Also recorded by the Chordettes, Doug Kershaw, Tex Williams, Derek Warfield, Boots Randolph, Pete Seeger & Frank Hamilton, Leon Russell,the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Billy Strange, the Good Brothers, and a host of others not to mention Jimmy Driftwood. Also was a hit of sorts for Homer and Jethro as the Battle of Kookamonga.

Jimmy also wrote "Long Chain On", which I consider his best song, that was recorded by Peter, Paul, and Mary and on a more recent recording by Peter and his daughter Bethany and her duo partner Rufus. Again, my opinion, but that version is one of the best recordings of all time and ages.


The Battle of Kookamonga
By: Homer and Jethro


[G]In Nineteen and fifty nine we[C] took a little hike, With[D7] our scout
master up to[G] lake Aneekanike,
We took a little pizza and we [C]took some sour krauts, And[D7] we marched
along together till we [G]heard the girl scouts

Chorus: We're the boys from camp Kookamonga, our mothers sent us here for
to[D7] study natures[G] ways,
We learned to make sparks by rubbin' sticks together, but if we catch the
girls we'll [D7]set the woods [G]ablaze.

Well we crept up to the water and we[C] see'd the girls aswimin', there[D7]
must of been a hundred of them [G]pretty young women,
They looked so fine even[C] birds forgot to sing, we[D7] laid down in the
posion oak and[G] didn't say a thing.

Chorus:

Well our counciler said we could [C]take em by surprise if we[D7] didn't say
a word till we[ ]Glooked em in the eyes,
We kept real still and we[C] kept our eyes aglued, we [D7]saw how they were
dressed, they were[G] smimming in the....Well we're

Chorus:

Chorus 2: Well they ran through the briars and they ran through the
brambles and they ran throught the bushes where the [D7]rabbits couldn't
[G]go.
They ran so fast even we couldn't catch em all the way from Lake Aneekanike
[D7] all the way to Buff[G]alo.

Well we ran right after them till[C] everyone was pooped, so we [D7]rested
for a minute and our[G] forces we regrouped
Then we saw the girls[C] behind some evergreens, [D7]captured by a company
of [G]United States Marines.

Chorus:
Chorus 2:
(in cadence) Rutty toot toot, rooty toot toot, we are the boys from the boy
scout troop,
We do smoke and we don't chew and we don't go with the girls that do.