Presumably based on the success of "Pirates of the Caribbean", in 2003 Disney released a film called "The Haunted Mansion". It starred Eddie Murphy, and like pretty much every movie starring Eddie Murphy that has been released this century, it was... not good.
As not good as the film was, there was one redeeming thing about it, and that was the "The Haunted Mansion Haunted Hits" CD that was released alongside it. Containing songs like "Somebody's Watching Me", "Dead Man's Party", "Man With The Hex", a perfectly competent Barenaked Ladies cover of "Grim, Grinning Ghosts", and today's song: Suzanne Vega's "Tombstone" (not her actual tombstone, to my knowledge she is quite alive as of this writing).
Maybe not something you can dance to, but it's another good song to throw on the playlist for when trick or treaters are roaming about:
Here is a faster-paced, more guitar heavy live verson:
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