The Growing Up Tree was a GSUSA recruiting song from the 1960's. It ran as an animated story song. The complete song lyrics are:

The Growing Up Tree
Joe Darion and George Kleinsinger

Now Julie and Judy and Janie and Joan
Were all very little and wished they were grown
So they got together and all did agree,
That they would go hunting the Growing Up Tree
They looked high and low in the street and the park
They looked in the light and they looked in the dark
Til they met a wise woman who told them that she
Would help them to hunt for the Growing Up Tree

                The Growing Up Tree, the Growing Up Tree
                The wonderful, mystical, Growing Up Tree

The wise woman smiled and she gave them her hand
She said, "Let us join in a bright, happy band.
The Growing Up Tree we will hunt every day
And we'll learn about living as we go our way.
For the Growing Up Tree is not easy to find
You must hunt with your heart, you must hunt with your mind,
You must learn to be patient and learn to be wise
For the thing that you seek is a wonderful prize."

                The Growing Up Tree, the Growing Up Tree
                The wonderful, mystical, Growing Up Tree

They hunted for many a year and a day
And the wise woman smiled as they went on their way
She knew as she watched them grow wise and grow tall
That the Growing Up Tree grew inside of them all.
Yes, the Growing Up Tree lives inside of you too
Make it bloom with the things that you learn and you do
And wonder of wonders you soon will be grown
Like Julie and Judy and Janie and Joan.

                Come along now with me, a Girl Scout you'll be
                And together we'll hunt for the Growing Up Tree.

                The Growing Up Tree, the Growing Up Tree
                The wonderful, mystical, Growing Up Tree


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