I am not sure of this, but I think that I may have become an important part of the fabled Folk Process.
Many many years ago, I worked in a Boy Scout Camp in North Central Washington called Camp Bonapart. I was a teenager teaching environmental studies to kids, some only a few years or months younger than me, out of my sophmore Biology text book.
One of the things that I did do well, though, was lead camp songs. I brought a golf tube to camp one year because I was able to use it as a digeredoo and make obnoxious WAHH WOO WAHH WOO WAHH WOO WAHH WOO WAHH WOO WAHH WOO noises. I thought, "in honor of this packing decision, that I should sing an appropriate song for the campers."
The song that I chose was an old novelty song, the kind that you might hear on an oldies station if the DJ is actually old enough to have been around when the music that he plays was popular (which, by the way, is rare) or if he is drunk. So every campfire, and occasionally at the morning flag ceremony I would get eveyone singing "Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport."
The other day, I happened to find "The Official Camp Brinkley Songbook Online" . It was put together, on a side note, by Ray, a guy with whom I went to highschool.
The book was compiled in 1999. I had been a camp councilor singing Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport 2 years earlier at a camp some 240 miles from Brinkley.
Now, maybe this means that I don't have an original fucking thought in my head. The Scaffold's novelty classic, "Lilly the Pink," a song loosley based around the heavily alcoholic vegtable compound that Lydia Pinkum created to cure "women's issues" has been a camp song for years. Why wouldn't every other old novelty song from Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikinni to The Blob be camp songs eventually, right?
Still, I really do think that I brought that song in to the scouting community. I bet that under and overweight kids with bad skin and glasses all over the country are singing that stupid novelty song because of me.