                    I ENJOY SCARING THE WORLD

     TUNE: "I Enjoy Being a Girl" from "Flower Drum Song"

I'm a Thing and by me that's only great!
I am proud that I set you all a-quiver;
I can be all the things you fear and hate
As the night closes in to make you shiver.
I adore taking form as something frightening
When the day fades away into the night.
Out I go in the moonlight or the lightning
Like a dragon who is ready for the flight!

When I was a savage werewolf, with the Moon shining like a pearl,
I think I was quite a fair wolf.  I enjoy scaring the world.
When men see me as a vampire, with my cape flapping all unfurled,
Approaching their lonely campfire, I enjoy scaring the world.
I flip when some fellow fleeing showers
Takes shelter in some old haunted place;
I float through the corridors for hours
With nothing but a skull upon my face!

I snicker and smile and chortle, as I think of the fear there'll be
In the mind of some helpless mortal
Who will dread being a guy
Meeting a Thing like me.


                               Tom Digby   written 0415  3/ 4/79
                                           entered 1350 10/24/87
