Halloween is here !!!
This song was a hit in 1962. Can you believe it ?
It is the best-known song by Bobby "Boris" Pickett. The "Monster Mash" single reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on October 20 of that year, just in time for Halloween. It has been a perennial holiday favorite ever since.
Here go the lyrics with a few gaps.
Monster Mash
words and music by Bobby Pickett and Lenny Capizzi
I was working in the lab late one …………
When my ……………beheld an eerie sight
For my ………….. from his slab began to rise
And suddenly to my ………………..
He did the ………….
He …………….. the monster mash
The monster ………………..
It was a graveyard smash
He did the mash
It caught on in a flash
He did the mash
He did the monster mash
From my laboratory in the ………………. east
To the master ……………. where the vampires feast
The ghouls all ………………… from their humble abodes
To get a jolt from my electrodes
………………… did the mash
They ……………… the monster mash
The monster mash
It was a graveyard smash
They did the mash
It caught on in a flash
They did the mash
They did the monster mash
The zombies were having ……………….
The …………………. had just begun
The guests included Wolf Man
………………….. and his son
The scene was rockin', all were digging the …………….
Igor on chains, backed by his baying hounds
The coffin-bangers were about to ……………..
With their vocal ………………., "The Crypt-Kicker Five"
They played the mash
They played the monster mash
The monster mash
It was a graveyard smash
They played the mash
It caught on in a flash
They played the mash
They played the monster mash
Out from his coffin, Drac's voice did ring
Seems he was troubled by just one thing
He opened the lid and shook his fist
And said, "Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?"
It's now the mash
It's now the monster mash
The monster mash
And it's a graveyard smash
It's now the mash
It's caught on in a flash
It's now the mash
It's now the monster mash
Now everything's cool, Drac's a part of the band
And my monster mash is the hit of the land
For you, the living, this mash was meant too
When you get to my door, tell them Boris sent you
Then you …………. mash
……………. you can monster mash
The monster mash
And do ………… graveyard smash
Then you can ………….
You'll catch on in a flash
Then you can mash
Then you can monster mash
