scary music / scary songs

Subject: scarey music
From: katie
Date: 28 Sep 98 - 10:34 PM

I'm looking for scarey music. I've joined a group of folk singers that sing once a month and of course our theme this month is scarey songs. I want to do something that is folk. Can anyone help me?

Subject: RE: scarey music
From: Joe Offer
Date: 28 Sep 98 - 11:35 PM

Click here for a good one to start with, Allison Gross. wish I knew the tune. How about Body in the Bag?
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: scarey music
From: gargoyle
Date: 28 Sep 98 - 11:49 PM

One of my favorites, and a hit at everything from campfires to bachelor parties has been "The Worms Crawl In"

Its repetitive chorus allows for audience participation.
Its systematic rhythm/rhyme make it easy to add verses.

It may be found on this site at: THE WORMS CRAWL IN

There were once oodles and oodles more verses that were contributed in a thread that has appeared to have expired. So here are a couple more:

Your eyes turn red
Your lips turn blue
Rigor mortis comes over you

Your eyes fall in
Your teeth fall out
Your brains come trickling down your snout.

They put you into a cold pine box
They cover you over with dirt and rocks

etc. etc.

Subject: RE: scarey music
From: Barbara
Date: 29 Sep 98 - 12:33 AM

Entering the word GHOST in the search box will get you 145 songs, most of them scary, with a sprinkling of Holy Ghosts thrown in for good measure.
One of my favorites is THE LADY OF SKIN AND BONE (click here), which works best on a crowd that hasn't heard it. Each verse is sung slightly quieter than the one before it, and when you scream instead of singing the second line of the last verse...well...
...if you do it really well, there will quite a bit of clean up to do next...
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: scarey music
From: Dan Keding
Date: 29 Sep 98 - 01:30 AM

Try "THE GRIESLY BRIDE" (Manifold/Campbell) and "MRS. RAVOON" (trad. words, tune by Mastin) Both can be found on Harry Tuft's excellent album on Folk Legacy, "Across the Blue Mountains". Enjoy

Subject: RE: scarey music
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 Sep 98 - 01:43 AM

There's an HTML problem with "Mrs. Ravoon." Here's the missing verse:

I stole through the dungeon whilst everyone slept
Till I came to the place where the monster was kept.
There in the arms of a giant baboon,
Rigid and smiling, lay Mrs. Ravoon.

-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: scarey music
From:
Date: 29 Sep 98 - 02:03 AM

There is always the Grey Cock, which is about a ghost lover. I suppose that it is more sad than scarey. Incidently, how many lovers "kiss, shake hands, and embrace one another?"

The PEI folksinger writer Therese Doyle did a CD of songs which were mainly ghost stories, based on PEI ghost stories. None of the really nasty ones though. It's called Forerunner. The songs are more spooky and supernatural than scary.

Subject: RE: scarey music
From: Frank in the swamps
Date: 29 Sep 98 - 05:31 AM

Lady Gay, it's in the database, and it's a real chiller, witchcraft-dead babies-ghosts. A regular sort of Morticia Adams lullaby.

Frank i.t.s.

Subject: RE: scarey music
From: Roger Himler
Date: 29 Sep 98 - 06:13 AM

The story of Anne Boleyn is another scarey hoot.

Similar to the Lady of Skin and Bone is this song (aource unknown). Sung to alternating chords of Am and G.

(Am)Three ladies (G)in a (Am)graveyard (G)sat. (Am)Oo-oo-(G)oo-oo-(Am)oo.
These ladies they were very fat. Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo.
Then three zombies wandered in. Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo.
The zombies they were very thin. Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo.
The zombies to the ladies said. Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo.
If we looked like you we'd rather be dead. Oo-oo-oo-oo-oo.

Enjoy!

Roger in Baltimore The ladies to the zombies replied. SCREAM!!!!

Subject: RE: scarey music
From: Big Mick
Date: 29 Sep 98 - 09:06 AM

I haven't checked the database, but I doubt this song is in it. The song title is "Walker of the Snow" and it is on an album by Uillean Piper Davy Spillane. The CD is titled "Shadow Hunter". It is a marvelous song about "the shadow hunter who walks the midnight snow." If you are interested, I can post the lyrics and chords, it is a very simple song. Let me know. I play the uillean pipe part on a low d whistle.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: RE: scarey music
From: Barry Finn
Date: 29 Sep 98 - 09:45 AM

Do a forum search Oct18, 97 Halloween Songs, there's a good size thread there, maybe Joe can do that trick of his & jump in here & make a link I'll provide the click here. Thanks ahead Joe. You're welcome, Barry
Big Mick, in the same thread you'll find posted the words to Shadow Hunter. I haven't seen or heard (yet) that CD but I would've thought that it would be Sean Terrell's (sp?) CD & Davey backs Sean's voice & mandolin (Looong neck & weird tuned) with his pipes instead, no? Barry

also:
Halloween Origins
Halloween/All Souls Eve Lyrics
How's that, Barry?

Subject: RE: scarey music
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 Sep 98 - 12:34 PM

One more that's worth repeating:

From: Timothy Jaques [e-mail]
Date: 23-Oct-97 - 10:13 AM

Can't wait 4 minutes for the Halloween thread to load so I'll create a short one here.

Halloween songs at http://www.standingstones.com/hallwtune.html

Subject: RE: scarey music
From: Pete M
Date: 29 Sep 98 - 04:23 PM

It's not scarey in the "kids halloween" style, but for grim reality of the "good old days" I don't think you can do better than "Long Lankin". There is a version in the database, but it omits the first n verses where Long Lankin's baby is walled up alive in the castle walls as an offering to the Gods.

This was a well documented practice, though in most recorded instances the sacrifice was not human.

I'll try and find the fuller version, but it may take some time, I still havent got around to indexing all my old tapes.

Pete M

Subject: RE: scarey music
From: Susan of DT
Date: 29 Sep 98 - 07:27 PM

try @myth. you'll find witches, ghosts, devils, etc. along with innocuous unicorns, centaurs and so forth.

Subject: RE: scarey music
From: snookums
Date: 29 Sep 98 - 07:35 PM

My favorite is HAVE YOU SEEN THE GHOST OF JOHN- it's a round and is great for group singing.

Have you seen the ghost of John? Long white bones with the skin all gone. OOH- OOH- OOH- OOH- OOH- OOH- OOH- OOH- Wouldn't it be chilly with no skin on?

BOO!!!

Subject: RE: scarey music
From:
Date: 30 Sep 98 - 05:52 AM

Did I find that, Joe? How clever of me.:) Here I was going to suggest The Monster Mash again.

Maybe someone could put the witches' song in MacBeth to music. "Thrice the brindled cat hath mewed . . ."

Subject: RE: scarey music
From: Susan-Marie
Date: 30 Sep 98 - 08:18 AM

Tim Jaques - Could you please tell us who released Terese Doyle's CD? I can't find her in any of the on-line CD catalogs, so I'm guessing it may be a local PEI company? And by the way, how do you pronounce your last name? I keep hearing "Jacque" in my head - is that right?

Subject: RE: scarey music
From: Big Mick
Date: 30 Sep 98 - 08:51 AM

Barry,

As usual, you are right on the money. It is a Davey Spillane CD, though. Sean Tyrel does the singing, God what a way he has with the lyric. I usually don't try to copy a singer exactly, but I sure do on this one.

Take Care,

Mick

Subject: RE: scarey music
From: Barry Finn
Date: 30 Sep 98 - 02:34 PM

Yup Mick, he's got some way about how he puts a song across & his style of backing himself up is just as pleasurable. He used to hit some of the sessions here in Boston when over on a visit (now I guess it's a tour), so my exposure to him was in that type of setting back in the mid or late 80's. When everybody's in top form (at a session or such) & the music is hot & the songs turn out to be giants & rather than a performance there's a sharing & swapping of stuff that loved by all, it's a multi-musical orgasm, & that's the setting I first heard him do that song. I stuck a gun in his ribs & cried "your song or your life". I've been singing it ever since & he's still alive. Barry

Subject: RE: scarey music
From: alison
Date: 30 Sep 98 - 08:53 PM

Hi,

Any chance of the tune for Mrs Ravoon?

Slainte

alison

Subject: RE: scarey music
From: Craig
Date: 01 Oct 98 - 12:23 AM

Another good ghost song is "The Waves Roll Out" By Bob Gibson and Shel Silverstein. That one was performed by the Brothers Four on their THE HONEY WIND BLOWS album.

Craig

Subject: RE: scarey music
From: Big Mick
Date: 01 Oct 98 - 12:25 AM

Alison,

I'll try to post it tomorrow evening. If I can figure out a way. But you really must hear it with Sean Tyrell singing it. When Spillane takes off on the interlude on the Uillean Pipes, it will make you come out of the chair. Talk about an eclectic arrangement, it also has Anthony Drennan playing Dobro. The CD I have is "Shadow Hunter" by Davy Spillane available from Tara Records. The stock number is Tara CD 3023.

All the best,

Mick

Subject: Tune Add: MRS. RAVOON
From: Barbara
Date: 01 Oct 98 - 01:45 AM

Try this for MRS. RAVOON. I learned it from the DC folks many years ago, so it may have changed since then, or my memory may have failed.
Blessings,
Barbara

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Subject: RE: scarey music
From: alison
Date: 01 Oct 98 - 04:39 AM

Hi,

Thanks Barbara.

Mick, I am listening to the tape of Shadow Hunter at the moment, so save yourself the trouble of writing the tune down I already have it.

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: scarey music
From: alison
Date: 01 Oct 98 - 04:52 AM

Mick,

you're right.... spooky track.

What about Stan Ridgeway's "Camouflage" (he was an awfully strange marine.)

Beaut song. Not to be taken too seriously I expect.

Slainte

alison

Subject: RE: scarey music
From:
Date: 06 Oct 98 - 08:51 PM

Susan Marie, sorry to ignore your question.

1. The name is pronouced "Jakes", but was at a very remote period French. It is the older French spelling, I am told, although I have distant relatives who spell it with a "c". Some Portuguese also spell it that way but I am not aware of having any ancestry from that country.

2. Teresa Doyle's CD "Forerunner" you should be able to order through http://www.bpm.on.ca I have no connection with them but the man who runs that business is very efficient. They used to carry it. If it isn't listed, e-mail and ask them.

Otherwise, it can be had from Bedlam Records, RR # 3 Belfast, PEI Canada C0A 1A0 telephone/fax [phone] or email [e-mail]

Her current CD, which is her second CD for children, is $18.00 Canadian and I am assuming that "Forerunner" will cost the same.

Subject: RE: scarey music
From: Nathan Sarvis
Date: 06 Oct 98 - 10:13 PM

Oh, The Wind and Rain (Two Sisters) is nicely suited for Halloween with a spooky mix of murder, mutilation, and the supernatural.

Subject: RE: scarey music
From: Graeme
Date: 08 Oct 98 - 11:38 AM

Have you tried "The Lyke Wake Dirge?" It was sung by the monks of Northumberlanbd (England) as they carried the bodies of the dead across the moors, to the cliffs where they threw them into the sea.............the tune is very Gothic, and the song is hundreds of years old - and contains lines about being eaten by worms and burnt by fire. It's on the database here

When sung with the right atmospherics (As on Pentangle's "Basket of Light" album) it makes the hairs on the back of my neck rise!

regards

Subject: RE: scarey music
From: Barbara
Date: 08 Oct 98 - 12:51 PM

Uhm, Graeme, it's my understanding that the words are old, but that wonderful tune was composed by a Brit sometime in the last 20, 30 years. Peter... Peter ...Blaylock? Something like that. I'll go see if I have it anywhere.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: scarey music
From: Graeme
Date: 08 Oct 98 - 07:24 PM

Yo may well be right, Barbara - but the tune certainly SOUNDS old!!!!

I stand corrected!

regards

Graeme

Subject: RE: scarey music
From: Graeme
Date: 08 Oct 98 - 07:25 PM

Yo may well be right, Barbara - but the tune certainly SOUNDS old!!!!

I stand corrected!

regards

Graeme