Camp Takodah Songbook “Music for free, may it always be sung…” Takodians have been singing since our earliest days. Whether clearing dishes after a meal, inspiring the crowd at a campfire, harmonizing at a Girls Camp chapel service, or settling with Taps at the end of the day, music punctuates most of what we do. This book has some of our most treasured songs (though there always seem to be new ones) dating back to our earliest days or as recent the summer of our 100th anniversary in 2016. The list and lyrics were compiled through the efforts of many Takodians including: Chris Briggs, Claire Gogolen, Mary Morrison, Ryan Reed and Bill Therrien. Please enJoy, share with your families and remember what it was like to be in the dining hall with 300 other people all singing and laughing. We hope this helps to bring a little bit of that Camp spirit into your everyday life. “Use what you possess: The woods would be silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.” Unknown Table of Contents: (* indicates Sunday song) 500 Miles * ............................................................................................................. 2 Airborne Ranger ..................................................................................................... 3 Alice ....................................................................................................................... 4 Alive, Awake, Alert, Enthusiastic/ Dead Tired, Beat and Lethargic ..................... 5 Allamen! ................................................................................................................. 6 All Hail Takodah .................................................................................................... 7 Aloha ...................................................................................................................... 8 An Austrian Went Yodeling .................................................................................. 9 Announcements .................................................................................................... 10 A-Ri-Cha-Cha ...................................................................................................... 11 A You’re Adorable ............................................................................................... 12 A You’re an Antelope .......................................................................................... 13 Baby Bumblebee .................................................................................................. 14 Baby Shark ........................................................................................................... 15 Bees With Hairy Knees (Camp Takodah Store) .................................................. 16 Bingo .................................................................................................................... 17 Blue Jeans ............................................................................................................ 18 BoBo .................................................................................................................... 19 Bog Down in the Valley-O .................................................................................. 20 Boogaloo .............................................................................................................. 21 Boom-Boom ......................................................................................................... 22 Boom Chicka Boom ............................................................................................. 23 Boy and a Girl ...................................................................................................... 24 Breakfast Grace .................................................................................................... 25 Buttercup (Build Me Up) ..................................................................................... 26 Button Factory ...................................................................................................... 27 Camp Takodah ..................................................................................................... 28 Charlie On the MTA ............................................................................................ 29 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ...................................................................................... 30 Circle Game * ...................................................................................................... 31 Come to Camp Takodah ...................................................................................... 32 Crazy Moose ........................................................................................................ 33 Cumbaya * ........................................................................................................... 34 Daddy’s Whiskers ................................................................................................ 35 Darling You Can’t Love One ............................................................................... 36 Dinner Grace ........................................................................................................ 37 Do A Deer ............................................................................................................ 38 Don’t Fence Me In ............................................................................................... 39 Don’t Wear No Socks .......................................................................................... 40 Donut Shop .......................................................................................................... 41 Down by the Banks of the Hanky Panky ............................................................. 42 Down by the Old Mill Stream .............................................................................. 43 Do Your Ears Hang Low ..................................................................................... 44 Duke of York ....................................................................................................... 45 Eager Beaver ........................................................................................................ 46 Eenie Meenie and a Miny Mo .............................................................................. 47 Elephant Song ...................................................................................................... 48 Erie-erie-aye-re-O ................................................................................................ 49 Farm Down In Iowa ............................................................................................. 50 Father Abraham .................................................................................................... 51 Fish and Chips and Vinegar ................................................................................. 52 Fish Heads ............................................................................................................ 53 Five Little Muffins in a Bakery Shop .................................................................. 54 Flea Fly ................................................................................................................ 55 Fogerty ................................................................................................................. 56 Fried Ham ............................................................................................................ 57 Friends * ............................................................................................................... 58 Gloop-Gloop ........................................................................................................ 59 Glory Takodah ..................................................................................................... 60 Go Bananas .......................................................................................................... 61 Gonk-Gonk ........................................................................................................... 62 Good Morning ...................................................................................................... 63 Gray Squirrel ........................................................................................................ 64 Green Grow the Rushes Ho * .............................................................................. 65 Hansel my Son ..................................................................................................... 66 Have you Ever Been a Fishin’? ............................................................................ 67 Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes ........................................................................ 68 High Silk Hat/ Christopher Columbus ................................................................. 69 Hippo Song .......................................................................................................... 70 Hi-yi-ki-yi-kus ..................................................................................................... 71 Hog Calling Time ................................................................................................. 72 Home On The Range ............................................................................................ 73 Hooked on a Feeling ............................................................................................ 74 Humba - Humba ..................................................................................................