Biography:
Daniel Robert "Danny" Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American composer, best known as the lead singer and songwriter for the rock band Oingo Boingo, from 1976 to 1995 and later for scoring music for television and film and creating The Simpsons main title theme as well as the 1989 Batman movie theme. He has scored the majority of the films for his long-time friend Tim Burton.
Born in Los Angeles, he entered the film industry in 1976, initially as an actor.
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SONG: Jack's Lament
ARTIST: Danny Elfman
From the musical, The Nightmare Before Christmas
A#m F/A
There are few who'd deny
C#/G# Gm9b5
At what I do I am the best
F# F D#m
For my talents are renowned far and wide
C C#dim7
When it comes to suprises
C/E D#m/A#
On a moonlit night
C7 F7
I excel without ever even trying
D#m A#7
With the slightest little effort
D#m Fdim
Of my ghost like charms
D#m E
I have seen grown men give out a shriek
G#dim D#m
With the wave of my hand
A#7 D#m
And a well placed moan
A#7 D#m
I have swept the very bravest off their feet
A#7 Bm
Yet year after year
E D#dim7
It's the same routine
A#
And I grow so weary
D#dim7 A#7/F
Of the sound of screams
F#dim7
And I
D#m
JACK..THE PUMPKIN KING
B7 A#7 F#dim
Have grown so tired of the same
D#dim
old
A#
thing
D#dim7 Gm A7/G Em
Oh somewhere deep inside of these bones
Am6 Em Am6 Em
An emptiness began to grow
D#dim7 Gm/D A/C# Em/B
There's something out there far from my home
Am6 Em6 B7 Em6
A longing that I've never known
Em B/D# G/D C#m9b5
I'm a master of fright and a demon of light
C B Am
And I'll scare you right out of your pants
F# Gdim7 F#/A# Am/E
To a guy in Kentucky, I'm Mister Unlucky
F#7 B
And I'm known throughout England and France
Am Bdim Am/C Ddim
And since I am dead, I can take off my head
Am A#
To recite Shakesperean quotations
Ddim7 Am E7 Am
No animal nor man can SCREAM like I can
E7 Am
With the fury of my recitations
E7 Fm A# Adim7
But who here would ever understand
E7 Am6 E7/B
That the Pumpkin King with the skeleton grin
Cdim7 Am F#m/C#
Would tire of his crown, If they only
C#7 F#m
understood
D7 C#7 F#m D
He'd give it all up, if he only
C#b9 C#(no5)
could....
Fdim7 Am B7/A F#m
Oh theres an empty place in my bones
Bm6 F#m Bm6 F#m
That calls out for something unknown
Fdim7 Am/E B/D# F#m/C#
The fame and praise come year after year
Bm6 F#m6 C#7 F#m
Does nothing for these empty tears....
ARTIST: Danny Elfman
From the musical, The Nightmare Before Christmas
A#m F/A
There are few who'd deny
C#/G# Gm9b5
At what I do I am the best
F# F D#m
For my talents are renowned far and wide
C C#dim7
When it comes to suprises
C/E D#m/A#
On a moonlit night
C7 F7
I excel without ever even trying
D#m A#7
With the slightest little effort
D#m Fdim
Of my ghost like charms
D#m E
I have seen grown men give out a shriek
G#dim D#m
With the wave of my hand
A#7 D#m
And a well placed moan
A#7 D#m
I have swept the very bravest off their feet
A#7 Bm
Yet year after year
E D#dim7
It's the same routine
A#
And I grow so weary
D#dim7 A#7/F
Of the sound of screams
F#dim7
And I
D#m
JACK..THE PUMPKIN KING
B7 A#7 F#dim
Have grown so tired of the same
D#dim
old
A#
thing
D#dim7 Gm A7/G Em
Oh somewhere deep inside of these bones
Am6 Em Am6 Em
An emptiness began to grow
D#dim7 Gm/D A/C# Em/B
There's something out there far from my home
Am6 Em6 B7 Em6
A longing that I've never known
Em B/D# G/D C#m9b5
I'm a master of fright and a demon of light
C B Am
And I'll scare you right out of your pants
F# Gdim7 F#/A# Am/E
To a guy in Kentucky, I'm Mister Unlucky
F#7 B
And I'm known throughout England and France
Am Bdim Am/C Ddim
And since I am dead, I can take off my head
Am A#
To recite Shakesperean quotations
Ddim7 Am E7 Am
No animal nor man can SCREAM like I can
E7 Am
With the fury of my recitations
E7 Fm A# Adim7
But who here would ever understand
E7 Am6 E7/B
That the Pumpkin King with the skeleton grin
Cdim7 Am F#m/C#
Would tire of his crown, If they only
C#7 F#m
understood
D7 C#7 F#m D
He'd give it all up, if he only
C#b9 C#(no5)
could....
Fdim7 Am B7/A F#m
Oh theres an empty place in my bones
Bm6 F#m Bm6 F#m
That calls out for something unknown
Fdim7 Am/E B/D# F#m/C#
The fame and praise come year after year
Bm6 F#m6 C#7 F#m
Does nothing for these empty tears....
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