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LYRICS

IT’S FALL Y’ALL

(Don Henry/Steve Nelson)

Poppermost Music/Nelsounds/SESAC

The yard’s a quilt of red and gold

Let’s rake it to the sky

And take a plunge right in to the kaleidoscopic eye

‘Cause It’s Fall Y’all – It’s Fall Y’all

Summer took a trip and slipped right into fall y’all

Total Pumpkinicity, a Halloweenic buzz

Zombiefried on candy corn and Ghoulogized because...

It’s Fall Y’all – It’s Fall Y’all

Summer took a trip and slipped right into fall y’all

Come and join us at the harvest ball, y’all

Rings around the sun

We’re all just stardust when it’s said and done

We’ll sing a song about how longer nights

Are not for keeps

The shorter days give us a way

To catch up on some sleep

‘Cause It’s Fall Y’all – It’s Fall Y’all

Summer took a trip and slipped right into fall y’all

Come and join us at the harvest ball, y’all

Rings around the sun

We’re all just stardust when it’s said and done

Guests:

Fronda Alley/Harmony Vocals

Jon Vezner/String Arrangement

GARDEN OF THE DEAD

Don Henry/Jon Vezner)

(Poppermost Music/Jon Vezner Music/SESAC)

When the raven breaks the quiet of a twilight afternoon

And the shadows crawl and creep

Across the crosses and the tombs

Among those old stones

That’s where I like to walk alone and think

As the old ghosts pass along their wisdom with a wink

The Garden of the Dead - The Garden of the Dead

When the land of the living is so unforgiving

That’s where I go to clear my head

The Garden of the Dead

Jedidiah, Jeremiah, Zachariah, Lorelei

Philomena, in between Evangeline and Mordecai

They console me when I’m down and drowning

In this world of hurt

They know me more than any soul

On this side of the dirt

Now some say the older that I get I get more weird

But it’s okay ‘cause all the apparitions dig me here

Here where I feel a sense of deep serenity

Planted below this shady grove of family trees

Guests:

Molly Pruett Henry/Harmony Vocals

Mickey Grimm/Drums

I LOVE THE MOON

Don Henry

(Poppermost Music/SESAC)

I love the moon - I love the moon

In scarlet skies or black lagoons

Cold, clear, or smeared in gloom

I love the moon

I love the crow - I love the crow

On power lines, in picture shows

Edgar Allan Poe would know

I love the crow

I love the wind - I love the wind

Through stalks of corn, whistling hymns

Through centuries of leaves and skin

I love the wind

I love the moon - I love the moon

From lovers’ lane to nursery room

Wax, wane or dark as doom

I love the moon

Guests:

Kim Richey/Harmony Vocals

Diane Perry/Violins

Mickey Grimm/Drums

TIM BURTON’S LAMENT

Don Henry/Pat Buchanan

(Poppermost Music/Pat B. Music 

admin. by Words And Music Songs/SESAC)

Sun, sun go away, I like it when the skies are gray

Sun, sun go away, I like it when the skies are gray

And I can watch the afternoon clouded by an old familiar gloom

My lonely, long, lost friend

Where mockingbirds and willows weep in harmonies that lull me off to sleep

Where nightmares never end

Moon, moon, shine so bright I like it when you cry at night

Moon, moon, shine so bright I like it when you cry at night

Every tear’s a drop of blood washing every fear I‘ve ever loved

A picture, perfect hell

Of mournful moans and primal screams, where melancholy reigns supreme,

A place where death’s alive and living well

Sun, sun go away, I like it when the skies are gray

I feel the pain of every soul that this life has left out in the cold

Fog, fog thick as thieves love it when you cover me

Fog, fog thick as thieves love it when you cover me

Sweeney Todd, Norman Bates, welcoming you at the graveyard gates

It’s such a chill to have you here!

No matter when you’re right on time

For guillotines and strychnine wine

It’ll always be that time of year around here

Sun, sun go away, I like it when the skies are gray

Moon, moon, shine so bright I like it when you cry at night

Fog, fog thick as thieves love it when you cover me

Guest:

Pat Buchanan/Acoustic Slide Guitar & Harmony Vocal

WEREWOLVES OF LONDON

Warren Zevon/Leroy Marinell/Waddy Wachtel

(Universal Music Publishing Group, Music & Media Int'l, Inc)

I saw a Werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hand

Walking through the streets of SoHo in the rain

He was looking for the place called Lee Ho Fork's

For to get a big dish of Beef Chow Mein

Ah-wooo, Werewolves of London

You hear him howling around your kitchen door

Better not let him in

Little old lady got mutilated late last night

Werewolves of London again

Ah-wooo, Werewolves of London

He's the hairy-handed gent who ran amok in Kent

Lately he's been overheard in Mayfair

You better stay away from him he'll rip your lungs out Jim

I'd like to meet his tailor

Ah-wooo, Werewolves of London

I saw Lon Chaney walking with the Queen

Doin' the Werewolves of London

I saw Lon Chaney Jr. walking with the Queen

Doin' the Werewolves of London

I saw a Werewolf drinkin' a Pina Colada at Trader Vic's

And his hair was perfect!

Ah-wooo, Werewolves of London

Guests:

Jessie, Dylan & Molly Pruett Henry/Vocals

Anne & Eli Pruett/Vocals

THE R.I.P. CAFÉ

Don Henry/Mike Moran

(Poppermost Music/SESAC)

Here I am once again

Breaking bread with old, old friends

It’s as if we never went away

A crooked line curls down the street

But Lilly always saves my seat here at the R.I.P. Café

And in that booth I never wait for

Freddie leaves his crumbs and paper

Same old forgotten, rotten news today

Unfunny funnies numb the head

Viagra adds to raise the dead here at the R.I.P. Café

There’s a bleakness in the coffee cups

The sunny sides are never up

Is that a piece of Maurice’s toupee?

That cook has been around you know

From Genghis Kahn to Shoeless Joe here at the R.I.P. Café

The jukebox is an ala cart

Of steel guitars and cold, cold hearts

Draggin’ and skippin’ as it plays

The ceiling fan is doing time

There’s no parole for pushing grime here at the R.I.P. Café

There’s a grayness to the clientele

And the cheesecake on the carousel

Who’ll be the first one to decay?

Twenty some odd years ago

The health inspector sold his sold here at the R.I.P. Café

Stripes of sunshine pierce the blinds

But Lilly drops the drapes in time

Before old Vladimir disappears and flies away

Stoker, Shelley, H.G. Wells with lots of time and tales to tell

Here at the RIP Café

There’s a two-way mirror at the bar

A negative of where we are

In laughing, living color on display

To emphasize the skin and bones

That shuffle round in grayscale tones here at the R.I.P. Café

So here I sit chin in hand a ghoul with gruel a starving man

I guess you get for what you pay

I could settle-up and wait for change

But everything remains the same here at the R.I.P. Café

TIME STANDS STILL

Don Henry/Craig Carothers

WBM Music Corp./SESAC/Irving Music Inc./Luxurious Music/BMI

Violets and Belladonna around her room

I lie here spellbound on a gray afternoon

A late afternoon

She loves me not, she loves me

I’m a feather on her whim

I can’t wait ‘til

We’re together once again

And time stands still

She love’s me not, she loves me

It’s understood

And I’ll always stay because we’ve got it so good

Yeah, it’s so good

Outside the leaves are burning

Outside the leaves are burning

The moon appears

Soon she will be returnin’, the moment is near

The moment is here

Guests:

Molly Pruett Henry/Vocal

Diane Perry/Violin

THE HEARSE SONG

Traditional: Arrangement by Don Henry

(Poppermost Music/SESAC)

Do you ever think as a hearse goes by

That you could be the next to die

Slip on some soap, choke on a bone

Or fall in a wishing well cold and alone

They wrap you up in a cheap white sheet

And plan to bury you six feet deep

They put you in a pinewood box

Then cover you up with dirt and rocks

Then enzymes in the pancreas

Cause that organ to self-digest

Your lungs expel green fluid through

Your mouth, your nose and your eyeballs too

The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out

The worms play pinochle on your snout

They eat your toenails, tongue and hat

They dig in skinny and crawl out fat

And when your bones begin to rot

The worms remain but you do not

Your brain turns into maggot pie

Your liver starts to liquify

And for all the living, all is well

As you decompose in a gruesome hell

But don’t despair cause up above

You’re pushing up daisies for children to love

Guest:

Eli Pruett/Ghoul Voice

LIGHT ON THE LAWN

Don Henry

(Poppermost Music/SESAC)

There’s a Light On The Lawn

(there’s a light on the lawn)

Eerie Light On The Lawn

(eerie light on the lawn)

Spinning................................Flowing

(whirling, swirling.............all glowing, all knowing)

Grinning................................Probing

(blue & green, long & lean)

There’s a Light On The Lawn

(eerie light on the lawn)

They’ll be gone in the dawn

They’ll be gone when the dawn comes

Dylan Henry/Alien Ship Whistling

HALLOWEEN NIGHT /

THE MUNSTERS THEME

Don Henry/Jack Marshall/Bob Osher

(Poppermost Music/SESAC

Halloween Night when everything is bright

Candy and toys for every girl and boy

Here come the ghosts, goblins, witches too

Here come the ghosts, goblins, witches too

Here come the skeleton - he’s gonna get you!

Guests:

Jessie, Dylan & Molly Pruett Henry/Vocals

Anne & Eli Pruett/Vocals

GORYVILLE

Don Henry/Debby Throckmorton

(Poppermost Music/SESAC/Throckstar Publishing/ASCAP)

Loretta and Bill were driving until a big creepy hill

Hit their Seville in the grill and it fell all apart

They walked into town where a two-headed clown

Followed ‘em ‘round without a sound

But the pound, pound, pound of their hearts

Goryville, Goryville – A carnivore carnival

From town to town it’s thrills and chills

They have a show that really kills!

They followed their fate 

To a tent with a gate on a hillside of hate

Where the children await the late, great Mr. Smiles

The dear little things were chewing on brains

And other remains of all the unnamed

They had slain, drained and defiled

Goryville, Goryville – A carnivore carnival

From town to town it’s thrills and chills

They have a show that really kills!

Loretta let out a gasp

The children all cheered and clapped

Mr. Smile let out a sinister laugh

As he gutted her lovely sweet little Bill in half!

The morning arrives in a lavender sky

For the raven to fly in a breeze blowing by

But silencing sighs are all of last night that remain

Yeah, the only debris of the festivities

Were some Cadillac keys lost to the leaves

In a frost and a freeze that nobody sees or reclaims

So if you’re into balloons or killer costumes

Or humans exhumed - a freakshow of doom

It’s coming soon to a bloody moon near you

Yeah, it’s coming around, a two-headed clown,

Ravenous sounds, a scary-go-round, a burial ground

To a quaint little town near you!

Guests:

Simone Kaset/Vocal on “Ring-Around-The-Rosies”

Diane Perry/Violins

Anne & Eli Pruett/Children Sounds

Molly Pruett Henry & Dylan Henry/Children Sounds

A JOLLY HALLOWEEN

Don Henry

(Poppermost Music/SESAC)

Trick or treat streets and ghouls with sacks

Loaded with sweets and eats and snacks

Wishing you all A Jolly Halloween

Bobbing for apples, musical chairs

Ouija board séance, truth or dare

Wishing you all A Jolly Halloween

Boris Karloff, Vincent Price, Christopher Lee

Bela Lugosi, Peter Cushing, Peter Lorre

Freddie, Jason, Michael, Chucky

Nightmare attack

Carved into your memories

Like a big grin glow from Lantern ‘O Jack!

Moon light and campfires, songs and s’mores

A romance of vampires, lore of yore

Wishing you all A Jolly Halloween

TP a car, a house, a tree

Play in the graveyard ‘til three thirty-three

Wishing you all A Jolly Halloween

Guests:

Molly Felder/Harmony Vocal & Clarinet

Dave Wulfeck/Trombone

Mickey Grimm/Drums

BEAUTIFUL GOODBYE

Don Henry/Mike Moran

(Poppermost Music/SESAC)

Scarecrow staring in the wind

Shadows growing long and thin

Blackbird singing in the trees

The death knell of the summer leaves

La, la, la, la - la, la, lie

Beautiful Goodbye, Beautiful Goodbye

Geese form an arrow pointing south

Sunset sittin’ on the house

Bonfire crackling in the night

September's giving up her fight

La, la, la, la - la, la, lie

Beautiful Goodbye, Beautiful Goodbye

A cornucopia - a golden Utopia

Fading into an auburn sky

Pumpkins a-grinnin’ soon

Beneath the harvest moon

Don't let that yearning pass you by

Darlin’ stoke the fireplace

Our team is in a pennant race

If they blow it, baby wipe your eyes

Next year we get another try

La, la, la, la - la, la, lie

Beautiful Goodbye, Beautiful Goodbye

Guests:

Kathy Mattea/Harmony Vocals

Diane Perry/Violins

Jon Vezner/String Arrangement

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