Subject: Lyr Add: LADY ALL SKIN AND BONES^^ From: Moira Cameron Date: 19 Oct 97 - 03:06 PM All this stuff about worms has triggered a long forgotten song my father used to sing at this time of year. I'll see if I can remember it all. I have no idea where he got it from. LADY ALL SKIN AND BONES (Quietly at first.) There was a lady all skin and bones; And such a lady was never known. Oh she walked out all on a day-- Yes she walked down to the church to pray. Oh she walked up and she walked down. And she spied a dead man on the ground. And from his nose into his chin, The worms crept out and the worms crept in. (Quieter now) She walked over to yonder style, And there she tarried a little while. Then she walked on up to the door, And there she tarried a little more. (Really quiet now) This woman to the parson said, "Will I be so when I am dead?" The parson to the woman said," (Loud) YES!!!" I'm amazed I remembered that. Other songs I like to sing this time of year include Tamlin and a fun song I learned from Ian Robb called the Guy Fawkes Song. He collected it from someone named Charles Chilton. |
Subject: RE: halloween songs From: judy Date: 18 Oct 97 - 06:56 PM Jerry, You're absolutely right about "Over the River" being for Thanksgiving. Thanks for catching that. Most of the other ones on that website are Xmas tunes. For the preschoolers, I did very tame ones although by 4 or 5 they liked as gruesome ones as the older kids. I run computer labs now in the elementary schools but I'll have to look up the witch's spell from Macbeth for my own kids."Ghost of Tom" is one they've sung to me. Tim, I know a different "worms" one. I'm sure it will ring a bell with many of you Here are some I learned in fourth or fifth grade at camp or on the playground The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out The worms play pinochle on your snout They eat your eyes, they eat your nose They eat the goo between your toes Your stomach turns a slimy green And puss comes out like shaving cream You slap it between two pieces of bread And that's what you'll eat when you are dead! Along with another disgusting favorite Great green globs of greasy grimy gopher guts Mutilated monkey's meat, Vomit fresh right off the street One quart pint of anti-purpose, porpoise puss Floating in my lemonade (spoken) And me without a spoon! bon apetit judy |
Subject: RE: halloween songs From: Jerry Friedman Date: 18 Oct 97 - 06:09 PM Try "Ghost of Tom" in the DT. The note says it's a four-part round, but (oddly enough, considering that I was just discoursing about canons in this forum), our elementary-school class also sang it as a canon by augmentation: while some kids sang it through twice, others sang it once at half speed. As I recall, I didn't like the last line of "The Ghost of Tom". Do kids really like modern sort-of-funny Halloween songs like "The Wobblin' Goblin", or would they rather sing something gruesome or scary? Try searching the DT for @ghost, @witch, etc. Don't forget "Tam Lin". Judy, if your pre-schoolers like that "stirring the pot" chant, try them on the witches' spell from Macbeth. You obviously don't need any amateur suggestions I could come up with on visual aids or gestures. We always sang "Over the River and through the Woods" at Thanksgiving, not Christmas. Maybe it depends on what part of the country you're in. "White and drifting snow" is possible (though not all that likely) in Cleveland in late November. |
Subject: Lyr Add: WORMS (sung by the Pogues) From: Tim Jaques tjaques@netcom.ca Date: 18 Oct 97 - 04:41 PM The little ditty that the Pogues sing, not mentioned in the liner notes of their CD, is quite appropriate for Halloween.
WORMS |
Subject: RE: halloween songs From: Alice Date: 18 Oct 97 - 02:24 PM You have triggered a memory for me from grade school. We learned a song called THE WOBBLIN' GOBLIN, and about every year at Halloween I think of the part I remember and wonder about the rest. Does anyone know this one? This is as much as I remember:
The wobblin' goblin with the broken broom, could never fly too high, 'Cause right at the take off, another piece would break off, And soon he would be danglin' in the sky. Each evening just as he would leave the ground His radio would say, Control tower to goblin, your broomstick is a wobblin' You'd better make a landin' right away. |
Subject: RE: halloween songs From: Joe Offer Date: 18 Oct 97 - 02:52 AM Once upon a time, I heard a spooky song about an old woman and her cat. It started something like this: There was an old woman, all haggard and mean,It goes on and on like this, until she digs up a grave and takes the coffin out, and then: And then she lifted the coffin lidI can't remember the lyrics for the life of me, so I just make them up as I go along, getting progressively scarier. Seems to work pretty well, although I noticed the school didn't invite me to perform for Halloween after that.... Does anybody know the REAL lyrics? -Joe Offer- |
Subject: Lyr Add: RUFUS JACK-O-LANTERN + OVER THE GRAVEYARD From: judy Date: 18 Oct 97 - 02:23 AM
I looked up Halloween on yahoo for my son and came across a bunch of songs with traditional Xmas tunes.
Rufus Jack-o-Lantern |
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