The Man With the Skeleton Arms Songtext
von Chonny Jash

Wake up Flanagan, the bartender′s comin'
He says there′s someone here who means to do us harm
Sound the alarm, it's the man with the skeleton arms

Ten years ago on Hogs back mountain
The flames was roaring like a lion in a fountain
The trees were burning, too many to count 'em
And trapped in the middle
With fire all around him, was our man

Flanagan and I was out camping that day
We started our fire with turpentine and hay
The wind was howlin′, so I guess we should have known
The flames was gonna get blown across the land

Wake up Flanagan, the bartender′s comin'
He says there′s someone here who means to do us harm
Sound the alarm, it's the man with the skeleton arms


Two days later when the fire died out
Flanagan and I went to rootin′ about
For to find a little dinner of roasted critters
Blackened blackbird eggs and pine-cone fritters
That was how we happened on the badly burned man

He was yelpin' for help and so we each grabbed a hand
Thinking we′d be heroes if we dragged him back home
We pulled, but pulled the flesh right off a the bone

Wake up Flanagan, the bartender's comin'
He says there′s someone here who means to do us harm
Sound the alarm, it′s the man with the skeleton arms

Now of all the mad people, that guy was the maddest
He pulled a bone across his throat
And he pointed right at us
Ten years on the lam from that skeletal man
He swore his revenge, we've heard his sinister plan

I′ll string you up by your hands
And lift you over a vat
And dip you up to your elbows
In the boiling fat
It's like an eye for an eye, but 99 times worse
I′m gonna do to you what you did to me
Except in reverse


Wake up Flanagan, the bartender's comin′
He says there's someone here who means to do us harm
Sound the alarm, it's the man with the skeleton arms

Singing, wake up Flanagan, the bartender′s comin′
He says there's someone here who means to do us harm
Sound the alarm, it′s the man with the skeleton arms