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The following are lyrics from the three songs in Legend of Sleepy Hollow. I don't have any sound samples now, but I'll try and put some up soon. All of these are sung by the popular crooner, Bing Crosby. He's got an awesome voice, and the songs and narration sound really cool and nostalgic. The backup singing is done the Rhythmaires, a group of women who sing Bing's refrains in unison. It sounds sort of funny sometimes, but this cartoon was made half a century ago.


"ICHABOD"


Written by: Don Rage and Gene De Paul
Performed by: Bing Crosby and the Rhythmaires

All of these songs are a little cheesy (remember, it was the 40's), and none of you have probably heard old Bing sing anything outside "White Christmas". But this one's the worst of them all.

 Who's that coming down the street?
Are they shovels or are they feet?
Lean and lanky, skin and bones
With clothes a scarecrow would hate to own

 Yet he has a certain air
Debonair and devil-may-care
It's the new schoolmaster, what's his name?
Ichabod, Ichabod Crane

 Ichabod, what a name
Kind of odd, but nice just the same
Funny pan, funny frame
Ichabod, Ichabod Crane

 Ichabod may be quaint
May be odd, and maybe he ain't, ooh bop!
Anyway there's no complaint
From Ichabod, Ichabod Crane

 (spoken)And though the arrival of the pedagogue
Gave rise to mixed emotions
The townspeople all agreed
They've never seen anyone

"KATRINA"


Written by: Don Rage and Gene De Paul
Performed by: Bing Crosby and the Rhythmaires

This slow love song is pretty good, but it's really funny to see all the Sleepy Hollow men ogling and chasing Katrina around while this playing. You can also hear the melody orchestrated throughout the cartoon whenever Katrina comes in to the picture.

 Oo oo oo oo
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah

 Once you have met that little coquette Katrina
You won't forget Katrina
But nobody yet has ever upset Katrina
That cute coquette Katrina

 You can do more with Margaret or Helena
Or Ann or Angelina
But Katrina will kiss and run
To her a romance is fun
With always another one to start

 And then when you've met that little coquette Katrina
You've lost your heart

"THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN"


Written by: Don Rage and Gene De Paul
Performed by: Bing Crosby and the Rhythmaires

This song is the coolest, and is sung by Brom Bones in order to scare the bejeezes out of Ichabod at the Halloween party. It's got a real cool New Orleans jazz kind of feel. And the line "You can't reason with a headless man" is great.

 When the spooks have a midnight Jamboree
They break it up with fiendish glee
Ghosts are bad, but the one that's cursed
It's the Headless Horseman, he's the worst

 That's right, he's a fright, on Halloween night

 But when he goes a-joggin' 'cross the land
Holdin' his noggin in his hand
Demons take one look and groan
And hit the road for parts unknown

 Beware, take care, he rides alone

 And there's no spook, like a spook who's sporned
They don't like him, and he's really burned
He swears to the longest day he's dead
He'll show them that he can get a head

 They say he's tired of his flamin' top
He's got a yen to make a swap
So he rides one night each year
To find a head in the hollow here

 Now he likes them little, he likes them big
Part in the middle, or a wig
Black or white or even red
The Headless Horseman needs a head

 With a hip-hip and a clippity-clop
He's out lookin' for a top to chop
So don't stop to figure out a plan
You can't reason with a headless man

 Now if you doubt this tale is so
I met that spook just a year ago
No, I didn't stop for a second look
For once you cross that bridge, my brook friends

 The ghost is through, his power ends

 So when you're riding home tonight
Make for the bridge with all your might
He'll be down in the hollow there
He needs your head, look out, beware

 With a hip-hip and a clippity-clop
He's out looking for a head to swap
So don't try to figure out a plan
You can't reason with a headless man


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