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“Banshee boys,
Your in for quite a surprise!
You look like you’ve seen a ghost!”

Phalanges reach for piano keys
“He’s Handsome”
A man so lean the bones
In his hands and fingers show
In the amphitheatre at the grand opening
A standing O, a phantom screams,
Shadows dance to jazz swing
Jones by candles beam of light
From inside a Jack-O-Lanterns gleam
On black and white, his spidery hands would leap,
Like tarantulas on ivory trampelines.
“Skeletones!” Dance and sing
“Scarecrows!” On ghastly beats
Ghosts on trombone, anthem proceeds
Grabs the mic strikes up the band and sings

Oh no Skull Jones
With a band of bones
Graves all sway in rows (Dance with me)
Handsome spook (“Why thank you.”)
Swanky suit (“Far too kind.”)
Skeletones

“Hit it boys!”

“Time for my solo
Watch out now here come those ghost notes
Aww you didn’t like Jones’s joke?
Whats the matter boy, your funny bone’s broke?”

Lost by the grave yard, me and some good friends
Looking in through the space in the crooked fence,
‘Til a great wooshing wind pushed against the gate,
didn’t anticipate that it would unhinge
“Rattlebones shoosh!”
“It wasn’t me look its them!”
Saw our faces, they came and the took us in
To the stage, thought our fate was looking grim
But they invited us to stay and play music with them

Oh no Skull Jones
And the Banshee Boys
Graves all sway in rows
Handsome spook
Swanky suit
Skeletones

At twelve o’clock am
The town mausoleum
Turns into a jazz concert hall coliseum
You’ll probably be greeted by peach cobbler-eating
Hobgoblins who’re drinking a cauldron of sweet tea and
When everything seems just a bit Halloweenish
Except there’s no costumes just all these creatures
Witches on besoms will howl and shriek as
The man with the skull is pounding the keys in!

credits

from Little Mortimer in Bathland, released February 21, 2011
Skull Jones played by Davaughn Jackson
Additional Vocals by Andrea Greene and Kelsey Howard
Trombone by Kurt "Boy Kurt" Armstrong

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