Bugs Go Wild, Simply Wild, Over Me

DESCRIPTION: "Bugs go wild, simply wild, over me, I'm referring to bedbugs and the fleas." The singer refers to all the insects and arachnids that show up (in camp?): Daddy-long-legs in his clothes, ands, mosquitos, etc.
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1927 (Harbin-Parodology)
KEYWORDS: bug hardtimes derivative campsong
FOUND IN: US
REFERENCES (3 citations):
Pankake/Pankake-PrairieHomeCompanionFolkSongBook, p. 154, "Bugs Go Wild, Simply Wild, Over Me" (1 text, tune referenced)
Harbin-Parodology, #249, p. 61, "They Go Wild" (1 text, tune referenced)
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, p. 96, "The Bugs Go Wild Over Me" (notes only)
Roud #15687
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "They Go Wild, Simply Wild, Over Me" (tune)
NOTES [25 words]: The source song, "They Go Wild, Simply Wild, Over Me," words by Joe Goodwin, music by Fred Fisher, was published in 1916 and became a hit in 1917. - RBW
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