When Susie Was A Skeleton The Felice Brothers

[Verse]
When Susie was a skeleton
She played the spinet
But there were no wires in it
And so the hammers went clackety-clack
Like the rattling of spray-paint cans
No one can can-can like Susie can, can, can
Bone on bone on bone
Like carriages on the cobblestones

[Chorus]
When Susie was a skeleton
A skeleton, a skeleton
When Susie was a skeleton
Shе just went clackety-clack
Clackety-clack, clackеty-clack

[Verse]
Susie led me to the graveyard gate
And as she wallowed, she rattled like collection plates
“Saddle up the mare”, she said
As the living would embrace the dead
Skeletons as white as birches
With fife and drum, went waltzing ‘round the churches
Bone on bone on bone
And Susie on saxophone