Mike Moxcey ©2000

Halloween "Carols"

Because I could play Alice's Restaurant on the ukulele and wanted to show that instrument, I wrote these words.  The rhyming scheme is different between the two verses but it doesn't matter.

Alice's Restaurant
(Halloween version by Mike Moxcey)

You can get lots of candy to eat, when you go trick or treat.
You can get lots of candy to eat, when you go trick or treat.
Dress up like a ghost or a scary black cat, a priate or a witch or a vampire bat
You can get lots of candy to eat, when you go trick or treat.

You can get lots of candy to eat, when you go trick or treat...
Ring the doorbell then you yell, trick or treat give me something to eat ...



Here are some songs I found on the web and used as is or rewrote for my own particular needs.  Do a search for Halloween Carols to find more.

Bobby, the Big Nosed Pumpkin
Boo! Boo! Boo! What Will We Do?
Deck the Halls
Over the Graveyard
She'll Be Riding on a Broomstick
Twelve Days of Halloween
 
 

Bobby, the Big Nosed Pumpkin
(tune: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer)

Oh, Bobby the smallest Pumpkin Had a very large cut nose.
And if you ever saw it,  You would say "man, that thing glows."
All of the other pumpkins, Used to laugh and call him names.
They never let poor Bobby Play in any Halloween games.

Then one foggy Halloween night, Glenda the good witch said,
"Bobby, with your nose so bright, Won't you guide my broom tonight"
Then all the Jack-o-lanterns loved him, And they shouted out with glee,
"Bobby, the Big Nosed Pumpkin, You'll go down in history!"
 

Boo! Boo! Boo! What Will We Do?
(tune: Up On the Rooftop)

All through the town floats monsters'breath, Screams of horror, hints of death.
Down all the streets come the girls and boys All dressed up for their haunting joys.

chorus:
Boo! Boo! Boo! What will we do? Boo! Boo! Boo! What will we do? Ooo
Try to enjoy this scary scene And just relax, 'cause it's Halloween!!

Witches and goblins now fill the air, Spiders crawl across your hair!
And every place that you try to hide Soon there's a ghostie there by your side.

chorus

There is a chill about this night Your head starts ting-a-ling with fright.
In jack-o-lanterns' eerie glow The vampires now start swooping low.

chorus
 

Deck the Halls

Deck the halls with poison ivy, fa la la la la, la la la la.
'Tis the season to be slimy, fa la la la la, la la la la.
See the goblins rise before us, fa la la, la la la, la la la.
As we sing the Halloween chorus, fa la la la la, la la la la.

Deck the halls with pumpkins dandy..
Tis the season to eat candy...
Don we now our scary apparel...
As we bob for apples in a barrel...
 

Over the Graveyard
(tune Over the River and Through the Woods)

Over the graveyard and through the tombs, To the haunted house we go.
The ghosts are a fright, this spooky night So come and join the show.
Over the graveyard and through the tombs, Just hear the dreadful cries,
The banshees howl, the black cats yowl, Their shrieking fills the skies.

Over the graveyard and through the tombs, Where all the goblins meet,
Witches and ghouls they are no fools, They all yell, "Trick or Treat."
Over the graveyard and through the tombs, The jack-o-lanterns gleam.
Bats fill the skies, with glowing eyes, Hooray! It's Halloween!
 

She'll Be Riding on a Broomstick
(tune: She'll Be Comin Round the Mountain)

She'll be riding on a broomstick when she comes (whoosh whoosh)
She'll be riding on a broomstick when she comes (whoosh whoosh)
She'll be riding on a broomstick
She'll be riding on a broomstick
She'll be riding on a broomstick when she comes. (whoosh whoosh)

She will bring along her bats when she comes (flap flap)

She will haunt the empty mansion when she comes.  (whoooooooo)

She will carve a jack o'lantern when she comes.  (hack hack)

She will cook up toads and spiders when she comes (yum yum)

She will feed the ghosts and goblins when they come  (ooey  gooey)

She will give us lots of candy when she comes (trick or treat)
 

Twelve Days of Halloween

On the First Day of Halloween, my Swamp Thing gave to me:

An owl in a rotten oak tree
Two trick or treaters,
Three black cats,
Four skeletons,
Five Snickers bars,
Six goblins gobbling,
Seven pumpkins glowing,
Eight monsters shrieking,
Nine ghosts a-booing,
Ten ghouls a-groaning,
Eleven masks a-leering,
Twelve bats a-flying.



Mike Moxcey

Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
December 2000