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Thread #101345   Message #2045250
Posted By: Jack Lewin
07-May-07 - 12:27 PM
Thread Name: Scottish Ghost Story for Song
Subject: RE: Scottish Ghost Story for Song
How bout this one about the fire spook if Caledonia Mills (Mary Ellen Spook)

DON'T BLAME IT ON THE GIRL
(kevin gilfoy)

COME GATHER AROUND, DON'T MAKE A SOUND
AND HEAR WHAT I'VE TO SAY
ABOUT A FARM NORTHEAST OF HERE
NOT TWENTY MILES AWAY
IT HAPPENED EIGHTY YEARS AGO ON A BLUSTRY WINTER DAY
IT STILL STRIKES FEAR IN THE HEARTS OF SOME
TO TALK ABOUT IT TODAY!

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SO LOOK OUT, LOOK OUT THERE'S FIRES ALL ABOUT
THEY'RE IN THE LOFT AND ON THE WALLS
THEY'RE IN THE PARLOR COUCH.
THE GOINGS ON AROUND THIS FARM'S THE TALK OF ALL THE WORLD
A SPOOKS AT WORK IN HERE FOR SURE
DON'T BLAME IT ON THE GIRL!

WELL THE FEARFUL SIGHTS ON THAT FATEFULL NIGHT IN THE HOME OF OLD BLACK JOHN
WAS BROUGHT ON BY A DEATH BED CURSE THAT RELEASED THE BOCHADANS
THE CURSE WAS LAID THERE YEARS BEFORE TO THE ONES THAT BROUGHT HIM HARM
TIL THE TIME WAS RIGHT FOR THE FIRES TO LIGHT
AND IT DROVE THEM FROM THE FARM.

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WELL PRINCE CAME IN AND TOLD THEM ALL I'M HERE TO SAVE THE DAY
MYSTERIES SUCH AS THESE I'VE SOLVED FOR YEARS IN MY OWN WAY
SO ITS OFF THEY RODE TO SEE THE FARM, DRAWN BY HORSE AND SLEIGH
THOUGH WHIDDEN WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG
HE WAS NOT ALLOWED TO SAY.

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THE LAND THAT ALEX WORKED BY HAND LIES IDLE TO THIS DAY
A FEW BRAVE SOULS HAVE VENTURED THERE BUT NONE HAVE EVER STAYED
SO IF BY CHANCE YOU CATCH A GLANCE DON'T WORRY IT'S OK
BUT IF YOU SEE A BLACK DOG THERE,
YOU BETTER RUN AWAY!
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