[Verse] Jack-o-lantern is a pumpkin Candy corn is a candy Frankenstein is a monster Halloween's a festival But the word you know is German From the phrase for "Saint's evening" Which evolved into a pun [Chorus] Ooh-ooh Halloween Ooh-ooh Halloween Ooh-ooh Halloween Ooh-ooh Halloween [Verse 2] Old saints' eve is October thirty-first Halloween was the day before All Saints Day When the church remembered martyrs But for Irish farmers It was a pagan day when They believed that the dead were comin' So they lit bonfires to scare them But the pope wanted to help them So he created a festival That eventually became Halloween [Chorus] Ooh-ooh Halloween Ooh-ooh Halloween Ooh-ooh Halloween Ooh-ooh Halloween Ooh-ooh Halloween Ooh-ooh Halloween Ooh-ooh Halloween Ooh-ooh Halloween