The tune is here (click) at Guiding UK and soon will be added to Mudcat MIDIs. As far as I can determine, the Girl Scouts of the U.S. added it to the 1973 edition of their Sing Together songbook, and had not published it before. They list it as "Source Unknown." My sister, who sometimes forgets to admit she is nearly as old as I am, sang "Barges" at Camp Singing Hills in Southeast Wisconsin in 1960, but she thinks she may have learned it at Brownie Day Camp the year before.
-Joe Offer-

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The UK Girl Guide parody is a bit tamer than the one posted above.

Out of my tent flap, looking through the night,
I can see Guiders gathered round the light,
Drinking wine and colouring their hair,
And was it me, or did they swear?

Guiders, I would like to stay with you,
I would like to have some privileges too.
Guiders, have you cookies that you hold,
Do you fight with Scouters, brave and bold?

Out of my tent flap, looking through the night,
I can see the Guiders, having a fight,
Somebody throws a pillow through the air,
And there goes someone's underwear.

Guiders, I don't want to stay with you,
You would probably leave me black and blue!
Guiders keep those cookies that you hold,
While you fight with Scouters, brave and bold!