Old Girl Scout Songs

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: Jen M
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 06:56 AM

Here We Are (as I learned it in central PA in the 60's)It's kind of out of date.
^^ Here we are, we're all together;
Having fun, what could be better;
We welcome you in our own way,
Girl Scouts, Girl Scouts, we all say;
Colors worn are yellow and green;
We take pride that can be seen;
So just stay with us for a while,
And will treat you Girl Scout Style.
Girl Scouts, we will sing it.
Girl Scouts, ring-a-ding it
Girl Scouts, we will sing it.
We're the best in the land of the free-ba-dum-bum-bum.
Now you know the reason why,
We take pride you can't deny,
So just stay with us for a while,
And will treat you Girl Scout Style.

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: Susan of DT
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 08:36 PM

Where I think we are now:


Coffee Tea of Me                partial version posted, can someone
                                    finish it?
Canoe Paddle                   ready
Girl Scouts Together          ready
Our Chalet                      already in
When e're you make a promise    already in
Peace I ask of thee o river    already in
Ruthie's Place                  partial version posted
                                  Can someone finish it?
Canadian Wilderness             Is this Canadian Traveler??
Dona dona                      already in
Here we are                     don't know it, so ??
Land of Silver Birch            ready
Oleanna                         already in
Border Trail                   please post
While Coral Bells               was harvested
Make New Friends                already in
Kumbayah                        ready
Yosha & Josha                   please post
Been Ridin'                     please post
Winkin, Blinkin & Nod          I must have somewhere, but...
I know a place                  ready
Tall timbers calling            already in
The Seine                      ready
Roll ye covered wagons          please post
Desert Silver Blue             ready
Ash Grove                      already in, version 2
Happy when I'm hiking          ready
Zulu Warrior                   posted for additions
I love the Daffodils            already in
Swinging Along the Open Road    posted for additions
Rise Up o Flame                please post
Bells of Ireland                ready
Donkey Riding                   already in
These will appear in the 2004 version of the Digital Tradition, since the 2003 version is closed and under development with 9500 songs.

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: Tinker
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 09:53 PM

Sandy mentions Caroline singing this one at camp and I can't find the words here..But Contemplator
gives this info

"White Wings was a popular novel written by William Black in the 1880's. In 1912 Banks Winter wrote this song. "White Wings" refers to the sails of a ship. "

White Wings

Sail! home, as straight as an arrow,
My yacht shoots along on the crest of the sea;
Sail! home, to sweet Maggie Darrow,
In her dear little home
She is waiting for me.

High up! where cliffs they are craggy
There's where, the girl of my heart waits for me
Heigh! ho, I long for you, Maggie
I'll spread out my "White Wings"
And sail home to thee.

Yo! ho, how we go!
Oh! how the winds blow!
"White Wings" they never grow weary,
They carry me cherrily over the sea.
Night comes, I long for my dearie,
I'll spread out my "White Wings"
And sail home to thee.


By the time I got to camp in 1968 ( The camp was founded in 1918) we sang the last five lines, then verse two and said white sails instead of white wings. Just a bit of Folk process...

Tinker

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: LadyJean
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 12:24 AM

From Camp Riamo,
Out of my tent flap looking in the night, I can see the flashlights burning bright.
Noisily go the campers to the john, and the councillors too go yelling on
Campers! I would like to go with you, I would like to torture counsillors too.
Campers, are there pitchforks in your tent? Do you fight with counsillors old and bent.

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 03:45 AM

Page of Cups has pushed the original request a little further, and I remember seeing this at Scout camps, but also on stage (either in Pantomime, or a revue show, like the "Gang Shows" put on by Scouts under the directorship of Ralph Reader) The version I recall started

If I were not upon the stage
Something else I'd like to be
If I were not upon the stage
A ___________ I would be
You'd hear me all day long,
and this would be my song.
_________________________________

The singer would then put actions to his words, washing windows, sorting mail etc., Each singer would take a different occupation, and different actions, and at the end of each new verse the last line of each would be repeated, with actions. The comic effect of this had one set of action close to decapitating the next singer, whilst his set of actions caused him to bow or kneel at that point, thus avoiding outflung arms.
Choreography was important as singing at this stage

Nigel

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 03:52 AM

Brief mention of contemporary use here!

Nigel

Subject: Lyr Add: Rise Up, O Flame
From: Burke
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 10:18 PM

Rise Up, O Flame
by Christoph Praetorius c.1600

Rise up, O flame
By thy lights glowing
Show to us beauty,
Vision and Joy

@round

Tune can be heard
Here

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: GUEST,Melena
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 06:20 PM

Original Question:

The verses I remember are:

If I were not a counselor... what a joy my life would be...
If I were not a counselor... a _________ I would be
And as you walk on by... you would hear me cry:

Fireman: Jump Lady Jump! Psyche! Splat (2 times)
Stuartist: Coffee sir... tea sir... barf bag... blah (2 times)

I have all of the verses written down somewhere. Let me go find them -- respnd if you still need them.

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: Joe_F
Date: 03 Nov 03 - 06:26 PM

I am not equipped to have been a Girl Scout. However, in 1959, in Britain, I was the only non-Girl Guide in a train car full of them, and they were singing: "Does your chewing gum lose its flavo(u)r on the bedpost overnight?"

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: Joe Offer
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 02:12 AM

Hi, Melena - if the original 1999 requestor dosen't want those verses, most likely somebody will. Please post them, if you can.
Thanks.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: mg
Date: 04 Nov 03 - 03:21 PM

I remember a couple I haven't heard elsewhere..this would be in SW Washington in the 1950's...one was ...long live the King, this is a good day or else we would not sing......taste before you buy singing oh what a Merry Land is England...then you would put a nursery rhyme in there..like a game...another I think is an old Czheck song translated into bad English..above a hill of gold and green a young boy's head is clearly/plainly seen....pretty tune....then I heard a version of Paddy works on the Railway from Mrs. Kavanaugh, our leader...that either I simplified or misremembered or perhaps it is a whole other version..we (or I) sang erie erie irie oh working on the railroad...

mg

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: GUEST,Casper
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 03:46 AM

I don't know if you ever got the answer about the "coffee, tea, or me" song, but I saw a song on a Boy Scouts song website that listed a song "If I was not a scout, what would I be?" Maybe that's was you are looking for.

Casper

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: clueless don
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 12:30 PM

I remember a version of the "If I were not a [fill in the blank], then something else I'd be..." song appearing in a Monty Python sketch!

I used to sing "Rise up, oh flame!" when I was in a madrigal singing group (perhaps it was more properly "madrigals et al.") I probably have the words somewhere, but I don't know how soon I can dig them up.

Don

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 03:02 PM

Sad how songs get lost over time, isn't it. As a very recent girl guide, the only songs mentioned here that I've sung are "Kumbaya" (with hand motions) and "Land of the Silver Birch" - always a favourite.

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: GUEST,Zulu Warrior
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 03:30 PM

I was a brownie in the 50s in Hertfordshire - the only song I recognise so far (apart from Kumbaya which we never sang) is the Zulu one, but I never heard it until I moved to South Wales 10 years ago, and here it is a Rugby/Drinking song:

Hold him down, Zulu Warrior
Hold him down, Zulu Chief

while everyone chants "Chief, Chief Chief" someone stands on a table with a pint balanced on their head and they have to take off all their clothes and not spill a drop....a friend tells me that he got thrown out of a pub for doing this...

Brownies was never as much fun as Rugby

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: clueless don
Date: 16 Apr 04 - 04:07 PM

I thought I had read this thread pretty carefully, but I now see that the words to "Rise up, Oh flame" were posted above by Burke on 08 Oct 03 - 10:18 PM. The tune given at the site linked in Burke's post sounds close to, but not exactly the same as, the tune I remember, so I will still try to get around to looking it up.

Don

Subject: ADD: Brownie Smile Song
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Apr 05 - 01:48 AM

My wife was humming her way through the Girl Scout Pocket Songbook this evening, so I hummed a Girl Scout song back at her. She identified it as "Father's Whiskers." She was close, but not quite the song I was thinking of. Here it is:

Brownie Smile Song
(words and music by Harriet F. Heywood)

I've something in my pocket,
It belongs across my face;
And I keep it very close at hand
In a most convenient place.

I'm sure you couldn't guess it
If you guessed a long, long while,
So I'll take it out and put it on -
It's a great big Brownie smile!

from: Still Singing After All These Years: A Commenorative Songbook Presented by the Mid-Atlantic Girl Scout Councils (1977)

---

Click to play

Note that this is a regional book - I didn't find it in any of the national or international Girl Scout songbooks (see index - click).

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: Azizi
Date: 18 Apr 05 - 09:33 AM

I was a Brownie in the late 1950s Atlantic City New Jersey.

Although we weren't really Girl Scouts yet, I remember the troup singing this song:

Girl Scouts together,
that is our song.
Winding the old trails
rocky and long
Learning our motto,
living our creed.
Girl Scouts together
in every good deed.

Is this song familiar to anyone else?

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: Azizi
Date: 18 Apr 05 - 12:36 PM

This rhyme was recited by an African American Girl Scout group as they marched in Pittsburgh, Pennslyvania's Black Heritage Day parade [2004]. So it's not really an "old Girl Scout song" or a song at all, but I thought it might still be appropriate to post it in this thread.


Caller: Every we go
Group   Every we go
Caller: People want to know
Group: People want to know
Caller: who we are.
Group: who we are
Caller: So we tell them-
Group: So we tell them-
Caller: We are the Girl Scouts!
Group: We are the Girl Scouts!
Caller: Mighty, mighty Girl Scouts!
Group: Mighty, mighty Girl Scouts!

-snip-

It probably is impossible to find out when groups began using this, but I think it was originally a call & response cheerleader chant.

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: clueless don
Date: 18 Apr 05 - 12:54 PM

I don't know if this is an "old" girl scout song, but my daughter's Brownie troop learned it from an official in our local council. I have the impression that she (i.e. the official) learned it in her girlhood. She insists on calling it "The Alligator Song", though you will see that it never mentions alligators. Here it is (with the possibility of a few mis-remembered words):

She sailed away, on a sunny summer's day,
on the back of a crocodile.

"You see", said she, "he's as tame as tame can be",
"I'll ride him down the Nile".

The croc winked his eye, as she waved her friends goodbye,
wearing a happy smile.

At the end of her ride, the lady was inside,
and the smile was on the crocodile.


Don

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: Susan of DT
Date: 18 Apr 05 - 09:46 PM

I know the brownie/Girl Scout smile (with hand motions) and Girl Scouts Together. Guess I forgot them when entering the first batch of girl scout songs.

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: GUEST,Melani
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 05:48 PM

I believe "Girl Scouts Together" was written in 1941 and won some kind of contest. I will have to look it up.

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: NH Dave
Date: 19 Apr 05 - 11:48 PM

This seems to be many of the verses originally requested.

[Tune: This is the Music Concert]

    * Now I'm a [Boy/Girl] Scout, as you can plainly see.
    * But if I weren't a [Boy/Girl] Scout, ...

   1. A bird watcher I'd be
      Hark a lark, flying through the park, SPLAT!
   2. A plumber I would be
      Plunge it, flush it, look out below!
   3. A mermaid I would be
      Bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop!
   4. A carpenter I'd be
      Two by four, nail it to the floor!

   5. A secretary I'd be
      z-z-z-z get the point, z-z-z-z get the point?
   6. A teacher I would be
      Sit down, shut up, throw away your gum!
   7. An airline attendant I'd be
      Coffee, tea, or me, sir; here's your little bag, BLEH!
   8. A typist I would be
      Ticka, ticka, ticka, ticka, ticka, ticka, ZING!
   9. A hippie I would be
      Love and peace, my hair is full of grease!
10. A farmer I would be
      Here's a cow, there's a cow, and here's another yuck!
11. A laundry worker I would be
      Starchy here, starchy there, starchy in your underwear!
12. A cashier I would be
      Twenty nine, forty nine, here is your change, sir!
13. A gym teacher I'd be
      We must, we must, improve the bust!
14. A medic I would be
      Turn around, drop your pants, jab, jab, jab!
15. A doctor I would be
      Take a pill; pay my bill! I'm going golfing!
16. An electrician I would be
      Positive, negative; turn on the juice--ZZZT!
17. A fireman I would be
      Jump lady! Jump lady! Whoo-ooah! GOTCHA!
18. A cook I would be
      Mix it, bake it; heartburn--BURP!
19. A ice cream maker I'd be
      Tutti-frutti, tutti-fruitti, nice ice cream!
20. A politician I would be
      Raise the taxes, lower the pay, vote for me on election day!
21. A butcher I would be
      Chop it up, grind it up, make a little patty!
22. A garbage collector I'd be
      Lift it, dump it, sort out the goodies!
23. A [Domino's] pizza maker I'd be
      30 minute, fast delivery!
24. A clam digger I would be
      Dig one here, dig one there--Oh my frozen derriere!
25. Superman I would be
      It's a bird, it's a plane, where is Lois Lane?
26. Lois Lane I would be
      Get away, get away, get away, Clark Kent!
27. A cyclist I would be
      peddle, peddle, peddle, peddle; ring, ring, ring!
28. A truck driver I'd be
      Here's a curve, there's a curve. HERE'S A BETTER CURVE! [Makes outline of shapely woman.]
29. A house cleaner I'd be
      Ooh, a bug; squish it in the rug!
30. A baby [toddler] I would be
      Mama, Dada, I wuv you!
31. A Preacher I would be
      Well, well, you never can tell; you might go to heaven, or you might go to hell!

Finally: A [Opposite organization] Scout I would be!

Dave

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 20 Apr 05 - 06:54 AM

I remember one I used to sing that started off...
Land of the Silver Birch, Home of the beaver
Where still the mighty moose, wanders at will,
Blue Lake and Rocky shore,
I will return once more,
Boomdidlyidi, boomdidlyidi, boomdidlyidi, boom...

Can't remember the rest though....any ideas?

Subject: RE: lyric add: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: itsRena
Date: 08 Feb 06 - 08:09 PM

just want to say that finding this site a few weeks ago was a true thrill! I just signed up as a memberAnd you all have been very helpfull with song research that I'm doing. I'm not a girl scout but a 1960's campfire girl from Camp Nawakwa in so.Cal. As a [I went by 'Sam'] campfire girl I just want to say that I see that we all love & sing many of the same songs.

One of my favorites is what I remember calling 'Above a Plain' someone in this thread I believe it is called, mentioned it but can't remember who. . .
Here is how I sing it:

Above a a plain of golden and green
a young boy's head is planly seen

Awh, who-yah-who-yah-who-yah-yah
swiftly flowing water
Awh, who-yah-who-yah-who-yah-yah
swiftly flowing water (la-beh-e)sp?

But notice not his lifted head
'tis Ifka's castle spire instead

Awh, who-yah-who-yah-who-yah-yah
swiftly flowing water
Awh, who-yah-who-yah-who-yah-yah
swiftly flowing water (la-beh-e)sp?

---I sing it in rounds---

Also,
I've not seen mentioned. . .

'Ho! Young Rider'

Here is how I sing this one:

Ho! young Rider apple-cheeked one
wither riding?
on your sted so black and prancing
wither riding?
what matters where I ride
slovoc mountians are my pride

dusa moja, dusa moja

I just repeat it over and over and over. . .

I really would love it if anyone knows any other verses or info on where these originally come from, or author or anything. ..

Thanks in advance
glad to be abord!
rena

---

Apple-Cheeked Rider

Above a Plain

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: GUEST,WOL
Date: 11 Apr 06 - 10:54 AM

Hi Rena,
I learned "Ho,Young Rider" just as you did, except in the Girl Scouts. A friend of mine who is expert in Europeon songs found another verse. The two are arranged differently & go like this: Ho, young rider, apple-cheeked on, whither riding? On your steed so fine & prancing whither riding? What matters where I ride? Slovak mountains are my pride   Dusa moja
Ho, young rider, apple-cheeked one Whither riding? On your steed, so black & handsome. Whither riding? What matters where I roam? Slovak mountains are my home. Dusa moja, dusa moja. Hey!

He said dusa moja translates to "my love". The words seem to be Slovak. The tune dates to around 1607 & is the same family as "Hey Ho Nobody Home". So the tune is about 400 years old. I arrange the verses however I like, with the first verse as we learned it.
I hope this is helpful.
Best regards, WOL

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: Charley Noble
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 08:23 AM

Clueless Don-

Just in case you're checking in after a year, the fragment about the lady riding the crocodile down the Nile seems to follow the same basic plot as the more well known limerick "The Lady from Niger" who ending up inside a tiger, which don't exist in Niger (unless there is a zoo there) but not to worry it's the message that's important.

Apparently Tom Lehrer never penned an affirmative action ditty to his imfamous "Be Prepared" the boyscounts' marching song.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: clueless don
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 11:22 AM

Thanks Charley! I had never heard of a limerick called "The Lady from Niger", but I have led rather a sheltered life, I suppose.

I just googled it, and it isn't one I had ever heard before. Thanks for adding to my education!

Don

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: Charley Noble
Date: 12 Apr 06 - 01:10 PM

Don-

Now you are Les' Clueless!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Jun 06 - 11:16 PM

Read this thread while getting ready to teach a lesson on water for Scouts at day camp.   Looking for "Peace, I ask of thee o river", and found this treasure. Now I am really in the mood for camp with Brownies tomorrow.   One of my favorites was a call and response...The other day, the other day, I saw a bear, I saw a bear, out in the woods, away out there.   A lot of other adventures happened to the bear...who knows the rest?    Kelly

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: Scoville
Date: 27 Jun 06 - 12:21 PM

My mother still has her Girl Scout songbooks and occasionally will mention something she learned when she was in scouts, but the only one she sings on a regular basis is "Amazing Grace" to the tune of "House of the Rising Sun", which she learned from some girls from New Orleans at a gathering in Wyoming in 1965. I've seen that mentioned before. Try it. It's weird the first couple of times and then it sounds perfectly normal.

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: Susan of DT
Date: 27 Jun 06 - 01:13 PM

Kelly - The other day I saw a bear is in the Digital Tradition as the other day I met a bear.

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Jun 06 - 01:33 PM

When does a Cub Scout become a Boy Scout?

When he's old enough to eat a Brownie.

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: GUEST,Really old scout
Date: 22 Jul 06 - 09:42 AM

Barges brought me to this site. The western PA Girl Scout camp songs (c. 1962) I'm looking for are:

Mandy

and

a song about two children lost in the woods.

Anybody remember these ballads?

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: Cathie
Date: 22 Jul 06 - 09:58 AM

'The quarter masters stores' was a favourite British song.

There was Jenny Jenny,
dying to spend a penny
in the stores, in the stores,
There was Jenny Jenny,
dying to spend a penny
in the quarter master's stores.

My eyes are dim,I cannot see,
I have not brought my specs with me
I have not brought my specs with me.

There was Mary, Mary,
looking very hairy
in the stores etc etc

Active song writing round the camp fire.

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: Anne Lister
Date: 22 Jul 06 - 06:06 PM

Don't know about Mandy, but the two children in the woods - is that Babes in the Wood? ("Pretty babes in the wood, oh don't you remember the babes in the wood").

Anne

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: Susan of DT
Date: 23 Jul 06 - 07:51 AM

Really Old Scout

Both Mandy Was a Little Bahama Girl and Babes in the Wood are in the Digital Tradition. Use the lyric seach box at the top of the page.

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: GUEST,Nana (camp name) Washington State
Date: 30 Aug 06 - 02:16 AM

Clueless Don-
The lyrics to the song 'The Crocodile' go like this:
She sailed away on a sunny, summer day on the back of a Crocodile.
"You can see," said she, "He's as tame as he can be, I'll ride him down the Nile." The Croc winked his eye as she waved them all good-bye, waring a happy smile. At the end of the ride, the lady was inside and the smile was on the Crocodile.
It can be found in a little Girl Scout song book entitled; Melinda Caroll Presents Girl Scouts Greatest Hits, Pocket Songbook of Vol's 1-6 and A World of Peace (2003) This little puppy has many of the songs mentioned in this thread.

Sondra

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: GUEST,Mandy
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 01:32 PM

The Browny Smile Song By Harriet F. Haywood has been around a long time. Does anyone know how ong? What Year was it forst uded by the Girl Scouts?

Mandy

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: Genie
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 08:41 PM

Actually, I didn't realize there was such thing as an "old Girl Scout." I thought the upper age limit was, like, 18 or something.

Genie

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: open mike
Date: 21 Sep 07 - 10:32 PM

old girl scouts just want more comforts while camping!

I just got a girl scout song book from my cousin who
is going thru her deceased mother's posessions. This
little book is called "Scoutenanny!" and was printed in
Illinois..probably in the '60's I see no date in it.

It has 64 pages, with songs from A-Jogging along
(Hi, Come along Jim along Josie, Hi come along jim along Joe)\
to Zum Gali Gali--including Waltzing Matilda, White Coral Bells,

It makes me regret not singing more to my children as they were
growing up.

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: GUEST,idebbi
Date: 20 Apr 08 - 11:32 PM

when i was in girl scouts in the early 60's all the CITs (counselors-in-training)and counselors at camp sugar pine in the calif sierras had small binders where we wrote the words to each camp song we knew....those with guitar skills also recorded the chords to accompany the songs....my binder was bulging....the covers splayed outwards....it was probably 5 inches thick....i treasured that book!!....alas....when my own kids were in scouts i loaned it to another scout mother who wanted to start a song fest....the last i heard of it, she left it on a table in a park....it was never seen again....sigh....

wouldn't i love to have it today for responding to requests on this site....instead of relying on my 60+ yr old memory....

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: GUEST,Melissa
Date: 20 Apr 08 - 11:36 PM

It's good to have another scout around!

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: Bettynh
Date: 14 Apr 10 - 07:56 AM

This always felt like part of a song:

Where does the wind come from, does anybody know?
Where does the wind come from before (s)he starts to blow?
On Saturday night where does (s)he hang his(her) hat?
Does anybody know where the wind is at?
Where does the wind come from, does anybody know-o-o-oo-o-o

The gender of the wind was a point of discussion. We were Girl Scouts. ;-)

Usually we'd immediately follow with "Desert's Silvery Blue" (discussed here) which has a very similar tune.

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 23 Nov 10 - 07:17 AM

mandy was a bahama girl

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Sep 11 - 05:11 PM

i didnt know it as a girl scout song. we did it in a church group.
'if i were not a mennonite i know just what i'd be, if i were not a mennonite a stewardess i'd be crying: coffee sir, tea sir, have a paper bag blech.
next person: chicken farmer crying: pluck a chicken, pluck a chicken, wring its scrawny neck hehe
Icecream scooper: ooshy gooshy ooshy gooshy good ice cream -slurp-
baby doll: hi mommy, hi daddy, i love you -razzbery noise-
farmers wife: c'mom bessie give, the baby's gotta live

by the end each person is doing their chant all at once

very funny
i know there are more verses, but thats all i can remember, thats why i was looking for the same song--hopeing someone knew more of it

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: GUEST
Date: 13 Oct 11 - 11:06 PM

A friend was singing the most beautiful song tonight while we looked at the moon - it told the story of one person speaking to another about their love. at the end the "narrator" had given his/her heart to the other, who now had two hearts. it was maybe 3 verses long. my friend announced that it was an old girl scouts song from the 1950s. i suppose i could ask him what it was called, but i wanted to see if i could locate it myself. i am having no luck....

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: GUEST,Ole Gal
Date: 09 Feb 12 - 11:34 AM

Does your (chewn(choon)(chung) gum lose it's flavor on the bedpost every night
If you chew it in the mornining will it be too hard to bite
Can't you see I'm going crazy
Won't somebody set me right
Does your chewn gum lose it's flavor on the bedpost every night.

A girl scout song yes;two people, and the thing was to sing it immediately and faster each following try. The last one to sing it without making a mistake was the winner

WWII Girl Scout

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: GUEST,Hope Page
Date: 13 Apr 12 - 07:30 PM

Debbie: I was a camper at Camp Sugar Pine in the mid 50s. Do you remember a song we used to sing each night.
Goodnight Camp Sugar Pine
The sun sets in the West
This third line I can't remember and it's driving me crazy.
Each bird is in its nest.

Goodnight Camp Sugar Pine
The sky with stars is bright.
The watch they'll keep while we're asleep
Goodnight, goodnight, goodnight.

If you can remember that third line, I would be ever so grateful.
Thanks.

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: olddude
Date: 13 Apr 12 - 08:41 PM

how about black socks they never get dirty the longer you wear them the blacker they get

someday, maybe I'll wash them but somehow I think that I won't do it yet ...

remember that one, it is a girl scout song