Night Of The Vampire

Lyrics: Hunter, Melton
Music: Melton, Hunter

A song recorded by Mickey Hart and others as part of the Area Code 415 sessions in the early 1970s. I think it's "sung" by Barry Melton.

Robert Hunter was interviewed in 1979 and asked about what songs were intended to be on the album. He said:

"Marshmallow Road and something like Night Of The Vampire which Melton and I wrote together ... I'm doing a memory feat here ... there's a lot I want to forget and some things I'd like to remember"

Late in the fall, a cold wind was rising
And the doctor was drunk on his very own poison
Nothing new, nor very old
The wind in the gallows was the tale that we told

Midnight I came here, want you to know
Doctor was waiting, it was forty below
Jumped in the saddle, horse blew away
On the wind that caught in [?] Chesapeake Bay

Vampire, vampires, vampire
Night of the vampire

The vampire's also really smart
Excuse me, I wish to make a withdrawal from your blood bank
More wolfbane, Doctor [Vanhelfinger]?
You see, mirrors displease me

He casts
Rampfield, Rampfield, my name is Rampfield
Master, master, more rats, more rats

You drive a stake in his heart
While he's lying in his coffin in the daytime
When he's been ... [fades]