Camp Songs

[eaglescout2004 11]

I am looking for some great campsongs to use at summer camp this year. What are your (or your unit's) personal favorites?

[yellow_hammer 10]

Ghost Chickens in the Sky!

 

Here is a link: Ghost Chickens in the Sky

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[Lisabob 13]

As an old camp leader, well, don't let me get started!

 

Some of my favorites:

 

National Embalming School (There are several versions on the web. It is gross but the kids love it for just that reason)

 

The Moose, The Moose (Where did he go?)

This is a call and repeat song with lots of different versions.

 

Three Sharp Tooth Buzzards - another call and repeat song, the motions are the fun part

 

The Little Green Frog (er eep went the little green frog)

 

and on and on...

 

What I always find so amazing is that many of these tend to be "standard" camp fare almost everywhere in the country and this was true even before the internet era. Somehow there has become sort of a cannon of camp songs.

 

Have fun, get silly with them!

 

Lisa'bob

 

 

 

[rjcluvvt 10]

One thing that is kinda weird is finding out who says "this is a repeat after me song" vs. "All you have to do is repeat after me"

 

anyway, my personal favorites are:

 

Found a peanut (the key is to repeat it and then have appointed staff members to chase you off the stage"

 

My Hands on myself

 

My Ding-a-Ling (it's been banned at my camp, but if I have a chance to do it somewhere else I will)

 

 

[clydesdale115 10]

Lisa'bob: You mentioned "Three Sharp Tooth Buzzards" - I found the words and motions, but is there any particular tune? Apparently it's an echo song - do you shout it like a cadence or something? It sounds like a fun one for our Cubs.

 

We love "Boom Chicka Boom" - "Herman the Worm" - "If I Were Not a Boy (Cub) Scout" - "Little Black Things" - "If You're Happy and You Know It, Pick Your Nose!" - and of course, the all-important, ever-present "BEAVER SONG!"

clydesdale115

 

[le Voyageur 72]

This one can be sung as a round....

 

En Roulant ma Boule

 

http://collections.ic.gc.ca/MusicalHeritage/vocal/en_roulant_ma_boule/

[LongHaul 10]

Try www.macscouter.com/songs my boys tend to lean toward the gross lists 1 and 2

LongHaul

[Lisabob 13]

You know that's been bugging me about the sharp tooth buzzards. I think I remember it being spoken, not sung. Well, yelled is probably more like it. But that was a while ago and I am not positive about that! I do remember it being a big hit though .

 

Anybody else remember this one better than I do?

 

Lisa'bob

[SemperParatus 1]

For mature audiences only...

 

 

I have a sad story to tell you,

It may hurt your feelings a bit.

Last night when I walked into my bathroom,

I stepped in a big pile of ...

 

Shhhhhaving cream, be nice and clean,

shave every day and you'll always look keen.

 

A baby fell out of the window,

You'd think that her head would be split,

But good luck was with her that

morning, she fell in a barrel of...

 

Shhhhhaving cream, be nice and clean

shave every day and you'll always look keen.

 

An old lady died in the bath tub.

She died from a terrible fit.

In order to fulfill her wishes,

She was buried in six feet of...

 

Shhhhhaving cream, be nice and clean

Shave every day and you'll always look keen.

 

When I was in France with the army,

On day I looked into my kit,

I thought I would find me a sandwich,

But the darned thing was loaded with...

 

Shhhhhaving cream, be nice and clean

Shave every day and you'll always look keen.

 

While watching a game at Fenway,

Nomar got a nice hit.

While sliding into second base,

He ended up with a mouthful of ...

 

Shhhhhaving cream, be nice and clean

Shave every day and you'll always look keen.

 

Our baby got into some peaches,

We thought he had swallowed a pit.

Next morning we looked in his diaper,

But the darned thing was loaded with...

 

Shhhhhaving cream, be nice and clean

shave every day and you'll always look keen.

 

And now my story is ended,

I think it is time I should quit,

If any of you feel offended,

Stick your head in a bucket of...

 

Shhhhhaving cream, be nice and clean

Shave every day and you'll always look keen.

 

 

[FScouter 24]

If you're going to include "Ding-a-ling" and "Shaving Cream", and since we're obviously not talking about any camp involving Boy Scouts, may as well add "My Big 10-inch Record of the Rhythm & Blues".

 

For Boy Scouts, there is the most bestest campfire song of all time bar none, "The Boy Scout Sunday School". All together now, join OGE and me

"Young folks, old folks, everybody come ..."

[AnneinMpls 10]

Ahem.

 

Did you not ever wonder, as I did, what these durned buzzards were doing with sharp *teeth*? I mean, they're *birds*. Birds do not have teeth. Didn't this *bother* hyou, even just a little bit?

 

You might, or might not, be amazed to learn that the birds in the above misnamed song, are three....

 

CHARTREUSE Buzzards.

 

There's a Chartreuse Buzzard song society and everything. The International Order of Chartreuse Buzzards. http://www.scoutingweb.com/ScoutingWeb/SubPages/ChartreuseBuzzards.htm

Enjoy

Anne in Mpls, sitting in a dead tree

[OldGreyEagle 5]

Young Folks, Old Folks Everybody Come

To the Boy Scout Sunday School and have a lot of fun

Put your backpack, sleeping bag and canteen at the door

And youll hear some bible stories like youve never heard before

 

The world was made in six days and finished on the seventh

According to the contract, it should have been the 'leventh

But the painters wouldn't paint and the workers wouldn't work

So the cheapest way to finish it was fill it in with dirt

 

The Lord made Satan and Satan made sin

The Lord made a cubby-hole to put Satan in

Satan got huffy and he said he wouldn't stay

So he's been a little Devil ever since that day

 

Adam was the first man that ever was invented

He lived all alone and never was contented

Made out of mud in days gone by,

And hung out on a picket fence in the sun to dry

 

Adam was a gardener and Eve was his spouse

Caught at stealing apples, they started keeping house

Their married life was happy and pleasant in the main,

Until they had a little son, and started raising Cain

 

Adam was a prophet, first one that we know

In a place called Eden, he helped things to grow

Adam served the Lord by following His ways

We are his descendants in the latter days

 

Noah was a carpenter who stumbled in the dark

He picked up a hammer and built himself an ark

In came the animals, two by two

All except for the worms, and they came in the apples

 

For forty days and forty nights it rained and blew

The water covered up the land and all the mountains too

When Noah got to wondering just where he was at

The old ark ran aground on top of Ararat

 

Lot's wife was a woman who was mighty curious

If she wasn't in the know, she'd always raise a fuss

One day while leaving town, her curiosity made her halt

When she turned to look she turned into a block of salt

 

Esau was a cowboy of a wild and woolly make

His father left him half the farm, and half to brother Jake

Esau was no farmer, and he thought he'd fly the coop

So he traded it for pottage; that's a fancy name for soup

 

Joseph was a shepherd lad, so Bible stories tell us

His father gave him such a coat, it made his brothers jealous

They sold him into Egypt for a small consideration

Where he made a major fortune on a grain speculation

 

Moses was a Yiddish lad, went sailing in a skiff

Along came Pharaoh's daughter, and she gave the lad a lift

She took him to the palace and she fed him something grand,

So he led the whole caboodle out into the promised land

 

Pharaoh was a mighty king, the Kaiser of his day

He nagged the sons of Israel until they ran away

When he tried to follow them across the bounding main,

His entire army died, with water on the brain

 

Balaam was a prophet who went out to curse the band

Of Israelitish children who had come to claim the land

But on his way to do this deed, his little donkey balked

And when he kicked her in the slats, she looked at him and talked

 

Samson was a strong man of the good old-fashioned school;

He slew a host of Philistines with the jawbone of a mule

Then Delilah came along and filled him up with gin,

And when she'd cut off all his hair, the coppers run him in

 

Ruth was a gleaner and Naomi was her ma

They went into the fields to gather in the straw

Boaz came along and asked Ruth if she'd be his wife

She married him for his money and they lived a happy life

 

David was a shepherd lad, a fearless little chap

Along came Goliath, just a looking for a scrap

David hadn't any sword, he used a sling instead

He slung rocks at Goliath and the giant fell down dead

 

David played the lyre and he played it rather sweet

He used to play before King Saul, the while the king would eat

But the king was fond of ragtime, which David couldn't play

So the king bought a phonograph, and sent poor Dave away

 

King David and King Solomon lived very merry lives

With many, many lady friends and many, many wives

When old age came upon them with all its many qualms

King Solomon wrote the Proverbs and King David wrote the Psalms

 

Solomon was a wise man, he had a lot of cash

Queen of Sheba came along and Solly made a mash

I guess he thought that royalty was rather underpaid

For he took to writing proverbs though he was a king by trade

 

Elijah was a prophet who attended county fairs

He advertised his business with a troop of dancing bears

He sold assorted prophecies, and every afternoon,

He ascended up to Heaven in a patent fire balloon

 

Jonah was an emigrant, so goes this Bible tale

He booked a steerage passage on a transatlantic whale

Jonah in the belly of the whale felt quite compressed

So he pushed a little button and the whale did the rest

 

Jonah was a prophet, tried to run away,

But he later learned to listen and obey

When we really try, the Lord won't let us fail

That's what Jonah learned deep down inside the whale

 

Daniel was a courtier who wouldn't mind the king

The king said he couldn't stand for any such a thing

He chucked him in a manhole with lions down beneath

But Daniel was a dentist and he pulled the lions' teeth

 

Daniel was a prophet He refused to sin

So the king threw Daniel in the lion's den

Angels calmed the lions, and the king soon saw

Daniel's pow'r was great, for he obeyed God's law

 

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego,

Disobeyed the king, and so they had to go (and told him where to go)

He threw them in a furnace, to burn 'em up like chaff,

But they wore asbestos BVD's and gave the king a laugh

 

Salome was a chorus girl who danced the hoochie kootch

She caused quite a scandal 'cause she didn't wear too "mooch"

The king said "Salome, we will have no scandal here"

Salome said, "The devil!" and she kicked the chandelier

 

Ahab had a lovely wife, whose name was Jezebel

While looking out the window, to the dogs below she fell

"She's gone to the dogs", the people told the king

Ahab said he never heard of such a dog-gone thing

 

Samson was a strong man of Jeffrey Johnson's School

Had the strength of a thousand Philistines (men) and the jawbone of a mule

Along came Delilah, cut off his curly locks

So the only strength that Samson had was in his dirty socks

 

[ScoutingEMT 10]

"The Window"

 

"Patsy, Patsy, Ore-a"

 

"I've got 6 pence"

 

"Medicinal Compound"

[Lisabob 13]

Well no Annie, it never did bother me. Now if they'd been a funny shade of green it might've caught my attention but as it is, they just had some teeth. Sharp ones.

 

(OK I did some checking and yes - they should be chartreuse although they never were at OUR camp! That's pretty funny!)

 

Lisa'bob

[MaScout 10]

Our troop & geographic area always had "short-necked" buzzards, not sharp-toothed, so I never questioned it...just thought they were handicapped or had them tucked in...