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The Song Challenge:   It's the Great 2000 Booga Booga Halloween Challenge! Get your holey sheets and brooms out for:  Drop-Dead Decor (Terre Haute, Indiana) -- An online company is digging for Halloween business with a line of furniture that would make the Addams Family envious. Your Coffin Company builds and sells coffins to consumers eager to give their home decor a distinctive flair. The company has devised 101 uses for the average wooden coffin -- aside from the usual purpose -- including as a coffee table, wine rack, bookshelf and entertainment center. "We decided ... this was the ultimate conversation piece. We have a motto that you should get to know your coffin before you're buried in it," said Brad Miller, co-owner of the online company. The coffins, made from oak or maple wood, start at $389 for a basic, no-frills model. Miller said their web site averages about 50,000 visitors a day, some of whom have sought phone booth coffins and even coffin beds. (Click here to see pics of the Lovely Coffin Twins - I wonder if they do in-home installation?).

I Feel Like I'm Fixin To Buy Rag by Dharmabum

Come on all of you folks out there
It's goin on an yer unaware
Ya don't need a stroke or a blown gasket
You can be the owner of yer very own casket
Stop makin excuses & makin a fuss
And come on down to COFFINS R US.

(Chorus):
And it's 1,2,3,what are ya waitin for
Don't ask me I don't understand
We got the biggest selection in the land
And it's 5,6,7,come & get yer very own box
Ain't no time to wonder why
Do it now before you die.

So smoke them Luckys & drink that beer
Can't live forever so have no fear
Don't worry bout yer level of colestorol
Cause worryin ain't no fun at all
Got pains in yer chest from that fatty meal
Just stop on by & we'll cut a deal.

(Chorus)

Don't be shy get one for the wife
Don't matter if she ain't done with her life
Stop on by & stop in often
Buy dear old dad his very own coffin
The more you buy the better deal you get
So how about a pine box set.

(Chorus)

Business is good & the place is buzzin
Were sellin coffins by the dozen
No better caskets can be found
Whenever you're ready to go in the ground
And when the day comes to meet your maker
We got a discount undertaker.

(Chorus)

When death is knockin at yer door
And yer clutchin yer chest lyin on the floor
You're short of breath & there's pain down yer arm
And it looks like yer gonna buy the farm
Your gonna wish you'd planned ahead
Cause you can't do it after yer dead.

(Chorus)

Now take one home & put it to use
Get one for Aunties big caboose
What about uncle Harry who's gettin kinda old
Gonna need a place to put him when he turns cold
Just seal him up no mess no muss
Courtesy of COFFINS R US.

(Chorus)

So come on folks ya'll stop on by
Lay down in one & give it a try
We're sellin coffins we're sellin lids
Got free balloons for all the kids
Get ready for the day when yer pushin up weeds
We're the place for all yer funeral needs.

(Chorus):
 An it's 1,2,3, what are ya waitin for
Don't ask me I don't understand
We got the biggest selection in the land
And it's 5,6,7,come & get your very own box
Ain't no time to wonder why
Do it now before you die.


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