Gourmet Rapport: Zombie Charmers (aka This Chalming Man)

Zombies, P-zombies, P&P-zombies, inter alia. With unconscious help from Rod Argent, Murray McKeich, and Philip Nagle MacAuliffe. The lyrics: ©Richard Hanley 2010 (with a debt to Rod Argent)

I'm in love with a zombie
I don't mind
I'm in love with a zombie
The philosophical kind
When she tells me what she's thinking
There's nothing behind it
We're all looking for the real thing
I take it where I can find it

Well, let me tell you 'bout the way she looks
The way she acts, the color of her hair
Her voice is soft and cool
Her eyes are clear and bright
But she's not there

There's no what it's like to be her
Though she can rant and she can rave
Not gonna subjectify her
Just as long as she behave
If she was feeling what I'm feeling
That would be epiphenomenal
Know what they say—if it walks like a duck and it
Talks like a duck, then it's my-my-my-my girl

Let me tell you 'bout the way she looks
The way she acts, the color of her hair
Her voice is soft and cool
Her eyes are clear and bright
But she's not there

Who loves _all you zombies_
This Chalming Man!
If you can't take it from me
Take it from her whichever way you can
We have an arrangement
Can't work with the walking dead
She doesn't eat me
And I don't shoot her in the head

Well, let me tell you 'bout the way she looks
The way she acts, the color of her hair
Her voice is soft and cool
Her eyes are clear and bright
But she's not there

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[profofphil]

One of the celebrity pictures is in fact of a wax replica--can you pick it?

[profofphil]

Thanks, rockpapercynic. I like yours, too!

[profofphil]

I put lots of little jokes and references in this. How many can you spot?

[rockpapercynic]

Great tune!