This is Halloween [SHADOW] Boys and girls of every age Wouldn't you like to see something strange? [SIAMESE SHADOW] Come with us and you will see This, our town of Halloween [PUMPKIN PATCH CHORUS] This is Halloween, this is Halloween Pumpkins scream in the dead of night [GHOSTS] This is Halloween, everybody make a scene Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright It's our town, everybody screm In this town of Halloween [CREATURE UNDER THE BED] I am the one hiding under your bed Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red [MAN UNDER THE STAIRS] I am the one hiding under yours stairs Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair [CORPSE CHORUS] This is Halloween, this is Halloween Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! [VAMPIRES] In this town we call home Everyone hail to the pumpkin song [MAYOR] In this town, don't we love it now? Everybody's waiting for the next surprise [CORPSE CHORUS] Round that corner, man hiding in the trash can Something's waiting to pounce, and how you'll... [HARLEQUIN DEMON, WEREWOLF & MELTING MAN] Scream! This is Halloween Red 'n' black, slimy green [WEREWOLF] Aren't you scared? [WITCHES] Well, that's just fine Say it once, say it twice Take a chance and roll the dice Ride with the moon in the dead of night [HANGING TREE] Everybody scream, everybody scream!!!! [HANGED MEN] In our town of Halloween! [CLOWN] I am the clown with the tear-away face Here in a flash and gone without a trace! [SECOND GHOUL] I am the "who" when you call, "Who's there?" I am the wind blowing through your hair [OOGIE BOOGIE SHADOW] I am the shadow on the moon at night Filling your dreams to the brim with fright [CORPSE CHORUS] This is Halloween, this is Halloween Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! [CHILD CORPSE TRIO] Tender lumplings everywhere Life's no fun without a good scare [PARENT CORPSES] That's our job, but we're not mean In our town of Halloween [CORPSE CHORUS] In this town [MAYOR] Don't we love it now? [CORPSE CHORUS] Skelleton Jack might catch you in the back And scream like a banshee Make you jump out of your skin This is Halloween, everybody scream Wont' ya please make way for a very special guy Our man Jack is King of the Pumpkin patch Everyone hail to the Pumpkin King! [EVERYONE] This is Halloween, this is Halloween Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! [CORPSE CHILD TRIO] In this town we call home Everyone hail to the pumpkin song [EVERYONE] La la-la la, Halloween! Halloween!

Jack's Lament There are few who deny, at what I do I am the best For my talents are rnowned far and wide When it comes to surprises in the moonlit night I excel without ever even trying With the slightest little effort of my ghostlike charms I have see grown men give out a shriek With a wave of my hand and a well-placed moan I have swept the very bravest off their feet Yet year after year, it's the same routine And I grow so weary of the sound of screams And I, Jack, the Pumpkin King Have grown so tired of the same old thing Oh, somewhere dep inside of these bones An emptiness began to grow There's something out there, far from my home A longing that I've never known I'm a master of fright and a demon of light And I'll scare you right out of your pants To a guy in Kentucky, I'm Mister Unlucky And I'm known throughout England and France And since I am dead, I can take off my head To recite Shakespearean quotations No animal nor man can scream like I can With the fury of my recitations But who here would ever understand That the Pumpkin King with the skeleton grin Would tire of his crown, if they only understood He'd give it all up if he only could Oh, there's an empty place in my bones That calls out for something unknown The fame and praise come year after year Does nothing for these empty tears

What's This What's this? What's this? There's color everywhere What's this? There's white things in the air What's this? I can't believe my eyes I must be dreaming Wake up, Jack, this isn't fair What's this? What's this? What's this? There's something very wrong What's this? There's people singing songs What's this? The streets are lined with Little creatures laughing Everybody seems so happy Have I possibly gone daffy? What is this? What's this? There are children throwing snowballs here Instead of throwing heads They're busy building toys And absolutely no one's dead There's frost on every window Oh, I can't believe my eyes And in my bones I feel the warnth That's coming from inside Oh, look What's this? They're hanging mistletoe, they kiss Why that looks so unique, inspired They're gathering around to hear a story Roasting chestnuts on a fire What's this? What's this? In here they've got a little tree, how queer And who would ever think And why? They're covering it with tiny little things They've got electric lights on strings And there's a smile on everyone So, now, correct me if I'm wrong This looks like fun This looks like fun Oh, could it be I got my wish? What's this? Oh my, what now? The children are asleep But look, there's nothing underneath No ghouls, no witches here to scream and scare them Oe ensnare them, only little cozy things Secure inside their dremaland What's this? The monsters are all missing And the nightmares can't be found And in their place there seems to be Good feeling all around Instead of screams, I swear I can hear music in the air The smell of cakes and pies IS absolutely everywhere The sights, the sounds They're eveywhere and all around I've never felt so good before This empty place inside of me is filling up I simply cannot get enough I want it, oh, I want it Oh, I want it for my own I've got to know I've got to know What is this place that I have found? What is this? (BANG) Christmas Town? Hmm...

Town Meeting Song [JACK] Listen, there were objects so peculiar They were not to be believed All around, things to tantalize my brain It's a world unlike anything I've ever seen And as hard as I try I can't seem to describe Like a most improbable dream But you must believe when I tell you this It's as real as my skull and it does exist Here, let me show you This is a thing called a present The whole thing starts with a box [HARLEQUIN DEMON] A box? [DEVIL] is it steel? [WEREWOLF] Are there locks? [HARLEOUIN DEMON] Is it filled with a pox? [DEVIL, WEREWOLF, HARLEQUIN DEMON] A pox How delightful, a pox [JACK] If you please Just a box with bright-colored paper And the whole thing's topped with a bow [WITCHES] A bow? But why? How ugly What's in it? What's in it? [JACK] That's the point of the thing, not to know [CLOWN] It's a bat Will it bend? [CREATURE UNDER THE STAIRS] It's a rat Will it break? [UNDERSEA GAL] Perhaps it s the head that I found in the lake [JACK] Listen now, you don't understand That's not the point of Christmas land Now, pay attention Now we pick up an oversized sock And hang it like this on the wall [MR. HYDE] Oh, yes! Does it still have a foot? [MEDIUM MR. HYDE] Let me see, let me look [SMALL MR. HYDE] Is it rotted and covered with gook? [JACK] Hmm, let me explain There's no foot inside, but there's candy Or sometimes it's filled with small toys [MUMMY AND WINGED DEMON] Small toys [WINGED DEMON] Do they bite? [MUMMY] Do they snap? [WINGED DEMON] Or explode in a sack? [CORPSE KID] Or perhaps they just spring out And scare girls and boys [MAYOR] What a splendid idea This Christmas sounds fun Why, I fully endorse it Let's try it at once [JACK] Everyone, please now, not so fast There's something here that you don't quite grasp Well, I may as well give them what they want And the best, I must confess, I have saved for the last For the ruler of this Christmas land Is a fearsome king with a deep mighty voice Least that's what I've come to understand And I've also heard it told That he's something to behold Like a lobster, huge and red And sets out to slay with his rain gear on Carting bulging sacks with his big great arms That is, so I've heard it said And on a dark, cold night Under full moonlight He flies into a fog Like a vulture in the sky And they call him Sandy Claws Well, at least they're excited Though they don't understand That special kind of feeling in Christmas land Oh, well...

Jacks Obsession CITIZENS OF HALLOWEEN Something's up with Jack Something's up with Jack Don't know if we're ever going to get him back He's all alone up there Locked away inside Never says a word Hope he hasn't died Something's up with Jack Something's up with Jack JACK Christmas time is buzzing in my skull Will it let me be? I cannot tell There are so many things I cannot grasp When I think I've got it, and then at last Through my bony fingers it does slip Like a snowflake in a fiery grip Something's here I'm not quite getting Though I try, I keep forgetting Like a memory long since past Here in an instant, gone in a flash What does it mean? What does it mean? In these little bric-a-brac A secret's waiting to be cracked These dolls and toys confuse me so Confound it all, I love it though Simple objects, nothing more But something's hidden through a door Though I do not have the key Something's there I cannot see What does it mean? What does it mean? What does it mean? Hmm... I've read these Christmas books so many times I know the stories and I know the rhymes I know the Christmas carols all by heart My skull's so full, it's tearing me apart As often as I've read them, something's wrong So hard to put my bony finger on Or perhaps it's really not as deep As I've been led to think Am I trying much too hard? Of course! I've been too close to see The answer's right in front of me Right in front of me It's simple really, very clear Like music drifting in the air Invisible, but everywhere Just because I cannot see it Doesn't mean I can't believe it You know, I think this Christmas thing It's not as tricky as it seems And why should they have all the fun? It should belong to anyone Not anyone, in fact, but me Why, I could make a Christmas tree And there's no reason I can find I couldn't handle Christmas time I bet I could improve it too And that's exactly what I'll do Hee,hee,hee Eureka!

Kidnap The Sandy Claws [LOCK, SHOCK & BARREL] Kidnap Mr. Sandy Claws... [LOCK] I wanna do it! [BARREL] Let's draw straws! [SHOCK] Jack said we should work together [LOCK] Three of a kind [BARREL] Birds of a feather [LOCK, SHOCK & BARREL] Now and forever La, la, la, la, la Kidnap the Sandy Claws, lock him up real tight Throw away the key and then Turn off all the lights [SHOCK] First, we're going to set some bait Inside a nasty trap and wait When he comes a-sniffing we will Snap the trap and close the gate [LOCK] Wait! I've got a better plan To catch this big red lobster man Let's pop him in a boiling pot And when he's done we'll butter him up [LOCK, SHOCK & BARREL] Kidnap the Sandy Claws Throw him in a box Bury him for ninety years Then see if he talks [SHOCK] Then Mr. Oogie Boogie man Can take the whole thing over then He'll be so pleased, I do declare That he will cook him rare [LOCK, SHOCK & BARREL] Wheeee! [OOGIE BOOGIE] Oooooohooo! Yum,yum,yum,yum [LOCK] I say that we take a cannon Aim it at his door and then Knock three times and when he answers Sandy Claws will be no more [SHOCK] You're so stupid, think now If we blow him up into smithereens We may lose some pieces And the Jack will beat us black and green [LOCK, SHOCK & BARREL] Kidnap the Sandy Claws Tie him in a bag Throw him in the ocean Then see if he is sad [LOCK & SHOCK] Because Mr. Oogie Boogie is the meanest guy around If I were on his Boogie list, I'd get out of town [BARREL] He'll be so pleased by our success That he'll reward us too, I'll bet [LOCK, SHOCK & BARREL] Perhaps he'll make his special brew Of snake and spider stew Mmmmmm! We're his little henchmen And we take our job with pride We do our best to please him And stay on his good side [SHOCK] I wish my cohorts weren't so dumb [BARREL] I'm not the dumb one [LOCK] You're no fun [SHOCK] Shut up! [LOCK Make me [SHOCK] I've got something, listen now This one is real good, you'll see We'll send a present to his door Upon there'll be a note to read Now, in the box we'll wait and hide Until his curiousity [LOCK, SHOCK & BARREL] Entices him to look inside And then we'll have him One, two, three Kidnap the Sandy Claws, beat him with a stick Lock him for ninety years, see what makes him tick Kidnap the Sandy Claws, chop him into bits Mr. Oogie Boogie is sure to get his kicks Kidnap the Sandy Claws, see what we will see Lock him in a cage and then throw away the key!!! Ha,ha,ha,ha! [OOGIE BOOGIE] Sandy Claws.....

Making Christmas Clown: This time, this time Group: Making Christmas Clown: Making Christmas Mayor: Making Christmas, making Christmas is so fine Group: It's our this time and won't the children be surprised? It's ours this time Child Corpse: Making Christmas Mummy: Making Christmas Witches: Time to give them something fun Withces and Creature Lady: They'll talk about fir yeas to come Group: Let's have a cheer from everyone. It's time to party Duck Toy: Making Christmas, making Christmas Vampires: Snakes and spiders get wrapped up so nicewith spider legs and pretty bows Vampires and Winged Demon: It's ours this time Corpse Father: all together, that and this Corpse Father, Wolfman: With all our tricks we're Corpse Father, Wolfman, Devil: Making Christmas Wolf Man: Here comes Jack Jack: I don't believe what's happening to me My hopes, my dreams, my fantasies Hee hee hee Harlequin: won't they be impressed? I am a genius See how i transformed this old rat Into a most delightful hat? Jack: Hmm, my compliments from me to you On your most intriguing hat Consider though this substitute A bat in the place of this old rat Huh! No, no, no, now that's all wrong. This thing will never make a present It's been dead now for much too long Try something fresher, something pleasant. Try again, don't give up Three Mr. Hydes: All together, this and that with all our tricks we're making Christmastime (instrumental) Group: This time this time Making Christmas making Christmas La la la It's almost here Group and Wolf Man: And we can't wait Group: 'Cause when the full moon starts to climb we'll all sing out Jack: It's Christmastime Hee hee hee

Poor Jack What have I done? What have I done? How could I be so blind? All is lost, where was I? Spoiled all, spoiled all Everything's gone all wrong What have I done? What have I done? Find a deep cave to hide in In a million years they'll find me Only dust and a plaque That reads, "Here Lies Poor Old Jack" But I never intended all this madness, never And nobody really understood, how could they? That all I ever wanted was to bring them something great Why does nothing ever turn out like it should? Well, what the heck, I went and did my best And, my God, I really tasted something swell And for a moment, why, I even touched the sky And at least I left some stories they can tell, I did And for the first time since I don't remember when I felt just like my old bony self again And I, Jack, the Pumpkin King That's right, I am the Pumpkin King, ha, ha, ha And I just can't wait until next Halloween 'Cause I've got some new ideas that will really make them scream And, my God I'm really gonna give it all my might Uh oh, I hope there's still time to set things right sandy Claws, hmm

Sally's Song I sense there's something in the wind That feels like tragedy's at hand And though I'd like to stand by him Can't shake this feeling that I have The worst is just around the bend And does he notice my feelings for him? And will he see how much he means to me? I think it's not to be What will become of my dear friend? Where will his actions lead us then? Although I'd like to join the crowd In their enthusiastic cloud Try as I may, it doesn't last And will we ever end up together? no, I think not, it's never to become For I am not the one