The Horror Hosts Never Die

Verse 1

Ten cents poor at the drugstore rack in 1950 black and white

Bill Gaines and Al Feldstein cooked a scare in pale crypt light

Tales From The Crypt, Vault of Horror too, Haunt of Fear on the shelf

Three ghouls cacklin' at ya for their jolly fright

Chorus

Ohhh-eee-ohhh, the horror comics never die

Creepy, Eerie, Vampirella with a blood-red eye

Uncle Creepy and Cousin Eerie back from the grave

Screamin' from the comic crypt, "Boils and ghouls, behave!"

Post-Chorus

Boils and ghouls

Boils and ghouls, behave

Verse 2

In fifty-four they tried to bury us, Comics Code put us in a box

Said no more gore, no more ghouls, tried to kill the shock

But Jim Warren said hold my magazine back in sixty-four

Uncle Creepy hostin', Cousin Eerie coastin', Vampirella to the door

Chorus

Ohhh-eee-ohhh, the horror comics never die

Creepy, Eerie, Vampirella with a blood-red eye

Uncle Creepy and Cousin Eerie back from the grave

Screamin' from the comic crypt, "Boils and ghouls, behave!"

Post-Chorus

Boils and ghouls

Boils and ghouls, behave

Bridge

On KABC, fifty-four, Finnish fire Maila Nurmi dark divine

Waist eighteen inches, scream so fine, first queen of the graveyard line

Then eighty-one, KHJ Los Angeles, Cassandra rides the screen

Valley vamp with a valley snarl, big hair, quick wit, same black dream

VAMPIRA! (Vampira!)

ELVIRA! (Elvira!)

Queen versus queen?

Nah, darling, same scream, different screen!

Guitar Solo

Verse 3

Grab your remote, light your incense, double feature fight

One is beatnik morticia, cool as a tomb, other is mall-rat midnight delight

Both love the bad movies, both rule the late show, both kiss the keeper's cheek

The Old Witch says "kiddies, why choose?" Let the theremin squeak!

Final Chorus

Ohhh-eee-ohhh, Vampira versus Elvira, who gets the crown?

Both get the coffin couch, both wear the gown

From EC to Warren to your TV light

The horror hosts never die, they just change the night!

Hook

Change the night

Change the night

(Change the night)