[Intro]
Wake up Flanagan, the bartender's comin'
He says there's someone here who means to do us harm
Sound the alarm, it's the man with the skeleton arms

[Verse 1]
Ten years ago on Hogsback Mountain
The flames was roaring like a lion in a fountain
The trees were burning, too many to count 'em
And trapped in the middle
With fire all around him, was our man...
Flanagan and I was out camping that day
We started our fire with turpentine and hay
The wind was howlin' so I guess we should have known
The flames was gonna get blown across thе land

[Chorus]
Wake up Flanagan, the bartendеr's comin'
He says there's someone here who means to do us harm
Sound the alarm, it's the man with the skeleton arms

[Verse 2]
Two days later when the fire died out
Flanagan and I went to rootin' about
For to find a little dinner of roasted critter
Blackened blackbird eggs and pine-cone fritters
That was how we happened on the badly burned man
He was yelpin' for help and so we each grabbed a hand
Thinking we'd be heroes if we dragged him back home
We pulled, but pulled the flesh right offa the bone
[Chorus]
Wake up Flanagan, the bartender's comin'
He says there's someone here who means to do us harm
Sound the alarm, it's the man with the skeleton arms

[Verse 3]
Now of all the mad people, that guy was the maddest
He pulled a bone across his throat
And he pointed right at us
Ten years on the lam from that skeletal man
He swore his revenge, we've heard his sinister plan:

[Bridge]
I'll string you up by your hands
And lift you over a vat
And dip you up to your elbows
In the boiling fat
It's like an eye for an eye, but ninety-nine times worse
I'm gonna do to you what you did to me
Except in reverse...

[Chorus]
Wake up Flanagan, the bartender's comin'
He says there's someone here who means to do us harm
Sound the alarm, it's the man with the skeleton arms
[Outro]
Wake up Flanagan, the bartender's comin'
He says there's someone here who means to do us harm
Sound the alarm, it's the man with the skeleton arms