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Ghost Town Lyrics
Come on lets go down
Everybodys waiting for us
Down at the ghost town
Bill Bailey said hed be around
If Mrs. G. Robinson would just put
That bad Havana down
Lovely Queen Anne Boleyn
Learning new tricks from the Great Houdini .Wo Wo
Now thats the way shes gonna make it Wo Wo
Come on
Come on lets go down
Everybodys waiting for us
Down at the boom town
O. Redding & Washington
Chico & Harpo & Karl are
In the Kitchen with mum
Buster Keaton & King Tut
Are waiting for Disney to wake upWo Wo
Now thats the way
No that aint the way hes gonna make it
Everybodys waiting for us
Down at the ghost town
Bill Bailey said hed be around
If Mrs. G. Robinson would just put
That bad Havana down
Learning new tricks from the Great Houdini .Wo Wo
Now thats the way shes gonna make it Wo Wo
Come on lets go down
Everybodys waiting for us
Down at the boom town
O. Redding & Washington
Chico & Harpo & Karl are
In the Kitchen with mum
Are waiting for Disney to wake upWo Wo
Now thats the way
No that aint the way hes gonna make it
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I think this song is a cheerful look at the afterlife (although I don't get a lot of the references, because they are before my time), talking about all the good times you'll have with all these famous people who have passed on already. Hence the "Ghost Town", town of ghosts.
Also, the last stanza is a reference to the popular myth that Walt Disney, founder of Disney, was cryogenically frozen, so he's not truly dead, just in suspended animation. This isn't true of course, but here Keaton and Tut are waiting for him to wake up from his freezing, and he's not gonna make it to the ghost town that way.