Kamp Krusty Theme Song is the anthem of the summer camp of the same name in the episode of the same name. The music was written by Alf Clausen, and the lyrics collectively by Al Jean, Jay Kogen, Mike Reiss, and Wallace Wolodarsky. The song has two versions: the original version heard on the show, that also appears as the thirty-third track on the album Go Simpsonic with The Simpsons; and the other with more lyrics and changes in style and tempo, otherwise known as Hail to Thee, Kamp Krusty, that also appears as the tenth track on The Yellow Album. The song returned in the Season 28 episode Kamp Krustier, except it's only the first line of the chorus
("Hail to thee, Kamp Krusty re-recorded by at least one character").
Lyrics[]
Original version[]
- Counselor:
- All right, you balls of pan drippings! I wanna see Crisco coming outta those pores! We're not leaving until this christmas "HAM" gives me a pull-up!
- Campers:
- Hail to thee, Kamp Krusty,
- By the shores of Big Snake Lake.
- Though your swings are rusty,
- We know they'll never break.
- Kearney:
- LOUDER! FASTER!
- Campers:
- From your gleaming mess hall (over the scene of Lisa eating Krusty Brand Imitiation Gruel, and a frog pops out of her bowl)
- To your hallowed baseball field (over the scene of Bart running to catch a pop fly and falling into a ditch)
- To your spic 'n' spam infirmary
- Where all our wounds are healed. (over the scene of a nurse using a kid's cast to light her cigarette and blowing smoke in his face)
- Hail to thee, Kamp Krusty, (over the scene of Bart, Lisa, and Milhouse running down a hill...)
- Below Mt. Avalanche. (...just as several rocks and a boulder roll down after them)
- (back at the stage with the singing children)
- We will always love Kamp Krusty...
- "A registered trademark of the Krusty Korporation, all rights reserved!" (a slight creak can be heard, followed by the bleachers collapsing and everyone falling)
Yellow Album version[]
- (Spoken intro)
- Krusty:
- Hi, everybody! I'm Krusty the Clown! (goofy laugh) And I'd like to welcome the parents and/or the closest living relative to Kamp Krusty on Parents and/or the Closest Living Relative Day! We're gonna begin by singing the Kamp Krusty Song and then later, as a treat, some of the specially selected campers (ones who can sing) will sing it in their own special way. Take it away, maestro! (goofy laugh)
- (And now, the song!)
- Krusty and Campers:
- Hail to thee, Kamp Krusty,
- By the shores of Big Snake Lake.
- Though your swings are rusty,
- We know they'll never break.
- From your gleaming mess hall
- To your hallowed baseball field
- And your spic 'n' span infirmary
- Where all our wounds are healed.
- Hail to thee, Kamp Krusty,
- Below Mt. Avalanche.
- We will always love Kamp Krusty...
- Bart:
- Let's rock this party! Come on, Otto Mann!
- (the song switches to the riffs of Jimi Hendrix's song "Purple Haze")
- Otto:
- YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Heh-heh-heh! Yeah! Woah!
- Hail to thee, Kamp Krusty,
- I'm the transportation dude.
- I got the gig when they saw my sign,
- It said, "I will work for food!"
- So, hail! Yeah, hail! Alright, hail!
- Take it away, little Lisa.
- (the song switches to a jazz version)
- Lisa:
- Hail to thee, Kamp Krusty,
- With your frequent moose attacks.
- There are skunks in half the bunks
- But at least I've got my sax.
- And I'd like to play.
- (plays saxophone)
- Okay, Martin, dazzle 'em.
- (the song becomes a Baroque-esque song with a harpsichord playing)
- Martin Prince:
- A pox on thee, Kamp Krusty!
- I came here to lose weight!
- O fate most cruel, they fed me gruel
- And stuff that looks like bait.
- (gasps)
- And a pox on thee, Clown Krusty!
- Your behavior gives us pause.
- Your heart is hard, you have no regard
- For the state's child labor laws!
- A pox on thee, Kamp Krusty!
- We are yearning to be free!
- We will ne'er return to Krusty!
- Bart:
- Aw, put a lid on it, Martin, let's rock this camp!
- (the song becomes a rock song)
- "I HATE IT!"
- Campers:
- "KAMP KRUSTY!!"
- Bart:
- "CAN'T STAND IT!"
- Campers:
- "KAMP KRUSTY!!"
- Bart:
- "LET'S BURN IT!"
- Campers:
- "KAMP KRUSTY!!"
- Bart:
- "LET'S FRY IT!"
- Campers:
- "KAMP KRUSTY!!"
- Bart:
- "DON'T TRY IT!"
- Campers:
- "KAMP KRUSTY!!"
- Bart:
- "ELECTROCUTE IT!"
- Campers:
- "KAMP KRUSTY!!"
- Bart:
- "LET'S DO IT!"
- Campers:
- "KAMP KRUSTY!!"
- Bart:
- "ANNIHILATE IT!"
- Campers:
- "KAMP KRUSTY!!"
- Bart:
- "REGURGITATE IT!"
- Campers:
- "KAMP KRUSTY!!"
- Bart:
- "REFUTE IT!"
- Campers:
- "KAMP KRUSTY!!"
- Bart:
- "THEN BOOT IT!"
- Campers:
- "KAMP KRUSTY!!"
- Bart:
- "I HATE IT!"
- Campers:
- "KAMP KRUSTY!!"
- Bart:
- "CAN'T STAND IT!"
- Campers:
- "KAMP KRUSTY!!"
- Bart:
- "DISBAND IT!"
- Campers:
- "KAMP KRUSTY!!"
- (guitar solo until song fades)
Trivia[]
- On the Yellow Album, Homer, Marge, Apu, and Patty and Selma don't sing it, but Krusty, Otto, Lisa, Martin, and Bart do.