Momus - Ichabod Crane lyrics

This prissy
Skinny lanky-liver calculating fool
Has come to Sleepy Hollow to
Teach at the school
He's a greedy snobby creep with
A long snipe nose
And he loves to trick and pick on me
Big Brom Bones

Now Ichabod is clever but we have verified
That any tale with ghosts in
It can make him terrified
Particularly the story of a soldier
Long dead who rides through Sleepy Hollow
Without a head

Ichabod Crane! Ichabod Crane!
Pumpkin brain!

Well Katrina is the daughter
Of Baltus Van Tassel
A fruity little beauty at
The harvest festival
And Ichabod the trickster wants to
Love her for her money
But she wants me - so that's not funny

Well the storm it is a rising
And the branches lash around
And Ichabod is riding past
The hollow burial ground
When suddenly he catches sight
Behind him in the road
Of a horseback stranger who
Doesn't have a head

Ichabod Crane! Ichabod Crane!
Pumpkin brain!

Ichabod is screaming and a
Whipping at his horse
Trying to cross the bridge he
Knows the ghost can't cross
But the horseman throws his head at him
Ichabod is down
And all they find by morning is
A pumpkin on the ground

Ichabod Crane! Ichabod Crane!
Pumpkin brain!