Camp Songs

[blpsara]

Morning all.

What are some songs that should be included in a Young Women camp songbook? I'm talking both spiritual and fun.

I've been trying to put one together for the girls in my ward, because the past two years I have been to camp, our music has been truly lacking. We sing the same 3 songs over and over and over again, which drives me nuts.

I'm just trying to gather more songs.

[Tally M.]

To be honest, I didn't like most of my camp songs...but, here's a list of what I remember singing.

Little Red Wagon
Princess Pat (and the rigabamboo)

Actually. That's fewer than I thought. I *really* didn't like singing those. I might be able to see if a friend of mine has a copy of our old stake's songbook.

[C is for]

I don't like Princess Pat. Include it because for some reason most other people do.

I like The Boy and the Girl in the Tippy Canoe with the Moon Shining All Around
and something about Noah and Rise and Shine and Give God your Glory Glory
and I can vaguely remember "Linger a little longer" but I don't know exactly how it goes
When I was in YW Scripture Power wasn't standardized in Primary yet so people thought it was a novelty to sing it

[Squirrel]

I really like the "flicker the light of the campfire" and then the second part "I know a place where no one ever goes" and on the third verse it's a duet of both of the parts. It's a really fun, but calm song. We used to sing it every night before bed.

As for silly songs, there's the Beaver time song, Little Red Caboose, and "Me, I live in an itty bitty housie".

[Random]

I actually stole a YW songbook from camp one time... I might still have it kicking around somewhere. If I find it, I can tell you what's in it. I remember singing Sippin Cider a lot, and there was one about Noah that sometimes we sang a lot, and sometimes we only sang it once on a campout.

[UffishThought]

In addition to the ones mentioned, I remember:

One about a baby shark (doot do, doot doot do do.)
There was one about the Titanic going down that they stopped letting us sing because it was irreverent.
One about the moon. "I see the moon, the moon sees me, the moon sees somebody I'd like to see. . . "
Great green gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts.
Whatleeatcha. Or whatever. It was a nonsense song.
One that started off as a peaceful morning song talking about birds waking up, but quickly became shouty. "With a wing on the left! and a wing on the right! the little birds slumbered, all through the night. Shhh! YOU'LL WAKE THE DUMB BIRDS!"

There were many, many more. We had a huge songbook with many songs we never learned, but we also had a fairly large rotation and sang morning, noon, and night. And occasionally in between. But at the time, I really loved Princess Pat, Baby Shark, The Boy and the Girl in the Little Canoe, Noah, and Sipping Cider Through a Straw. Anything with actions or repetitiveness, it looks like now.

[Genuine Article]

Barges, blue jay with a whooping cough, princess pat, gopher guts, baby shark, look on the sunny side, the other day I met a bear.

[blpsara]

Thank you all so much. I have quite a few of these, but I had forgotten about a few as well.

Uffish - we sang the Titanic song when I was growing up too....and I guess it is kind of irreverent...but I like it anyway.

[Whistler]

I'm a big fan of camp songs! Unfortunately you kind of have to have someone teach you the tune to most of them. If you are curious about some of these songs I could sing them to you over skype or heck, maybe I could even come to camp for a day!

-I'm bringing home a baby bumblebee
-City girls / mountain girls (http://dragon.sleepdeprived.ca/songbook ... /S9_66.htm)
-"She sat in her garden and strummed her guitar" http://boyscouttrail.com/content/song/s ... e-1377.asp (alternate moral: "never trust guys").
-"a pizza hut a pizza hut kentucky fried chicken and a pizza hut" (http://www.scoutsongs.com/lyrics/pizza-hut.html)
-here is a version of Uffish's baby shark song: http://www.scoutsongs.com/lyrics/baby-shark.html
-we sung a variant of this song that was just about bananas: http://boyscouttrail.com/content/song/g ... as-614.asp
-"ooey ooey ooey to georgie" (lyrics on post #28747 http://www.acamessageboards.org/forum/u ... 3&page=158)
-this one about jonnie rebbeck http://www.scoutsongs.com/lyrics/johnnyverbeck.html
-"Father Abraham" (http://www.scoutsongs.com/lyrics/fatherabraham.html only with "I am one of them, and so are you")
-"You can't ride in my red wagon" (it's just a song where you sing louder and louder each verse http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index ... 553AAKid6T)
-one similar to this one: http://www.oocities.org/pagedavies/hapwe.htm : "I am a mutual girl / a mutual girl am I / and if I weren't a mutual girl..." a secretary I would be! type this, file that, hi boss /a life guard I would be! save yourself save yourself I'm workin' on my tan / an opera singer I would be! figaro figaro eee, figaro figaro eee! and more verses I can't remember

-"I don't want to get married, I'm having too much fun" (based on http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/I+Don+t+Wan ... TydG?src=5 ??)

here are the lyrics we sang: I don't want to get married, I'm having too much fun / I don't want to settle down with any certain one / I go out with all the fellows; treat them all the same / to marry one and leave the rest would be a dirty shame! OOOOOOH / I wanna get married, I wanna be a wife, wife, wife / I'm sick and tired, of this single life life, life / tall dark and handsome / short skinny or fat fat fat / I wanna get married, and that's all there is to that that that.... as long as he is / loaded with money money loaded with money / loaded with money money loaded with money / I don't care if he's short fat or tall / I don't care if he's not a man at all / I don't care if he's sick and bloated / as long as he is loaded with money money loaded with money LOADED!


More "song-like" songs (work best with someone who has a guitar):
-"It's a web like a spider's web" (http://mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=1213&c=23 you gotta sing it faster than that in a group though)
-barges http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF2i6RQUqAE
-one of my favorites, Donna Donna Donna: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqzGZ5AaeSs; we sang the rightmost lyrics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Donna)

Anyway that's probably more than you wanted!

[bobtheenchantedone]

That's funny... I was thinking about camp songs just this morning and about how much I disliked them. I've had "Grandma's Feather Bed" stuck in my head since then.

We sang the "web like a spider's web" and "barges" songs as a round.

[blpsara]

Whistler - Thank you!!!

There's a few here I haven't heard of, so I'm excited to go home after work and try to listen/read them.

It's funny how much the wording can change from one stake to another - on the I wanna get married song, where you sang

I don't care if he's short fat or tall / I don't care if he's not a man at all / I don't care if he's sick and bloated / as long as he is loaded with money money loaded with money LOADED!

we sang

I don't care if he's short, fat, or tall / I don't care if he's handsome at all / I don't care if he's old or corroded / just give me a man that is loaded with money money...etc.

Funny.

[S.A.M.]

I don't care if he's short fat or tall / I don't care if he's not a man at all / I don't care if he's sick and bloated / as long as he is loaded with money money loaded with money LOADED!

we sang

I don't care if he's short, fat, or tall / I don't care if he's handsome at all / I don't care if he's old or corroded / just give me a man that is loaded with money money...etc.

Wow. I don't remember singing a song like this at scout camp:

I don't care if she's short small or tall / I don't care if she's very smart at all / I don't care if she's ditzy or not / as long as she is totally hot hot hot totally HOT!

It would probably have been banned pretty quickly!

[Tally M.]

If you have any requests for lyrics/songs, my former camp leader found her songbook.

[Whistler]

oh! I was thinking about the Zulu King song and I found the lyrics for it too: http://www.smartlyrics.com/Song502665-U ... yrics.aspx

[thatonemom]

We sang that one, only about a cannibal king. And he'd build a bungalow "big enough for two, big enough for you." But my 13 year old self had no problem reconciling that they'd be happily married with the idea that he was a cannibal, and apparently fattening her up.

We sang Honey You Can't Love One, too.

Oh girls camp. Good times. Except for when it wasn't.

[SmurfBlueSnuggie]

I'll go find my camp song book in a bit, but I want to put another vote in for Barges. I loved it the one year it was included in our book, and I was really sad no one knew it the next couple of years. Probably my favorite camp song ever.

[Whistler]

We sang that one, only about a cannibal king. And he'd build a bungalow "big enough for two, big enough for you." But my 13 year old self had no problem reconciling that they'd be happily married with the idea that he was a cannibal, and apparently fattening her up.

We sang Honey You Can't Love One, too.

Oh girls camp. Good times. Except for when it wasn't.

yeah, ours was about a cannibal king too! Maybe more politically correct?

[Portia]

S.A.M. The correct version of the song is for the girl to bring in more money/cone from a better background. It's gotten me guys.

And yes that song is terrible. >.<

[blpsara]

I have a confession. I don't know the barges song. I'll have to see if I can find the melody so I can learn it.

I'm an idiot for putting off finishing the songbook until the week before we go to camp. Good thing I don't have a lot going on this weekend!

[Genuine Article]

Here's one of barges: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF2i6RQUqAE