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Edison Museum Lyrics
The Edison Museum, not open to the public
Its haunted towers rise into the clouds above it
Folks drive in from out of town
to gaze in amazement when they see it
Just outside the gate I look into the courtyard
underneath the gathering thunderstorm
Through the iron bars I see the Black Mariah
Revolving slowly on its platform
In the topmost tower a light burns dim
A coiling filament glowing within
The Edison Museum once a bustling factory
Today is but a darkened cobweb covered hive of industry
The tallest widest and most famous
Haunted mansion in New Jersey
Behind a wooden door the voice of Thomas Alva
Recites a poem on a phonograph
Ghosts float up the stair like silent moving pictures
The loyal phantoms of his in-house staff
A wondrous place it is, there can be no doubt
But no one ever goes in and no one ever goes out
So when your children quarrel and nothing seems to quell them
Tell them that you'll take them to the Edison Museum
The largest independently owned
and operated mausoleum
Its haunted towers rise into the clouds above it
Folks drive in from out of town
to gaze in amazement when they see it
underneath the gathering thunderstorm
Through the iron bars I see the Black Mariah
Revolving slowly on its platform
In the topmost tower a light burns dim
A coiling filament glowing within
Today is but a darkened cobweb covered hive of industry
The tallest widest and most famous
Haunted mansion in New Jersey
Recites a poem on a phonograph
Ghosts float up the stair like silent moving pictures
The loyal phantoms of his in-house staff
A wondrous place it is, there can be no doubt
But no one ever goes in and no one ever goes out
Tell them that you'll take them to the Edison Museum
The largest independently owned
and operated mausoleum
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I don't think that this song is actually about the Edison Museum being haunted. Edison made a lot of things that could be used to record things, like sounds and movies. I think that the "Ghosts" in this song are recordings.