What poem does this phrase come from?

[LanaTron]

Hi! I actually haven't posted or even lurked in many years, as I my homeschool days ended about 5 years ago. But I am perplexed about something, and it occurred to me to give The Hive Mind a try!

I was making Halloween cupcakes two days ago, and I had some ghost-shaped sprinkles to put on top of them. The phrase "Ghosty ghosty all alone" came to my mind, and I remembered it was from a poem I used to read aloud to my kids when they were little. The poem was in a book that I *think* was a collection of Halloween poems for young children, possibly all by the same author, but I'm not sure about that. Here is all I can remember:

Ghosty, ghosty all alone, (first line?)

Ghosty, ghosty, moany moan,
Can't talk on the telephone. (somewhere in the middle of the poem)

Ghosty, Ghosty all alone, 
Needs a ghosty of his own! (Last verse)

 

Does anyone know this poem or anything about it?

Thanks, y'all!
 

[Katy]

No, but googling the first line got two links that were deleted referencing a short story, “Alone No Longer” and then both mentioned in parentheses (The Ball’s in Her Court).  Maybe you could use Google archives or the Wayback machine and see what else they said?

[MercyA]

Found it! It's in the book You Be Good and I'll Be Night: Jump-on-the-Bed Poems. You can see it here:

https://archive.org/details/youbegoodillbeni0000merr/page/n7/mode/2up?q=ghosty+all+alone

[LanaTron]

Oh, yes! Once I read the title, I remembered the book! I was searching for a Halloween book, so definitely looking in the wrong place. 

THANK YOU!

It's such a cute little poem.