Intro: | | / | | / / || verse 1: There’s a skeleton in every body’s closet I can think of one or two in my own room But I would like to intro - duce them both to you Shake their bony hands and so dispel the gloom Cause your so kind I know you would not mind - You’d send away the ghosts that haunt me now And the things I fear Just wouldn’t seem so near And when I stroll out late at night / / / | / / / | There would be nothin’ rattlin’ at my heels 2nd:x / / / | / / | ||: | :|| verse 2: There are nights when all my aching bones won’t let me sleep And demons come to plague me as I lie in bed But I know if you were sleeping there be - side me then That you would fend them off and they would let me rest Bridge: There are nights When the wind comes howling through my old place I have dreams And I wake up with the sweat pouring down my face | ||: | :|| And I wait......... Till the morning comes ? Solo: | | / | | / / | | | / | | / / / | | | | | - | | | | | - | / / / | / / | verse 3: There will come a time I fear when all my days are done And they will come collect my corpse and bury me But I hope that you’ll come over to the Other Side Join me in our new life keep me company Cause your so kind I know you would not mind - You’d send away the ghosts that haunt me now And the things I fear Just wouldn’t seem so near And when I stroll out late at night / / / | / / | || There would be nothin’ rattlin’ at my heels