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Thread #128802   Message #2885835
Posted By: Melissa
13-Apr-10 - 05:10 PM
Thread Name: Girl Scouts singing grace
Subject: RE: Girl Scouts singing grace
Now that you mention it, Betty, I don't remember any early threads that were strictly about graces. I must have run across a handful that were slightly off-topic for the thread at hand.

Around the 80's, a trend to sing sillier songs/graces picked up momentum. I didn't know anything about it because the camp I worked at was pretty strict about songs. No snot or puke. Nothing insultive (fat/funny looking..etc)
Then, I went to a different camp.

Then, I got completely out of gs until the council started a troop in my hometown..started a troop without having a Leader lined up. When the troop was going to have to end because of not having a leader, my sister volunteered me.
The only grace my girls knew was 'Addams Family'. With me as leader, they didn't get to sing it at meetings anymore..but we DID sing the real theme song (so they could see why I didn't think it was entirely appropriate as a grace) and they did sing it when we went to activities hosted by others.

What kind of stuff did you sing when you were in gs?
Did you play 'Rock, Rock'?

Are you trying to remember a batch of graces? All my regular songbooks were lost in a fire, but I have a copy of the personal books that each camp used as reference (I'm fortunate to have been allowed copies! those books are reverentially hoarded..but somehow the owners of each let me have a copy)

Did you sing:
Girl Scout Grace
Johnny Appleseed
Hark to the Chimes
Good Morning God
Back of the Bread