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Scout Songs From: Jen M Date: 07 Oct 03 - 06:56 AM Here We Are (as I learned it in central PA in the 60's)It's kind of out of date.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:
(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 playNote 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 |
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