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SongThree: Skelingtons In Wellingtons

The second of the larger performance songs in the play, Skelingtons in Wellingtons has a silly name to match a silly little spooky piece featuring the Skelingtons and the rest of the spirits. Old Bill sings the song while the Skelingtons, dressed in black with masks and bones painted all over and complete with a pair of gumboots each, rise from their graves and do wobbly dances everywhere. This one looked really good from where I was sitting, as often the lights were down and the white paint of the Skelingtons' bones would reflect and glow eerily.

As for the song itself, it's a spooky waltz using spooky, jazzy chords with the sound of the harpsichord in a reminder of the Addams Family. While it's most definitely intended to be an amusing, silly and fun song it has one of the strongest themes to any of the songs in the play hidden amongst the lyrics. I was pretty happy with the way this one eventually finished up.

And yes, the introduction is a three/four time homage to that early eighties movie about ghosts...

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Skelingtons in Wellingtons

Introduction

When you're asleep and it's dark in the deep
Of the night and your scared of the shadows
You roll up real tight, safe away from the night
Where all of we spooky things go.

We're Skelingtons in Wellingtons and spectres in clean sheets.
We're poltergeists with matching ties, the kind of spirits that you'd like to meet.
We're Skelingtons in Wellingtons, post senior citizens.
There was no retention of our pension so we've come back again.

You may be scared of the dark 'neath the stairs
Or the things that go bump in the night.
There's no need to fear, 'cos the things that you hear
Disappear when you turn on the light.

We're Skelingtons in Wellingtons and spectres in clean sheets.
We're poltergeists in matching ties, the kind of spirits that you'd like to meet.
We're Skelingtons in Wellingtons, post senior citizens.
There was no retention of our pension so we've come back again.

We may be dead, but it's all in your head;
There's a life to be lived if you want to.
You may think you're wise, but please take this advice;
Life really is worth holding onto.

We're Skelingtons in Wellingtons and spectres in clean sheets.
We're poltergeists in matching ties, the kind of spirits that you'd like to meet.
We're Skelingtons in Wellingtons, post senior citizens.
There was no retention of our pension so we've come back again.

Life really is worth holding onto.

 

Download a midi file of this fourth track from School Spirit: The Musical, the original arrangement written for the play.


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