This song was created for the well known Disney attraction, Haunted Mansion. In early 1969, the final version was recorded with the Mellomen backed up by a group of jazz session musicians.[GHOST HOST]

(spoken)

When hinges creak in doorless chambers

And strange and frightening sounds

Echo through the halls

Whenever candlelights flicker

Where the air is deathly still

That is the time when ghosts are present

Practicing their ghoulish delight

(organ solo)

[SINGING BUSTS]

When the crypt doors creak

And the tombstones quake

Spooks come out for a swinging wake

Happy haunts materialize

And begin to vocalize

Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize

Now don't close your eyes

And don't try to hide

Or a silly spook may sit by your side

Shrouded in a daft disguise

They pretend to terrorize

Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize

As the moon climbs high o'er the dead oak tree

Spooks arrive for the midnight spree

Creepy creeps with eerie eyes

Start to shriek and harmonize

Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize

When you hear the knell of a requiem bell

Weird glows gleam where spirits dwell

Restless bones etherialize

Rise as spooks of every size

[DUCHESS and KING]

When the crypt doors creak

And the tombstones quake

Spooks come out for a swinging wake

Happy haunts materialize

And begin to vocalize

Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize

Now don't close your eyes

And don't try to hide

Or a silly spook may sit by your side

Shrouded in a daft disguise

They pretend to terrorize

Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize

As the moon climbs high o'er the dead oak tree

Spooks arrive for the midnight spree

Creepy creeps with eerie eyes

Start to shriek and harmonize

Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize

When you hear the knell of a requiem bell

Weird glows gleam where spirits dwell

Restless bones etherialize

Rise as spooks of every size

[COMPANY]

When the crypt doors creak

And the tombstones quake

Spooks come out for a swinging wake

Happy haunts materialize

And begin to vocalize

Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize

Now don't close your eyes

And don't try to hide

Or a silly spook may sit by your side

Shrouded in a daft disguise

They pretend to terrorize

Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize

As the moon climbs high o'er the dead oak tree

Spooks arrive for the midnight spree

Creepy creeps with eerie eyes

Start to shriek and harmonize

Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize

When you hear the knell of a requiem bell

Weird glows gleam where spirits dwell

Restless bones etherialize

Rise as spooks of every size

[BUSTS]

If you would like to join our jamboree

There's a simple rule that's compulsory

Mortals pay a token fee

Rest in peace, the haunting's free

So hurry back, we would like your company

[LITTLE LEOTA]

(spoken)

Hurry back! Hurry back! Be sure to bring your death certificate