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 Hogsback 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 a 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
That 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 rootin' around
For to find a little dinner
Of roasted critter
Blackened blackbird eggs
And pine-cone fritters

Now 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 of 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 pointed right at us
Ten years on the lam
From that skeletal man
He's sworn his revenge,
We've heard his sinister plan

He'll string us up by our hands
And lift us over a vat
And dip us up to our elbows
In the boiling fat
It's like an eye for an eye
But ninety-nine times worse
He wants to do to us what we did to him
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

Sound the alarm
It's the man with the skeleton arms