Creepy songs

Subject: Creepy songs
From: kendall
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 12:42 PM

I don't know if this has ever been covered or not; if it has, I missed it.

Anyway, yesterday, a song that I hadn't thought of in ages crossed my mind, and it's one of those that always gives me the shivers.
THE MISTLETOE BOUGH.
THE GRIESELY BRIDE is another.

So, what gives you goose flesh?

[Many song titles in this thread have been converted to links by a Mudelf.]

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: lady penelope
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 12:53 PM

Fluffy bunny stuff....

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: Jayto
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 12:55 PM

I am interested in this thread I love creepy songs. I have to think about it though. I will post in a little while. ALONE AND FORSAKEN by Hank Williams always had a creepy feel to it to me for some reason. I'll get back to you on this one.

Subject: Lyr Add: WHO'S THAT KNOCKING AT MY DOOR
From: topical tom
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 01:03 PM

WHO'S THAT KNOCKING AT MY DOOR
As recorded by The Dreadful Snakes on "Snakes Alive!" (1983)

CHORUS: Who's that knocking at my door?
Have I heard that knock before?
Is it evil trying to get into my room?
Who's that tapping at my window?
Who's calling me to go
To a place that's filled with dark and gloom?

Oh, this life that I'm living,
It seems so unforgiving.
I find trouble everywhere that I go.
I always seek it first,
Just to quench my burning thirst
In waters that are cool as fallen snow. CHORUS

But the waters are oh so deep.
What you sow you must reap.
Now I hear a knocking at my door.
It's evil standing outside.
There's no place to run and hide.
It plucks my soul and presses me to the floor. CHORUS

Oh, I've been down that pathway,
It always leads the wrong way,
But this time I don't think I'll be back.
Feels like a freight train pulling me,
There's a dark tunnel ahead I see.
This train's going down a one-way track. CHORUS

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: john f weldon
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 01:08 PM

I love creepy songs, too.
Years ago, I listened to Ian Tyson singing GHOST LOVER about twenty times in a row and got so creeped out that I woke up quite ill.

John Roberts and Tony Barrand have lots, check out the "Dark Ships in the Forest" CD among others.

And if a chicken you were cooking actually did stand up and crow, what would you do? Get religion? Or just lose your marbles?

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: Cool Beans
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 01:22 PM

"LET THE EAGLE SOAR," sung by former U.S. attorney general John Ashcroft

Subject: Lyr Add: BURKE AND HARE
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 01:23 PM

Never fails to do it for me.

Burke And Hare

William Burke it is my name
I stand condemned alone.
I left my native Ireland
In the county of Tyrone.
And o'er to Scotland I did sail,
Employment for to find;
No thought of cruel murder
Was then into my mind.

At Edinburgh trade was slack,
No work there could I find;
And so I took the road again,
To Glasgow was inclined;
But stopping at the West-port
To find refreshment there,
0 cursed be the evil hour
I met with William Hare!

With flattering words he greeted me
And said good fortune smiled;
lie treated me to food and drink
And I was soon beguiled;
He said:"There's riches to be had,
And fortune's to be made,
For atomists have need of us.
So join me in that trade.

Hare he kept a lodging-house
Therein a man had died,
His death went unreported
And of burial was denied
We put the dead man in a cart
And through the streets did ride.
And Robert Knox,the atomist,
The dead man he did buy.

To rob the new dug graves by night
It was not our intent;
To be taken by the nightwatch
Or by spies was not our bent.
The plan belonged to William Hare
And so the plot was laid,
He said that "murder's safer
Than the resurrection trade."

Two women they were in the plot
The wife of William Hare,
The other called McDougal,
And travellers they did snare;
They lured them to the lodging house
And when they'd drunken deep,
Hare and me, we smothered them
As they lay fast asleep.

At first in fear and dread I was
But later grew more bold,
In nine short months we killed fifteen
And then their bodies sold.
The doctors did not question us,
But quickly paid our fee,
The price they paid,it prospered us,
Both William Hare and me.

But soon our crimes they were found out
In jail we were confined,
And cruel guilt it tore my heart
And much despairs my mind;
And Hare, who first ensnared me
And led me far astray
Has turned King's evidence on me
And sworn my life away

Jim Carroll

Subject: Lyr Add: THE MISTLETOE BOUGH (Thomas Haynes Bayly)
From: kendall
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 01:30 PM

The mistletoe hung in the castle hall;
The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.
The Baron's retainers were blithe and gay,
Keeping the Christmas holiday.

The Baron beheld with a father's pride
His beautiful child, Lord Lovell's bride.
And she, with her bright eyes seemed to be
The star of that goodly company.

F G7 C

Oh, the mistletoe bough.

"I'm weary of dancing, now," she cried;
"Here, tarry a moment, I'll hide, I'll hide,
And, Lovell, be sure you're the first to trace
The clue to my secret hiding place."

Away she ran, and her friends began
Each tower to search and each nook to scan.
And young Lovell cried, "Oh, where do you hide?
I'm lonesome without you, my own fair bride."

Oh, the mistletoe bough.

They sought her that night, they sought her next day,
They sought her in vain when a week passed away.
In the highest, the lowest, the loneliest spot,
Young Lovell sought wildly, but found her not.

The years passed by and their grief at last
Was told as a sorrowful tale long past.
When Lovell appeared, all the children cried,
"See the old man weeps for his fairy bride."
Oh, the mistletoe bough.

At length, an old chest that had long lain hid
Was found in the castle; they raised the lid.
A skeleton form lay mouldering there
In the bridal wreath of that lady fair.

How sad was her fate when in sportive jest
She hid from her lord in that old oak chest,
It closed with a spring and a dreadful doom,
And the bride lay sealed in a living tomb.

Oh, the mistletoe bough.

Subject: Lyr Add: THE WORKHOUSE BOY
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 01:54 PM

How about this one that Tim Laycock sings:
^^
THE WORKHOUSE BOY.

The cloth was laid in the Vorkhouse hall,
The great-coats hung on the white-wash'd wall;
The paupers all were blithe and gay,
Keeping their Christmas holiday,
When the Master he cried with a roguish leer,
"You'll all get fat on your Christmas cheer!"
When one by his looks did seem to say,
"I'll have some more soup on this Christmas-day."
            Oh the poor Vorkhouse Boy, etc.

At length, all on us to bed vos sent,
The boy vos missing—in search ve vent:
Ve sought him above, ve sought him below,
Ve sought him vith faces of grief and woe;
Ve sought him that hour, ve sought him that night;
Ve sought him in fear, and ve sought him in fright,
Ven a young pauper cried "I knows ve shall
Get jolly vell vopt for losing our pal."
            Oh the poor Vorkhouse Boy, etc.

Ve sought in each corner, each crevice ve knew;
Ve sought in the yard, ve sought up the flue;
Ve sought in each kettle, each saucepan, each pot,
In the water-butt look'd, but found him not.
And veeks roll'd on;—ve vere all of us told,
That somebody said, he'd been burk'd and sold;
Ven our master goes out, the Parishioners vild,
Cry "There goes the cove that burk'd the poor child."
            Oh the poor Vorkhouse Boy, etc.

At length the soup copper repairs did need,
The Coppersmith came, and there he seed,
A dollop of bones lay a grizzling there,
In the leg of the breeches the poor boy did vear!
To gain his fill the boy did stoop,
And, dreadful to tell, he was boil'd in the soup!
And ve all of us say, and ve say it sincere,
That he was push'd in there by an overseer.
            Oh the poor Vorkhouse Boy, etc.

(I found this version here.)

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 01:58 PM

CREEPY JOHN by Spider John Koerner - from the first moment I heard it I thought of the Boston Strangler murders. It had the real whiff of tabloid excitement and sensual enjoyment of a great murder case.

I've no idea if those were the actual thoughts and feelings of SJK on the song. Nobody much mentions those artists these days. But they were important influences on me.

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: lady penelope
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 02:02 PM

For sheer grizzlyness I love FAMOUS FLOWER OF SERVING MEN.

Subject: Lyr Add: SCARECROW (corrections)
From: ClaireBear
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 02:22 PM

Scarecrow, by Mal and Mike Waterson, which I'm going to take the liberty of reposting here as the version in the DT has some words wrong and some extra, odd line breaks.

SCARECROW
(Lal & Mike Waterson)

As I walked out one summer's morn
Saw a scarecrow tied to a pole in a field of corn
His coat was black and his head was bare
When the wind shook him the crows took up into the air

Ah, but you'd lay me down and love me
Ah, but you'd lay me down and love me if you could
But you're only a bag of rags in an overall
That the wind sways and the crows fly away and the corn grows tall

As I walked out one winter's day
Saw an old man hanging from a pole in a field of clay
His coat was gone and his head hung low
Till the wind flung it up, took a look, wrung his neck and let it go

How would you lay me down and love me
How would you lay me down and love me now?
For you're only a bag of bones in an overall
That the wind blows and the kids throw stones at the thing on the pole

As I walked out one fine spring day
Saw twelve jolly dons decked out in the blue and the gold so gay
And to a stake they tied a child newborn
Then the bells were rung and the songs were sung and they sowed their corn

Now you can lay me down and love me
Now you can lay me down and love me if you will
Still you're only a bag of rags in an overall
That the wind blew and the sun shone to and the corn grew tall

As I walked out one summer's morn
Saw a scarecrow tied to a pole in a field of corn

------------------------------------------------------------------------
Copyright Leading Note Music)
recorded by June Tabor on "Abyssinians" (1983)
@death @plant
filename[ SCARECRW
MJ


Second on my creepy list is Anne Lister's "SONG OF THE KNIFE," but I think it should be up to Anne whether it gets posted here. Perhaps I'll sing it to you when I see you next month, though.

Claire

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: Terry McDonald
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 02:24 PM

Not heard it in years but Paul Simon's 'A MOST PECULIAR MAN' always affected me and, now I think about it, I'm pretty certain that I've ever heard Simon sing it. It used to be sung in the mid-60s by a duo from Exeter, one of whom was called John Remsbury.

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: curmudgeon
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 02:51 PM

Tead puts me in mind of "THE REAPER'S GHOST," a song I haven't done in a very long time. I'll try to get it disinterred from my mental graveyard before the next get-together - Tom

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 06:17 PM

Didn't SALLY GO ROUND THE ROSES have a sort of spooky feel to it?

Subject: Lyr Add: WHAT'S HE BUILDING (Tom Waits)
From: bobad
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 06:40 PM

This Tom Waits song is pretty spooky:

WHAT'S HE BUILDING?
As recorded by Tom Waits on "Mule Variations" (1999)

What's he building in there?
What the hell is he building in there?

He has subscriptions to those magazines.
He never waves when he goes by.
He's hiding something from the rest of us.
He's all to himself; I think I know why.

He took down the tire swing from the pepper tree.
He has no children of his own, you see.
He has no dog and he has no friends,
And his lawn is dying, and what about all those packages he sends?

What's he building in there?
With that hook light on the stairs.
What's he building in there?
I'll tell you one thing: he's not building a playhouse for the children.
What's he building in there?

Now what's that sound from under the door?
He's pounding nails into a hardwood floor.
And I swear to God I heard someone moaning low,
And I keep seeing the blue light of a TV show.
He has a router and a table saw,
And you won't believe what Mr. Sticha saw.
There's poison underneath the sink of course,
But there's also enough formaldehyde to choke a horse.
What's he building in there?
What the hell is he building in there?
I heard he has an ex-wife in someplace called Mayors Income, Tennessee,
And he used to have a consulting business in Indonesia.
But what's he building in there?
What the hell is building in there?

He has no friends but he gets a lot of mail.
I'll bet he spent a little time in jail.
I heard he was up on the roof last night
Signaling with a flashlight.
And what's that tune he's always whistling?
What's he building in there?
What's he building in there?
We have a right to know.

Subject: Lyr Add: ANGIE BABY (Alan O'Day - Helen Reddy)
From: Cluin
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 09:07 PM

"Angie Baby" sung by Helen Reddy. c. 1974

ANGIE BABY
written by Alan O'Day

You live your life in the songs you hear o the rock and roll radio
And when a young girl doesn't have any friends, that's a really nice place to go
Folks hoping you'd turn out cool
But they had to take you outta school
You're a little touched, you know, Angie Baby

Lovers appear in your room each night and they whirl you `cross the floor
But they always seem to fade away when your daddy taps on your door
"Angie girl, are you all right
Tell the radio good-night"
All alone once more, Angie Baby

Angie Baby
You're a special lady
Living in a world of make-believe
Well, maybe...

Stopping at her house is a neighbor boy with evil on his mind
'Cause he's been peeking in Angie's room at night through her window blind
"I see your folks have gone away
Would you dance with me today?
I'll show you how to have a good time, Angie Baby"

When he walks in her room, he feels confused like he walked into a play
And the music's so loud it spins him around `til his soul has lost its way

And as she turns the volume down
He's getting smaller with the sound
It seems to pull him off the ground
Toward the radio he's bound
Never to be found...

The headlines read that a boy disappeared and everyone thinks he died
'Cept a crazy girl with a secret lover who keeps her satisfied
It's so nice to be insane
No one asks you to explain
Radio by your side, Angie Baby

Angie Baby
You're a special lady
Living in a world of make-believe
Well, maybe...
Well, maybe...

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: irishrover
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 09:49 PM

The Kingston Trio's rendition of "WITH HER HEAD TUCKED UNDERNEATH HER ARM' (a.k.a. "Anne Boleyn") is somewhat creepy to me.

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: Phil Cooper
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 11:26 PM

Pat Sky's DIRGE TO LOVE GONE BY. Ray Fisher's rendition of the ballad where Willie's lover's ghost comes back and tears his body in three parts. Bob Pegg's MR. FOX. The list could go on...

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: Elijah Browning
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 12:14 AM

Songs with ghosts in them.
I don't mean songs about ghosts. Maybe some are about ghosts, but they don't have to be. I like songs with ghosts IN them. I remember the No Exit in Chicago, late night on a Thursday, second set, in the dead of winter when the blowing heater hung from the ceiling left you cold or baking depending on where you sat or when. Art Thieme sang songs, and I heard them, the ghosts, in the songs. Speaking, singing, out past the muffle of dirt and snow, time and entropy. Whether it was loving the best they could muster like "HOT BUTTERED RUM" or the frozen terror of black blood in the moonlight spilled by the "GRIESELY BRIDE", these songs had ghosts in them. I remember thinking of the songs written way past mortal bedtime, songs from the founding of the city, the state, the nation, that each writer was dead, gone, dust. Dust just like me, that for a few score of decades "got a chance to sit up and look around" to quote Woody via Mr. Thieme.
Ghosts. A city that no longer is from which I am no longer from. Ghosts in the songs. I press play, and they come.
Sorry. Not exactly the right response. Running with the muse tonight. My apologies.
-E.B.

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: cobber
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 02:17 AM

Creepy songs can be fun. I remember back in the 1950's at a boy scout camp learning "As you see the hearse go by" at night around the campfire. It was scary but delicious.

As you see the hearse go by
OOOHH aah ahh aahh
Think you may be the next to die
(More maniacal groans and laughter)

They put you in a wooden box
And cover you up with a heap of rocks

All goes well for about a week
Then your coffin begins to leak

The worms go in and they come out
They go in thin and they come out stout

Pus oozes out like thick rich cream
Your liver turns a ghastly green

Your eyes fall in and your teeth fall out
Your brains come trickling down your snout
(Sniff)

The moral of this story needs no explanation
It's really much better to have a cremation

Ah! What fun!

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: kendall
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 06:57 AM

LOST JIMMY WHELAN
No, never no

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: fat B****rd
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 07:07 AM

THE LONG BLACK VEIL

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 07:10 AM

Bread and Roses' rendition of MR FOX (from the album "Mr Fox's Garden") with its sudden cut off ending.
You so want to know what happened next and at the same time, you so don't want to know.

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 07:26 AM

I saw a guy perform at an acoustic club once who unintentionally turned a pretty Bruce Springsteen ballad into the creepiest song imaginable.

It concerned watching a woman as she went about her daily routine and was originally written to be affectionate and romantic, however the tuneless slightly catatonic manner of this guys performance made it seem as though it was written by some obsessive murderous stalker.

In the right hands any song can be creepy.

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 07:37 AM

The way the prettiest tune can sound sinister on a musical box, especially as it slows down and stops. Nursery rhymes especially.

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 08:49 AM

Clint Eastwood's watch?

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 09:38 AM

Do you have to be a creepy person to sing a creepy song.

Does anyone remeber that Sherlock Holmes film with Rondo Hatton as The Creeper - The Pearl of death.

Boy! he was creepy!

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: Melissa
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 09:57 AM

PIED PIPER and TEDDY BEARS' PICNIC have always creeped me out.

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: Jayto
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 10:38 AM

Bobad you beat me to the draw I was going to put WHAT'S HE BUILDING by Tom Waits as well. Check out the video on youtube it is great.

RED RIGHT HAND by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds is a great creepy non-folk song as well. I really love that song

"you'll see him in your nightmares you'll see him in your dreams"

"your just a microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan designed and directed by his red right hand"

Man Nick Cave is great I love his writing. Another one is DO YOU LOVE ME by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

"I met her on the night of fire and noise. Wild bells were ringing in wild skies. I knew from that moment on I'd love her until the day that I die. So I kissed her with a thousand tears. My lady of the various sorrows. Some begged some borrowed some stolen. Some kept safe for tomorrow."

That is also one of my favorite band names of all time. The Bad Seeds man that is just too cool I wish I had thought of that one. I wish I could have written the majority of Nick Cave's songs as well. Johnny Cash did a real creepy song of Nick Cave's. THE MERCY SEAT is the name of it and it is GREAT. I actually like Johnny's version better than Nick Cave's but then again I kinda like Johnny's version of HURT better than Nine Inch Nails. Oh man, I hate to admit that one let's just keep that between us lol. I perform some of Nick Cave's songs in an Appalachian Folk style. I do a dark minor groove and change the melody some to fit. Most of it though I don't have to change much at all. Check out
BROTHER MY CUP IS EMPTY
oh man, I am blanking when the names come back to me I will put them up. Need Coffee!
Cya
JT

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: kendall
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 11:06 AM

It's odd how different songs affect different people. I haven't seen anything in this list to compare with the MISTLETOE BOUGH.

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 11:48 AM

There's a wonderful line in Martin McDonagh's 'The Beauty Queen of Linane' where the character says - "The Spinning wheel - bloody creepy song, that".
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: oldhippie
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 08:47 PM

"WHAT'S HE BUILDING" really amounts to who's paranoid, the singer, not the character he's obsessed with watching.


"Do you think I'm psycho, Mama....", now that's creepy.

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 09:23 PM

Hi Kids: Let us not forget...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGzRuARH3a0

[That's a dead link as of June 2018. I suppose we'll have to forget now..
Folks: please let that be a lesson. Please always give us at least a song title as well as a link.--Mudelf]

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 09:34 PM

Or, this song...
THE SOUL EATER
OMG, it's ME, what SHAMELESS self-promotion!

And, I'm nice, a joy to be with, witty, charming, etc. etc., but, like Alfred Hitchcock, you can still be a fun guy (not fung wa, from Chinese Dim Sum, but you must try fun guy sometime) and do this stuff...
bob

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 29 Aug 08 - 02:19 AM

Amazing stuff Bob. Have you writen about your work - somewhere. I'd love to read about how you work etc.

al

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: alison
Date: 29 Aug 08 - 03:27 AM

any of those "someone in the middle of nowhere gets saved from whatever fate by someone who we find out in the last verse died several weeks / months/ years ago" -

this is all very vague - but there is another song somewhere in the DT about a blue man or tin man. Someone goes to an exotic location to see this "blue man" and ends up meeting a very nasty end. hopefully someone else will remember the title - its driving me nuts- but it certainly gave me "the willies" the first time I read it

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 29 Aug 08 - 04:21 AM

THE SUFFOLK MIRACLE, or THE HOLLAND HANDKERCHIEF

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: Black belt caterpillar wrestler
Date: 29 Aug 08 - 07:55 AM

"any of those "someone in the middle of nowhere gets saved from whatever fate by someone who we find out in the last verse died several weeks / months/ years ago" "

That's not just folk songs:- it happened to my first father-in-law during WW2.

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 29 Aug 08 - 09:50 AM

Big Al: No, I haven't written anything. Pretty much stayed quiet about it.

The song is a collaboration with Gideon "Moses Child" Cohen of Montreal via New York. He came over to my studio to help and set up the tekkie stuff since I was pretty much of a newbie. He installed and began experimenting with a program called REASON to get the drum parts. We then used "psycho piano" on one of the tracks using Cubase. Files were imported as Apple loops to get the bass parts. Gideon, to me is durn near close to genius level using these programs, aw, let's say genius...

Most people like to build up tracks and add more and more..I work in the opposite way, like a sculptor or woodcarver, releasing the art from the block of raw material...I take away rather than add...

Lyrics are my thing, and in order to tell you the truth of how I work gets into the realm of the psychic, which turns a lot of people off, but since you asked...Al, I basically go into a meditative state and RECEIVE the song. I sort of copy it down when it comes through. It comes in pieces and I whittle away at the words and maintain a "minimalist" viewpoint in that when you tell a story you don't need FULL lines. They can be pieces of thoughts, hooks, that intrigue the listener and from that comes a complete story.

With the stuff I've done so far, it demands that the listener be intelligent and involved in the song. He/She has to think. And this stuff was created as an experiment to see if there is a market for this kind of music. Ya don't know till you try...

It took about an hour for the words and story to come through as I was concentrating on the melody to pick up the words. I ask for guidance when I do this stuff...

That's about it...Thanks for your interest. Hope it helps...

bob

Subject: Lyr Add: TURN AROUND (Carl Perkins)
From: GUEST,cStu
Date: 29 Aug 08 - 02:42 PM

lox
that's so true.

So many 50s love songs are sung by a stalker character. My favourite is by Carl Perkins:

TURN AROUND
As recorded by Carl Perkins, 1955

1. When you're all alone and blue
And the world looks down on you,
Turn around; I'll be followin' you.
When you feel that love is gone
And you realize you're wrong,
Turn around; I'll be followin' you.

CHORUS: Turn around; I'll be waitin' behind you
With a love that's real and never, ever dies.
If you feel your love will last,
And you'd like to live your past,
Turn around; I'll be followin' you.

2. Maybe God will make you see
That your love is still for me.
Turn around; I'll be followin' you.
When you're in my arms again,
There will never be an end.
Turn around; I'll be followin' you. CHORUS

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: fat B****rd
Date: 29 Aug 08 - 03:17 PM

Come to think of it, A LYKE-WAKE DIRGE isn't much fun.

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: kendall
Date: 29 Aug 08 - 04:10 PM

BRINGING MARY HOME is creepy.

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Aug 08 - 06:22 PM

Why, of course..ON THE AMAZON!

or maybe MRS. RAVOON *grin*

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: Suegorgeous
Date: 29 Aug 08 - 07:41 PM

THE WELL BELOW THE VALLEY

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 30 Aug 08 - 05:09 PM

THE LITTLE GIRL AND THE DREADFUL SNAKE is a song I find creepy and yet irresistible, especially when the singer runs to the aid of his fatally snake-bitten daughter and voices the line "the snake was watching us from close by".

IMAGINARY TROUBLE, for some odd reason, raises the hackles on my neck.

THE KNOXVILLE GIRL. Particularly because it is usually performed in an up-tempo way that makes the graphic description of the murder seem even more grotesque.

THE FROZEN GIRL, with its air of doom, and the knowledge that the entire tragedy would be avoidable if the moronic sleigh-driver and Charlotte had enough sense to put a coat on her.

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: Cluin
Date: 30 Aug 08 - 05:23 PM

Every breath you take,
Evetry move you make,
Every cake you bake,
I'll be watching you.

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: GUEST,lox
Date: 30 Aug 08 - 05:27 PM

Was just about to mention the well below the valley ...

... on the subject of my earlier post, the guy in question wasn't beng deliberately creepy ...

... he was just a creepy guy!

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: Jay777
Date: 31 Aug 08 - 06:35 AM

Terry McDonald mentioned Paul Simon's "A Most Peculiar Man". Paul sings it on The Paul Simon Song Book album, CBS, 1965, which remains one of my top ten best albums ever. Judith Piepe's sleeve notes about that track say: "Epitaph for a suicide, what a shame he's dead, but wasn't he a most peculiar man? A memorial to the face in the crowd, to you, to me,the face of the sound of silence".

This album is well worth a listen. It includes beautiful, simple, versions of "The Sound of Silence" and "I am a Rock". Also, "A Church is Burning", about the KKK, and P. Kane's "The Side of a Hill", for which Piepe's notes say: "An anti-war song with a difference, it waves no tired flags at us but state simply: what is the life of a child worth?...A sad-gay lullaby for dead children and the dead consciences". Simon & Garfunkel's "Scarborough Fair" has "Side of a Hill" in the background.

Subject: RE: Creepy songs
From: fat B****rd
Date: 31 Aug 08 - 06:57 AM

IN THE PINES or Black Girl as it is sometimes called.