM (#572733) Subject: Spooky Ballads for Halloween From: GUEST,Kristen (kmlehner@mbf-law.com) Does anyone have any suggestions for particularly creepy or spooky murder (or other) ballads (American folk, old-timey), suitable for a performance around Halloween?
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15 Oct 01 - 05:25 PM (#572780) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spooky Ballads for Halloween From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Hi, Kristen. Go to the top of the Forum page, find the Refresh button. Set it back 3 days or 1 week and you will find one great thread titled Halloween Songs, and another wonderful one titled Supernatural Ballads. Then, when you have time, read the FAQ Newcomer's Guide which will give you other great tips on how to find stuff here. |
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15 Oct 01 - 05:39 PM (#572795) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spooky Ballads for Halloween From: Little Krissy (sheepish) Read some of the FAQ, should have looked harder for a relevant thread. Thanks for info. |
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15 Oct 01 - 06:11 PM (#572824) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spooky Ballads for Halloween From: Susan of DT Put @ghost in the blue search box - gets 63 hits. also try @myth for an assortment of devils, unicorns, fairies, etc, some of which may be relevent. |
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15 Oct 01 - 09:20 PM (#572982) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spooky Ballads for Halloween From: AllisonA(Animaterra) Welcome, Little Krissy! |
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16 Oct 01 - 09:03 AM (#573288) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spooky Ballads for Halloween From: Irish sergeant Little Krissy: Welcome! How about "Susannah Martin" by Relativity? Kindest regards, Neil |
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16 Oct 01 - 09:20 AM (#573293) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spooky Ballads for Halloween From: MMario Krissy - don't feel sheepish. this site has a *LOT* of information, and many ways to search for it. It takes everyone a while to get used to it and some of the quirkish ways it can sometimes act up. |
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16 Oct 01 - 12:32 PM (#573438) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spooky Ballads for Halloween From: GUEST,JohnB With her head tucked underneath her arm, she walks the Bloody tower, with her head tucked underneath her arm at the midnight hour. It's about Anne Bolyn's ghost and it's in the DT. Search for any of the bigger stranger words when you do the search. Don't bother about your lack of knowledge of all the quirks around here, it comes with time. JohnB |
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17 Oct 01 - 12:59 AM (#573966) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spooky Ballads for Halloween From: Genie Here are the links to three previous threads along the same lines: |
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18 Oct 01 - 02:35 PM (#574929) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spooky Ballads for Halloween From: Little Krissy Thank you! (for welcomes and for help). I think we're going with pretty polly and long black veil. l.k. |
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06 Sep 02 - 03:47 AM (#777967) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spooky Ballads for Halloween From: open mike how about the monster mash-- oh well it is not a folk ballad |
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06 Sep 02 - 08:19 PM (#778384) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spooky Ballads for Halloween From: GUEST,Glade Tom Dooley (or Tom Dula). "Pearl Bryan" is pretty creepy - about decapitation in the early 20th century. Glade |
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15 Oct 02 - 12:41 AM (#803280) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spooky Ballads for Halloween From: GUEST,Spooky "She Moved Thru The Fair" has a ghost in it. What other ghost songs are out there? |
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15 Oct 02 - 01:11 PM (#803681) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spooky Ballads for Halloween From: Jim Krause Oh, let's see there's
Well, there are a few. Jim |
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15 Oct 02 - 02:27 PM (#803742) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spooky Ballads for Halloween From: EBarnacle1 If you want blood, abduction, revenge, gore, etc. nothing beats the Child Ballads. The Bible (Old Testament) is good, too. The material is certainly rich enough to run a few songs off quickly. Oh, yeah, the tale of Salome and John the Baptist, as reworked by Wilde. As my friend, Rick Nestler puts it in his intro, his songs are about singing, death, history, death, love, death [You get the idea.]. |
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15 Oct 02 - 02:57 PM (#803763) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spooky Ballads for Halloween From: GUEST,HelenJ "Matthew Hopkins" is a song I always sing at my club at Samhain (or Halloween.) He was the notorious Witchfinder General who put to death hundreds of innocent people for financial gain. A nasty piece of work. It is said that towards the end of his regime, folk were so angered that he was 'swum' himself. HelenJ. |
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15 Oct 02 - 10:21 PM (#804032) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spooky Ballads for Halloween From: GUEST,Sharyn Dimmick, sharyn@usisp.com "Banks of Red Roses" is pretty gory and creepy. Also "The Grisly Bride." And, for comic relief, "Mrs. Ravoon." I'll send lyrics on request if they haven't been posted here already. |
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16 Oct 02 - 08:18 AM (#804292) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spooky Ballads for Halloween From: GUEST,JTT Don't forget Tam Lin. Otherworldly. |
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16 Oct 02 - 08:18 AM (#804293) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spooky Ballads for Halloween From: GUEST,JTT Oh, and of course Si Beag Si Mor and King of the Fairies. Not ballads, instrumental. |
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11 Sep 09 - 05:03 PM (#2721866) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spooky Ballads for Halloween From: GUEST,JD Does anyone know the song "Transylvania Two Step"??? I used to sing it when I was a kid but I can't find it on google anywhere! It starts off... Two Steps Forward One Step Back Turn to Your Partner All Dressed in Black Shakes their Head like a Maniac That's how You do the Transylvania Two Step! Ghosts and Goblins Everywhere All Jump Out to Give you A Scare! ............................. .............................. That's all I remember...it's been bugging me for the last year! Thanks! |
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12 Sep 09 - 09:32 AM (#2722231) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spooky Ballads for Halloween From: Dead Horse Mike West made a brilliant song called "Elise" which is all about "doin' wrong" & a subsequent murder. Just the thing for Halloween. I tried his site for the words -no luck, but the whole song is there to listen to at this addy Just click Elise on CD "Mike West HOME" & away ya go. (there seems to be a slight background noise problem tho) still worth the listen. |
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22 Oct 09 - 08:14 AM (#2750130) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spooky Ballads for Halloween From: GUEST,Kevin While everyone knows of Warren Zevon's "Werewolves of London", another great song is "Roland, the Headless Thompson Gunner", about a revenging dead mercenary who stalks the earth looking for Van Owen, who blew his head off in a war in the Congo. It is on the same album as Werewolves, named Excitable Boy (also a great song about a mentally ill boy who kills his prom date after he "raped her, killed her, then he took her home" and after "10 long years, they let him out of the home" and then "he dug up her grave and built a cage with her bones"). |
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22 Oct 09 - 08:41 AM (#2750150) Subject: Lyr Add: LADY MARGARET From: GUEST Margaret lay on a fine feather bed. The Halloween drew near. A dreadful form came to her room And to her did appear. "Are you my father the king?" she said. "Are you my brother John. Or are you my true love William From Scotland coming home?" "I'm not your father the king?" he said. "Nor yet your brother John. I am your true love William From Scotland I've returned. Margaret, Lady Margaret", he said, "In love, in charity Will you give me back the plighted troth That once, Love, I gave thee?" "No, I won't give you back your plighted troth, Nor any such a thing Till you take me to your father's house Where oft times we have been." He took her to his father's house But as they did enter in The Gate swung open at its own free will To let young William in. "Margaret, Lady Margaret", he said, "In love, in charity Will you give me back the plighted troth That once, Love, I gave thee?" "No, I won't give you back your plighted troth, Nor any such a thing Till you take me to the chapel hall And marry me with a ring." He took her to the chapel hall But as they did enter in The locks flew asunder at their own free will To let young William in. "Margaret, Lady Margaret", he said, "In love, in charity Will you give me back the plighted troth That once, Love, I gave thee?" She took a chain from around her neck. She laid it on his breast Saying, "Take you back your plighted troth And in heaven your soul find rest." Silent stood the red red cock But loudly cried the grey, "It is time for the living to depart the dead, And so you must away." |
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22 Oct 09 - 08:49 AM (#2750157) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spooky Ballads for Halloween From: GUEST,Young Buchan Sorry. The above was sent by me, but I forgot to sign for it! |
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22 Oct 09 - 09:38 PM (#2750732) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spooky Ballads for Halloween From: Genie Mentioned in related threads, I'm sure, but there's always: (Ghost) Riders in the Sky If You Could Read My Mind (ghost from a wishing well in it) Witchy Woman The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry Long Black Veil (the narrator is already dead) Miss Bailey's Ghost Love Potion No. 9 (gypsy has magic potions) The Dry Bones Black Magic Woman Hotel California Three Ravens / Twa Corbies The Farmer's Curst Wife (so bad the Devil kicks her out of hell and back to her husband) Zombie Jamboree Not all "folk," but they tend to fit the theme. and, of course, no end to murder ballads and the like |
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23 Oct 09 - 07:24 AM (#2750937) Subject: Lyr Add: THE SENTRY AND THE NIGHT VISITOR From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler A little something I prepared earlier: THE SENTRY AND THE NIGHT VISITOR. © Robin Madge 2009 "Who comes this way?" the sentry cried, Peering through the dark. "Who comes this way at dead of night, And causes dogs to bark?" "You do not want to know my name, Nor yet my purpose here. Forget that I have come this way Or it will cost you dear." "Stand forward, and be recognised." The sentry called again. " For I must know if you are foe or friend to those within. "There are some here who combat me Each and every day To others I am bless'd relief A friend upon their way." "Why come you now at dead of night?" The sentry questioned still. "What business will not wait 'til light And better time fulfil?" "My business waits for none, I fear, The time already planned, For light and dark are both the same As neither stay my hand." "Who do you visit in this place?" The sentry now did ask. "Who has business at this hour, Why now this ill timed task?" "I come for one within these walls, To take him far away, But who will come with me tonight Is not for me to say." "I know you now" the sentry said "The one who comes for all. But I must stand my post outside And keep you from the wall." "Then you will come with me tonight, And keep your word in faith. For those within will all sleep sound." So vanished man and wraith. |
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23 Oct 09 - 06:01 PM (#2751358) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spooky Ballads for Halloween From: Kenny B (inactive) Fro a post by Jim Carroll Of course, there's always the Matt McGinn masterpiece. The Dundee Ghost Noo a deid man seldom walks, he very rarely talks, (dead) It's no very often you'll see him running aroond, But I'm a refugee from a graveyard in Dundee And I've come tae haunt some houses in Glasgow Toon oooh, oooh, ooooh And I've come tae haunt some hooses in Glasgow Toon .......................... |
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23 Oct 09 - 06:38 PM (#2751385) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spooky Ballads for Halloween From: Paul Burke I used to frighten the kids with a spoof on Silent Night: Silent night, peaceful night, Someone's going to get a fright, There's a ghost behind their bed, In his hand he's holding his head.... BOO! And Dracula, Dracula, Dressed head to foot in black you are How spectacular Dracu-lacula Darcual, Dracula, I'll take you home to see Mama She'll be shocked to see What you've done to me, Dracula, Dracula, Your kisses are intravascular, Mind my jugular, Dracu-lacual! |
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23 Oct 09 - 09:20 PM (#2751460) Subject: Lyr Add: THE SUFFOLK MIRACLE From: Young Buchan There's also The Suffolk Miracle (not a reference to Dick Miles). If this doesn't give you goose-bumps, you're already dead! Tune is McCaffery. There was a squire lived in this town He was a squire of high renown; He had a daughter of beauty bright And oh she always was his heart's delight. Earls, dukes and lords to court her came, But none of them could her favour gain. There was a young lad of birth so low, And oh this young girl she loved him so. But when her father came to see She loved a man of such low degree, One hundred miles he sent her away Just to keep her from her wedding day. Then one night she for bed was bound, And she stepped out of her lovely gown, When she heard the voice of her true love say "Come rise up quickly, love, and let's away." She her true love's voice did know; Her father's horse she did know also. She dressed herself from head to toe And with the young man away did go. They had not riden an hour or more When he cried out "Darling, my head is sore." Her holland handkerchief she took out And with it she did bind his head about. They rode along to her father's gate. "Light off, light off," then the young man said. "Light off, light off," then the young man said, "While I make sure that my horse is fed." She did enter her father's hall. "Who's there, who's there?" did her father call. "It's me, dear father. You sent for me All by that young man that so well loves me." Then her father cursed and swore. He wrung his hands till they both were sore. He tore the very hair from off his head, For he knew this young man lay twelve months dead. Early next morning at the break of day They opened the grave where the young man lay. And though his body was twelve months dead There's a holland handkerchief wrapped round his head. |
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24 Oct 09 - 06:11 AM (#2751568) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spooky Ballads for Halloween From: Valmai Goodyear On Saturday 31st. October we have a Halloween evening at the Lewes Saturday Folk Club . The fire will be lit in the club-room fireplace and we're bringing a dozen candles, so that for at least part of the evening the light will be from the fire and candles alone. I'll be making soul cakes to a traditional recipe. One song I definitely want to sing is the Child ballad Young Benjie, which has a bit of genuine necromancy in it. Valmai |
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15 Jul 15 - 05:14 AM (#3723733) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Spooky Ballads for Halloween From: GUEST did you find the answer?! |
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29 Dec 22 - 12:10 PM (#4160616) Subject: Lyr Add: ELISE (Mike West) From: Jim Dixon This was mentioned by Dead_Horse back on 12 Sep 09. I like how it illustrates the connection between guilt feeling and irrational terror. ELISE As recorded by Mike West on “Home,” 2001. What you did was wrong – was a long time ago With a woman named Elise – wouldn’t want anyone to know, Least of all your wife – least of all your kid. Not real proud – of whatever you and her did, But Elise she comes knockin’ – wants a dollar for a beer. She says she’ll start talkin’ – and you don’t want anyone to hear. Nobody will listen – but how can you be sure? Gotta give her a dollar – just to keep Elise from your door. And you’re thinkin’ ‘bout a murder – you got the gun. Elise ain’t got family – Elise she ain’t got anyone. When she comes knockin’ – you invite her in. No one hears the shot – nobody is listenin’. Troubles should be over – but they only just begun. Now you hear a knockin’ – you know it couldn’t be anyone Except Elise – your worst fear. Now she’s talkin’ – and you’re the only one who can hear. Nobody will listen – but how can you be sure? Gonna take more than a dollar – just to keep Elise from your door. And Elise she comes knockin – wants a dollar for a beer. She says she’ll start talkin’ – and you don’t want anyone to hear. Nobody will listen – but how can you be sure? Gonna take more than a dollar – just to keep Elise from your door.. |