BAG’S BOOK OF BELOVED CAMP SONGS First Edition Published By Tall Dogs, Inc. Copyright May 2003 All Rights Reserved TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE Action Songs................................................................ 1 Camp Songs.................................................................. 8 Contemporary Folk Songs............................................ 21 Graces........................................................................... 31 Gross Camp Songs....................................................... 34 Group Songs................................................................. 39 Irish Songs.................................................................... 44 Patriotic Songs.............................................................. 50 Polkas and More........................................................... 58 Religious Folk Songs................................................... 62 Rounds.......................................................................... 67 Silly Songs.................................................................... 69 Traditional Folk Songs................................................... 74 Underwear Songs........................................................... 83 Alphabetical Index......................................................... 86 ACTION SONGS SONG PAGE Little Cabin in the Woods.............................................. 2 An Old Austrian............................................................. 2 A-Root-Chy-Cha............................................................ 2 Salt and Pepper............................................................... 3 Flea.................................................................................. 3 Three Long Neck Buzzards............................................ 3 If You Are Happy and You Know It............................... 4 Head and Shoulders Knees and Toes............................. 4 Father Abraham.............................................................. 4 The Grand Old Duke of York......................................... 5 Singing in the Rain.......................................................... 5 My Aunt Came Back....................................................... 5 My Auntie Monica........................................................... 5 Linstead Market............................................................... 6 My Name is Joe................................................................ 6 With My Hand on Myself................................................ 7 Peanut Butter.................................................................... 7 Black Prince...................................................................... 7 Let the Sunshine In........................................................... 7 Page 1 Little Cabin in the Woods Maid's papa [slap] - this verse ends the song!! Little Cabin in the Woods [draw cabin with A-Root-Chy-Cha fingers] Little man by the window stood [hand on Hands up! (echo) forehead like blocking sun] Wrists together! (echo) Saw a rabbit hopping by [two fingers hopping] CHORUS Knocking at my door [knock in air] A-root-chy-cha, a-root-chy-cha, a-root- Help me! Help me! Help me he cried! [raise chy-cha CHA! arms up and down] A-root-chy-cha, a-root-chy-cha, a-root- 'Fore the hunter shoots me dead [make gun chy-cha CHA! with hand] Hands Up! (echo) Come little rabbit, come inside [come in Wrists together! (echo) motion] Elbows In! (echo) (keep adding the Safely to abide. [craddling one arm with the motion) other] A-root-chy-cha, a-root-chy-cha, a-root- [Drop one verse each time while chy-cha CHA! keeping the motions and speeding up.] A-root-chy-cha, a-root-chy-cha, a-root- chy-cha CHA! An Old Austrian Hands Up! (echo) Wrists together! (echo) An old Austrian went climbing on a Elbows In! (echo) mountain top high, Head back! (echo) When along came an Avalanche interrupting his cry..... A-root-chy-cha, a-root-chy-cha, a-root- chy-cha CHA! CHORUS A-root-chy-cha, a-root-chy-cha, a-root- Oh ley kee [pat knees] chy-cha CHA! Oh [pat] ley [clap] KeeKee [snap] Oh [pat] ley [clap] kookoo [snap] SWISH (Do Motions. Keep going back to the [sound/motion for avalanche] 2x beginning, adding one motion each time Oh Ley keekee oh..... and doing the "root-chy-cha" chorus. During the chorus, move to the beat.) An old Austrian went climbing on a mountain top high Additional Verses: When along came a grizzly bear interrupting Knees together.... his cry. [GRRR] Toes together.... Saint bernard [panting sound] Bottom out.... Milking cow Eyes closed.... Fair maiden [kiss] Tongue out..... Page 2 Oh, no no no, not the veeslay. Ich a mini, satch a mini, oo walla walla mini. Des a mini, satch a mini, oo walla wall. Salt and Pepper A beat billy oaten bobin obo a boatin bobin obo a boatin bobin boatin bobin boatin bobin boatin bobin sssshhh... My name is salt [clap clap clap clap] My name is pepper [clap clap clap clap] Fleas (echo) I taste real good [clap clap clap clap] Fleas Flies (echo) I taste like pepper [clap clap clap clap] Fleas Flies Mosquitos (echo) When salt goes away [clap clap clap clap] Calimine, calimine, calimine lotion Pepper starts to cry wa wa wa wa Oh no, no more calimine lotion When salt comes back [clap clap clap clap] Itsy bitsy, teeny weeny, itty bitty We are together! Nasty bitey mosquito -- SQUASH (squash is yelled at top of lungs) Flea Flea! (echo) Keep the beat by alternately slapping thighs Flea Fly! (echo) and clapping hands: Flea Fly Flo! (echo) Vista Flea! (echo) Coo-ma-la, Coo-ma-la, Coo-ma-la Vista Flea Fly! (echo) Oh no-no, no, not the vista Flea Fly Mosquito! (echo) Eenie, meenie, decimeenie, oo walla walla Oh no no no no Mosquito! meenie! Get that big bad bug with the bug spray! Ex a meenie, zoll a meenie, oo walla wall! PSSSSSSSSSSH (spray can sound) Beep billy ott in dotten oh bo ba beaten Repeat three or more times, each time a little dotten shh! faster. Three Long Neck Another Version: Flea! (echo) Buzzards Flea Fly! (echo) Flea Fly Flo! (echo) Three Long Neck Buzzards Three Long Neck Buzzards Eenie, meenie, decimeenie, oo wall a wall a meenie! Three Long Neck Buzzards Ex a meenie, zoll a meenie, oo wall a wall! Sitting on a dead Tree! Beep billy ott in dotten oh bo ba beaten One Flew Away! Oh no! dotten shh! Two Long Neck Buzzards Flea! (echo) Two Long Neck Buzzards Flea fly! (echo) Two Long Neck Buzzards Flea fly flow! (echo) Sitting on a dead tree! Kumalata kumalata kumalata veeslay! One Flew Away! Oh no! Page 3 If you're happy and you know it, do all One Long Neck Buzzards three! One Long Neck Buzzards If you're happy and you know it, do all One Long Neck Buzzards three! Sitting on a dead tree! If you're happy and you know it, One Flew Away! Oh no! And you really want to show it, If you're happy and you know it, do all No Long Neck Buzzards three! No Long Neck Buzzards No Long Neck Buzzards Head, Shoulders, Knees Sitting on a dead tree! And Toes If You're Happy And You Head, shoulders, knees and toes, Know It Knees and toes. Head, shoulders, knees and toes, If you're happy and you know it, clap your Knees and toes. hands! And eyes, and ears, and mouth, If you're happy and you know it, clap your And nose. hands! Head, shoulders, knees and toes, If you're happy and you know it, Knees and toes. And you really want to show it, If you're happy and you know it, clap your [Place both hands on parts of body as they hands! are mentioned. On second time speed up, and get faster with each verse.] If you're happy and you know it, stamp your feet! Father Abraham If you're happy and you know it, stamp your Father Abraham had seven sons. feet! Seven sons had father Abraham. If you're happy and you know it, And he never laughed, and he never cried. And you really want to show it, All he did was go like this: If you're happy and you know it, stamp your feet! Additional Verses: 1. with his left [arm] If you're happy and you know it, shout 2. with his right [arm] hooray! 3. with his left [leg] If you're happy and you know it, shout 4. with his right [leg] hooray! 5. and a wiggle If you're happy and you know it, 6. and the head And you really want to show it, 7. all around If you're happy and you know it, shout 8. and the tongue hooray! 9. sit down Page 4 The Grand Old Duke Of And she brought with her A wooden shoe. York, He had ten thousand men. My aunt came back, He marched them up the hill, From Timbucktoo, [Everyone stands up ] And she brought with her. And marched them down again. Some gum to chew, [Everyone sits down] And when you're up, you're up; My aunt came back, [Everyone stands up] From Niagra Falls, And when you're down, you're down. And she brought with her, [Everyone sits down] A ping-pong ball And when you're only halfway up, [Everyone half-way up ] My aunt came back, You're neither up nor down! From the New York Fair, And she brought with her, Singing In The Rain A rocking chair. I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the My aunt came back, rain. From Kalamazoo, What a glorious feeling, I'm happy again. And she brought with her, Thumbs up! (echo) Some nuts like you!! Toot-ta-ta-da, toot-ta-ta-da, toot-DA-DA. (echo) Additional Verses My Auntie Monica Elbows in, Knees together, Toes together, Bums out CHORUS Chest out, Chin down, Tongue out I had a dear old auntie, My Auntie Monica, and we went shopping, they all said oh-la- My Aunt Came Back la And so the feathers waving, My aunt came back The feathers are waving so From old Japan, and so the feathers waving, And she brought with her the feathers waving so A big