From the recording Hallowe'en: Night of Spirits

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music and lyrics - Kristen Lawrence

voices, organ - Kristen Lawrence
flutes - Ben Smolen
guitars - Steve Bartek
bass - John Avila
percussion - MB Gordy

Lyrics

Jack o’ Lantern, oh light us a path tonight!
Shadows tease with flickering shapes
On hedges and fences and doorsteps,
So smile your secrets to us!
Hollow yet filled with a luminous stare —
Eerie façade of what you’re aware!

Long ago in the Gaelic land of your roots,
You enthralled the ghosts of the time,
Then traveled the waters Atlantic
To find a home on new shores.
Purple no longer the color adored,
Turnips gave way to the orange gourd!

Jack o’ Lantern, oh light us a path tonight!
Shadows tease with flickering shapes
On hedges and fences and doorsteps,
So smile your secrets to us!
Hollow yet filled with a luminous stare —
Eerie façade of what you’re aware!

Light of autumn, you’re often quite mischievous —
Fairy glows or will o’ the wisps
Or corpse candles floating
Or Jack whom the devil spurned with a coal.
Carved in the present, engraved with the past —
Haunting and beckoning fires that last!