Camp Grenada

"Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter from Camp)" is a Grammy Award-winning novelty song by Allan Sherman and Lou Busch, based on letters of complaint Allan received from his son Robert while Robert attended Camp Champlain in Westport, New York. The song is a parody that complains about the fictional "Camp Granada" and is set to the tune of Amilcare Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours". The name derives from the first lines: 

Hello Muddah,
Hello Fadduh.
Here I am at
Camp Granada.
Camp is very
entertaining.
And they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining.

The lyrics go on to describe more and more strange and weird incidents, including campers being lost and never found again, and an incident of food poisoning. At the end of the letter, once the rain stops and the kid can go outside, he tells his father to forget everything he said, implying he was wildly exaggerating everything in order to go home or as a release from boredom in not being able to go out during the rain.

After the song scored #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 list for three weeks beginning August 24, 1963, Sherman wrote a new 'back at Camp Granada' version, "Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh!", for a May 27, 1964 performance on the The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Sherman wrote a third version for, and acted in, a 1965 TV commercial for a board game about Camp Granada, a "real rotten camp".[3]

The song won a 1964 Grammy Award for comedy. The song has been played numerous times on the Dr. Demento Show and is featured on the Rhino Records compilation album, Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection. Variations of the song include translations in Swedish ("Brev från kolonien" by Cornelis Vreeswijk), Finnish and Norwegian ("Brev fra leier'n" by Birgit Strøm).
The Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh! (note the slightly different spellings of the names of the original song, the 1964 song, the musical revue, and the book) musical revue develops the song as the life story of Barry Bockman and Sarah Jackman through birth, school, summer camp, marriage, and parenthood in suburban New York to Florida retirement. Songs include the title song, "Harvey and Sheila" (with the melody of Hava Nagila), and "Glory, Glory Harry Lewis" (with the melody of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic").

and here is Lyric of Camp Grenada

Hello muddah, hello faddah
Here I am at Camp Granada
Camp is very entertaining
And they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining.

I went hiking with Joe Spivy
He developed poison ivy
You remember Leonard Skinner
He got ptomaine poisoning last night after dinner.

Take me home, oh muddah, faddah
Take me home, I hate Granada
Don't leave me out in the forest where
I might get eaten by a bear.

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.

How I don't want this should scare ya
But my bunkmate has malaria
You remember Jeffrey Hardy
They're about to organize a searching party.

Take me home...I promise I will not make noise
Or mess the house with other boys.
Oh please don't make me stay
I've been here one whole day.

Dearest faddah, 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 better
Muddah, faddah kindly disregard this letter.

Note: The order of the verses has been changed to better fit with the music, but there is still an extra verse at the end of the midi. Therefore, you might find it easier to learn the tune, and then sing the song without the music playing. Attributed to Alan Sherman