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DJ
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DJ asked in Entertainment & MusicPolls & Surveys · 1 decade ago

Anyone remember this camp song?

We learned this in camp when I was like 10. Don't ask me how I remember:

"As I was walking down the street one dark and dreary day,

I came upon a billboard, and much to my dismay,

The sign was torn and tattered, from when it stormed the night

before.

The wind and rain had done it's job and this is what I saw:

Smooooke Coca-Cola Cigarettes.

Chew Wrigley's Spear-a-mint Beer.

Ken-L-Ration dog food makes your wife's completion clear

Simonize your baby, with a Hershey's candy bar.

And Texaco's a beauty cream that's used by all the stars.

So, take your next vacation in a brand new Frigidaire.

Learn to play the piano, in your grandma's underwear.

Doctors say that babies, should smoke 'til they are three.

And people over 65 should bathe in Lipton tea...with flow-thru

teabaaaaaaags!"

Update:

Lol! It must have been something in the food...or the campfires.

Update 2:

To Nobody...That was pretty good. I never knew there was a different version of it. And I went to summer camp in Pennsylvania.

Update 3:

To firespider....Kumbaya was the other one I remember, but not all the words. Probably because it was so slow and it was the last song we did before ending the night.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    I remember the camp song words differently. It may be a result of changes in the words over the years. Maybe is because we are from different regions. I am in Michigan, do not know where you are from.

    As I was walking down the street

    A billboard caught my eye

    and what was on that billboard will make you laugh and cry

    The wind and rain had come that day and washed it half away

    And what was on that billboard was what i have to say

    Come smoke a Coca-Cola

    Drink Ketchup cigarettes

    See Lillian Russell wrestle with a box of oysterettes

    Meet pork and beans tonight in their final fight

    and John Browns lecture on polio right

    Simonize your baby, with Hershey's candy bars

    And Texaco's a beauty cream that's used by all the stars

    Bay rum is good for horses

    It is the best in town

    Castor oil cures the measles pay five dollars down

    Teeth extracted without pain for a half a dime

    Big bens are selling now a little out of time

    Doctors say that babies, should smoke 'til they are three.

    And people over 65 should bathe in Lipton tea

    With flow-thru teabags

    Cause everything they have sags

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    God reported to Noah: "construct me an Arky-Arky" Animals got here down in onesies and twosies twosies Elephants and kangaroosies roosies. it truly is all i recognize... they taught us that music in a public kindergarten... I by no ability theory about how unusual that become till basically now...

  • 1 decade ago

    Lol! Never heard of that one. Beat's the heck out of kumba ya though!

  • 1 decade ago

    Nope... what were you smoking at the time...lol

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    nope lol

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    lol No I don't remember this song..

  • 1 decade ago

    what? no...never heard that one!

  • 1 decade ago

    uh... no

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