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Thread #9065   Message #58323
Posted By: Joe Offer
12-Feb-99 - 01:39 PM
Thread Name: Lyr ADD: Ging Gang Goolie (Robert Baden-Powell ??)
Subject: ADD: Killy Watch Watch Song (camp song)
Hey, I know that one. Don't know the original, though. When I learned it, it was the song of Camp Chippecotton, the camp of the Racine County Council of the Boy Scouts in southeastern Wisconsin. I was there the last year the camp was open, about 1960, I think.
The Killy Watch Watch Song

Killy killy killy, watch watch watch watch,
Kay you killy koom ka-wa
Killy killy killy, watch watch watch watch,
Kay you killy koom ka-wa
Hail, Chippecotton, Chippecotton polly-wah!
Hail, Chippecotton, Chippecotton polly-wah!
The council closed the camp that year and opened the Robert S. Lyle Scout Reservation on the Wolf River in northern Wisconsin. Not as nice a name, but a much nicer camp in the wilderness. Now the Racine County Council is no more - absorbed by Milwaukee, I think.
Still, I've always wondered about the killy watch watch songs - are words in the message above the complete words for the original?

Apparently, Detroit's Charles Howell Scout Reservation near Brighton had the same song: -Joe Offer-