This is the closing number for the show, Casablanca The Musical:
Casablanca The Musical by Magnolia Thunderpussy, Actor’s Workshop, 18 September 2001
Not the most politically correct lyrics I have ever written, but Mike Ward especially loves the final verse. Personally, I especially like the couplet:
When you hear the camels farting eight to the bar,
Then you know that Upper Volta ain’t very far;
Anyway, it’s not really about what I like (or what Mike likes)…the number does seem to go down well to close that show. Here are all the lyrics:
THE OUAGADOUGOU CHOO CHOO
(Song to the Tune of “The Chatanooga Choo Choo”)
INTRO
Camel Trains, What’ja say?
Flee Casablanca any day;
Bend an ear and listen to my version,
Of a really whacky African excursion.
CHORUS
PASSENGER: Pardon me, boy,
Is that the Ouagadougou Choo Choo?
MOROCCAN: Track double-o,
There’s just the one place we go;
Can you afford, to board, the Ouagadougou Choo Choo?
PASSENGER: Say fifty francs?
MOROCCAN: Last price, sixty…..
PASSENGER: …..s’a’deal, thanks.
MIDDLE EIGHT 2
You get to Essouira station about quarter to two,
In another week or so you’re in Timbuktu;
Before you get that far, a,
Pit stop in Zagora,
Then you eat your cous cous while in Western Sahara.
When you hear the camels farting eight to the bar,
Then you know that Upper Volta ain’t very far;
One last stop in Kaya,
To get a little higher,
Woo-woo Ouagadougou there you are.
OUTRO
There’s gonna be,
A welcome party at the station;
All tits and spears,
They think their dinner’s appeared.
I’m gonna cry,
Unless we shift our arses we’ll be toast,
So Casablanca Choo Choo, take me back to the coast!!!
Here is a vid with Glenn Miller, his orchestra and his entourage performing Chattanooga Choo Choo: