Hello Mudda!  Hello Fadda!

(to the tune of "Dance Of The Hours")

Words & Music:

Allan Sherman & Amilcare Ponchielli

 

D   A7   D   F#m   G   D   A7   D

 

       A               E7                             A

Hello, Muddah.  Hello, Faddah.  Here I am at Camp Grenada.

        C#m       D                                                    E7

Camp is very entertaining and they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining.

       A               E7                          A

I went hiking with Joe Spivey; he developed poison ivy.

      C#m            D               A                  E7               A

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.

 

Now I don't want this should scare ya' but my bunkmate has malaria.

You remember Jeffery Hardy; they're about to organize a searching party.

 

BRIDGE:

Am      Em                         Am      Em

Take me home, oh, Muddah, Faddah.  Take me home, I hate Grenada.

C     F     C      Am            F                 Am         E

Don't leave me out in the forest where I might get eaten by a bear.

Am      Em                      Am       Em       C                    F     C

Take me home - I promise I will not make noise, or mess the house with other boys.

    C                    F                     C         E7

Oh, please don't make me stay - I've been here one whole day.

 

Dearest Fadduh, 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.  Guys are swimming, Guys are sailing.

Playing baseball, gee that's bettah - Muddah, Faddah kindly disregard this letter.