Wake up Flanagan, the bartender's comin' He says there's someone here who means to do us harm Sound the alarm, it's the man with the skeleton arms Ten years ago on Hogs back mountain The flames was roaring like a lion in a fountain The trees were burning, too many to count 'em And trapped in the middle With fire all around him, was our man Flanagan and I was out camping that day We started our fire with turpentine and hay The wind was howlin', so I guess we should have known The flames was gonna get blown across the land Wake up Flanagan, the bartender's comin' He says there's someone here who means to do us harm Sound the alarm, it's the man with the skeleton arms Two days later when the fire died out Flanagan and I went to rootin' about For to find a little dinner of roasted critters Blackened blackbird eggs and pine-cone fritters That was how we happened on the badly burned man He was yelpin' for help and so we each grabbed a hand Thinking we'd be heroes if we dragged him back home We pulled, but pulled the flesh right off a the bone Wake up Flanagan, the bartender's comin' He says there's someone here who means to do us harm Sound the alarm, it's the man with the skeleton arms Now of all the mad people, that guy was the maddest He pulled a bone across his throat And he pointed right at us Ten years on the lam from that skeletal man He swore his revenge, we've heard his sinister plan I'll string you up by your hands And lift you over a vat And dip you up to your elbows In the boiling fat It's like an eye for an eye, but 99 times worse I'm gonna do to you what you did to me Except in reverse Wake up Flanagan, the bartender's comin' He says there's someone here who means to do us harm Sound the alarm, it's the man with the skeleton arms Singing, wake up Flanagan, the bartender's comin' He says there's someone here who means to do us harm Sound the alarm, it's the man with the skeleton arms