Hello everyone,

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Below is a ribald Jewish camp song titled (from first line):  "By the Shore of Lake Salakus" (recording)

                 1.  Do you sing this song? 
                 2.  If yes, when and where did you learn it?
                 3.  Would you be willing to sing it for folklore purposes over the phone? 

Any help is appreciated.

Sincerely,

John Mehlberg
john@mehlberg.com
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Phone:  +1.314.558.0137
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BY THE SHORE OF LAKE SALAKUS  (recording)
(Title from first line of song)

By the shore of lake Salakus
Where there grows the creeping moss
Lives the tribe of god-samacus(?)
How dacaca is the boss

Aye, aye, iddy iddy boom boom
Iddy iddy boom boom,
Aye aye

Then one day this Indian chieftain
Caught a squaw instead of bass
He had all the young braves thinking
Boy that chiefy got a piece of...

Aye, aye, iddy iddy boom boom
Iddy iddy boom boom,
Aye aye

Nine month later came the baby
Oy, what mosel(?), oy what luck
They had all the young braves thinking
Boy that chieftain sure can...

Aye, aye, iddy iddy boom boom
Iddy iddy boom boom,
Aye aye

Now by the shore of lake Salakus
No more pheasant, no more duck
No more hunting, no more fishing
All-they-do-all-day-is-fuck.

Notes:   This is from the field recording of an anonymous Jewish writer-editor in a second tier city in the Midwest.  This was recorded on 15 March 2005.  He learned this at a Jewish camp in the Adirondacks in upstate New York in the late 1950s.  Other songs by this man can be found here.