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I’m a big fan of supernatural folk songs, and it was that time of year, so I thought I’d add another one. This is a bit of a Scottish-type Hallowe’en.

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Midst graveyard stones, and auld dead bones
Where witches sip their barley brew
A brownie fiddler bows a reel
And all the fey folk dance it round
As those who oft repentantly
Confessed and begged redemption
Now show no shame as round they twirl
With partners neither
Law nor Kirk would sanction

It’s Hallowe’en, and we’ve risen from our graves
Hallowe’en, unforgiven and unsaved
Hallowe’en, one night we’re not Old Satan’s slaves
Every Jack O’Lantern soul
That ever robbed a begging bowl
Has come to Earth to scare you all
On Hallowe’en

There’s horseshoes hanging on the doors
All closed and barred and locked-up tight
As through the curtains drift their prayers
That we’ll not visit them tonight
For we’re the ones that walk the Earth
But once in every curséd year
My pleasure ‘tis to howl and screech
And laugh at how you run when I draw near

We’ll whistle through your letterbox
And down your chimney we shall come
Your bedroom doors, we’ll make them creak
And fright your souls to Kingdom Come
But pay no heed if you should hear
Our show is naught but bluffing
That we are only wind and air
Sound and fury, signifying … nothing

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from In Praise of Crows (2021), released March 15, 2021

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