I was a song leader for the Cub Scouts until about ten years ago. I counted up my songs one time, and was surprised to find I had about three hundred committed to memory. The Scouts got on a kick where they wanted me to center on songs from their two official songbooks, and I kind of drifted away and started singing grown-up songs. I find I'm either too old or too lazy to memorize new songs, so I use "cheat sheets" for the new ones. I'm reputed to know all 1200 songs in the oft-maligned Rise Up Singing Songbook, but it isn't true.
But I was proud of those 300 camp songs, even if parents considered some of them to be obnoxious.
-Joe Offer-