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WALLA WALLA WASH

I don't suppose anyone remembers Walt Kelly's Pogo.

Well, some of you do.

Every year, at the holiday time, the Pogonians would sing their own version of Christmas Carols.

So did we. A bunch of us would run around to college holiday events and sing them raucously (the only way).

Here, for example, is Churchy La Femme's unique version of

"Good King Sauerkraut, look out! On your feets uneven..."

More famously, the Fa La La La La song, thusly (sorry about the 6 verses but he added new ones each year):

Deck us all with Boston Charlie,
Walla Walla, Wash., an' Kalamazoo!
Nora's freezin' on the trolley,
Swaller dollar cauliflower alley-garoo!

Don't we know archaic barrel
Lullaby Lilla Boy, Louisville Lou?
Trolley Molly don't love Harold,
Boola boola Pensacoola hullabaloo!

Bark us all bow-wows of folly,
Polly wolly cracker 'n' too-da-loo!
Donkey Bonny brays a carol,
Antelope Cantaloupe, 'lope with you!

Hunky Dory's pop is lolly gaggin' on the wagon,
Willy, folly go through!
Chollie's collie barks at Barrow,
Harum scarum five alarm bung-a-loo!

Dunk us all in bowls of barley,
Hinky dinky dink an' polly voo!
Chilly Filly's name is Chollie,
Chollie Filly's jolly chilly view halloo!

Bark us all bow-wows of folly,
Double-bubble, toyland trouble! Woof, woof, woof!
Tizzy seas on melon collie!
Dibble-dabble, scribble-scrabble! Goof, goof, goof!