Camp Granada
(Alan Sherman)
Try to read this letter from a homesick kid
at summer camp following the Classical music.
Hello Muddah, hello Faddah
Here I am at Camp Granada.
Camp is very entertaining
And they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining.
I went hiking with Joe Spivy.
He developed poison ivy.
You remember Leonard Skinner.
He got ptomaine poisoning last night after dinner.
All the counselors hate the waiters
And the lake has alligators,
And the head coach wants no sissies.
So he reads to us from something called Ulysses.
How I don't want this should scare ya,
But my bunkmate has malaria.
You remember Jeffrey Hardy?
They're about to organize a searching party.
Take me home, oh
Muddah, Faddah.
Take me home,
I hate Granada.
Don't leave me out
in the forest where
I might get eaten by a bear.
Take me home I promise I will not make noise
Or mess the house with other boys.
Oh please don't make me stay.
I've been here one whole day.
Dearest Faddah, darling
Muddah,
How's my precious little bruddah?
Let me come home, if you miss me,
I would even let Aunt Bertha hug and kiss me.
Wait a minute, it's stopped hailing.
Kids are swimming,
kids are sailing,
Playing baseball, gee that's better.
Muddah, Faddah kindly disregard this letter.
The music is from, "Dance of The Hours" by Amilcare Ponchielli.
Alan Sherman made a parody of the music. That is a humorous variation using the original form. Which hour of the day does the original music suggest? What kind of dance do you visualize?
Press the button to hear the original music.
Walt Disney used the music in the movie, Fantasia
with Ballet dancing hippos.
Is that a parody?
John-patrick Yeiser 
musiclegacy.com