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Charley Noble Lyr Add: Witches on Broomsticks / Halloween Sights (20) RE: Lyr Add: Witches on Broomsticks / Halloween Sights 06 Nov 22


Here's one my mother composed as a poem some years ago which I've recently adapted for singing:

Words by Dahlov Ipcar, ©2001
Adapted by Charles Ipcar, 2018
After “Leather Wing Bat”
Key: Em (Gm/9)
Halloween Night Song-2

F----------Dm------C-----------Dm
Late last night my black cat cried,
---F----------Dm-----F-----C----Dm
I wondered why, I won-dered why--
--------F------------C--------Am
For it was a cold October night,
-----------------F------C----F---Dm---C---Dm
And the wind blew high, the wind blew high.

A great orange moon rose high above,
The tossing trees, the tossing trees--
And through that sky dead leaves swirled by,
Borne on the breeze, borne on the breeze.

My black cat clawed and scratched the door,
Mewed and cried, mewed and cried--
I scarce believed she wished to leave,
The warm fireside, the warm fireside.

But when I opened wide the door,
She dashed outside, she dashed outside--
And on a broomstick she leapt astride,
As it sailed by, as it sailed by.

So now I know that my black cat,
Who loves to chase the mice and rats--
Wants to chase the little black bats,
And owls that fly, owls that fly.

If I was a witch on Halloween,
I'd like to fly, I’d like to fly--
And ride my broomstick way up high,
Across the sky, across the sky.

With my black cat I'd take to flight
And chase the bats and owls all night--
And ne’er return until daylight,
When the sun rose high, the sun rose high.


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