Dance Of The Skeletons - by Tommy Allen (1901).MP3 by The New Vintage Frets

This novelty tune was one of many by Thomas Sylvester Allen. Other pieces by Allen, recorded by mandolin orchestras include; The Nashville Mandolin Ensemble's "Dance of the Lunatics," The Milwaukee Mandolin Orchestra's "Evolution Rag," "Stop, Look and Listen," and a tune that has become a Dixieland standard "Big Chief Battle-Axe." The composer's best-known song describes life on the Erie Canal in "Low Bridge, Everybody Down."