"No more Mexican music!" Dewey groaned.
"We're going to Mexico. We have to get in the spirit!" Huey said.
"Yeah, Dewey, what do you have against Mexico?" Louie said, earbuds in.
Dewey groaned. "Uncle Donald, make it stop!"
"While I do love Mexican music, Huey, I think it's time we switch to something else for a while," Donald said.
"Awww," Huey said, turning off his boombox.
Donald turned on the radio to a Mexican station playing "Ay, Jalisco, no te rajes!"
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Dewey screamed.
"How many times have I told you? No screaming in the car!" Donald said.
"Sorry, Uncle Donald," Dewey said. Louie elbowed him in the side.
They rode in silence for a little while.
Until Huey slowly pulled a Mexican vihuela and began to play.
"No! No! No! No! No! No! No!" Dewey said, banging his head on the car window.
"Dewey! Don't do that!" Donald said. "Huey! Put that thing away!"
Huey did. "But I'm bored. It's too quiet in here." He thought for a moment. "Ninety-nine bottles of milk on the wall, ninety-nine bottles of milk, take one down, pass it around, ninety-eight bottles of milk on the wall!"
"NO!" Dewey shouted, while at the same time Louie yelled "Not again!"
"Huey! You know that song is absolutely forbidden on road trips!" Donald said.
"But it's so quiet in here! This is a road trip; we should be bonding."
"Singing never-ending songs is not bonding," Louie said.
"It's not a never-ending song!" Huey protested.
"Huey, aren't there any songs that you learned at Junior Woodchuck camp that you can sing instead?" Donald said, shooting Dewey and Louie Looks when they groaned in protest.
"Oh, yeah! Here's one!" Huey took out the vihuela again and began to play. "Little red caboose, chug chug chug, little red-"
"How'd you learn how to play that thing so fast?" Louie asked.
"YouTube," Huey said. "Now if you don't mind?"
Dewey started banging his head on the window again.
"Little red caboose, chug chug chug, little red caboose, chug chug chug, little red caboose behind the train, train, train, train. Smokestack on its back, back, back back, running 'round, the track, track, track, track. Little red caboose behind the train, WOO WOO…"
Author's Note: "Ay, Jalisco, no te rajes!" has the same tune as "The Three Caballeros" (in fact, the last verse Panchito sings is from that song).
"Little Red Caboose" is a song I learned at Girl Scout Camp. It's one of those songs that has motions attached to certain lyrics, and each time you repeat the song, you take out the lyrics that go with one of the motions and just do the motions (sort of like "BINGO"). So that'll keep Huey busy for a little while...
I'm definitely going to continue this one, so stay tuned sometime this month for a Part 2.