Blogger 365 Day 206 - Karaoke Friday - Historical revisits

     If some of this sounds familiar, and it may to some long time readers of the blog, then that is because this particular item has been covered before.  I am revisiting this item simply because earlier this year the video was remastered and reposted on Youtube, offered a much better version of it then when I had first posted it years before.  Today's song is musical reference to Ronald Clark O'Bryan, who is most infamusly known as "The Candyman".  How O'Bryan earned that moniker is a lesson in human depravity, one that is still with us in many communities to this very day.  On Halloween night in 1974, O'Bryan and his children went trick or treating with their neighbors, the Bates'.  Ronald O'Bryan would go with the children as they knocked on doors with Jim Bates waiting for them back on the sidewalk.  At one particular house where the view of the front door was blocked from the sidewalk, the children knocked on the door and when no one answered they ran back down to the sidewalk to join Jim and head off to the next house.  O'Bryan stayed behind for a minute or so, then caught up with the others bearing Pixie Sticks, a powder like candy in a tube like paper wrapper. O'Bryan claimed that after the kids left, the homeowner came to the door and gave him the candies for the kids who had already left. 

     Upon completing their trick or treating for the evening the children returned home.  Timothy O'Bryan decided to eat some of his Halloween candy, including the Pixie Stick, which was laced with cyanide.  Timothy fell ill and ended up dieing from eating the tainted candy, which it turned out was actually created not by an evil home owner looking to poison children on Halloween, but by Timothy's own father, Ronald Clark O'Bryan, who was simply looking to cash in on his own son's life insurance policy.  Despite this fact, many communities to this very day have either banned or curtailed the practice of trick or treating out of the simple fear that Mr. O'Bryan helped create, that people could try to poison little kids.  Even some hospitals offer x-ray screening of Halloween candy (which does nothing for candy that has been laced with poison) in the hopes of allaying parents' concerns. 

      Withe the brief historical narrative out of the way, I believe it is singing time, though that story isn't much to sing about, is it?


Sickly sweet, his poison seeks
For the young ones who don't understand
The danger in his hands
With a jaundiced wink see his cunning slink
Oh trust in me my pretty one
Come walk with me my helpless one
Candyman

Syrup lies upon your tongue
Ge latine saliva spills
The flash of a guillotine a smile

Candyman - oh candyman
No pity for him, their misery screams
Unspeakable things

A cool missile, yes it's in his smile
With open arms to welcome you
Beware the masked pretender
He always lies, this candyman
Those lips conspire in treachery
To strike in cloak and dagger, see!

Candyman - oh candyman
And all the children, he warns ''don't tell,''
Those threats are sold
With their guilt and shame they think they're to blane
For candyman - oh candyman