"This is Halloween", from the Nightmare before Christmas

“This is Halloween”

                  Listen to the halloween song and fill in the blanks with the following words:

1 moon     2 pumpkin     3 king     4 age     5 scared

6 life     7 surprise     8 jump     9 shadow     10 spiders

[Girls]

Boys and girls of every ________

Wouldn't you like to see something strange?

Come with us and you will see

This, our town of Halloween

[Everybody]

This is Halloween, this is Halloween

_____________ scream in the dead of night

This is Halloween, everybody make a scene

Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright

It's our town, everybody scream

In this town of Halloween

[Boys]

I am the one hiding under your bed

Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red

I am the one hiding under your stairs

Fingers like snakes and ____________ in my hair

[Everybody]

This is Halloween, this is Halloween

Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

[Girls]

In this town, we call home

Everyone hail to the pumpkin song

[Boys]

In this town, don't we love it now?

Everybody's waiting for the next _____________

[Everybody]

Round that corner man, hiding in the trash can

Something's waiting now to pounce, and how you'll...

[Girls]

Scream! This is Halloween

Red 'n' black, slimy green

Aren't you __________?

Well, that's just fine

Say it once, say it twice

Take a chance and roll the dice

Ride with the _________ in the dead of night

[Boys]

Everybody scream, everbody scream

[Girls]

In our town of Halloween!

[Boys]

I am the clown with the tear-away face

Here in a flash and gone without a trace

[Girls]

I am the "who" when you call, "Who's there?"

I am the wind blowing through your hair

[Boys]

I am the __________ on the moon at night

Filling your dreams to the brim with fright

[Everybody]

This is Halloween, this is Halloween

Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

Halloween! Halloween!

[Girls]

Tender lumplings everywhere

_______'s no fun without a good scare

[Boys]

That's our job, but we're not mean

In our town of Halloween

[Everybody]

In this town

Don't we love it now?

Everybody's waiting for the next surprise

Skeleton Jack might catch you in the back

And scream like a banshee

Make you _________ out of your skin

This is Halloween, everyone scream

Wont' you please make way for a very special guy

Our man jack is _________ of the Pumpkin patch

Everyone hail to the Pumpkin King now!

This is Halloween, this is Halloween

Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

[Girls]

In this town we call home

Everyone hail to the pumpkin song

[Everybody]

La la la la-la la...

THE END.

Verónica Tchiengoué. Training listening through Music. halloween. October 2013.