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 SongThe 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.
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!
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:The Reservation Song
-Joe Offer-[Background singers chant "Um Pa, Um Pa, Um Pa..."]
Killy, Killy, Killy, Killy, Watch, Watch, Watch, Watch,
Kay You Killy Come Cah Wah.
Killy, Killy, Killy, Killy, Watch, Watch, Watch, Watch,
Kay You Killy Come Cah Wah.
Hail Reservation, Reservation, Polly Wah
Hail Reservation, Reservation, Polly Wah[Those singing the words return to chanting "Um Pa", and everyone then fades out.]