Step onto an old graveyard in the Middle Ages and you might see a danse macabre in tribute to the dead. In this ragtime dance, the deceased are but shadows of themselves that emerge from their graves at the midnight hour. The moon is faint and spooking ghosts haunt the watchman in his tower. It’s only when the bell strikes one that the skeletons shatter and fall back in their graves.

Enjoy the Ghostly Graveyard rag as a musical reference to Goethe’s poem “Der Totentanz” about the afterlife, the supernatural and the invisible shadows that haunt us all. With a simple structure and catchy lyrics, this dance macabre is for singer-song writers and intermediate piano players. It is also a unique and mystical selection for a funerals and death ceremonies.