The Man With the Skeleton Arms

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