He was smiling through his own personal hell   Dropped his last dime down a wishing well   But he was hoping too close   And then he fell   Now he’s Casper the friendly ghost         He was always polite to the people who’d tell him   That he was nothing but a lazy bum   But goodbye to them he had to go   Now he’s Casper the friendly ghost         Nobody treated him nice   While he was alive   You can’t buy no respect   Like the librarian said   But everybody respects the dead   They love the friendly ghost            And we’ll never forget   What he learned us   We were mean to him   But he never burnt us   And love lives forever   Thank you, Casper the friendly ghost    Thank you, Casper the friendly ghost