(Extra, extra, read all about it!)



They found another victim but she's barely alive

(Murder! Murder!)

She must have known who done it but she didn't survive

(Murder! Murder!)

There might have been a dozen, but they think there's only two

(Murder! Murder! Read all about it!)

They might have spoken Russian but we haven't got a clue



Murder, murder, in the Rue Morgue!

Murder, murder!

Murder, murder, in the Rue Morgue!

Murder, murder!



They didn't force the windows and they didn't break the doors

(Murder! Murder!)

There's blood upon the celing and a razor on the floor

(Murder! Murder!)

Somebody heard an argument, somebody heard a crash

(Murder! Murder!)

They didn't touch the jewelry, they didn't steal the cash

They broke up all the funiture, smash smash smash!



Murder, murder, in the Rue Morgue!

Murder, murder!

Murder, murder, in the Rue Morgue!

Murder, murder!



By a process of deduction I have come to the conclusion

The crime is not committed, and the murder an illusion

The body's a reality and not destroyed by spirits

But whatever must have happened, it was over in minutes



Police have got a problem, they don't know where to look

They need to find a suspect to get them off the hook

Although it's plainly obvious, they cannot understand

That the criminal was no ordinary man

The perpetrator just slipped through their hands



They found the mother lying in the middle of the room

(Ghastly! Murder!)

The daughter in the chimney stack stuck up like a broom

(Murder! Murder!)

The police are getting nowhere, they don't know what to do

(Murder! Murder!)

They even asked a psychic, but nothing's coming through



Murder, murder, in the Rue Morgue!

Murder, murder!

Murder, murder, in the Rue Morgue!

Murder, murder!



They might be still in hiding, they might be on the run

(Murder! Murder!)

They're trying to find the motive but they've only just begun

(Murder! Murder!)

They've guarded off the neighborhood, no one can get through

(Murder! Murder!)

They haven't found a footprint, they haven't found a shoe

They're all completely baffled, it's a fine how-to-do!



Murder, murder, in the Rue Morgue!

Murder, murder!

Murder, murder, in the Rue Morgue!

Murder, murder!



By the clarity of reason I have come to my decision

Though the facts are unequivocal, they tend to blur the vision

An exit was impossible, the lock had not been fiddled

Though the motive was invisible, the riddle was unriddled



In light of comprehension by a process of deduction

We eliminate impossible and end up with instruction

For, sure as my name is Auguste Dupin

The criminal was an orangutan



The animal escaped from the clutches of its master

Who chased him through the town, but the animal was faster

He got in through a window, quite how, it doesn't matter

Then it found an open razor and alarmed them with a clatter



The ladies must have screamed in their terror and their dread

And it flailed its arms--slash, slash, slash--they were dead!

But the fingerprint it left was by no human hand

For the murderer was an orangutan

Yes the muderer was an orangutan!



Murder, murder, in the Rue Morgue!

Murder, murder!

Murder, murder, in the Rue Morgue!

Murder, murder!



With every possibility the police are off the hook

(Murder! Murder!)

They couldn't solve the mystery, they want to close the book

(Murder! Murder!)

It might be still in hiding or it might be on the run

(Murder! Murder!)

But then they caught a suspect, their found was nearly done

They thought it was all over then they find another one!



Murder, murder, in the Rue Morgue!

Murder, murder!

Murder, murder, in the Rue Morgue!

Murder, murder!



Murder, murder, in the Rue Morgue!