Section 10: Outdoor Action Song Guide Songs, just like games, can be a useful and fun addition to a trip. Whether used to get the group warmed up on a chilly morning or to lighten the mood on the trail, songs should be a part of your leader bag of tricks. Most of these songs represent relatively low interpersonal risk except for songs that single out individuals such as Little Sally Walker. As for any activity, use your leader radar to determine when the individual and group dynamics are appropriate for a particular song. Enjoy! 10-1 Old Nassau Tune every heart and every voice, bid every care withdraw; Let all with one accord rejoice, in praise of Old Nassau. In praise of Old Nassau we sing, Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah! Our hearts will give while we shall live, three cheers for Old Nassau. 10-2 10-3 10-4 10-5 10-6 10-7 10-8 Go Bananas CHORUS (With Actions) LEADER: Bananas of the world…UNITE! Thumbs up! Elbows back! LEADER: Bananas…SPLIT! Thumbs up! Elbows back! Knees together! Toes together ALL: Peel bananas, peel peel bananas Butt out Slice bananas… Head out Mash bananas… Spinning round Dice bananas… Tongue out Whip bananas… Jump bananas… GO BANANAS… The Jellyfish (Jellyfish should be yelled in silly voice to yield its full comedic effect.) CHORUS Penguin Song ALL: The jellyfish, the jellyfish, the jellyfish (while (With Actions) moving like a jellyfish). CHORUS ALL: Have you ever seen a penguin come to tea? LEADER: Feet together!! Take a look at me, a penguin you will see ALL: Feet together!! Penguins attention! Penguins begin! (Salute here) Right Arm (Goofy penguin motion with right arm) CHORUS CHORUS Arms together Right Arm Shoulders back Left Arm Chin up Right Leg Butt out Left Leg Tongue out Nod Your Head Turn Around Flea, Fly (Call and Response) In the chorus at the end of the song, sing “Penguins Flea! dismissed” instead of “Penguins begin.” Flea, fly! Flea, fly, mosquito! Ticks! Singin’ in the Rain Calamine, calamine, calamine lotion/ (Singin’ in the Rain and Aroostasha are songs patterned Oh, no more calamine lotion! like the Penguin Song except they are call and response Itchy itchy, scratchy scratchy, got one on my/ backy- songs) acky. CHORUS Ooey ooey, gooey gooey, wish he’d go away. ALL: I’m singin’ in the rain, just singin’ in the rain Quick, get the bug spray! I think he went/ thataway! What a glorious feeling, I’m hap-hap-happy again Pssssh! (bug repellant spraying motion) (call and response) Repeat 3 times, getting progressively faster and louder LEADER: Thumbs up! ALL: Thumbs up! (do motion) Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup ALL: Reeses Peanut Butter Cup, 10-9 Stick with us we'll cheer you up, Bang bang choo-choo train CHORUS C'mon [NAME] do your thang NAME: "I can't!" My mom gave me a quarter, ALL: "Why not?" So I could buy some mortar? NAME: "I just can't" But I didn't buy no mortar ALL: “Why NOT?!” NAME: "Because my back's too sore and my belt's too CHORUS tight, but my booty shakes from the left to the right" ALL: "Left, right, left right, left right" My mom gave me a dollar, So I could buy a collar, Repeat But I didn't buy no collar (Fun on the trail too!) CHORUS Three Short-Necked Buzzards (All together, with motions) Princess Pat Three short-necked buzzards, three short-necked (Call and Response, with actions. Some lines are buzzards, three short-necked buzzards repeated in the song with the same actions.) Sitting in a dead tree LEADER: The Princess Pat (Pose on one leg, leaning One flew aaaa-way! What aaaa shame! Darn! forward with one arm in front and one arm back) ALL: The Princess Pat Two short-necked buzzards…. Lived in a tree (salute) One short-necked buzzard…. She sailed across (wave motion in front of body with No short necked buzzards…. one hand) The seven seas (number 7 with your fingers, then make When one reeee-turned! Let us reeee-joice! Hallelujah! a "C" with one hand) She sailed across (wave motion) One short-necked buzzard… The channel two (make a number 2 on one hand) Two short-necked buzzards…. And took with her (throw a sack over your shoulder) Three short-necked buzzards…. A rig-a-bamboo! (trace a wavy figure in front of you going down, bend knees as you go) Jiggly Boombas A rig-a-bamboo (Call and Response) Now what is that? (shrug shoulders, hold out hands) LEADER: My mom gave me a penny It's something made (bang one fist on top of the other) ALL: My mom gave me a penny By the Princess Pat LEADER: So I could by some tennies It's red and gold ("twirl" one arm down by your hip) ALL: So I could by some tennies And purple too (flip hands as if you were saying "Oh my LEADER: But I didn't buy no tennies gosh!") ALL: But I didn't buy no tennies That's why it's called (cup hands in front of mouth, shout in a high-pitched voice) CHORUS A rig-a-bamboo! (hands together above head) ALL: I bought some boombas! Now Captain Jack (salute) Some jiggly jiggly boombas! And his mighty fine crew (run in place) Some jiggly jiggly boombas! They sailed across The channel two My mom gave me a nickle, But their ship did sank (plug nose, one hand over head So I could buy a pickle, and waving as you bend knees) But I didn't buy no pickle And yours will too (point to others in the circle) Unless you have CHORUS A rig-a-bamboo! My mom gave me a dime, A rig-a-bamboo So I could buy a lime, Now what is that? But I didn't buy no lime It's something made 10-3 By the Princess Pat No swimming in de wata It's red and gold No Eatin’ his suppa And purple too Where did he go? That's why it's called A rig-a-bamboo! (normal) A rig-a-bamboo! (slow and soulful) He decomposed Sally Walker Alice One person is Sally Walker who walks around the inside (Call and Response, with actions) of the circle while the group sings: Aaaalice! Little Sally Walker walkin’ down the street. Where are you going? She didn’t know what to do so she stopped in front of Up the stairs. me. To take a bath Aaaalice! Sally Walker then stops in front of someone and does a Shampooed her hair dance while the group sings… And pulledthe plug. Oh my goodness! Oh my soul! Hey girl, do that thing do that thing and switch! (the Alice went right down the hole. person Sally danced to now switches places with Sally To the sewer! To the sewer! and repeats the dance move while the groups repeats Alice went to Mike’s Junior High School. the Hey Girl…section) Mike’s Junior High School?! The new Sally now walks on the inside of the circle and The best junior high in Toledo! the song repeats. The colors are purple and white The purple’s for the royalty, the white is for the fight fight fight! The Birdie Song For Mike’s Junior High I would die! (Try waking up your group with this one…or not) Way up in the sky The little birds fly Funky Chicken Way down in the nest (Call and Response, with actions) The little birds rest LEADER: Let me see your funky chicken. With a wing on the left and a wing on the right EVERYONE: What’s that you say? The little bird sleeps all through the night Shhh! THEY’RE SLEEPING!!! LEADER: I said let me see your funky chicken. The bright sun comes up EVERYONE: What’s that you say? The dew falls a-away Good morning! Good Morning! The little birds say. (everyone) I said ooh ahh funky chicken ooh ahh one more time Da Moose ooh ahh funky chicken (Call and Response, with actions) ooh ahh get back in line! (all with Jamaican accent) Verses: Refrain: Funky chicken Da Moose Da Moooose Frankenstein Swimmin’ in de wata Ballerina Eatin’ his suppa Sumo wrestler Where did he go? Cleopatra John Travolta (whisper) He went to sleep Tree Whisper (refrain) Elevator PeeWee Herman (shout) He went outside (shout refrain) OA Mambo (crying) We don’t know. (call and response) 10-4 Chorus: CHORUS I said hey hey! I said ho ho! He drank his juice with care I said come on down and do the OA mambo But he spilled some in his hair (everyone together: clapping, slapping, stomping, clap hey! pattern) CHORUS Verses Now he’s a sticky moose That was fun, let’s do part one. He’s a moose-a-full-a-JUICE! [high-pitched] That was cool, let’s do part two. Skin your knee, let’s do part three. CHORUS On the floor, let’s do part four. Kick the beehive, let’s do part five. Join the mix, let’s do part six. Little Hunk of Tin Howdy Kevin, let’s do part seven. I’m a little hunk of tin It’s your fate, let’s do part eight. Nobody knows what shape I’m in Just in time, let’s do part nine. I’ve got four wheels and a running board That’s the end, let’s do part ten.