Did anyone else have songs that scared you as a child?  These songs freaked me out when I was little.  Am I weird or what?

Thriller-Michael Jackson  (dead bodies, scary song)

Hello again-The Cars  (I have no idea...just a freaky beat I guess)  :-\\

Eleanor Rigby-Beatles  (Lonely lady, no one comes to her funeral)

Rock Me Amadeus-Falco  (The part where the mention that the dude died)

I guess its the death part in all of them.  Except Hello again...I dunno..LOL

Not really scary, but freaked me out as a child...  :P  ::)


"I Will Always Love You" Whitney Houston
"Enter Sandman" Metallica...though I like it now
"Hangin' Tough" NKTOB... one of the cousins played this song thousands of times, thankfully she's now into alternative

My daughter was about 1 year old when Thriller came out. When that video came on, she would hide behind the couch until it was over, or we turned the channel. It was pitiful! Poor little thing, she knew Michael Jackson was scary before we did!  ;D

Devil Woman gave me nightmares.  "She's just a devil woman, with evil on her mind, beware the devil woman, she's gonna get you from behind"

I was 5 when this song came out and it scared the doody out of me.

A very old song that my parents had called Western Movies.  It had lots of gunshots in it and I didn't like the noise.

A very old song that my parents had called Western Movies.  It had lots of gunshots in it and I didn't like the noise.


I remember that one, It is a scary one

WESTERN MOVIES
THE OLYMPICS

To save my soul I can't get a date,
Baby's got it tuned on channel eight.
Now Wyatt Earp and the Big Cheyenne
They're comin' thru the T.V. shootin up the land.
Ah...um...my baby loves the Western movies.
My baby loves the Western movies,
Bam, bam, shoot 'em up Pow.
Ah..um..My babe loves the Western Movies.
I call my baby on the telephone
To tell her half my head was gone
I just got hit by a great big brick
She says thanks for reminding me about that Maverick
Ah..um...my baby loves the Western movies.
My baby loves the Western movies,
Bam, bam, shoot em up pow.
Ah...um...
My baby loves the Western movies.
Well there's Jeremy Roller and Old Cochise
Jim Hardy, Jim Bowie and Sugarfoot.
They all have gun will travel
Give me back my boots and saddle uh huh.
Here's the story of the certain Wagon Train Mccord
A broken arrow has broken my heart.
A Jefferson Thomas with Bat Masterson
Unties my baby and the fight was won.
Ah..um...my baby loves the Western movies.
My baby loves the western movies.
Bam bam shoot em up pow.
Ah um, my baby loves the western movies.

Note:
(Jim Hardie was a character in the TV show "Tales of Wells Fargo" which ran
from 1957 to 1962) Jim Bowie was the famous frontiersman portrayed in the
show Adventures of Jim Bowie which ran from 1956-1958.

I can't say that I recognise the lyrics Danoota.  I always ran from the room when the record started!  Having two older brothers meant I spent a lot of time in the kitchen away from the record player (an old Dansette I recall)

When I was young the song that freaked me out was "In The Ghetto".  It used to make me feel so sad everytime I heard it.

I can't think of any radio songs that ever bothered me, but some kiddie songs sure did. 

The line "and down will come baby, cradle and all" in "Rock A Bye Baby" scared me when I was a toddler.  It still strikes me as an odd thing for a loving mom to sing her kids to sleep with... what kind of mom would stick her baby in a tree let it come crashing down?  So, I've always changed it to "and mom will catch baby, cradle and all" whenever I've sung it to my own kids. 

Two others that scared me when I was a little older -- around 4 or 5 -- that were on a lot of the children's albums I had were Molly Malone (until my dad figured out what the problem was and explained that the muscles she was selling were not cut from her human victims stil live bodies) and a novelty children's tune about a lady who swallows things... I've long since forgotten the words, but I think one of the things she swallowed might have been a spider and that another may have been a house -- I used to have nightmares about an ugly old  cackling crone chasing me and trying to swallow me alive with her freakish stretchy-mouth. *shudder* 

You mean

There was an old woman who swallowed a fly
I don't know why she swallowed a fly
perhaps she'll die

there was an old woman who swallowed a spider
that wriggled and juggled and tickled inside her
she swallowed the spider to catch the fly
I don't know why she swallowed the fly
perhaps she'll die

there was an old woman who swallowed a bird
how absurd to swallow a bird
she swallowed the bird to catch the spider
that wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her
etc.

there was an old woman who swallowed a cat
now fancy that! to swallow a cat
she swallowed the cat to catch the bird
etc etc

there was an old woman who swallowed a dog
what a hog to swallow a dog

there was an old woman who swallowed a goat
it slipped down her throat when she swallowed the goat

there was an old woman who swallowed a cow
I don't know how she swallowed a cow

there was an old woman who swallowed a horse
she's dead of course!

I thought of another...

Like a Surgeon by Weird Al...

The beeping of the heart monitor thingy and him walking around a hospital was scary to me!

You mean

There was an old woman who swallowed a fly
I don't know why she swallowed a fly
perhaps she'll die

there was an old woman who swallowed a spider
that wriggled and juggled and tickled inside her
she swallowed the spider to catch the fly
I don't know why she swallowed the fly
perhaps she'll die

there was an old woman who swallowed a bird
how absurd to swallow a bird
she swallowed the bird to catch the spider
that wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her
etc.

there was an old woman who swallowed a cat
now fancy that! to swallow a cat
she swallowed the cat to catch the bird
etc etc

there was an old woman who swallowed a dog
what a hog to swallow a dog

there was an old woman who swallowed a goat
it slipped down her throat when she swallowed the goat

there was an old woman who swallowed a cow
I don't know how she swallowed a cow

there was an old woman who swallowed a horse
she's dead of course!


That's the one!!           

Devil Woman gave me nightmares.  "She's just a devil woman, with evil on her mind, beware the devil woman, she's gonna get you from behind"

I was 5 when this song came out and it scared the doody out of me.
;DI loved that song!Cliff Richard was way better than disco!

I remember that one, It is a scary one

WESTERN MOVIES
THE OLYMPICS

To save my soul I can't get a date,
Baby's got it tuned on channel eight.
Now Wyatt Earp and the Big Cheyenne
They're comin' thru the T.V. shootin up the land.
Ah...um...my baby loves the Western movies.
My baby loves the Western movies,
Bam, bam, shoot 'em up Pow.
Ah..um..My babe loves the Western Movies.
I call my baby on the telephone
To tell her half my head was gone
I just got hit by a great big brick
She says thanks for reminding me about that Maverick
Ah..um...my baby loves the Western movies.
My baby loves the Western movies,
Bam, bam, shoot em up pow.
Ah...um...
My baby loves the Western movies.
Well there's Jeremy Roller and Old Cochise
Jim Hardy, Jim Bowie and Sugarfoot.
They all have gun will travel
Give me back my boots and saddle uh huh.
Here's the story of the certain Wagon Train Mccord
A broken arrow has broken my heart.
A Jefferson Thomas with Bat Masterson
Unties my baby and the fight was won.
Ah..um...my baby loves the Western movies.
My baby loves the western movies.
Bam bam shoot em up pow.
Ah um, my baby loves the western movies.

Note:
(Jim Hardie was a character in the TV show "Tales of Wells Fargo" which ran
from 1957 to 1962) Jim Bowie was the famous frontiersman portrayed in the
show Adventures of Jim Bowie which ran from 1956-1958.

Scary???That was a comedy1Anyway--I want my Baby backby Jimmy Cross was freakier,but still funny;but it makes me laugh when Chili's has the commercial with the song with the same name but totally unrelated lyrics.I like the real death ones like Ebony Eyes,Teen Angel,Tell Laura I love her,the Pickup,Last Kiss,etc.Cheers!

Two songs freaked me out not because of the songs themselves but because of the faulty of the equipment/user.

'Happy Birthday' by Altered Images because my uncle accidentally put it on the wrong record speed and it went scarily slow.

'Father Christmas do not touch me' by The Goodies because the record was scratched and it got stuck on that 'ho ho ho' sound at the end. It freaked me out.

If I should say songs in general, I think 'Eighth day' by Hazel O' Connor is a contender.

Thriller Michael Jackson


Howard

Not really scary, but freaked me out as a child...  :P  ::)


"I Will Always Love You" Whitney Houston



How come this one??  ???

sugery pop love songs freak me out....all i listen too is goth, all of my music is freaky.

When I was a kid, there was a song called Laurie by Dickie Lee


Last night at the dance I met Laurie
So lovely and warm
An angle of a girl
Last night I fell in love with Laurie
Strange things happen in this world

As I walked her home she said it was her birthday
I pulled her close and said
Will I see you anymore
And suddenly she asked for my sweater
And said that she was very very cold
I kissed her goodnight at her door and started home
Then thought about my sweater
And went right back and said
I knocked at her door
And a man appeared
I told him why i'd come
And he said

You're wrong son
You weren't with my daughter
How can you be so cruel
To come to me this way
My daughter left this world on her birthday
She died a year ago today

A strange force drew me to the graveyard
I stood in the cold
I saw the shadows gleam
And then I saw my sweater
Lying there upon her grave
Strange things happen in this world



Man, I'm getting goose bumps just reading the lyrics.




Cat

I don't recall this myself, but my mother told me I used to ask if there was really a "Bad Bad Leroy Brown"

I love the Dead by Alice Cooper

I love the dead before they're cold
They're bluing flesh for me to hold
Cadaver eyes upon me see nothing
I love the dead before they rise
No farewells, no goodbyes
I never knew your rotting face
While friends and lovers mourn your silly grave
I have other uses for you, Darling
We love the dead
We love the dead, Yeah

The song that always freaked me out when I was young was, "Safety Dance" by Men without Hats.....I dunno why...I think because one time I was at my grammas house and we were going home and it was late at night and she used to have a playground near her house....and that song was like blasting in the playground but I couldn't see anyone there.


another song.....

that one from Tootsie that is sung by Steven Bishop....that's a long story though...it had to do with a bad dream



Erin :)

Once, I fell asleep listening to "Revolution 9" by the Beatles. Big mistake. I had the freekiest nightmares ever!

Another song that freaks me out, especially since that Levis commercial with the scary mannequin, is "I Put A Spell On You (Because You're Mine)," by Screamin' Jay Hawkins.

I was never really scared of one particular song, but I got scared senseless but that godawful Kiss movie. They looked like Clowns to me.

From the listed songs, "Eleanor Rigby-Beatles  (Lonely lady, no one comes to her funeral)" certainly confused me when I was a child.

omg lol eleanor rigby is almost the same name as my great aunt

Songs that scared me:
Carousel

well, it's on my nan's musical carousel thing, spinny thing that plays carousel. But i don't like it if i'm on my own and it starts to get to the end - it slows down and sounds like it's off those scary movies where you've got dead children with fairground music playing in the background...hmm...:-\\

i can't think of others. Oh yes, "Rock a bye baby" now freaks me out lol coz i just noticed the lyrics
I think also a few greenday songs. Things like Redundant and Brain Stew.
Redundant because you have a woman at the end screaming and it sort of confuses me
Brain Stew because it says "My eyes I think they're gonna bleed"
But I love both songs sort of...:-\\ Weird

omg lol eleanor rigby is almost the same name as my great aunt



Did you Great Aunt live in Liverpool?


Songs that scared me:
Carousel

well, it's on my nan's musical carousel thing, spinny thing that plays carousel. But i don't like it if i'm on my own and it starts to get to the end - it slows down and sounds like it's off those scary movies where you've got dead children with fairground music playing in the background...hmm...:-\\



I am wondering is the waltz from the musical "Carousel" in a minor key, thus making sound sadder and has a strange sound to it?

Nah, I don't think it is. Just once it slows down, it has a lower key and it sounds strange. BTW, when I said "dead children" I meant like dead children's voices laughing happily in the background, sometimes singing "Ring a ring of roses" (with in itself is creepy anyway, it's about the black death :o) And no, my great aunt didn't live in Liverpool she lives in York why?

Plus now I don't like that carousel, it's the sort that's just got sort of old looking children on it, you know like from ages ago chipped out of porcelain U no?
And my nan's died, so it's like V. V. V. V. V. V. x 100,000,000 creepy.

Did anyone else have songs that scared you as a child?  These songs freaked me out when I was little.  Am I weird or what?

Eleanor Rigby-Beatles  (Lonely lady, no one comes to her funeral)


i like that song.

Bicycle Race by Queen used to freak me out a l'ill when I was younger.. tho now I find it kinda fun  :)

"Yellow Submarine" by The Beatles stil scares me.  :o

Matalan advert song!

I just heard it, i only know so much lyrics. It's very upbeat, and that scares me too...

"The line broke,
the monkey got choked
and they all went to heaven in a little row boat"

I mean, who wants to put that on an advert with little kids listening?
The monkey got choked when the line broke (Noose???) and they all went up to heaven in a little rowing boat - maybe they drowned in the process? I dunno! Very creepy for me. "The monkey got choked" im gonna have visions of this monkey coming for revenge!

Matalan advert song!

I just heard it, i only know so much lyrics. It's very upbeat, and that scares me too...

"The line broke,
the monkey got choked
and they all went to heaven in a little row boat"

I mean, who wants to put that on an advert with little kids listening?
The monkey got choked when the line broke (Noose???) and they all went up to heaven in a little rowing boat - maybe they drowned in the process? I dunno! Very creepy for me. "The monkey got choked" im gonna have visions of this monkey coming for revenge!


The song is called The Clapping Song and was charted by the Shirley Ellis in 1955 and The Belle Stars in 1982.

Tubular Bells aka  The theme from "The Exorcist"

It still gets me to this day.

Jam Up And Jelly Tight by Tommy Roe

Gonna get juicy tonight :o

Tubular Bells aka  The theme from "The Exorcist"

It still gets me to this day.
Stil does it for me, especially when it was the the first 'X' film I saw.

Stil does it for me, especially when it was the the first 'X' film I saw.


my massage therapist was playing the 'Pure Moods' CD, and tubular bells was on it. FREAKED me out!!! Also, that "Puttin on The Ritz" song where his voice got hollow-creepy

Tubular Bells aka  The theme from "The Exorcist"

It still gets me to this day.


Oh definetly that one!!

Elmer Fudd singing Kill the Rabbit  :D

I was extremely sheltered as a child so I didn't ever hear any of the pop music at the time.  However, my mom used to play the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" at night.....AT NIGHT!!!  WHEN WE LITTLE ONES WERE GOING TO BED AND PRAYING NOT TO HAVE NIGHTMARES!!!!  HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO TO SLEEP TO THAT CREEPY RAIDERS THEME?

Elmer Fudd singing Kill the Rabbit  :D



What about Elmer Fudd sings Bruce Springsteen?





Cat

What about Elmer Fudd sings Bruce Springsteen?





Cat
I always thought it was Springsteen sings Elmer Fudd :o ;D

my massage therapist was playing the 'Pure Moods' CD, and tubular bells was on it. FREAKED me out!!! Also, that "Puttin on The Ritz" song where his voice got hollow-creepy



I have "Pure Moods". Fabulous CD.



Cat

I have "Pure Moods". Fabulous CD.



Cat


i bought it too, i love ennio morricone

Mother's Lament, by Cream, which my mother used to sing when she was bathing me:

"A mother was washing her baby one night,
The youngest of ten and a delicate mite.
The mother was poor and the baby was thin,
'Twas naught but an skelingtin covered with skin.
The mother turned 'round for a soap off the rack.
She was only a moment but when she turned back
Her baby had gone, and in anguish she cried,
"Oh, where 'as my baby gone?" The angels replied:
Oh, your baby has gone down the plug 'ole.
Oh, your baby has gone down the plug.
The poor little thing was so skinny and thin,
He should 'ave been washed in a jug, in a jug.
Your baby is perfectly happy;
He won't need a bath anymore.
He's a-muckin' about with the angels above,
Not lost but gone before."

Sometimes, I think mothers have a lot to answer for!

Also "Hello" by Lionel Ritchie. It just freaks me out that there was a blind woman in the video, and he keeps asking "Hello, is it me you're looking for?", when she's quite blatantly blind... I used to think one of the lines was "I sometimes see your pants outside my door", which probably qualifies as my first 'twisted lyric'.

Someone else (Bobby?) also mentioned "The Eighth Day" by Hazel O'Connor, which I'd agree with.

The first Bauhaus song I heard was "Double Dare", which I still find quite uncomfortable to listen to nowadays.

A bit later in life, "99 Red Balloons" by Nena did the trick, fear of nuclear war being a big thing during my early years...