Boo!

[Michael H Geimer]

Hey Gang,
Lame-o that I am, I am wearing typical street clothes today. I'm just wearing Levi's per the 'Casual Friday' dress code. Many co-workers are 'Dolled Up' ... but of course they're all men (Yeeech ... it's really disgusting ... really).

I do have a guitar at my desk, so I'm thinking to play some 'Scary Bluegrass' come quitting time. So far, all I can think up to play is Long Black Veil*.

Know anything spookier?

Happy Halloween Everyone!

- Benig

*I have to say, just running through the lyrics in my head has already given me goose bumps twice this morning, so maybe I'll just stick with that creepy tale of woe.

[Scotti Adams]

Bringing Mary Home Long Black Veil Little Girl and the Dreadful Snake...just to name three....Hell most BG songs are morbid....

[Gary]

I think Eli Renfro is pretty scary.

[GVD]

"It's Just the Night" by the Del McCoury band

GVD

[AlanN]

Although not a 'scary' song, on their collaborative record, Doc and Chet do "Don't Monkey 'Round mah Widder When I'm Gone", which has the great line...If you monkey round mah widder, I'm tellin you true, some dark night I'll scare the h*&% out of you, I'll haint ya, boy, if you monkey round mah widder when I'm gone.

Scared the heck out of me when I heard that!

[Flowerpot]

I love Lost and Found's version of "Cold Icy Fingers"... well, I guess it's more funny than scary, but it's mostly about "haints and sights". And yep, old Eli Renfo is pretty hard to beat, draggin' chains and moanin' people's names.

[duuuude]

Benig-
Last verse change for Long Black Veil:
"Sometimes late at night when the cold wind moans,
She digs up my grave and gnaws on my bones."


It always struck me as a song about a vampire for some reason.

[nupicker]

where could I hear a copy of that there song "Long black veil" ?

[Don Grieser]

Long Black Veil is sung by a dead guy, a pretty amazing feat, and so is Matterhorn. Del's All Aboard is a bit spooky too. Then there's all the dead girl songs.

[KTB]

Who's That Knockin'- Dreadful Snakes or NBB

[duuuude]

where could I hear a copy of that there song "Long black veil" ?

Here's one version:

Long Black Veil
(traditional)

G
Ten years ago on a cold dark night
D D7 C G
There was someone killed 'neath the town hall light
G
Few were at the scene but they all agree
D D7 C G
That the slayer who ran looked a lot like me


The judge said "Son, what is your alibi
If you were somewhere else you won't have to die"
I spoke not a word, though it meant my life
For I'd been in the arms of my best friends wife

Chorus:
C G C D7 G
She walks these hills in a long black veil
C G C D7 G
She visits my grave when the night winds wail
B7 C G
Nobody knows, nobody sees,
A7 D7 G
Nobody knows but me


The scaffold was high, and eternity near
She stood in the crowd, but she shed not a tear
But sometimes late at night, when the cold wind moans
She visits my grave, and she cries o'er my bones

(Chorus)

[Michael H Geimer]

Duuude,
I think if you've read the news today, that last line might be ...

"She digs up my grave, and drinks all my beer!"

[mandofiddle]

Duuude,
I think if you've read the news today, that last line might be ...

"She digs up my grave, and drinks all my beer!"

LOL! Yeah, and I bet that beer tastes like those numerical symbols we see all over the place on the Cafe.

[duuuude]

Oh man, how did I miss that?! # #

Oh, hey, to make it sound spooky try dropping it to Em.

[mikeh]

The legend of Henry Walker by the McCoury's. It's on "Cold Hard Facts". I also laugh at this line in this song every time

"I dragged my dead partner, throught the ice and through the snow, I lost 3 fingers and a thumb to the frostbite don't you know"

[mandobsessed]

How about "Who's that Knocking at Your Door" by the dreadfull snakes, "Dreadfull Wind and Rain". making a fiddle out of finger bones is pretty creepy.

For true terror try Dolly Parton singing Stairway to Heaven.... scary stuff.

[mandolooter]

Dillard Hartford Dillard - Biggest Whatever
...kinda funny, but it scared Melody when she was 6.

Hi Mikes !

[Brian Baker]

"River Bottom" by the Country Gentlemen, on their Sugar Hill Collection CD.

Pretty freaky murder ballad...

[John Flynn]

How about "Oh The Wind and Rain?" A guy takes his girlfriend for a walk by a river on a windy, rainy day. He asks her to marry him, but before she can answer, he attacks and brutally beats her and then throws her in the river to drown. A miller discovers her body and uses her body parts to make a fiddle. The only tune the fiddle will play is "Oh The Wind and Rain," which is the tune about this whole incident. If that is not the ultimate holloween bluegrass tune, I don't know what is.

[GVD]

He asks her to marry him, but before she can answer, he attacks and brutally beats her and then throws her in the river to drown.

Johnny if there's one thing I've learned from listening to BG is it's not a good idea for women to take a stroll along the river with their man.

GVD

[Michael H Geimer]

I did indeed hack my way through Long Black Veil. We play it in my band, but I don't sing it or play guitar to it, so I was 'a fish out of water'.

Afterwards someone asked, "Did you just say, 'She knaws on my bones?'" Ooops.

[Jeffers]

There's one song that Yonder Mountain SB play for Boograss shows around this time. Had a quick look around the net to see if I could find the name of it - and couldn't. I think its called "Brown light shining" or "Brown Lantern" or something. It's a ghost story about a master and his servant walking a road through the hills at night. One of them dies (can't remember which) and to this day you can still sometimes see the light of the ghostly lantern shining on the hillside ... scary huh? Ok the details are a bit sketchy but I think its traditional so maybe somebody else knows it?

Jeffers

[flairbzzt]

Marie Laveau by Bobby Bare. About a voodoo lady in the Louisiana woods. It has a great baseline.

[duuuude]

How 'bout Wayfaring Strangler?

[mandolooter]

Yep thats a great song with origins in Boston I believe.