Maybe someone from New York can correct the phonetically spelled "Aneekanike."

Can't find anything on the map that resembles what it sounds like.


THE BATTLE OF CAMP KOOKAMONGA
Recorded by Homer & Jethro
Words and music by Jimmy Driftwood & J. J. Reynolds

In nineteen and fifty-nine, we took a little hike
With our scoutmaster down to Lake Aneekanike(?).
We took a little pizza and we took some sauerkrauts,
And we marched along together till we heard the Girl Scouts.

1ST CHORUS: We're the boys from Camp Kookamonga.
Our mothers sent us here for to study nature's ways.
We learned to make sparks by rubbin' sticks together,
But if we catch the girls, then we'll set the woods ablaze.

SPOKEN: And I was mad 'cause me mother sent me up here! Hah! Hah! Hah! Hah!

Well, we crept up to the water and we see'd the girls a-swimmin'.
There musta been a hunderd of 'em, purty young women.
They looked so fine, even birds forgot to sing.
We laid down in the poison oak and didn't say a thing. CHORUS

SPOKEN: Hey, will one of you fellers scratch my back?

Well, our counselor said we could take 'em by surprise
If we didn't say a word till we looked 'em in the eyes.
We kept real still and we had our eyes a-glued.
We saw how they were dressed. They were swimmin' in the—well, now... CHORUS

2ND CHORUS: Well they ran through the briars and they ran through the brambles
And they ran through the bushes where a rabbit couldn't go.
They ran so fast even we couldn't catch 'em,
From Lake Aneekanike(?) all the way to Buffalo.

SPOKEN: Hey, fellers, wait for me!

Well, we ran right after them till ev'ryone was pooped,
So we rested for a minute and our forces we regrouped.
Then we saw the girls behind some evergreens
Captured by a company of United States Marines. CHORUS

SPOKEN: Aw, them big guys get ever'thing! 2ND CHORUS

A rootie-toot-toot. (A rootie-toot-toot.)
We are the boys from the Boy Scout troop.
We don't smoke and we don't chew,
And we don't go with the girls that do.

Whooie! (HOOTIN' & HOLLERIN' & FADE)

See the original BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS posted in another thread. –JoeClone, 13-May-2008.