Join the cubs, see the world
Pay your subs, meet the girls
Sell your toys be reborn
They love a boy in uniform37 wasted years
Closeting his greatest fears
Still in shorts and eating jelly
He used to come and fix our tellyAkela, Akela
I will do my best
Akela, you'll have heart failure
Get your hands out of my vestThe oldest joker in the pack
Knew how to fold a union jack
Bought me chocolate, cakes and sweets
All the Cadbury's Flakes that I could eatAkela, Akela
I will do my best
Akela, you'll have heart failure
Get your hands out of my vestYou're a bachelor for Baden Powell
And you don't know where I've been
Take your spatula and your bathing towel
And go swear your allegiance to the queenYou'll get no badge for touching me
Bad health or inefficiency
Halitosis, poison breath
Or scaring little lonely boys to deathAkela, Akela
I will do my best
Akela, Akela
You've got to get me off your chestAkela, Akela
I think that it's time to go
Hayla Shayla, see ya later
I'm only nine years old and the answer's, noYou're a bachelor for Baden Powell
And you don't know where I've been
So take your spatula and your bathing towel
And go swear your allegiance to the queen
Songwriters
CARTER, LESLIE GEORGE / MORRISON, JAMES NEIL / READER, RALPHPublished by
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group