A Halloween Treat I should've shared earlier
Shireman, Lisa (EC92@AOL.COM)
Fri, 24 Oct 1997 01:31:09 -0400
My 10-year-old dug out my "A Prarie Home Companion Folk Song Book" because my
3-year-old is fascinated by a TV commercial that has worms crawling through a
skeleton ("The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out..."). I told him the
original song was from the Crimean war and a version was in the book, but he
got more excited when he saw the facing page and brought back some memories.
My last Troop would've sung this one anytime...but then they would've and did
sing musicals in the backcountry, so they were a different breed (I only hope
someone at Philmont on the backcountry staff was not named Maria and heard
them screaming the song off mountain tops). Anyways...
NATIONAL EMBALMING SCHOOL
(Tune: "O Tannenbaum.")
We live for you, we die for you
National Embalming School
We do our best to give you rest
National Embalming School
We make a coffin out of tin
Then dig a hole to put you in
We live for you, we die for you
National Embalming School!
To thee we sing, to thee we drool
National Embalming School
We stuff the corpse, we stuff the ghoul
National Embalming School
When you feel hollow deep inside
We fill you with formaldehyde
Our boys get hot when you get cool
National Embalming School!
(Tune changes: "A Hunting We Will Go.")
Post Mortem, post mortem, post mortem
Autopsy we must have
Post mortem, post mortem, post mortem
Autopsy we must have!
(Tune changes: "The Anvil Chorus". Sorry Drew)
Cut, Slice, Slash, the body
We must have a reason
Gee, how this body stinks
It must be out of season.
(Back to "O Tannenbaum")
We live for you, we die for you
National Embalming School.
Terry Howerton Sakima Group, Inc. SCOUTER Magazine Kansas City | 
