Boy, don't you go in there

Come outta there, boy

Don't you know that house is haunted?



There's an old deserted mansion on an old forgotten road

Where the better ghosts and goblins always hang out

One night they threw a party tn a manner a la mode

And they cordially invited all the gang out



At a dark, bewitchin' hour when the fun was loud and hearty

A notorious wall flower became the life of the party

Mmm, the spooks were havin' their midnight fling

The merry makin' was in full swing



They shrieked themselves into a cheerful trance

When the skeleton in the closet started to dance

Now a goblin giggled with fiendish glee

A shout rang out from a big banshee



Amazement was in every ghostly glance

When the skeleton in the closet started to dance

All the witches were in stitches while his steps made rhythmic thumps

And they nearly dropped their broomsticks when he tried to do the bumps



You never heard such unearthly laughter, such hilarious groans

When the skeleton in the closet rattled his bones

Writer : BURKE, JOHNNY / JOHNSTON, ARTHUR
Copyright : Lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.