Old Girl Scout Songs

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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,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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Nigel Parsons
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 03:52 AM

Brief mention of contemporary use here!

Nigel

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: LadyJean
Date: 06 Oct 03 - 08:32 PM

I encountered the chant first mentioned at Freshman Talent Night, at Transylvania College in Lexington Kentucky, 20 years ago. A group of the girls did it. My roommate's verse was, "A drunk me, pop a cork and take a swig and spend the night in jail." As she was a class A lush, of the most annoying kind, it was singularly appropriate.

Zumba Zumba was a Marais and Miranda song, I think. (Mom had their 78s.) The second verse is "See him there beside the fire! See him there beside the flame!"

At that same Freshman talent night, I sang Ewen McColl's "The Maid's Gang Tae the Mill and Back". Most of the audience didn't understand it. Which is how I got away with singing that song at a small, southern, denominational college.

Subject: Lryic Add: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: Tinker
Date: 06 Oct 03 - 08:32 PM

Desert Silvery Blue has a thread here.
^^
I've got a different version

I Know a Place
^^
I know a place where the sun is like gold
And the cheery blooms burst with snow--ow
And down underneaath is the lovliest nook
Where the four leaf clovers grow

One leaf is for faith and one is for hope
And one is for love we know-ow
And God put another in for luck
If you search you will find where they grow.

But you must have faith and you must have hope
You must love and be strong and so--oo
If you watch if you wait you will find the place
Where the four leaf clovers grow.


White Coral Bells has a thread here.

That's all I can find for now...Susan, maybe we can cornor JUdy Cook and do Girl Scout Songs at Getaway???

Tinker

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: PageOfCups
Date: 06 Oct 03 - 04:46 PM

Back to the original question again - I saw this song done in college, as entertainment for a group. It went something like:

If I wasn't in (group name)
Something else I'd rather be
If I wasn't in (group name)
A (fill in the blank) I'd be

The verse about Bessie was for "A farmer's wife I'd be":
Give, Bessie, give - the baby's gotta live! (miming milking a cow)

Another verse was: "An ice cream maker I'd be":
Ooshy gooshy, ooshy gooshy, good ice cream! (miming churning, then licking a cone)

I remember the window washer verse only vaguely and don't recall the words.

PoC

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: NH Dave
Date: 06 Oct 03 - 11:55 AM

Rather than posting all the songs here, why not do a Google search for Girl or Boy Scout Songs, or check here Scouting Songs

Dave
a NH Scouter

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs
From: Susan of DT
Date: 06 Oct 03 - 10:58 AM

Here is what I remember of some of the somgs mentioned, which may not be complete, so please post additions.

SWINGING ALONG THE OPEN ROAD

Swinging along the open road
Swinging along under a sky that's clear
Swinging along the open road
All in the Fall, in the Fall of the year
Swinging along, swinging along the open road
All in the Fall of the year

ZULU WARRIOR

I give a zumba, zumba, zumba
I give a zumba zumba zay

See him dance, the Zulu warior
See him dance, the Zulu chief, chief, chief...

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Songs - coffee/tea...
From: Susan of DT
Date: 06 Oct 03 - 10:43 AM

A lot of songs have been mentioned in this thread, many of which are already in the DT. Some I can easily enter, but many others I do not know, so I need you to post them. A summary:

Coffee Tea of Me                partial version posted, can someone
                                    finish it?
Canoe Paddle                   posted, harvested
Girl Scouts Together            I'll enter it
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            please post
Oleanna                         already in
Border Trail                   please post
While Coral Bells               please post- I know some of it...
Make New Friends                already in
Kumbayah                        I can't believe it isn't there
                                  I'll enter it
Yosha & Josha                   please post
Been Ridin'                     please post
Winkin, Blinkin & Nod          I must have somewhere, but...
I know a place                  partial posting, please complete
Tall timbers calling            already in The Seine harvested
Roll ye covered wagons please post
Desert Silver Blue please post
Ash Grove already in, version 2
Happy when I'm hiking please post
Zulu Warrior I'll post what I know and you can add
I love the Daffodils already in
Swinging Along the Open Road I'll post what I know
Rise Up o Flame please post
Bells of Ireland harvested
Donkey Riding already in

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Song
From: GUEST,Vikki Appleton Fielden
Date: 05 Oct 03 - 08:35 PM

What I remember from my Girl Scout days (in the 60s) is:

"Here's your coffee, here's your tea, here's your paper bag (bleah!!)"

It had hand motions that went with it. The other bits mentioned don't ring a bell.

As I think more about it, I seem to vaguely remember this being part of a skit some of the counselors presented on a sort of talent show evening.

Each "verse" was prefaced by a chorus (is it still a chorus if it comes *before* each verse rather than after?) that went:

If I were not a counselor
Something else I'd rather be
If I were not a counselor
A (fill in the blank) I'd be

So the verse I mentioned went with
"A stewardess I'd be" (of course).

I can't remember many of the other "verses", except for
"A chicken-plucker I'd be.

"Pluck a chicken, pluck a chicken, wring its little neck! (Squawk!)"

If any more verses come to me, I'll post them.

I suspect that the chicken-plucker verse may have been "written" that very evening... it strikes me (now -- it didn't then) that it might well be one of those songs where there are a few standard verses and then people come up with their own -- especially if they have more people than verses.

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Song
From: Hollowfox
Date: 30 Jun 00 - 11:48 AM

Folks, the original question seems to have gotten lost in the shuffle. I wish I knew the song, myself,and I'd love to learn it. I wonder if the Girl Scouts website has a place to opst questions?

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Song
From: Allan C.
Date: 30 Jun 00 - 10:35 AM

Open mike, "Rise Up Oh Flame" is a real favorite of mine. I nearly always sing it when in front of a campfire - whether anyone else is there or not!

Oh, and in case nobody else has done so, open mike, Sharon, Allan S., Terry, Annieglenn, okscout, Wendy and ivy b* : I would like to say, welcome to the Mudcat! Glad you are here! Those of you who are still posting as guests - go ahead and do the Membership thing. It costs nothing. You will not be spammed with crap from who knows where. And you will quickly discover the joys of Personal Messages and the ability to put a "Trace" on a favorite discussion thread so that you can easily find it again long after it has drifted off the list. But one of my favorite features is the "Messages since last visit" which is (for me) the "home" page which pops up whenever I get online. For those of you who are already members and haven't taken a look at these features - I urge you to do so. Send me a personal message just to check out that feature if you want. It is fun!

Allan C.

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Song
From: ivy b*
Date: 30 Jun 00 - 05:45 AM

perhaps its something about the difference between 'girl guides' and 'girl scouts' but i never sang any of these songs in any of the troops i was in. we did do 'everywhere we go' which was nice and loud on coaches and on brownie camp we used to sing mild hymns but thats about it. maybe ive been a victim of 'modernisation' and trying to appeal to 'young people nowadays' or maybe it was just something to do with being a guide in south essex... pity because some of these songs sound great. just for the record the 'coffee tea and me' sounds vaugly familiar but i couldnt add anymore lines to what you already have. was it a clapping game or just a song?

ivy b*

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Song
From: Melani
Date: 30 Jun 00 - 02:09 AM

I learned half the folk songs I know in Girl Scouts. It's where I first heard the chantey "Donkey Riding", but had no idea what it was about, with verses like "Was you ever in Quebec, stowing timber on the deck...Riding on a donkey." I had a vision of a small four-legged gray animal carrying a load of long boards...I'd never heard of a donkey engine.

There actually are bunches of gray-haired little old ladies sitting around campfires in uniform singing these songs. Some people really are Girl Scouts for life.

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Song
From: GUEST,open mike
Date: 29 Jun 00 - 06:22 PM

how about rise up oh flame and peace i ask of thee o river? Rosalie sorrels has a tune she does about her grandmothers' gardens which reminds me of white coral bells the chorus goes:^^

These are the bells of ireland
Which in my garden grow
My great grandmother brought
Those seeds from Ireland long ago
Their music it is sweet and sad
Like orphan angels sing
If you listen in your heart
You'll hear those bells of Ireland ring

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Song
From: GUEST,Allan S.
Date: 29 Jun 00 - 04:10 PM

COuldn't resist this thread. Being an old BOY SCOUT 47 years. OLd friends are the best so........... Start an alumni assoc.start searching for people who were in your troop. Go back to the camp for a walk around Sing the old songs and watch the tears start. We have an Alumni assoc. for Camp Sequassen in CT and get together 2 times a year at camp help out with the kids, or just kick back and relax. Sing the old songs and teach them to the new kids, keep the traditions going. Keep those old friends they were the best. good luck Allan

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Song
From: MMario
Date: 29 Jun 00 - 03:38 PM

I have a vague memory of this being done by a gaggle of teenage girls at a summer camp. They claimed they learned it through Girl Scouts.

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Song
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Jun 00 - 03:33 PM

This brings back fond memories of a "banned" Nixon campaign poster showing a very young, very pregnant pigtailed Girl Scout in uniform pointing to her protruding tummy and declaring "Nixon's the One!" (His campaign slogan)

Coffee, tea or me??? I had a troop for years and never heard it.

SS

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Song
From: bet
Date: 29 May 99 - 11:27 AM

Joe, thanks. I did check it out. bet

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Song
From: bet
Date: 28 May 99 - 10:36 PM

THE SEINE^^
1. One night along the river at St. Germainde Pre
I first met my beloved at a small side walk cafe
We walked along the river the shadow passing by
But we only saw each other, the shinning water and the sky.

chorus: The Seine, the Seine, when will I again,
meet her there, greet her there
On the moon light banks of the Seine.

2. Standing there across the river mid sound of horn and tram
In all her quiet beauty the Cathedral Notra Dame
And as we passed beside her, I said a little pray
That when this dream was over, I'd awake and find you there.

3. We walked along the river 'till dawn was coming nigh
Beneath the Eiffel Tower we said our last good-bye
Then on that splendid morn' I saw you all in tears
And the beauty of that hour will shine within me thru the years.

really like this song bet

Click here for related thread.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Song
From: bet
Date: 28 May 99 - 01:23 PM

I like that question, catspaw. If I type it in I will probably get the BS. bet

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Song
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 May 99 - 12:32 AM

OK...So Susan, if I type in BS do I get Boy Scout songs or songs that are totally BS? Just askin'.........

catspaw

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Song
From: Susan of DT
Date: 27 May 99 - 08:22 PM

Bet - I cheat a little, because I know how we set up the filenames. You can search for any phrase in a song between [square brackets] to keep the phrase together. A search for [girl scout*] gets 10 hits. If you fine a song with a number at the bottom, either Child #xx or DT #xxx, you can also search for that # to find its cousins. I mentioned the GS* because others would not know it.

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Song
From: bet
Date: 27 May 99 - 06:24 PM

Thanks Susan, I guess I missed something. I didn't know to look under GS. thanks bet

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Song
From:
Date: 27 May 99 - 12:02 AM

One of my favorite scout songs, probably sung first in California kid camps.
^^
Moon on the meadow,bugs in our ears,
Smoke in our eyes,wet wood and tears,
On up the meadow,water somewhere,
We were the only ones there.

Wild Horse and Slushy, Dry Lakes, the peaks,
Finding the love there everyone seeks
Hiking to rainbows, sunsets and stars
Just finding out who we are.

We will return here one lucky day,
Our hearts will guide us, they've learned the way
People in cities can't understand
Falling in love with the land.

Mooon on the meadow, bugs in our ears,
Smoke in our eyes, wet wood and tears,
On up the meadow, water somewhere
With you my friend, I am there.

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Song
From: Susan of DT
Date: 26 May 99 - 07:58 PM

Under GS* I found:
When E'er You Make a Promise
We Are Called The Girl Scouts
Taps
Mariners' Taps
Our Chalet and
Make New Friends
I also found Tall Timbers (not under GS). The version of Ash Grove I sang in scouts (no one is buried beneath the ash grove) is in. I did not find Swinging Along the Open Road or I Love the Daffodils, so I guess I had better enter them. I was sure The Seine was in, because it was in one of my handwritten notebooks that eventually became the DT, but I guess not.

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Song
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 May 99 - 12:34 AM

Hey, bet! As far as I know capitals don't matter in the DT. If you are looking for a whole title, it helps to put brackets around it like this: [been ridin].

I went through your list and just looked with putting in the titles and came up with just two: Tall Timbers and four versions of Ash Grove (not sure which one you know, cause I don't remember that one). So.....maybe after our "gig" on June 12th we oughta post some of them?

See ya later,

kat

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Song
From: bet
Date: 25 May 99 - 10:22 PM

Susan of DT, I wonder what I am doing wrong. I went to the DT to see which of the songs was not in there, tried all capitals, first letter capital and did not find a single one of the songs. Can you help me? I'll bug kat when she gets home if I need to. thaks bet

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Song
From: Susan of DT
Date: 25 May 99 - 08:26 PM

Nancy - I wonder if we ever got your 200 songs. Did you send them to Connecticut? I donn't remember Dick mentioning them and if they were clearly girl scout related he probably would have delegated them to me.

Sharon - Thanx for the canoe song. I checked the DT for Zulu for Zulu warrior and did not find it, but I think there was a thread about 6 months ago on it.

Bet - At least a few of those are in the DT.

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Song
From: okscout
Date: 25 May 99 - 08:21 PM

Hey, Joe,

I wasn't complaining. DT is the neatest thing I've found on the internet. It was several years ago when Prodigy was #1, AOL had no ads and I thought I was really hot 'cause I could code in QBASIC.

Girl Scout songs, hmmm.

Before I start typing, I'm gonna make sure that they aren't part of DT, okay?

Nancy

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Song
From: Indy Lass
Date: 25 May 99 - 01:34 PM

"I Know a Place" may be the same song we called "Ruthie's Place"

I know a place where no one ever goes
There's peace and quiet, beauty, and repose
It's hidden in a valley beside a mountain stream
And lying there beside that stream I find that I can dream
Only of things of beauty to the eye
Snow peaked mountains tow'ring in the sky
Now I know that God has made this world for me...etc.

Is this the one you're thinking of? 'Cause if it is I can send the rest of the words if you'd like. Does it match the music you know? I don't know how to send the music.

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Song
From: bet
Date: 25 May 99 - 01:18 PM

Night Owl,I'll send words this evening, lunch time doesn't last long enough. Joe, I met to post some last night but spent 3 hours paying BILLS, AAUUGGGGGG! Will work on some tonight. bet

Subject: RE: Old Girl Scout Song
From: Joe Offer
Date: 25 May 99 - 02:50 AM

Say, Nancy - it takes time for songs to get into the database, but they're immediately available to all the world if you post 'em here in the forum. If you have the time, please post them.
-Joe Offer, always looking for good Scout songs-