When You're an Addams (From "The Addams Family Musical")

Ah, the intoxicating spell of the graveyard

Once a year, when the last leaf of autumn falls

We gather to honor the great cycle of life

And death

Come, every member of our clan

Living, dead, and undecided

And let us celebrate what it is to be an Addams

When you're an Addams

You need to have a little moonlight

When you're an Addams

You need to feel a little chill

You have to see the world in shades of grey

You have to put some poison in your day

That's the way

When you're an Addams

You need to have a sense of humour

When you're an Addams

You need to have a taste for death

Who cares about the world outside and what it wants from you?

When you're an Addams, you do what Addams always do

When you're an Addams

You gotta have a lotta passion

When you're an Addams

You need to really love your wife

Several times a day

You're happy when your toes are in the mud

You smile a bit the moment you smell blood

Ahoooooh!

When you're an Addams

You need to grab a bow and arrow

When you're an Addams

You need a moment to explode

Just pour a potion, flip the switch, and wait till things get hot

When you're an Addams, you have to really stir the

Pot

So keep your sunshine and keep your glee

Country music and Tennessee

Keep you laughter and MTV

And all will be all right

Give us shadows and give us gloom

Broken glass in a motel room

Something fun we can all exhume

And give it all tonight!

And on this special night

Beneath our family tree

We summon our beloved ancestors

Once torn asunder

Down six feet under

We get to gather here

Dead for forever

Bled from whatever

Called now to reappear

Every cadaver

Start the palaver

Once in an Addams year

Hold your decaying

Hear what we're saying

Time now to give a cheer

Line dance!

Bunny hop!

Do the twist!

Rigor mortis!

When you're an Addams (That's right! When you're an Addams)

You have a very special duty (Late night, out with the Addams)

When you're an Addams (With one bite)

You're obligated to the clan

It's family first, and family last, and family by and by

When you're an Addams, the standard answers don't apply

When you're an Addams, you do what Addams do, or–

Ughhh

Die!