Grand Canyon Council held there Scout-O-Rama this past weekend. With one of my many hats on I attended to do a bit of promotion for my Troop, more about that latter this week. Well as I was doing my promotion a Leader asked me about a song my Troop sang at a Camporee. It has [...]
Action songs are a lot of fun around the camp fire.
If You’re Happy
If you’re happy and you know it
Clap your hands (clap, clap, clap)
If you’re happy and you know it
Clap your hands (clap, clap, clap)
If you’re happy and you know it
and you really want to show it
If you’re happy and you know it
Clap you’re hands [...]
This is another fun song where many people can lead it and those that are creative can add to it.
Quartermaster’s Store
There are rats, rats as big as alley cats
In the store, in the store
There are rats, rats, as big as alley cats
At the Quartermaster’s store
CHORUS:
My eyes are dim, I can not see
I have not brought [...]
This song is particularly great for the younger boys.
Alice The Camel
Alice the camel has 10 humps,
Alice the camel has 10 humps,
Alice the camel has 10 humps,
So GO! Alice GO!
Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom,Boom
Continue counting down 9…8…7…6…
until…
Alice the camel has no humps,
Alice the camel has no humps,
Alice the camel has no humps,
‘Cause Alice is a HORSE!!!
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I think this is a great campfire song as it allows lots of people to lead the song. Also if you have some creative people new verses can be created. Have fun.
Oh You’ll never get to heaven
Oh You’ll never get to heaven (echo)
In a jumbo jet, (echo)
cause the lord ain’t built (echo)
no run ways [...]
I thought this week the theme would be campfire songs. So this week I will present some of my favorites.
When introducing this song I have usually set it up as a solemn song and ask the audience to join in the chorus.
Ghost Chickens (tune: Ghost Riders in the Sky)
A chicken farmer went out, one dark [...]
Cubs seem to like gross songs, here is one to the tune of My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
My Breakfast Lies Over the ocean
My Breakfast Lies Over the sea
My Breakfast Lies Over the ocean
So bring back my breakfast to me
Bring back, bring back
Oh bring back my breakfast to me, to me
Bring back, bring back
Oh bring [...]
The story I heard as a young Cub Scout about this song is that it was written at the first world Jamboree so that all Scouts no matter what language they spoke could sing it around the campfire. It is a song with no meaning, of no particular language, that anyone could sing. What ever [...]
This is a fun song for the boys to let off some steam.
I like bananas, monkey nuts and grapes
I like bananas, monkey nuts and grapes
I like bananas, monkey nuts and grapes
Thats why they call me TARZAN OF THE APES
At the end everyone shouts TARZAN OF THE APES and hits their chest.
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