Camp ong Expert? (Camp songs?)

Subject: Camp Song Expert?
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 15 Mar 05 - 11:32 PM

from the Ballad-L List

Joe, are you there?

Hi,

Can anyone recommend someone who
can be an expert on the subject of camp songs?

There is a reporter on KQED who would like to know.

Please send the info directly to me.

thanks for any help,


Karen Ellis
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Subject: RE: Camp ong Expert?
From: open mike
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 01:31 AM

if you are talking about camp ong, i do not know where it is.
on the other hand songs --i do know a few

Ragtime cowboy joe comes to mind
and this one about a horse (it is a round)

I like to ride a horse and buggy
I like to ride all over town
I like to hear old Dobbin go clip clop
I like to see those wheels go round
(wheels go round)


Horsie, horsie, on your way,
we've been together for many a day
so let your tail go swish and
your wheels go 'round
giddy up we're homeward bound

th4en there is the silly one:

pi-co-lo-mi-ni, pi-co-lo-mi-ni, pi-co-lo-mi-ni, pi-co,
lo-mi-ni-pi-co-lo-mi-ni-pi-co-lo-mi-ni-pi-co-lo-mi-ni-pi,
co-lo-mi-ni-pi-co-lo-mi-ni-pi-co-lo-mi-ni-pi-co-lo-mi-ni

it loses a lot in the translation, but these are fun ones
that have stuck with me all these years..

also goofy ones like:
sitting in my cabin one dark night
every thing was still, still
turned around a saw a guy
chewing on the window sill
bite the wall, bite the wall,
bite the wall, ooh ooh,
bite the wall, bite the wall,
baby, bite the wall

the girl scouts taught me many many songs..
they have a song book. and i am sure
there would be someone in teh bay area
girl scout council who has a lot of songs to share.
Our official address is www.girlscoutsbayarea.org.
is kqed in sacto or frisco?

rise up oh flame, by thy light glowing,
show to me beauty, vision and joy...

peace i ask of thee oh river, peace, peace, peace..
when i learn to live cares will cease
from the hills i gather courage,
vision of the day to be
strength to lead and faith to follow
all are given unto me
peace i ask of thee oh river, peace, peace, peace..

Subject: RE: Camp ong Expert?
From: LadyJean
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 01:42 AM

You could check with Josepha Sherman, the "Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts" lady. Or you could check several mudcat threads.   There's a Girl Scout song thread on here, and a thread about the song "Barges".

Subject: RE: Camp ong Expert?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 10:33 AM

The thread request was not about songs, but about the name of a "camp song expert", as I understand it.

And I ain't it.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Camp ong Expert?
From: open mike
Date: 16 Mar 05 - 10:45 AM

the best source of songs in general is the Rise Up Singing book
published by sing out! magazine. there is always an exclamation
point in sing out!(except in their URL http://www.singout.org/)

Subject: RE: Camp Song Expert?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 17 Mar 05 - 06:06 AM

Hi, Dick - yes, Blessings Barbara put Karen in touch with me. I gave her links to A Prairie Home Companion Camp-Song Songbook, and to sometime Mudcatter Aminal Al Boyce's Many Point Sing-Along Songbook.

I gave her links to our camp songs threads (above), and to our threads on "Naughty Kids' Greatest Hits."

I also suggested she should contact Judy Cook and Caroline Paton, but they only know girls' camp songs, which are a horse of a different color.

-Joe Offer-

Dang! I should have given her Girl Scout Favorites.