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This tune was played on steam calliopes, also called a steam organs, very loud instruments in circuses and on riverboats. (source) In the 1890s in the Midwest region of the U.S., quartets sang it with these lyrics. This version is from Knox County, Illinois. (source: Sandburg)
Lyrics
(Folk song)
This house is haunted, this house is haunted,
It fairly makes my blood run cold,
This house is haunted, this house is haunted,
It fairly makes my blood run cold.
See also
- Subject: Halloween
- Harmony: chords I, IV, V
- Meter: 4
- Source: The American Songbag, Carl Sandburg, Harcourt Brace and Company, 1927
YouTube
- PDF of song with chords
- MIDI file
- Listen to the melody
