I feel like we are finally starting to find our groove in meetings. We aren’t running late quite so often, and have more time for songs!
Teaching the girls camp songs has been an important priority for me, but that didn’t actualize until recently.
These are the camp songs we will be singing this week. Some the girls already know but there are a couple we have never sung as a group before.
# 1 We’re Here for Fun
(new song)
I want us to sing this at the beginning of the meeting. We need to pad that time a bit because there are always girls who are late, and it is frustrating when we are halfway through a game or explaining the activity. This is something they can join in more easily.
We’re here for fun, right from the start, so drop your dignity
Just laugh and sing with all your heart and show your loyalty.
May all your troubles be forgot, Let this night be the best,
Join in the songs we sing tonight, be happy with the best.
(tune: Auld Lang Syne)
We’re Here for Fun can be found on the cd Camp Songs 3 by Nashville Kids Sound under the title Greeting Song if you prefer to singalong to music in your unit.
# 2 Black Socks!
(a favourite)
Black Socks they never get dirty
The longer you wear them the stronger they get
Sometimes I think I should wash them
But something inside me says no no not yet
not yet, not yet, not yet
(Repeat. Great when sung in a round)
# 3 S-M-I-L-E
(new song)
It isn’t any trouble just to S-M-I-L-E
It isn’t any trouble just to S-M-I-L-E
It isn’t any trouble just to S-M-I-L-E
To S-M-I-L-E!
So smile when you are in trouble,
It will vanish like a bubble,
If only you take the trouble,
to S-M-I-L-E.
(sing through twice)
S-M-I-L-E can be found on the cd 30 Camp Songs for Kids by Nashville Kids Sound.
# 4 I Met a Bear
This is a call and repeat song. I an only writing out the leader’s lines for brevity. After each verse (four lines), the leader and everyone else repeat all four lines together, before going back to the call and repeat style for the next verse.
the other day
I met a bear
oh way up there
a great big bear
he looked at me
I looked at him
he sized up me
I sized up him
he said to me
why don’t your run
I see you don’t
have any gun
and so I ran
away from there
but right behind
me was that bear
ahead of me
I saw a tree
a great big tree
oh golly gee
the lowest branch
was 10 feet up
I’d have to jump
and trust my luck
and so I jumped
into the air
but I missed that branch
away up there
now don’t you fret
and don’t you frown
’cause I caught that branch
on the way back down
that’s all there is
there is no more
until I meet
that bear once more
the end the end
the end the end
the end the end
the end the end *
* When singing the last verse all together, you change the lyrics to
the end the end
the end the end
this time it really is
the end
I Met a Bear can be found on the cd 30 Camp Songs for Kids by Nashville Kids Sound.
xx
