Linda’s Campfire Songbook Remembered, Recollected and Rehashed so they can be Resung The majority of these songs are from my own Girl Scout days, learned at troop meetings and camps. While I remembered most of them (I can’t remember names from yesterday, but I can remember songs from 30+ years ago!), the Internet helped me fill in missing words or actions and jogged my memory. A few songs in here I’ve added from my time leading a children’s choir. Then there are those few that I found on the ‘net, knew the tune, and thought they were worth adding. I hope you enjoy these! Choruses / refrains in songs are indented rather than labeled. You know when to sing ‘em – in between verses! Any song that does choruses in a different way will be noted. First compiled August 3, 2006 Last Updated October 9, 2006 Table of Contents Opening Action Songs, continued Hello Hello 3 My Aunt Came Back 11 More We Get Together 3 Noble Duke of York 11 Rise Up Oh Flame 3 On a Day Like This 12 Patsy Oree Oree Ay 12 Graces Peanut Butter 12 Auld Lang Syne Grace 3 Wada Lee Atch­a 12 Be Present At Our Table, Lord 3 You Can’t Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd 13 Daylight Taps 3 Doo Wah Diddy Grace 3 Silly Songs For Health and Strength 3 Ain’t Gonna Rain 14 God Has Created a New Day 3 Ain’t It Great to be Crazy 14 God Is Great 3 All You Etta 14 God Our Father 3 Be Kind to Your Web­Footed Friends 15 Morning is Here 3 Billboard Song 15 Orchard and Ocean 4 Boa Constrictor 15 Rock You Grace 4 Donut Song 15 Thanks Be To God 4 Fast Food 15 Time To Eat 4 First Aider’s Song 16 We Know, We Know 4 Ground Round 16 Yankee Doodle Grace 4 Had a Little Chicken 16 Had a Little Dog 16 Scout and Patriotic He’s Got the Whole World All Girl Scouts 6 in His Hands 16 America the Beautiful 5 Henry the Eighth 16 Call a Scout 5 Hole in the Bottom of the Sea 17 Girl Scout Cadences 6 I Wish I Were a Little Bar of Soap 17 Girl Scouts Together 5 I’m My Own Grandpa 18 God Bless America 5 If It’s Raining 17 She Wears A “G” 6 John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt 17 Whene’er You Make a Promise 5 Junk Food 18 Kookaburra 19 Leaders 19 Energetic My Leader 20 Alice the Camel 7 My Stomach Has Had It 19 C­H­I­C­K­E­N 7 Old Lady ‘Leary 18 Grandma’s Feather Bed 7 Pink Pajamas 18 I’m a Lemon 7 Row Row Row Your Boat 19 LO­L­L­I­P­O­P 8 Salvation Army 20 Mississippi Mud 7 Schnell 20 My Home’s in Montana 8 Supercaliforniasurfers 20 Rocky Top 8 Take Me Out of This Camp, Please 20 Shortnin’ Bread 9 Ten in the Bed / I Got the Whole Bed to Myself 21 Take Me Out to the Ballgame 9 There’s a Hole in the Bucket 21 Three Little Angels 8 Threw It Out the Window 21 Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport 22 Action Songs Tingalayo 22 Austrian Went Yodeling 10 Wrong End 22 Chester 10 Do Your Ears Hang Low 10 Nonsense Words If I Were Not a Girl Scout 11 Ging Gang Gooli 23 Little Bunny Foo­Foo 10 Ram Sam Sam 23 Little Cabin in the Wood 11 Sarasponda 23 1 Time Fillers Traditional and Ballads Announcements 24 Anne Marie Loves John Pierre 30 Annoying Song 24 Barges 30 Here We Sit Like Birds in the Wilderness 24 Big Blue Frog 30 We’re Just a Little Bit Crazy 24 Blowin’ in the Wind 30 Catch a Falling Star 31 Rounds, Choruses or Something Like Dona, Dona 31 Erie Canal 31 Them Five Hundred Miles 31 Carnival 25 Green Green 32 Hear the Lively Song 25 I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing 32 Good King Wenceslas Barnyard 25 Mariah 32 Music Alone Shall Live 25 One More Town 32 Night Sounds 25 Puff the Magic Dragon 33 One Bottle Pop 25 Take Me Home Country Roads 32 Rain Storm 25 This Land is Your Land 33 Rhythm Chant 26 Rose 26 You Are My Everything 26 Winding Down Ash Grove 34 Land of the Silver Birch 34 Calls and Repeats Mandy 35 Bear Song / The Other Day I Met a Bear 27 My Paddle 34 Bill Grogan’s Goat 27 Take a Stick of Bamboo 34 Sipping Cider / The Cutest Boy I Ever Saw 27 Tell Me Why 34 Tongo 27 The Rose 35 Wabala Gumbala 27 This Is Where I Belong 35 Where Have All the Flowers Gone 35 Gospel and Christian All Night, All Day 28 Vespers Give Me Oil For My Lamp 28 Day Is Done 36 Green Grow the Rushes 28 I Want to Linger 36 I Just Wanna Be a Sheep 28 Peace I Ask of Thee O River 36 Rise and Shine 29 Rock My Soul 29 Swing Low, Sweet Chariot 29 You Can’t Get to Heaven 29 2 Opening Hello Hello The More We Get Together Hello hello hello hello The more we get together, together, together, We are glad to meet you The more we get together, the happier we’ll be. We are glad to greet you For your friends are my friends, Hello hello hello hello And my friends are your friends, The more we get together, the happier we’ll be. Rise Up Oh Flame (round) Rise up oh flame by the light’s glowing Show to us beauty, vision and joy Graces Auld Lang Syne Grace For Health and Strength For all the bounty He provides, For health and strength and daily bread Let us give Him thanks and praise. We praise your name, oh Lord. Let's keep Him always in our hearts As we live our Boy Scout days. God Has Created A New Day Be Present At Our Table, Lord (Doxology) God has created a new day, Silver and green and gold. Be present at out table Lord, Live that the sunset may find us, Be here and everywhere adored. Worthy His gifts to hold. These mercies bless and grant that we May live in fellowship with Thee. Optional second verse: God has created a new night, Other last lines: Silver and dark and still, May live in harmony with Thee Live that the morning may find us, May feast in Paradise with Thee. Ready to do His will. May strengthened for Thy service be. May spend our lives in serving Thee. God is Great (Rock Around the Clock) Daylight Taps God is great, God is good And we're gonna thank Him for our food Thanks and praise for our days We're gonna thank Him morning, noon and night 'Neath the sun 'neath the stars 'neath the sky We're gonna thank You, Lord, you're outta sight! As we go this we know Amen amen amen, amen! God is nigh God Our Father (Frere Jacques) Doo Wah Diddy Grace God our Father, God our Father Thank you Lord for the food that we receive, Once again, once again Singing doo wa diddy diddy dum diddy doo. We would ask your blessing, Thanks to Thee for bread and butter and the meat, We would ask your blessing Singing doo wa ditty diddy dum diddy doo. Amen, amen Looks good (looks good) Tastes Fine (taste fine) Morning Is Here (Hark to the Chimes) Looks good, tastes fine And we praise God for all time! Morning is here, the board is spread Singing doo wa diddy diddy dum diddy do. Thanks be to God, who gives us bread 3 Orchard and Ocean (Tell Me Why) Time To Eat (Ain't She Sweet) Orchard and ocean, farm and field Time to eat, We thank our maker for all they yield. Snack (Meal) time is a treat! For earth and water, for flower and seed We thank God for his generosity— We thank you God in thought, word and deed. Time to eat! Rock You Grace (We Will Rock You) Another version: Time to eat, Heavenly Father, LORD and King, Thankful Girl Scouts in each seat! You provide us with everything. We thank You for your generosity­ We've got Food on our plate, Time to eat! Tastin' great. Thank you for the food we already ate. We Know, We Know (Hi Ho Hi Ho) Singing thank you Father, thank you! Thank you Father, thank you! We know, we know, From whom all blessing flow Thanks Be To God (Windy) We thank Him then We say Amen Thanks be to God, the Father Almighty We know, we know! Thanks be to God, who gives us this bread Thanks be to God, the Spirit eternal Yankee Doodle Grace (Yankee Doodle) Thanks be to God forever We thank you Lord for daily bread For rain and sunny weather We thank you Lord for this our food And that we are together Thank you, thank you, thank you Lord Thank you, thank you, thank you Father Thank you Lord for this our food And that we are together. 4 Scout & Patriotic America the Beautiful Call A Scout (If You're Happy and You Know It) O, Beautiful for spacious skies, When you're down and feeling blue For amber waves of grain, CALL A SCOUT For purple mountain majesties They'll know just what to do Above the fruited plain.