1 | --> Zig, zig, zig, Death in cadence, |
2 | --> Striking a tomb with his heel, |
3 | --> Death at midnight plays a dance-tune, |
4 | --> Zig, zig, zag, on his violin. |
5 | --> The winter wind blows, and the night is dark; |
6 | --> Moans are heard in the linden trees. |
7 | --> White skeletons pass through the gloom, |
8 | --> Running and leaping in their shrouds. |
9 | --> Zig, zig, zig, each one is frisking, |
10 | --> You can hear the cracking of the bones of the dancers. |
11 | --> A lustful couple sits on the moss |
12 | --> So as to taste long lost delights. |
13 | --> Zig zig, zig, Death continues |
14 | --> The unending scraping on his instrument. |
15 | --> A veil has fallen! The dancer is naked. |
16 | --> Her partner grasps her amorously. |
17 | --> The lady, it's said, is a marchioness or baroness |
18 | --> And her green gallant, a poor cartwright. |
19 | --> Horror! Look how she gives herself to him, |
20 | --> Like the rustic was a baron. |
21 | --> Zig, zig, zig. What a saraband! |
22 | --> They all hold hands and dance in circles. |
23 | --> Zig, zig, zag. You can see in the crowd |
24 | --> The king dancing among the peasants. |
25 | --> But hist! All of a sudden, they leave the dance, |
26 | --> They push forward, they fly; the cock has crowed. |
27 | --> Oh what a beautiful night for the poor world! |
28 | --> Long live death and equality! |
29 | -->--''Danse Macabre'' by Henri Cazalis |
30 | |
31 | --> One night, stormy and full of thunder, |
32 | --> You hear a rumbling from the grave |
33 | --> When suddenly the ground is torn asunder |
34 | --> And the dead begin to wave. |
35 | |
36 | --> It's the night! Night of the dancing dead! |
37 | --> It's the night! Night of the dancing dead! |
38 | |
39 | --> They rise up from the world down under |
40 | --> And you stop and stare as in a trance |
41 | --> You eyes grow big as with wonder |
42 | --> As all of them begin to dance. |
43 | |
44 | --> It's the night! Night of the dancing dead! |
45 | --> It's the night! Night of the dancing dead! |
46 | |
47 | --> They mambo, tango, shimmy and shake |
48 | --> They do the foxtrot, quickstep, jive |
49 | --> Twirling around at their own wake |
50 | --> Dancing, staying not alive. |
51 | |
52 | --> It's the night! Night of the dancing dead! |
53 | --> It's the night! Night of the dancing dead! |
54 | |
55 | -->--''[[NotUsingTheZedWord Zed Word]] Jamboree'', "Night of the Dancing Dead": |
56 | |
57 | --> Carpals, tarsals, vertebrae, that's us clicking on parade |
58 | --> I move without any muscles, my skull's a cavernous hall |
59 | --> Tendons are made for pulling, my friend, I don't need them at all! |
60 | -->--''Skeletons on Parade'', '''Ludo''' |
61 | |
62 | -->'' And whosoever shall be found'' |
63 | -->''Without the soul for getting down'' |
64 | -->''Must stand and face the hounds of hell'' |
65 | -->''And rot inside a corpse's shell'' |
66 | -->--''Music/MichaelJackson'',Thriller |
67 | |
68 | -->'''Miss Flitworth:''' I take it you do dance, [[TheGrimReaper Mr. Bill Door]]?\ |
69 | '''Mr. Bill Door:''' [[AC:Famed for it, Miss Flitworth.]] |
70 | -->-- ''Literature/ReaperMan'' |
71 | |
72 | -->''And they were singing'' |
73 | -->''Back to back, ghoul, belly to belly'' |
74 | -->''Well, I don't give a damn 'cause I'm stone dead already'' |
75 | -->''Back to back, oh oh oh, belly to belly'' |
76 | -->''It's a zombie jamboree'' |
77 | -->-- "Zombie Jamboree", Rockapella cover |
78 | |
79 | -->As the sob of the breeze |
80 | -->Sweeps over the trees |
81 | -->And the mists lie low on the fen |
82 | -->From grey tomb-stones |
83 | -->Are gathered the bones |
84 | -->That once were women and men |
85 | -->And away they go |
86 | -->With a mop and a mow |
87 | -->To the revel that ends too soon |
88 | -->For cockcrow limits our holiday |
89 | -->The dead of the night’s high noon! |
90 | |
91 | -->''Ha! ha!'' |
92 | -->''Then is the ghosts’ high noon!'' |
93 | |
94 | -->-- "When the Night Wind Howls" from '''Theatre/{{Ruddigore}}''', ''Creator/GilbertAndSullivan'' |
95 | |
96 | -->At midnight in the museum hall,\ |
97 | The fossils gathered for a ball,\ |
98 | There were no drums or saxophones,\ |
99 | But just the clatter of their bones,\ |
100 | Rolling, rattling carefree circus,\ |
101 | Of mammoth polkas and mazurkas,\ |
102 | Pterodactyls and brontosauruses\ |
103 | Sang ghostly prehistoric choruses,\ |
104 | Amid the mastodonic wassail\ |
105 | I caught the eye of one small fossil,\ |
106 | "Cheer up sad world," he said and winked,\ |
107 | "It's kind of fun to be extinct." |
108 | -->--Ogden Nash, Fossils |
109 | |
110 | --> Aaron stretched himself, shook himself, got up, took a step of two, and began to dance a jig. With his old bones rattling, and his yellow teeth snapping, and his bald head waggling, and his arms flip-flopping, around and around the room he went. |
111 | --> The fiddler played and Aaron danced. Up and down the floor he danced. Witrh his long legs clocking, and his kneebones clocking, he skipped and pranced around the room. |
112 | -->How that dead man danced! |
113 | -->Crickety-crack, down and back, the dead man went hopping. Every time he jumped he cracked, and every time he cracked, another dry bone dropped on the floor. |
114 | -->--Alvin Schwartz, Aaron Kelley's Bones |
115 | |
116 | --> When the "G" falls off the graveyard sign... |
117 | -->--A popular meme |
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