So, I was just sitting there watching the episode on Friday night, when a little voice starts singing. Today, after re-watching Bounty Hunters again, I realized that Tancana sang the same song!!!!! What's up with that? Did Tancana go to Camp Tikihama as a kid too? Did he just happen to hit it on the head? Or, did Psych do that just to amuse us the fans?

In Bounty Hunters, when Shawn and Gus brought Tancana to Henry's house, they claimed that he had been a counselor from their childhood camp, Camp Tikihama, named "White Feather".

The song was also over the closing credits of Bounty Hunters (though you'll only heard it on the DVD or possibly in re-runs).

So it was all a callback to them saying Shawn and Gus had gone to Camp Tikihama as kids.

I think what the question is: How could Tancana possibly have known the camp song from a camp he didn't even go to? Or did he go there as a kid and Shawn just got incredibly lucky?

can someone post the lyrics?

Camp Tikihama what you are,
Reaches near and reaches far (Tancana says and spreads out far),
From white capped mountains to chrystal lakes,
sing out loud for Tiki sakes!

We are friends who bond over bright ember fires,
And to marshmellow dreams we will retire,
Camp Tikihama you're so true,
La-la-la-la-la and then the view,
La-la-la-la-la and then the view!

to answer that question-
they were just making a shout out to 'bounty hunters!'
they werent saying that it was THE camp song, they just put it in the show. lol.

i spent a great deal of time trying to explain this to my mom, and jus as PsychismyLIFE24 said, its just a shout-out. Tancana wasn't really shawn & gus camp counsler.

they probably wanted to do a camp one and said 'hey lets name it Camp tikihama, like the camp that shawn and gus said they went to in 'bounty hunters!' '

When I saw Bounty Hunters the first time I thought they were making the camp up because Henry didnt seem to remember it

On the DVD commentary Steve Franks states that the song was never meant to be played. It was originally recorded so that "white feather" (can't remember the character's real name) could learn the words for the script, and the guy singing was quite embarrassed when it was actually posted at the end of "Bounty Hunters". It was just to awesome to pass up!

lol really? thats awesome!
his name was tancana

LOL, yep, I believe they also said that Adam Cohen (the name of Psych's music guy who sang the full version over the credits of Bounty Hunters as the aforementioned 'tape' for W. Earl Brown to learn the song) got SAG membership because of the inclusion of his version over the credits. Or was that ASCAP? They also mentioned that as well.... darn it! I need to watch my DVDs again!

Another interesting/funny fact (also from the commentary): W. Earl Brown not only mixed up some of the words, but got the tune wrong as well... in fact, he sang it so close to another song's melody that they couldn't include the entire song in Bounty Hunters because it was too similar. On the DVD there is a deleted scene (or maybe outtake) where you can hear what he did end up singing.... the tune is familiar, but without my DVDs I can't remember what song it ended up sounding like, but I understand why they couldn't use it.

wow
iv had the dvds since xmas, but i havent listened to the comentary at all.
*oh darn. now i have to watch psych again* <-SARCASM!!!!
lol

I'm not sure if it is a sad obsession, a lack of cable while moving, or just simple love for the show ( I'm going to stick with this one because its the closest to the truth ) But I have been watching the commentaries all week, and there is some really neat (yes I just used the term neat) inside info in all of them. The producers and cast are pretty funny too!

Edit because I can't spell

ok cool
i cant spell either.