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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.
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They don't like him and he's really burned.
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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!
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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,
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He's out looking for a top to chop.
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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,
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He's out looking for a head to swap.
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So don't try to figure out a plan.
Dm                      A7       Dm
You can't reason with a headless man!