Halloween Music

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Touchstone: Susanna Martin

Lyrics taken from the accounts of the Salem with trials in 1692
Fun fact: Susanna Martin was the great-great-great-great-great-grandmother of the 21st President, Chester Alan Arthur

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Reel at the end is "Sweeney's Buttermilk"

 

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Tom Waits: Ballad of Big Joe and Phantom 309 (Red Sovine)

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Poor Clares - The Resurrected Lover

Grieving lover goes to the graveyard looking for the departed to return as promised

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Sublime vocal is Betsy McGovern. Bad mix though.

 

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Anäis Mitchell w/ Jefferson Hamer: Tam Lin (Child 39)

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Tam Lin is the name of a spirit who occupies the wooded area called Carterhaugh and collects either a physical possession, or the virginity, of any maiden who passes though those woods. When “Janet”, collects a rose there, Tam Lin challenges her, Janet claims ownership over Carterhaugh, by inheritance from her father. Later she meets him a second time and challenges Tam Lin as to whether he was ever mortal, as she is now pregnant; Tam Lin then confesses he was captured by the Queen of the Faeries upon falling from his horse, and every seven years these Faeries commend one of their people to hell, and tonight,. on Hallowe'en, he fears he is going to be that victim, so Janet and Tam Lin make a plan to rescue him. He informs Janet will be riding a white horse, and warns that the faeries will turn him into several different beasts …. but none will do her harm.

 

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Steeleye Span - Alison Gross

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Old traditional story, also called Allison Cross, a variation on the same theme as the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast where a witch tries to entice the storyteller and when he rejects her, turns him into a series of other creatures ("she turned me into a newt"). Steeleye Span composed their own music and wrote a chorus but in the more complete version the hapless storyteller later gets transformed back into his original form by the queen on Hallowe'en

 

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Pentangle: Cruel Sister -- murder in the family and the revenge of the victim

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a/k/a The Twa Sisters (Child #10)

 

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Frank Zappa: Goblin Girl

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Yum.

 

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Stan Rogers: Witch of the Westmereland

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Kate Bush: Lord of the Reedy River (Donovan)

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Zeus, Lela and the rape

 

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Tish Hinojosa: La Llorona

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La Llorona is the desperate spirit of a Mexican woman forever searching for her lost children. For Dia de los Muertes (tomorrow)

 

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Duke Ellington: The Mooche

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This was the theme music for a local horror movie TV show that came on immediately after Saturday Night Live. The show was called Saturday Night Dead.

 

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Susan Sarandon/Barry Bostwick "There's a Light"

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OK this is the pentacle. Uh, I mean pinnacle. It doesn't get any creepier than this.

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Ancient wake chant invoked over the dead before burial, originating in Yorkshire

This ae nighte, this ae nighte,
—Refrain: Every nighte and alle,
Fire and fleet and candle-lighte,
—Refrain: And Christe receive thy saule.
When thou from hence away art past
To Whinny-muir thou com'st at last
If ever thou gavest hosen and shoon,
Sit thee down and put them on;
If hosen and shoon thou ne'er gav'st nane
The whinnes sall prick thee to the bare bane.
From Whinny-muir when thou may'st pass,
To Brig o' Dread thou com'st at last;
From Brig o' Dread when thou may'st pass,
To Purgatory fire thou com'st at last;
If ever thou gavest meat or drink,
The fire sall never make thee shrink;
If meat or drink thou ne'er gav'st nane,
The fire will burn thee to the bare bane;
This ae nighte, this ae nighte,
—Every nighte and alle,
Fire and fleet and candle-lighte,
—And Christe receive thy saule.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

Someone got bella already

Double shot cramps

 

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