Thread: Halloween Carols and other songs

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I thought I would post this song I did this year in case anyone might want to use it for a set of singing pumpkins or a skeletal quartet.

It's a parody of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" and is called, "Rise Up Ye Buried Gentlemen"

You can grab it here:

http://rewindshow.com/skull/RiseUpYeBuriedGentlemen.mp3

Right click on the link and choose "Save Target As" to save it to your hard drive.

I will post a few more later.

I am actively looking for more songs that are well suited to be Halloween Parodys.

Songs with easy to hear and understand lyrics like Swing, Jazz or Blues types.

Classics that people would know (at least the tunes) but lend themselves to have new words written for them.

Any ideas?

Excellent job.

I'm afraid I've been studying foreign music too many years to be much help at the moment for new suggestions with reguards to popular songs...

But, more Christmas Carols would be easy to do.

Hark the harold is simple enough. "Glory to the pumpkin king" just rolls off the tongue.

Do you see what I see is just begging for a remake... "A skull, a skull, lit up by the fire with a grin so eerie and dire"

I loathe Carols, and could go on for ages. (learned piano/organ as a child, and had to play carols EVERYWHERE. School, church, home...Ye Big book of 2 million christmas carols, and I have them all memorized, still...)

Here's another one from last year.

A Takeoff on Jingle Bells.

Another member on this forum actually wrote the last verse for me. I did the music in Fruity Loops software and sang the backup vocals and my wife sang the lead.

http://rewindshow.com/skull/JingleBones.mp3

Same as the first one, right click and choose "save target as" to save to your hard drive

...and another one

Zombies Roasting On A Funeral Pyre.

I used a karaoke track for the music, my sister wrote the lyrics, I did the backup voices and my wife sang the lead again:

http://rewindshow.com/skull/ZombiesR...uneralPyre.mp3

I might just release a CD of "Halloween Carols" if I get enough of them together.

..and just in case that wasn't enough, here is one more "Halloween Carol".

This one is meant to be sung by my Skeleton Quartet. Instead of a white Christmas, they are dreaming of a "Whole Body"

http://rewindshow.com/skull/I'mDreamingOfANewBody.mp3


And this is what I was talking about in my first post.

I am looking for songs similar to this next one in style. Songs that were classics and lend themselves to be re-written:

http://rewindshow.com/skull/I'mInTheMoodForFright.mp3


That last one is actually a double parody. It is, of course a parody of I'm in the mood for Love, but the idea for the gravedigging shovel keeping time came from another parody of the original song called, "I'm in the Ground for Good" by the Newports.

I did the music, and even the shovel sounds again in Fruity Loops and did all the background vocals. My wife again sings the lead in both these songs.

LOL those are great! Nicely done!

Here's a link to another thread with something you might like:

'The 12 Days of Halloween'

Halloweenbob, these are great, you are very good at this. if or when you get a cd together let me know, i am interested in all things halloween. And thank you for sharing your work.

Here's an old thread we had some fun with...if you run out of words and need some:
Corpsing Carols...

And under the category of "Other Songs"

I am currently working on re-doing "Stormy Weather".

The premise is that, like the Adams family, we LOVE stormy weather and can't get enough of that Thunder and lightning.

I will, of course add the thunder sounds to the audio track and lightning flashes to my VSA routine when I make this for my quartet.

Right now, I have just finished the lyrics. They go like this:

Don’t know why, I love the clouds up in the sky
Stormy Weather

I wish for raging storms forever,
I like the lightning all the time.

Life is bare, gloom and mis’ry everywhere
Stormy weather

Thunder cracks and the silence it does sever,
I love it all of the time
Clear skies are such a crime

When storm clouds went away, the blue skies came and met me.
If the tempest stays at bay, they'll be no comfort to abet me.

All I do is pray the Lord above will let me walk in the storm once more.

Can't go on, when the troubled skies are gone
Stormy weather

I wish for raging storms forever,
I like the lightning all the time.

I like the lightning all the time.
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The original lyrics went like this:

Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky
Stormy weather

Since my man and I ain't together,
Keeps rainin' all the time

Life is bare, gloom and mis’ry everywhere
Stormy weather

Just can't get my poor self together,
I'm weary all the time
So weary all the time

When he went away the blues walked in and met me.
If he stays away old rockin’ chair will get me.

All I do is pray the Lord above will let me walk in the sun once more.

Can't go on, everything I had is gone
Stormy weather

Since my man and I ain't together,
Keeps rainin' all the time

Keeps rainin' all the time