SOTU 349: HALLOWEEN SONGS - ddanner

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I'm thrilled with what everyone is bringing so far! It's quite a mixture of genres, styles, themes, and imagery, but a treasure trove of material if you're looking for Halloween and Fall Festival songs.

What are we lacking? More food or drink for the party? Some witches brew, or Potion? Ghoulish snacks of worms or brains? Magic? Apple Bobbing? The chill of a harvest night? So many Halloween items to embrace or critique! Keep bringing them! I've still got my head above water here!

- dennis

Here's a dark and powerful song written by Michael Peter Smith that I did last year, and enjoyed doing again now. David Allan Coe had this on his first major label album in 1974.

It’s an original song about Greendale, the town where the series is set!

Demimondaine said:

It’s an original song about Greendale, the town where the series is set!

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Thanks for the clarification. - dd

Here's an original that I wrote a while ago. New arrangement and performance for this Season. I'd love for it to be in the Halloween Playlist, Dennis! Multi-tracked an extra use and voice, and a shaker.

Another original. I got the idea for this song today. After I got home, when I was downloading the latest batch of podcasts, I typed out the hook/title line and the song just about wrote itself. This was about 2 1/2 hours work from start of writing to finish of recording. Too bad not all songs can happen like this.

Just a simple three-chord country song.

And another paoriginal for your week Dennis.
I used to be very anti Halloween - especially the trick or treat thing.
And it used to be very uncommon here in Australia.
But over the last ten years or so it has become common to get kids knocking on the door all dressed up and having fun - so I have a bucket of candy at the ready.
My own grand kids enjoy the whole Halloween thing.
So I'm less humbuggy than I used to be.
I do agree it has become a money making exercise for the shopkeepers.
So it's actually NOT my favourite time of the years but this is from a kids perspective....

lengthy and complicated lyrics.................. NOT! .................



target audience - anyone and everyone, of any age

i used power chords AGAIN!!!!!

BUT it works fine with regular chords...

[G] I walked with a zombie
[Em] I walked with a zombie
[C] I walked with a [D] zombie last [G] night

repeat ad infinitem

This song makes me laugh!

That Night a Year - an Original by MP

Here is my song for the Halloween Season, which is an ORIGINAL... my first original song in 20 years which I have actually managed to finalise and record. Thanks to all you guys for support and inspiration since joining the Seasons which made me actually put pen to paper. The song is called 'That Night a Year' and is my take on the Halloween atmosphere. The idea is a sort of ghost story... Hope you like it. Featuring a hefty Risa LP ukulele solo.



NB. If you feel that you have heard the melodic line before, you have probably seen too many Bond movies ;-)

I didn't think I had anything for this week, but I think this repost hits the spot.

Thanks for reposting this for all to enjoy here on #349

greenie44 said:

I didn't think I had anything for this week, but I think this repost hits the spot.

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Glad you had second thoughts and decided to repost your Haunted House cover. Great job, and a lot of fun for a Halloween party for sure.

I won't be adding it to either playlist, however. The main playlist is only for newly recorded songs specifically for 349. I am adding reposted originals to the other list to facilitate covers of Seasonista originals by other Seasonistas. Hope you understand, and didn't expect otherwise.

There's still lots of time left before 349 ends, and several Halloween classics yet to be done. Can we talk you into a BKV version of something like Monster Mash, or Love Potion #9, or ???

Thanks again,

dd

my apologies Dennis.
reposting this.
the original one got lost in the maelstrom.

mountain goat said:

my apologies Dennis.
reposting this.
the original one got lost in the maelstrom.

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No apologies needed, Jon. I'm just happy to get it back and played again at the 349 party! Cheers brother!

Here's a song I remember singing at primary school back in the 70s - originally a poem by Harry Behn from his book called Halloween (first published in about 1949 apparently, but re-published with new illustrations only about 15 years ago). Again, for kids of all ages - some adults might also remember it from school. I've copied lyrics and chords below the vid.

And yes - I have removed the mask I wore in my Scooby Doo vid before anyone asks!!!



Halloween

(Dm) Tonight is the night
When (Am) dead leaves fly
Like (Dm) witches on switches
(Am) Across the sky,
When (Dm) elf and sprite
Flit (Am) through the night
On a (Dm) moony (Gm)sheen
For it’s (Bb) Ha(C)llow(Dm)een

(Dm) Tonight is the night
When (Am) leaves make a sound
Like a (Dm) gnome in his home
(Am) Under the ground,
When (Dm) spooks and trolls
Creep (Am) out of holes
(Dm) Mossy and (Gm) green
For it’s (Bb) Ha(C)llow(Dm)een

(Dm) Tonight is the night
When (Am) pumpkins stare
Through (Dm) sheaves and leaves
(Am) Everywhere,
When (Dm) ghoul and ghost
And (Am) goblin host
Dance (Dm) round their (Gm) queen
For it’s (Bb) Ha(C)llow(Dm)een

Greetings,

REPOSTED SONG IN LATER THREAD, NEEDED CLEAN UP.

I decided to do a song parody on steel string tuned half step down to the tune of Sugar Mountain - a song about the passing of youth (which I used my lyrics related to Halloween as I perused through Walgreens). I made an error in the opening of the vid and gave credit to the original song as Candy Mountain when it should have been Sugar Mountain. My parody is named "Halloween Candy Mountain". I find the original song very moving. Here is my take with a deeper meaning - we all wear a mask, but in the context of the song it's only allowed on Candy Mountain.

Oh to live on Candy Mountain.
I wish everyday was Halloween,
You can be anyone on Candy Mountain,
You can wear your costumes on Halloween, ooh, only on Halloween.


For just one day a year,
You can be anything from here
They can't make fun of you,
You have nothing to fear

There's a pretty girl in the store,
And she's staring at the gore,
As you choose your M &M's,
You're thinking about her then,

Now your picking up your mask,
Along with the hooded sack,
Her party is at Six,
And your picking out your snacks,

Oh to live on Candy Mountain.
I wish everyday was Halloween,
You can be anyone on Candy Mountain,
You can wear your costumes on Halloween, ooh, only on Halloween.



Ciao

Here's a Jim Lauderdale song about a trucker on a "far out" spooky and scary haul. I did this one last year, really fun song to try again.

I was thinking about the juxtaposition of 'fun" horror and real horror.This original is about a town in South Australia where grisly serial killings took place.Bodies were disposed of in acid barrels in an abandoned bank building in the main street of town.For the curious google "The Snowtown murders"...um not a kiddie's song.


its never Halloween in Snowtown
plain wrapped darkness all the time
there’s a barrel with your name on
and a bank vault full of crying

wasteland, waste not,
red rain, cold shot

smells like voodoo out on main street
bad ju-ju rolling down the drain
Big Wolf wants to kick some doors in
Shark is on the prowl again

All around the kitchen courtroom
Revenge is bragged and tagged and stained
on the fingers of the players
With their skin pressed in the game

and talk is cheap between
the wheatbelt and the wire
suburbs melting off the map
sleep now kid tomorrow’s
coming quickly
slide those bottles off a mummy’s lap

You play nature I’ll raise you nuture
You throw down evil I’ll raise you good
Can I see the deck your holding
Was it marked since childhood?

Bad seeds plant deep
We sow, they creep

Dia de los meurtos
Doesn’t translate all too well
No carnival in Snowtown
Just bog ordinary hell

Waste land, waste not
Red rain, cold shot

Never Halloween in Snowtown
Plain wrapped darkness evermore
And somewhere too far in the distance
Some creator’s keeping score

This is a song from the reboot of Mystery Science Theater 3000. They did this in the Reptilicus episode.

This is a reposted original from Season 233 called "Cheshire Cat Moon". This is about my favorite riff that I've ever written. I wrote the music in 1985, but it had different lyrics for the first 20+ years.




Lyrics:

Certainty lies trembling and exposed
Embrace the mystery, as it was long ago
The mansion on the hillside now crumbling into ruin
I'm standing beneath the autumn sky being taunted by a Cheshire Cat moon

How long does it take to right a wrong?
And how long does it take to make amends
When you can't tell your enemies from your friends?

Push the stones out of place
The building falls, falls right off of its base
I put my money on disharmony and you saw I got full paid
Now I've been looking at the wreckage wondering just who else we betrayed

Whistle blow, penny on the tracks
I walked the trestle bridge, that train's not coming back
There's no one left to lend a hand, I'm grasping for some hope
And you could hang your head in shame if I give you enough rope

Draw a bead upon the latest of your misbegotten schemes
It only takes one second's pause to burst it at the seams
Just a chance to make all this real, to bring the dream to light
I cast a wary eye on you as you move off into the night

Hanging in the air, the moment looms immense
Pilot to bombardier: Drop all pretense!
I light the fire and watch the smoke start to rise in a plume
The two of us walking our separate ways beneath a laughing, taunting Cheshire Cat moon

How long does it take to right a wrong?
And how long does it take to make amends
To bring about a better end?

The inscription on the monument tells me all I need
I scrape away the key words no one else will ever read
The golden treasures of antiquity now plundered from the tomb
I buried them where you'll never find beneath the dim glow of a Cheshire Cat moon