Farrar Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 Every year at one of the street parties on Halloween they do a shadow puppet show and it's been the same for ages, so much so that this year while I was hanging out at the top of the street by the fire, I knew a lot of the words to the rhyme by heart. I have always figured it came from somewhere - like that it was an old song or rhyme or something, but I was curious to look it up and I can't seem to find it. It's sort of a list of Halloween things with a loose story - almost an old lady who swallowed the fly sort of thing, the cat that ate the rat who sat on the wall who, etc. etc. Each verse ends: "...in the middle of the haunted cemetery. She gave quite a fright BOOM BOOM on Halloween night BOOM BOOM." At the end the Jack-o-Lantern is the only thing left. Maybe it comes from a picture book? Anyone know it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted November 1, 2015 Share Posted November 1, 2015 Have you tried typing the chorus into Google to see what you get? When I remember a snippet of a poem or a quote I have been lucky about 50% of the time with google. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farrar Posted November 1, 2015 Author Share Posted November 1, 2015 Yeah, that's how I usually find things that I know just a snippet of. It didn't turn it up on the first couple of pages though. Apparently all of those words are *also* in a lot of other Halloween rhymes though, because pages of Halloween rhymes for kids did dominate the search results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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