We Are Table Number One

DESCRIPTION: "We are table number one, number one, number one. We are table number one, where is number two?" And so forth, for higher numbers. Text may instead be "We are table one, we are table one, We are table one, And the fun has just begun"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1927 (Harbin-Parodology)
KEYWORDS: nonballad campsong
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Harbin-Parodology, #274, p. 67, "We Are Table One"
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, pp. 285, 292, "We Are Table Number One"/"This Is Table Number One" (notes only)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "We Won't Go Home Until Morning" (tune, according to Harbin-Parodology)
NOTES [47 words]: Apparently this was a sort of a chanting game: One table of campers would start pounding the table and reciting this, then another would start pounding as "We are table number two... where is number three?" And continue until every table that wanted to make noise had done so. - RBW
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