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Thread #7838   Message #1723538
Posted By: Joe Offer
21-Apr-06 - 01:30 AM
Thread Name: Origin: Barges (Girl Scout song)
Subject: RE: Origin of: BARGES (Girl Scout song)
No, the axe-murderer was only in the boys' version...

It's one of many songs that were written by counselors at camps I've attended (well, "Barges" was written at Girl Scout Camp Singing Hills, which my sister attended). It's really upsetting, 45 years later, to hear people say that the same songs were written by counselors at their camp. I know it's not true, since I personally knew the counselors who wrote those songs. Heck, I'm sure I wrote some of them myself - I just can't remember which ones.

-Joe Offer, who has been to camp about 40 of his 57 years-