A spooky song from 1914.
Words and music by Irving Berlin.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- You see that vacant house
As quiet as a mouse
It’s chock full of myst’ry
Besides, it has a hist’ry
The man who occupied
That building, strangely died
No one wants to buy it, because
Chorus
That house is haunted, haunted
Lanky, hanky, panky skeletons
Go sneakin’ around
You see that boney, croney
I mean that boney skeleton
Hiding behind that statue
Look out, he’s looking at you!
Listen! Listen!
Tell me, can’t you hear him
Whistling “That Mysterious Rag”
So noted, he wrote it
In that rickety, haunted house
- I often have been told
That there’s a bag of gold
In the house that’s haunted
I’m poor, but I don’t want it
The doors are open wide
But no one steps inside
No one needs the money, because
Sung here by Vancha March: