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Thread #11100   Message #1031632
Posted By: Nigel Parsons
08-Oct-03 - 03:45 AM
Thread Name: Old Girl Scout Songs
Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
Page of Cups has pushed the original request a little further, and I remember seeing this at Scout camps, but also on stage (either in Pantomime, or a revue show, like the "Gang Shows" put on by Scouts under the directorship of Ralph Reader) The version I recall started

If I were not upon the stage
Something else I'd like to be
If I were not upon the stage
A ___________ I would be
You'd hear me all day long,
and this would be my song.
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The singer would then put actions to his words, washing windows, sorting mail etc., Each singer would take a different occupation, and different actions, and at the end of each new verse the last line of each would be repeated, with actions. The comic effect of this had one set of action close to decapitating the next singer, whilst his set of actions caused him to bow or kneel at that point, thus avoiding outflung arms.
Choreography was important as singing at this stage

Nigel