Me And The Ghost Upstairs-Fred Astaire

[ti:Me And The Ghost Upstairs] [ar:Fred Astaire] [al:The Centenary Collection, Vol. 4] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Me And The Ghost Upstairs - Fred Astaire [00:09.44]Once upon a midnight dreary [00:12.07] [00:12.70]While I pondered weak and weary [00:15.02] [00:15.54]From a long trip on the Erie [00:18.24]Comes a rappin' on my chamber door [00:20.59] [00:23.87]It's an ectoplasmic tapping [00:26.92]That disturbs my nightly napping [00:29.84]Like a shroud that's gently flapping [00:32.58]Emanating from the second floor [00:34.96] [00:41.06]Buddies are we me and the ghost upstairs [00:44.60] [00:47.11]Sipping our tea me and the ghost upstairs [00:50.36] [00:52.28]But he's inclined to moan when left alone [00:54.75]So I think of things that'll tickle his funny bone [00:58.29] [00:59.71]Lonely old ghost upstairs [01:01.54] [01:03.88]Regular folks droppin' our worldly cares [01:06.87] [01:09.38]Swappin' our jokes me and the ghost upstairs [01:12.49] [01:14.50]And then he slaps his shroud and laughs out loud [01:17.21]And says [01:17.91]Oh boy that'll paralyze all the crowd [01:20.52] [01:21.53]Jolly old ghost upstairs [01:23.54] [01:25.62]He's quite a cook he serves a beautiful drink [01:28.12]He wrote a book and in invisible ink [01:31.08]I took a look and the title 'pon the page [01:34.37] [01:35.29]Was 'The Groups of Wraith' [01:37.06]Once in a while he brings a gang of friends [01:40.31] [01:42.34]Does it in style careless of what he spends [01:45.80] [01:47.89]And though the place is small we have a ball [01:50.45]'Cause you know those spooks [01:52.08]Don't require no room at all [01:53.90] [01:55.26]We have some mighty fine affairs [01:57.72]Me and the ghost upstairs [01:59.71] [02:18.75]We have some mighty fine affairs [02:21.34] [02:21.86]Me and the ghost upstairs