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FREE SONG COME ONE COME ALL

Come One Come All is a pure science fiction tail about a crazy old hermit who lives in a small house, thats carried around the frontier by his giant robot. The robot will carry the house to a new town each day, and set the house down, and the hermit will sell tickets to view his "freak", and dead body he keeps on ice in his house. 

As the song progresses, you learn the origin of the freak is not as the old hermit would lead you to believe. 

This is absolutely one of the strangest songs I've ever written. Maybe too strange, as I'm not sure in connected with too many people. (Though its one of my favorites.) 

I even made a video for this song,  which is even stranger, and possibly a bit confusing to many. When I showed it to my mom, her response was, "I dont know what I'm seeing". :D


LYRICS: He had a machine all rusty and lean
That walked on four legs by the tracks
Carried its home wherever he roamed
Kitchen, bathroom, small room on its back

He reached a town it would zip the house down
A man would hang up a large banner
He’d set up a stands and with megaphone in hand
Through it started to stammer

Come one come all to enter my hall
Two pennies and a sugar, my freak
It doesn't be there, but it's covered in hair
The strangest thing you've seen all week

A small crowd shuffled in
Filled house with their kin
Looked timidly at the large box

Under  the lid
Huge body was hid
And chained to the floor with huge locks

The man opened the coffin
The screams they do often
As the smell of the body fell a foul

Eight good legs were there
All covered in hair
Ate palms in the head of an owl

Come one come all to enter my hall
Two pennies and a sugar, my freak
It doesn't be there, but it's covered in hair
The strangest thing you've seen all week

This was the beast that I loved the least
Made it through nightmare in the canyon
So I took seven cracks with this goat on my back
And took out my loathsome companion

you might thing he's a liar,

but these events did transpire
Exactly as he had said prior

For the truth is that beast

was sewn together deceased
From this old town's a Capella choir

Come one come all to enter my hall
Two pennies and a sugar, my freak
It doesn't be there, but it's covered in hair
The strangest thing you've seen all week

FREE SONG COME ONE COME ALL

Comments

definitely strange, but that's not a bad thing. At first I thought it was Howl's moving castle, or Babba Yaga.

Jessica Bradshaw

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Abney Park

Interesting, and not off putting, just strange. Funny the choice of victims used for the Beast, as my friend and I are off to see Pentatonix in a couple months! Good giggle!

Sylvia Wulf

I like it, adds some opportunities for a movie script I thinks. Frankenstein meets Barnum?

Rhonda Hogarth


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