What are some camp songs you remember from childhood?
Here's the theme song from my camp!!!
Wakoma Dreams
We're out at Wakoma, the camp of our dreams, where the ocean just ripples and sparkles and gleams!!
So, come along, and join us, for we are never blue!!!
Be a member of our happy laughing crew!! You Too!!
At night around the campfire we laugh and we sing!
Give a cheer for Wakoma and let the echoes ring!
We'll cheer for our campers, our councelors, good scout's ,too.
We'll cheer for you and you and you and you!! We Do!!
Chorus
You get a line and I'll get a pole, honey,
You get a line and I'll get a pole, honey
You get a line and I'll get a pole,
And we'll all go down to the crawdad hole,
Honey, sugar-baby mine.
Get up old man, you slept too late, honey,
Get up old man, you slept too late, baby,
Last piece of crawdad's on your plate,
Honey, sugar-baby mine.
Get up old woman, you slept too late, honey,
Get up old woman, you slept too late, baby,
Crawdad man done past your gate,
Honey, sugar-baby mine.
Along come a man with a sack on his back, honey,
Along come a man with a sack on his back, baby,
Packin' all the crawdad he can pack,
Honey, sugar-baby mine.
What you gonna do when the lake goes dry, honey?
What you gonna do when the lake goes dry, baby?
Sit on the bank and watch the crawdads die,
Honey, sugar-baby mine.
What you gonna do when the crawdads die, honey?
What you gonna do when the crawdads die, baby?
Sit on the bank until I cry,
Honey, sugar-baby mine.
I heard the duck say to the drake, honey,
I heard the duck say to the drake, baby,
There ain't no crawdads on this lake,
Honey, sugar-baby mine.
OK - who's next?!? I have enough on my harddrive to swamp this thread, but I won't post until someone else posts!! Promise!!
The cannibal king with the big nose ring fell in love with a fair young maid.
And every night in the pale moonlight, cross the lake he came.
And he hugged and he kissed his pretty little miss in the shade of the bamboo tree.
And every night in the pale moonlight, sounds like this to me.
Garomph, garomph, garomph, diddy adee aye
garomph, garomph, garomph, diddy adee aye.
We'll build a bungalow big enough for two, big enough for two, my honey, big enough for two. When we get married, happy we'll be, underneath the bamboo, beneath the bambbo tree.
Boom boom, boom, boom, boom boom boom boom boom boom!!
If you'll be M-i-n-e- mine, I'll be t-h-i-n-e Thine and I'll l-o-v-e love you all the t-i-m-e time.
You are the b-e-s-t best of all the r-e-s-t rest and I'll l-o-v-e- love you all the t-i-m-e time, rack 'em up, stack 'em up, any old time,
match in a gas tank, boom boom!!!!
Down in the valley, the valley so low,
Hang you head over, hear the wind blow,
Hear the wind blow, dear, hear the wind blow,
Hang your head over, hear the wind blow.
Roses love sunshine, violets love dew,
Angels in heaven know I love you,
Know I love you dear, know I love you,
Angels in heaven know I love you.
Build me a castle forty feet high,
So I can see him as he rides by.
As he rides by, dear, as he rides by,
So I can see him as he rides by.
Write me a letter containing these lines,
Answer my question, will you be mine?
Will you be mine, dear, will you be mine?
Answer my question, will you be mine?
If you don't love me, love whom you please.
Throw your arms round me, give my heart ease.
Give my heart ease, dear, give my heart ease,
Throw you arms round me, give my heart ease.
Gat goon went the little green frog one day.
Gat goon went the little green frog.
Gat goon went the little green frog one day!
And his eyes went gluck gluck gloon!!!!
Elizabeth.....I'll be gone a couple weeks......maybe you can get a couple others to "sing around the campfire" with you!!
Day is done, Gone the sun,
From the lake, from the hills, From the sky;
All is well, Safely rest, God is nigh.
Fading light dims the sight,
And a star gems the sky Gleaming bright,
From a-far, Drawing nigh, Falls the night.
Thanks and praise, For our days,
Neath the sun, Neath the stars, Neath the sky,
As we go. This we know, God is nigh.
Good Night, We must part
God keep watch over all through the night
We will meet, with the Morn, Good Night.
The Story of Taps
Taps was devised during the Civil War. In 1862, the Union Army of the Potomac, under Major General George McClellan, was transported to the Virginia Peninsula to launch a campaign
against the Confederate capital at Richmond. The Army met stiff resistance at the outskirts of Richmond. After a series of battles, McClellan, a cautious general by nature, and misinformed as
to the strength of the Confederate army confronting him, elected to "change bases" - a carefully worded synonym for retreat - to a site to the south, on the bank of the James River. During this retreat, the Army of the Potomac was forced to stand and fight the pursuing Confederate army at Malvern Hill. The Confederate army, rather unwisely, charged the Union line and was defeated. The battle of Malvern Hill was fought on June 28 - July 1, 1862.
On July 2 (134 years ago today), in a miserable rain, the Army of the Potomac completed its depressing and embarrassing retreat to Harrison's Landing on the James River. The retreat was a grim disillusionment for the North, which had expected a short war. For the Army of the Potomac, it was its darkest and saddest hour.
Encamped at Harrison's Landing that summer was Brigadier General Daniel Butterfield. He was the commander of the 3rd brigade of the 1st division of the Army of the Potomac's 5th corps. A fairly undistinguished officer otherwise, General Butterfield had an ear for music. Previously, he had observed that his brigade's bugle call caused confusion in camp, because it could not be distinguished from that of other brigades. So he devised a unique bugle call for the 3rd brigade.
Now, in camp along the James, he noted that the regulation evening bugle call for lights out was neither musical nor inspirational, nor tranquilizing. He devised a alternative tune for his bugler, which, after a couple of attempts, became Taps. The tune became popular, and soon the entire Army of the Potomac was using the call in place of the regulation call for lights out.
Eventually, Taps was adopted by all Union armies, and became official army regulation. Taps remains regulation to this day.
The story of Taps is particularly appropriate for July 2, given that today is the anniversary of the Army of the Potomac's long retreat to the Harrison's Landing camp.
-- Thanks to Roger Claff, Den Leader Coach and Den Leader, Pack 1570, Herndon, VA
Sarasponda, sarasponda, sarasponda ret set set.
Sarasponda, sarasponda sarasponda ret set set.
A doray-oh, A doray boomday-oh.
A doray boomday ret set set, ah say pa say oh.
Boom-be-da, boom-be-da, boom-be-da, boom!
[Split group into 2 parts. Sing through together, then one group continues singing the "boom-be-da" part, while the other sings through the verse. Then switch.]
Originally posted by trainlady Gat goon went the little green frog one day.
Gat goon went the little green frog.
Gat goon went the little green frog one day!
And his eyes went gluck gluck gloon!!!!
Elizabeth.....I'll be gone a couple weeks......maybe you can get a couple others to "sing around the campfire" with you!!
hugs,train
Now you've all heard the folks go
Fo-Do-De-O-De-O, Fo-Do-De-O-De-O,
Fo-Do-De-O-De-O!
You've all heard the folks go
Fo-Do-De-O-De-O
But did you ever hear a frog go
Git Gat Goon!?
In my castle castle castle by the river Nile
I shall live in elegant style
Inlaid marble on the floor
Bamboo butler by the door
And when I marry my prince from Kalamazoo
My blood will change from red to blue
Entertaining royalty all the while
In my castle castle castle by the river Nile
Da da da da da-da da- da da da- da
Da da da da da-da da- da da da-da
Entertaining royalty all the while
In my castle castle castle by the river Nile!
This land is your land
This land is my land
From California
To the New York Island
From the redwood Forrests
To the Gulf Stream Waters
This land was made for you and me
As I went walking
This ribbon of highways
I saw above me
Her endless skyway
I saw below me
Her golden valleys
This land was made for you and me
I've roamed and rambled
And I've followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of
Her diamond deserts
And all around me
Her voice was sounding
This land was made for you and me
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POWER AND GLORY
Come and take a walk with me thru this green and growing land ( clap X4)
Walk thru the meadows and the mountains and the sand (clapX4)
Walk thru the valleys and the rivers and the plains( clapX4)
Walk thru the sun and walk thru the rain(clapX4)
CHORUS:
This is a land full of power and glory
Beauty that words cannot recall
Oh her power shall rest on the strength of her freedom
Her glory shall rest on us all, on us all
From Colorado, Kansas, and the Carolinas too ( clap X4)
Virginia and Alaska, from the old to the new ( clap X4)
Texas and Ohio and the California shore( clapX4)
Tell me, who could ask for more(clapX4)
CHORUS:
Yet she's only as rich as the poorest of her poor (clapX4)
Only as free as the padlocked prison door (clapx4)
Only as strong as our love for this land
Only as tall as we stand (clapX4)
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