Macabre Minstrels: Morbid Campfire Songs

Morbid Campfire Songs is an EP by the band Macabre Minstrels - a side project of Macabre

Macabre (band)

Macabre is an extreme metal band from Illinois. They were formed in 1985 in Chicago, Illinois, and have never had a line-up change. They blend thrash metal, death metal, and grindcore to form their own unique style dubbed murder metal...

. It was released in 2002 by Decomposed Records. The EP contains acoustic songs with the tongue-in-cheek lyrics of Macabre

Macabre (band)

. The EP was originally only sold at concerts, but was re-issued by Seasons of Mist in 2004.

Track listing

"Tom Dooley
Tom Dooley (song)
"Tom Dooley" is an old North Carolina folk song based on the 1866 murder of a woman named Laura Foster in Wilkes County, North Carolina. It is best known today because of a hit version recorded in 1958 by The Kingston Trio. This version was a multi-format hit, reaching #1 in Billboard, the...

" – 3:08
"The Geins" – 3:23 (Ed Gein
Ed Gein
Edward Theodore "Ed" Gein - July 26, 1984) was an American murderer and body snatcher. His crimes, committed around his hometown of Plainfield, Wisconsin, gathered widespread notoriety after authorities discovered Gein had exhumed corpses from local graveyards and fashioned trophies and keepsakes...

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"In the Mountains" – 5:31 (Alferd Packer
Alferd Packer
Alfred G. "Alferd" Packer was an American prospector who was accused of cannibalism during the winter of 1873-1874. First tried for murder, Packer was eventually sentenced to 40 years in prison after being convicted of manslaughter...

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"The Cat Came Back" – 4:19
"Found a Peanut" – 2:31

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