Taken from the musical 'Hammer High Go To The Finals In Transylvania' (my original guide vocal tracks, not a cast recording).  Think GLEE meets HAMMER HORROR with plenty of silliness thrown in for good measure...

This song plays during a 'Scooby Doo' 1960s style chase sequence where there monsters are pursuing the Hammer High Glee Club around the castle in Transylvania.  As with all good comedy horror chases, the music has nothing to do with what's going on...

Music: Craig Harris
Lyrics: Dave Slade & Craig Harris

Lyrics:


Summertime is here again and everything is cool
Summertime is here again and we're all outta school
 
This song is irrelevant to what is in this scene
This song is irrelevant, apart from the scream

Dune buggy, beach party
Drive through movie, so groovy
Soda pop, Vietnam
Richard Nixon's going surfing!
 
School is out and we're on summer break
It's party time we don't want to be late
We've all signed up for the army
Gonna do those bad guys lots of harmy
[spoken] Come on guys, get on the plane, we're off to Vietnam!  (wooo!)
 
I've seen things you wouldn't believe	(boogie beach party, beach party boogie)
All my unit got killed by Charlie	(boogie beach party, beach party boogie)
Now my baby just doesn't want me ‘cause I did a murder in the army
[spoken] In my defence, it was a hippy
(Hippy: Not cool man)

Ice cream parlour, Dali Lama
So trippy, dead hippy
Shell shock, let's rock
Henry Kissenger's waxing his surfboard
'Cause he and Nixon are going surfing!
 
Shall we open the marshmallows
or should we put out the Buddhist monk?

©2012 Dave Slade & Craig Harris

Irrelevant Sixties Song

Taken from the musical 'Hammer High Go To The Finals In Transylvania' (my original guide vocal tracks, not a cast recording).  Think GLEE meets HAMMER HORROR with plenty of silliness thrown in for good measure...

This song is sung by Dracula, his evil minions and various other classic horror villains such as Dr. Frankenstein, Igor and, of course, a mummy called King Tuttytittybitty.

Music: Craig Harris
Lyrics: Dave Slade & Craig Harris

Lyrics:

Dracula:	Listen to them, making that sound
		The children of the night are all around ‘round ‘round
		What sweet music they make!

		The bat is a child of the night
		What a beautiful sound they make
		As they fly through the night, seeking blood
		Which isn’t really true they mostly eat insects
  
		What’s that scuffling sound?
F,Ig & KT:	It’s a badger!
Dracula:	Roaming through the night, like a child
		A child dressed as a badger..?
 
Chorus
All:		Listen to them, making that sound
		The children of the night are all around ‘round ‘round
Dracula:	What sweet music they make!
F,Ig & KT:	Sweet music

Dracula:	He’s covered in fleas, he’s covered in spikes
		He’s Mr Hedgehog, A child of the night!
F,Ig & KT:	Hedgehog?
Dracula:	Oh little spiky fleabag child
  
		Look at that child of the night
		It’s a child who is up at night
		When he should really be in bed
F,Ig & KT:	Oh no!
Dracula:	Oh his parents, they'll be so mad!
F,Ig & KT:	[laughs]

Chorus

Dracula:	Who is that child of the night?
F,Ig & KT:		It’s a Cyprus Spiny Mouse!
Dracula:	And who’s that with him?
F,Ig & KT:		It’s a Panamanian Night Monkey!
Dracula:	And who's his bouncy Aussie friend?
F,Ig & KT:		It's a Kangaroo!
Dracula:	Most of them are children of the night but some are just crepuscular 
 
		The children of the night are rather noisy now
		Oh the children of the night sometimes include a cow
		Who can't sleep, oh poor insomniac cow 
F,Ig & KT:	He should really see a doctor, they could sort that out

Dracula:	A child of the night who is always here
		Is a wolf, oh a wolf who is very 'were', yeah
Dracula:	Werewolf!
F,Ig & KT:	Here wolf!
Dracula:	Where wolf?
F,Ig & KT:	There wolf!
Dracula:	Yeah wolf!		
F,Ig & KT:	Yeah ok, we get it now
Dracula:	He's far more savage than the…
F,Ig & KT:	Panamanian night monkey!

Chorus:
All:		Listen to them now, making all that sound
		The children of the night they are all around
		around the place
Dracula:	What sweet music they make, sweet music 

©2012 Dave Slade & Craig Harris

Children Of The Night

Taken from the musical 'Hammer High Go To The Finals In Transylvania' (my original guide vocal tracks, not a cast recording). Think GLEE meets HAMMER HORROR with plenty of silliness thrown in for good measure...

In this track, the Jazzbusters turn up instead of the Ghostbusters, following a mistaken translation by the Glee club while phoning Transylvania's directory enquiries.  It happens.


Music: Craig Harris
Lyrics: Dave Slade & Craig Harris

Lyrics:

Soloist:		If there's something weird killing your groove
			And not even sandpaper makes it smooth
All:			Jazzbusters!

Soloist:		If some uncool cat is bringing you down
			The children of the night are all around
All:			Jazzbusters!

Soloist:		I ain't ‘fraid of no scat

Soloist:		Bass solo!
			Guitar solo!	
			Drum solo!
			Gorgonzolo!

Soloist:		If there's someone square and it don't sound good
			We'll lay down a beat and change his mood
All:			Jazzbusters!
			Jazzbusters!
			Jazzbusters!
			[spoken] Stay cool, you cats

©2012 Dave Slade & Craig Harris

Jazzbusters

Taken from the musical 'Hammer High Go To The Finals In Transylvania' (my original guide vocal tracks, not a cast recording). Think GLEE meets HAMMER HORROR with plenty of silliness thrown in for good measure...

In this track, some of the devil's minions and worshipers sing a song about him before his arrival in Transylvania.

Music: Craig Harris
Lyrics: Dave Slade & Craig Harris


All:		Beelzebub the horned one, Beelzebub the horned one
Beelzebub the horned one, also known as the Devil
	
Soloist:	[spoken] Ladies and gentlemen
I'd like to take a minute to tell you about a good friend of mine
He's been with me all my life
All:		All my life
Soloist:	[spoken] The bad times, the worse times and… well,
The times I don't really wanna talk about in public to be perfectly frank
You see…. [starts singing]

From the moment you stepped on this planet
He was eying up your soul
All:		Your soul
Soloist:	He’s the Lord of Darkness, the evil one
Spawned from Hell’s fiery coal

He’s Legion as his names are many
He’s feared by every religion
Mephistopheles or Lucifer
Some people even call him Colin
All others:		Colin
Soloist:	Colin
All others:		Colin
Soloist:	Colin
All others:		Colin
All:		Woah!

Soloist:	He’s the Devil
All others:		He's the Devil
Soloist:	He’s bad
All others:		So bad
Soloist:	He’s really really bad
All others:		He's really mean
Soloist:	And by bad we don’t mean cool
All others:		No way
Soloist:	We mean seriously he’s not nice
All others:		No no no!
 
Soloist:	He can conjure up his demons
All others:	Grrr!
Soloist:	To destroy any single foe
He burns villages down right to the ground
He moves tables so you stub your toe
All others:		Your toe
Soloist:	Your toe
All others:		Ow my toe
Soloist:	Stub your toe
All others:		Oh my toe
Soloist:	Ow my toe!

Soloist:	He’s the Devil
All others:		He's the Devil
Soloist:	He’s bad
All others:		So bad
Soloist:	He’s really really bad
All others:		So nasty
Soloist:	And by bad we don’t mean cool
All others:	 	Nuh-uh
Soloist:	We mean seriously he’s not nice
All others:	 	No no no!

Soloist:	A thousand years ago he was an angel
Sitting on the right hand of the Lord
Singing praise to God and being nice and stuff
Oh Lucifer became so bored
All others:	 	Yawn
Soloist:	“I'm bored”
All others:	 	Yawn
Soloist:	“Could I please have an XBox or something?”
All others:	 	Games are cool!

Soloist:	So he became the Devil
All others:	 	The Devil
Soloist:	He’s really really bad
All others:	 	So mean
  [everyone starts slowing down and getting out of breath]
Soloist:	And by bad we don’t… mean cool
All others:	 	Noo
Soloist:	We mean seriously… he’s not nice
All others:	 	No…  no…    no…

[song pauses briefly while all the Devil’s minions use their inhalers]
 
Soloist:	He’s the Devil
All others:		He's the Devil
Soloist:	He’s bad
All others:	 	So bad
Soloist:	He’s really really bad
All others:	 	No kidding
Soloist:	And by bad we don’t mean cool
All others:	 	No way
Soloist:	We mean seriously he’s not nice
All others:	 	No no no no!

Soloist:	Oh, he's the devil yeah
All others:	 	He's the devil yeah
Soloist:	Beelzebub
All others:	 	He's the devil yeah
Soloist:	Lucifer
All others:	 	Funky devil yeah

Soloist:	They say this cat Devil is a bad mother…
All others:	 	Shut your mouth!
Soloist:	I’m just talkin’ ‘bout the Devil
All others:	 	We can dig it!

All:		We dig the devil
We dig the devil
We dig the devil
Dig dig dig dig
Dig. Dig. Dig. Dig.

©2012 Dave Slade & Craig Harris

The Devil is Not Nice

Lyrics:

Stopped beating a long time ago
Severed connection and aimless drifting
and healing seemed too far to know
But something is different, something is shifting

Too long my absence of ardor
One smile from you, it floods back to me
and who knows where we'll go but it matters not
I'm enjoying the journey

Now I find myself all wings in the middle
and it feels like coming home
Sensation at last, I'm starting to feel
Connected to all I used to know


Drifting between reality and dreams
Bittersweet confusion this morning
My heart pumps more dearly when it thinks that you're near
My delicate affection is dawning

Now I find myself all wings in the middle
Rewiring my head and heart
A thrill at last, I'm starting to feel
Like I am a whole and not just a part


Though the wind has fallen from my sails
 I'm reminded how to row
No need to drift now that I know just where I want to go


Now I find myself all wings in the middle
Though I don't know if this can even last
I'd rather hurt than feel nothing at all
So thank you for healing my numb old heart
Now I find myself all wings in the middle
and this is just the start


©Craig Harris 2011

Butterflies

Lyrics:

A familiar sting is sinking in
As hope and resignation take arms
I lie stranded at their crossing
A bittersweet calm before a storm

I'm longing not lovelorn, I smile through any tear
I'd lost track of bliss as this clock seldom ticks
But there's too much to risk here, this yearning breeds fear
These spinnerets could open a rift

So I'll keep my breath, stay my words
It shall stay so simply complicated
Only one need get hurt

Keep my breath, stay my words
Only one here need get hurt
So it shall stay so simply complicated
As a spider tangled in its own web

©Craig Harris 2012

Tangled Spider

Lyrics:

Being with you is flying
You've my shattered wings, my fraying heart
Sometimes I forget to touch the ground before we part

'Cause being alone is trying
Outgrowing the rings and falling 'til we jar
Sometimes I forget our smiles all hang upon our hearts

'Cause I've found a correlation
Between the time I spend with you, my dear,
And my elation

Wishing you here to me
I need you now, please
Don't leave me

Sometimes I forget that even love needs love
Sometimes I don't even see just how much we're breaking away

©Craig Harris 2012

Sometimes I Forget

Taken from the Stuart O'Connor album 'Go Forth BRIGHT Scenic', available from just £1 for a digital download or £10 for a hard copy with bonus material.
Go get it here:  www.stuartoconnor.com

and follow Stuart on soundcloud here: soundcloud.com/stuart-oconnor
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Written by Stuart O'Connor and Craig Harris 
Recorded & mixed by Craig Harris

Stuart O' Connor - Guitar / Vocals / Chimes / Bass / Guitar FX 
Craig Harris - Guitar / Vocals / 8-Bit Drums / Drums / Bamboo Flute / Synth / Strings / Piano / Glitches / Santoor 

.

The labyrinth twists 
The labyrinth turns 
This maze is not for you 

But you must live 
And you must learn 
To navigate the truth 

Do you stray to where you know there is trouble 
Do you worry they will burst your bubble 
Distance kept 
You know you don't belong 

Do you jump before you're pushed too far 
Do you cower from the edge of who you are 
Try not to let your guard down now 

Will you find your way through? 

Sure you're falling apart but you crumble a trail 
Trace the cracks in your heart to see how you fell

©2012 Stuart O'Connor & Craig Harris

Navigate (collaboration with Stuart O'Connor)

A work in progress track, experimenting with some different sounds and styles to my usual music...

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