[Speaking]
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Just gather 'round and I'll elucidate,
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What goes on outside when it gets late.
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Along about midnight the ghosts and banshees,
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Who get together for their nightly jamborees.
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There's things with horns and saucer eyes,
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Some with fangs about this size.
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Some are fat and some are thin,
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And some don't even wear their skin.
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I'm telling you, brother, it's a frightful sight
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To see what goes on Halloween night!
Intro
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Verse 1
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When the spooks have a midnight jamboree,
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They break it up with fiendish glee.
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The ghosts are bad but the one that's cursed
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Is the Headless Horseman, He's the worst!
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(That's right, he's a fright on Halloween night!)
Verse 2
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When he goes a joggin' 'cross the land,
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Holding his noggin in his hand,
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Demons take one look and groan
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And they hit the road for parts unknown.
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(Beware! Take care! He rides alone!)
Chorus 1
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And there's no spook like a spook that's spurned.
[F] [C]
They don't like him and he's really burned.
[F] [Gm]
He swears to the longest day he's dead!
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He'll show them that he can get a head!
Verse 3
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They say he's tired of his flaming top.
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He's got a yen to make a swap.
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So he rides one night each year,
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To find a head in the hollow here.
Verse 4
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Now, he likes 'em little! He likes 'em big!
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Parted in the middle or a wig!
[Gm] [Dm]
Black or white or even red!
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The headless horseman needs a head!
Chorus 2
[F] [C]
With a hip-hip and a clippity-clop,
[F] [C]
He's out looking for a top to chop.
[F] [Gm]
So don't stop to figure out a plan.
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You can't reason with a headless man!
[Speaking]
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Now if you doubt this tale is so,
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I met that spook just a year ago.
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Now I didn't stop for a second look,
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But made for the bridge that spans the brook,
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For once you've crossed that bridge, my friend,
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The ghost is through, His power ends!
Verse 5
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So when you're ridin' home tonight,
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Make for the bridge with all your might!
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He'll be down in the hollow there.
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He needs your head! Look out! Beware!
Chorus 3
[F] [C]
With a hip-hip and a clippity-clop,
[F] [C]
He's out looking for a head to swap.
[F] [Gm]
So don't try to figure out a plan.
[Dm] [A7] [Dm]
You can't reason with a headless man!
[End]
