# anyone know what this song is?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 4, 2003, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-this-song-is/158991 "2003-03-04T13:41:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![hocow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hocow/32/4112_2.png) [@hocow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hocow)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-this-song-is/158991/1 "2003-03-04T13:41:41Z")

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i few years back i was going through my cousin’s old tapes and found a song that i thought was so neat but i have never been able to find what it is or who sings it…excuse my spelling but most of the words are more scat than anything…what i can remember goes (i think):

\*coomilada coomilada coomilada fleesta  
o no no no no fleesta  
eenie meenie exameenie ooh wah koala meenie  
eenie meenie exameenie ooh wah koo wah

each night when i’m laying in my own bed  
i wake up in a cold sweat  
next time i hear those little words  
i’m gonna let out a scream like you never heard

(repeat coomilada part)\*

theres more verses but i cant remember them…any helkp would be appreciated thanks  
😃

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**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-this-song-is/158991/2 "2003-03-04T14:09:25Z")

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That’s _Vista_ by **Guadalcanal Diary** off their album “Flip Flop”.

[See Here for lyrics.](http://winston.tusc.net/gd/flipflop/vista.html)

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**Author:** ![hocow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hocow/32/4112_2.png) [@hocow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hocow)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-this-song-is/158991/3 "2003-03-04T15:37:31Z")

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omg thanks sooo much 😃 thats been buggin me for years lol

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**Author:** ![Legomancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/779978/32.png) [@Legomancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Legomancer)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-this-song-is/158991/4 "2003-03-04T15:43:04Z")

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Weren’t we going to sticky that “How to identify a song via Google” thread?  
Not that, in this case, I think it would have mattered…

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**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-this-song-is/158991/5 "2003-03-04T16:20:59Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Legomancer \*  
> \*\*Weren’t we going to sticky that “How to identify a song via Google” thread?  
> Not that, in this case, I think it would have mattered… \*\*

It didn’t. I tried it. 😃

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**Author:** ![CurlyD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@CurlyD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurlyD)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2003, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-know-what-this-song-is/158991/6 "2003-03-04T17:26:51Z")

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Krys, we sang the scat-type lyrics in Girl Scout Camp in central Florida back in the mid 60s. Maybe someone in Guadalcanal Diary was a Girl Scout . . .