Song Remembered

[BOXoROCKS]

Do any of you guys remember the song"Battle of New Orleans"..well I just did a re-enactment of the part where they.."ran thru the briars and they ran thru the brambles,and they ran thru the bushes where the rabbits wouldn't go"....I had a DEAD 77 MGB out back,4 flats,rusted locked brakes,froze up kingpins.Enter stage left a Dodge V8 truck, a chain and a slight bit of RAGE because the tires wouldn't hold air.Chain hooked to the leaf,car at a 90 degree,my path a one lane cut thru the brush,....STOMP on the loud pedal,rooster tail the sod,exhaust breaks and becomes a 1 bottom plow.The car decides to jump my wake,and drop a ski.1 lane now becomes a small garden row.The car shoots off at a right angle and becomes a brush/tree hog.The only thing missing was me waving my hat like Slim Pickens riding the bomb on the way to glory.


PS....any body need some slightly used MGB parts,.....NO SHEETMETAL available.

 

[Nunyas]

lol! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/lol.gif

funny story /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

I remember the song well. Me old man use to play it every Sunday morning during breakfast /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif

"... they ran so fast the hounds couldn't catch'm, down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexicooooooo!"

 

[Mickey Richaud]

"...and when we touched the powder off, the gator blew his mind..."

 

[Ralph_Y]

I still play that song on the fiddle to this day - at least weekly!

 

[Guest]

Yea, that was Johny Horton. How about Homer and Jethro's version?


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Artist: Homer And Jethro
Song: The Battle Of Kookamonga
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The Battle of Kookamonga
By: Homer and Jethro
Sung to: The battle of 1814 (The battle of New Orleans)

[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.

 

[Mickey Richaud]

BEST ever version is Doug Kershaw's. Hands down! /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/hammer.gif

Here's one of his live offerings - starts a little over a minute into it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUkx3zqtm_s

 

[BOXoROCKS]

I'm deeply sorry for all this....

 

[Mickey Richaud]

I'm not - great memories!