Bring on Spooky Season!

I really have to start this one off with an explanation and I'll be posting a few links after the poem. First of all, it was written in response to S. A. Crawford's "Spooky Season Challenge." Second, it was unknowingly inspired in a weird way by Kelli Sheckler-Amsden's piece, entitled "Scarecrows and Mazes." (Here's where it started to get weird.) The meter of that title immediately brought to my mind a Julie Andrews song from "The Sound of Music." Can you guess which one? Never mind. It was "My Favorite Things." So, this poem is set to the tune of that song. It also has an Elvira reference in the second line, because I needed a good rhyming word and I was a fan. (I'm a guy, I was young once, and I love scary movies.) I'm afraid it just went downhill from there, but the final stanza (the bridge of the song, sort of) actually states my "reason for the season." Hold on; here we go and I hope you have fun:

Pumpkins and scarecrows and feisty black kitties

Witches with nose warts (and some with nice _____)

Peanuts on TV for the thousandth time

(How am I going to make this line rhyme?)

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Warm pumpkin pie with a ton of whipped topping

Pumpkin seeds roasting and kettle corn popping

Warm quesadillas, tamales, good beer

(Cause I'll have those any time of the year)

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Silly corn mazes and great haunted houses

Where some of us met our (then) future spouses

Kids trick-or-treating and zombies and things

Just a few fun things that this season brings

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Spooky Season

Is the reason

That my Pam is here

And that's why I love that fall nip in the air

And wait for it eeeeeeee-v'ry yeeeeeear!

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Ok. Here's the challenge that started it, and It's a fun one that you should enter:

And here's Kelli's awesome poem for the season:

And finally, here's a video of the song, on the off chance that you don't know the tune:

Thanks for reading, folks! Warning: More weirdness is highly likely!