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Lyr Req: Canoe, Flashing Like Silver?

16 Oct 97 - 05:17 PM (#14861)
Subject: Canoe, Flashing Like Silver?
From: Nonie Rider

Another camp song I'm trying to track down, this one about canoeing. (Yes, I did check the database first, without luck.) It went something like:

Swiftly the paddles ply,
Flashing like silver,
Swift as the wild geese fly,
Dip, dip and swing.


16 Oct 97 - 05:23 PM (#14862)
Subject: RE: Canoe, Flashing Like Silver?
From: Bill in Alabama

I remember--

See our paddles keen and bright-- Flashing like silver-- Swift as the wild-goose flight-- Dip, dip, and swing--

CHORUS Dip, dip, and swing them back-- Shining like silver-- ---------can't recall the rest


16 Oct 97 - 05:31 PM (#14863)
Subject: RE: Canoe, Flashing Like Silver?
From: Joe Offer

Hi, Nonie - this is from a cocoa-stained 1963 edition of the Boy Scout Songbook. I made the cocoa myself.
Our paddles keen and bright, flashing like silver.
Swift as the wild goose flight, dip, dip and swing.

Dip, dip and swing them back, flashing like silver.
Swift as the wild goose flight, dip, dip and swing.
-Joe Offer-


16 Oct 97 - 06:36 PM (#14871)
Subject: RE: Canoe, Flashing Like Silver?
From: Sharon

We sang it like Joe's version at girl scout camp, but we sang "follow the wild goose flight".