Halloween Visitor, A

DESCRIPTION: "The moon across the velvet sky was creeping, creeping The very shadows seemed to lie sleeping, sleeping, When all at once, behind the shed, A ghostly shape without a head, Jumped and like a phantom fled. Leaping, Leaping."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 2007 (Judy Cook posting on Mudcat)
KEYWORDS: supernatural ghost | moon
FOUND IN: US
RECORDINGS:
Judy Cook, "A Halloween Visitor" (Piotr-Archive #284, recorded 10/03/2022)
NOTES [52 words]: Judy Cook said she learned this in school, which would seem to imply it came from some sort of instructional material. But I can't find any hint of it. And the tune is odd, with numerous shifts in tempo. I wonder if a teacher simply made it up. But I don't know. I'm far from sure it qualifies as traditional. - RBW
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File: DPio284

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