HELLO MUDDAH,  HELLO FADDAH     Here I am in Camp Granada!

MR. SPACEMAN   

ITSA BITSA TOOTSA LA    Look at this wild collection of space aliens.

BO  DIDDLEY    Words from a child's lullaby begin to Rock!

GOOD PEANUTS    Impossible to sing!

JOHNNY B GOODE    Rhythm n' Blues music grows into Rock n' Roll in this Chuck Berry classic.

ONCE AN AUSTRIAN    Went yodeling.

BOOGIE WOOGIE BUGLE BOY  Swinging patriotism from World War II

A PROPER COPPER COFFEE POT 

    A proper copper tongue twister.

A RIPPING TRIP    A troubled voyage to California in the 1800's

HOT HOT HOT!      From the Caribbean.

THE CAT CAME BACK   This tune started in the 1920's and every generation has added some catastrophe, but the cat....

A HORSE NAMED BILL    A rambling song seemingly going nowhere.

ONE EYED ONE HORNED FLYING PURPLE PEOPLE EATER

WHAT DID DELAWARE?     Della where?

OBLADI OBLADA    A Beatles happy song.

THE THING    I discovered a   X...XX!

REUBEN, REUBEN    Love?

THE CRAWDAD HOLE   What is a crayfish?    Here is a website with many pictures:   The Crayfish Burrow.  Click it to see. 

SOLDIER, SOLDIER      An old somebody done somebody wrong song.

ONE BOTTLE POP    A Classical parody.

EVERYBODY LOVES SATURDAY NIGHT      The song started in the Caribbean Islands and went everywhere.

THERE'S A HOLE IN THE BUCKET    The girls win again.

DAY OH! THE BANANA BOAT LOADER'S SONG      This Caribbean work song evolved into a party, dance song.

THROW IT OUT THE WINDOW    "With a heave and a ho!" this tune combines a sailor song, Mother Goose and Polly Wolly Doodle.

MRS. MURPHY'S CHOWDER    A humorous, sentimental look at the hard times endured by  Irish people during the "Great Potato Famine."

O'RILEY IS DEAD     Like "Mrs Murphy's Chowder," this song makes light of the hard times suffered by the Irish. Humorous satires are often made by the very people who's troubles are being poked fun at.

TITANIC    It was sad! A chilly satire.

THE ENGINEER'S TITANIC    A variation collected and corrected by Stephen Suffet  - full of technical perplexity.

POLLY WOLLY DOODLE

The Cajun People of Louisiana are descendants of French Canadians. They evolved into a unique culture whose cooking and music is popular today.  Notice how this Cajun style called Zydeco sounds like the beginnings of Rock and Roll.  It is.

I'M A LITTLE PIECE OF TIN

Sing it and play it faster and faster as the metal gets heavier and heavier.

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I'M A LITTLE STRIPED SKUNK

Make up an absurd poem and send it in.

I'M A NUT

More absurdity.

FATHER'S WHISKERS  

They're always in the way.     It's a familiar tune.  What other songs have the same melody?  The rhythm follows a limerick pattern.   Recite a limerick to the music and we've got  a new song.