Stairway to Gilligan's Island

Many years ago my oldest son sang a song for me that was the lyrics from the Gilligan’s Island theme song sung to the tune of Stairway to Heaven. I have since, one time, heard a version on the radio.

The other day, with the help of Google and you tube, I discovered the source.

They seem to have reordered the Gilligan's Island lyrics and thrown in 'and it makes me wonder' from the Stairway lyrics for this song:

Just sit right back & you’ll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip


That started from this tropic port aboard this tiny ship.


The mate was a mighty sailing man, The skipper brave & sure.


Five passengers set sail that day for a three hour tour,


A three hour tour- and it makes me wonder


Now the ship's a-ground on the shore of this uncharted desert isle


With Gilligan,


The Skipper too,


The millionaire and his wife,


The movie star


O, and the rest. They're here on Gilligan's Island.


The weather started getting rough,


O and the tiny ship was tossed,


If not for the courage of the fearless crew


O, the poor Minnow would be lost,


The ship's a-ground on the shore


Of this uncharted desert isle


And they're here on Gilligan's Island.


Little Roger and the Goosebumps is a pop/rock band from San Francisco active during the 1970s and early 1980s and resurrected in 2006. It has been led throughout its history by Roger Clark and Dick Bright, with various sidemen.

The band is best known for its single "Gilligan's Island (Stairway)" a song combining the lyrics to the theme song of the television show Gilligan's Island with the music of "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin. The band wrote the song in 1977 as "material to pad the last set of the grueling 5 nights a week/4 sets a night routine," recorded it in March 1978, and released it as a single in May 1978 on their own Splash Records label. Within five weeks, Led Zeppelin's lawyers threatened to sue them and demanded that any remaining copies of the recording be destroyed

During a 2005 interview on National Public Radio, Robert Plant referred to the tune as his favorite cover of "Stairway to Heaven."

They recorded their next single, "Kennedy Girl" (based on Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl"), in 1980, then waited over a quarter-century before producing their debut album They Hate Us Cuz We're Beautiful, featuring new recordings of 14 songs drawn from three decades of original material

Their single "Fudd on the Hill," essentially a performance of "Fool on the Hill" as performed by Elmer Fudd, was included on the novelty compilation album The Rhino Brothers Present the World's Worst Records, Volume 2.