Lyrics transcribed from the sound file at http://www.geocities.com/u2page5/

CAMP RUNAMUCK
(Howard Greenfield, Jack Keller)

CHORUS: Oh, Runamuck, there's summer fun
In Runamuck, but we have none
In Runamuck, 'cause in Runamuck, only couns'lors have the fun.
Oh, Runamuck, we're out o' luck
In Runamuck, 'cause we've been stuck
In Runamuck, Runamuck, Runamuck, till the summer's done.

On the lake of Wannatonka there's a camp called Runamuck,
And to our misfortune we're the campers who got stuck.
The food tastes just like poison and the pollen makes us sneeze,
While day and night, mosquitoes bite our elbows and our knees. CHORUS

All the couns'lors think we're sleepin' but we're really wide awake.
We hear them canoein' to the girls across the lake.
We would like to follow but the chance is purty slim.
What can we do? There's one canoe an' none of us can swim.

[On the final chorus, Homer sings the words shown above while Jethro sings the following lines as counterpoint:]
Oh, Runamuck! We will be true.
Though it hurts, we're gonna see it through.
Oh, we will raise your colors high,
But they forgot to tell us why.

[As recorded by Homer & Jethro on "The Old Crusty Minstrels," 1965. This is not a parody. The words and music are as written by Greenfield and Keller for the US TV sitcom "Camp Runamuck," 1964-65 (also shown on BBC1 on Saturday mornings, 1975). Only the tune without words-and not performed by H&J-was actually used on the show.]