<P> A variation of "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha - Haaa!" was also done by Jerry Samuels, from that same album entitled Where the Nuts hunt the Squirrels, where Samuels, towards the end of the track, repeats the line: "THEY'RE TRYING TO DRIVE ME SANE!!! HA HA," before the song's fade, in a fast - tracked higher voice . </P> <P> In 1966, KRLA DJ "Emperor Bob" Hudson recorded a similarly styled song titled I'm Normal, including the lines "They came and took my brother away / The men in white picked him up yesterday / But they'll never come take me away,' cos I'm O.K. / I'm normal ." Another line in the song was: "I eat my peas with a tuning fork ." The record was credited simply to "The Emperor ." </P> <P> In 1988, Samuels wrote and recorded "They're Coming To Get Me Again, Ha Haaa!", a sequel to the original record . It was included on a single two years later on the Collectables label . Recorded with the same beat as the original, and portraying Napoleon XIV relapsing to madness after being released from an insane asylum, it never charted, and was combined with the original 1966 recording on side A. (Both sequels are included on Samuels' 1996 Second Coming album .) In the song, instead of a "mangy mutt," for his lost dog, Napoleon bemoans the loss of his pet monkey . ("I'll swing you by your tail, you hairy ape!") In the song, instead of the "funny farm" and the "happy home" Napoleon XIV is being taken away to the "loony bin" and the "rubber room ." Towards the end of the song, he relapses into the "funny farm" and "happy home"--until when reality sinks in, he cries out at a fast tracked double voice with the words: "OH NO!!!" before the beat ends with a door slam, indicating that he has been locked up in the insane asylum . </P> <P> The recording appeared on disk releases by Dr. Demento in 1975 as part of Dr. Demento's Delights, then in subsequent Dr. Demento LP records released in 1985, 1988 and 1991 . </P>

Who sang their coming to take me away haha