Zombie Rave at Chapel Gate

Intro

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Well now gather round the speakers for a tale of dreadful fun

Verse 1

Now the moon came up on a Tuesday night

and the graveyard started hummin a tune

I was walkin home past the chapel gate

with a half-eaten sandwich and a busted balloon

When a fella in a tuxedo rose up out the sod

said brother can you spare a little rhythm and blues

I said sir you are deceased but you got a decent beat

so I handed him my headphones and my dancin shoes

Pre-Chorus

And they came

And they came

And they came crawlin out the dirt

in their Sunday best

with the mud on their shirts

Chorus

It's a zombie rave

It's a zombie rave

Everybody shamblin like they just got saved

It's a zombie rave

It's a zombie rave

Somebody please tell my mama I behaved

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Verse 2

Now a lady with a jaw hangin by a thread

asked me politely if I'd save her a dance

I said ma'am your arm just fell in the punch

but I reckon that's a risk at a graveyard romance

So we boogied on the tombstones all crooked and slow

and a fella lost a finger in the punchbowl ice

The DJ was a skeleton spinnin old cassettes

and he only took requests that were played twice

Pre-Chorus

And they moaned

And they moaned

And they moaned in perfect time

with a tambourine

and a nursery rhyme

Chorus

It's a zombie rave

It's a zombie rave

Everybody shamblin like they just got saved

It's a zombie rave

It's a zombie rave

Somebody please tell my mama I behaved

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Bridge

Now the sheriff showed up with a flashlight and a frown

said folks this here is private property

But a ghoul in a cardigan sat him right down

and taught him the steps to the misery

So he loosened his belt and he joined the parade

with a shimmy and a shiver and a sideways sway

And I hollered at the heavens as the church bells rang

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Chorus

It's a zombie rave

It's a zombie rave

Everybody shamblin like they just got saved

It's a zombie rave

It's a zombie rave

Somebody please tell my mama I behaved

Chorus

It's a zombie rave

It's a zombie rave

Crawl and stumble wiggle and wave

It's a zombie rave

It's a zombie rave

Lord have mercy on the ones who stayed

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Verse 3

Now the sun came up and the ghouls got shy

and the mist rolled over the fence

The skeleton packed up his cassettes

and he would not tell me whence

The lady with the jaw she curtsied twice

and her arm waved from the punch

The fella in the tuxedo tipped his hat

said son you owe me lunch

Pre-Chorus

And they go

And they go

And they go back in the ground

with a slow goodbye

and a rotten sound

Chorus

It's a zombie rave

It's a zombie rave

Everybody shamblin like they just got saved

It's a zombie rave

It's a zombie rave

Somebody please tell my mama I behaved

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Verse 4

I walked home with one shoe and a story to burn

and my sandwich was gone but I felt no concern

Cause the moon had been a mirror and the dead had been kind

and I left a little rhythm in the back of my mind

Now I hang my headphones on a nail by the door

and I hum that tune the skeleton swore

And when Tuesday comes and the chapel is still

I go sit by the gate on the graveyard hill

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And I wait

And I wait

And I wait for the dirt to stir

with a tambourine

and a bit of a slur

Chorus

It's a zombie rave

It's a zombie rave

Everybody shamblin like they just got saved

It's a zombie rave

It's a zombie rave

Somebody please tell my mama I behaved

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Verse 5

Now the years went by and the town forgot

but I never did forget the spot

Where a sheriff learned to sway in his Sunday vest

and a ghoul in a cardigan did his best

I got old I got slow I got a cane and a cough

but on Tuesday nights I still sneak off

To the chapel gate where the grass grows tall

and I knock three times on the old stone wall

Bridge

And they rise

And they rise

And they rise one last time for me

in a Klapa line

in a minor key

And the harmony comes crawlin out the clay

like a hymn that the living threw away

And I join the hum as the church bells ring

Chorus

It's a zombie rave

It's a zombie rave

Everybody shamblin like they just got saved

It's a zombie rave

It's a zombie rave

Somebody please tell my mama I behaved

Chorus

It's a zombie rave

It's a zombie rave

Crawl and stumble wiggle and wave

It's a zombie rave

It's a zombie rave

Lord have mercy on the ones who stayed

Outro

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Well now bury me close to the speakers my friends

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Put a cassette in my hand

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And if you hear a hum on a Tuesday night

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Well you'll know that I'm dancin right

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