Have a favorite camp song you want to share?
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Thanks! -Larken
Graces
Night Songs
A Gift
Beetle’s Song
Dona
Five Hundred Miles
Kilowan
Moon on the Meadow
Odin
On My Honor
On the Loose
Processional
Recessional
Spider’s Web
Today
Voyager
Witchi Tai Tai
Day Songs
Bear in Tennis Shoes
Cookies
Friday Morn
Jell-O Song
Mountain Dew
Riggety Jig
Skeeters and the Bedbugs
Way Up in the Sky
7 Comments
April 20, 2007 at 2:11 pm
I have a little present here for you inside this tiny bottle ,so very small and blue.
please do not uncork it or everyting will get away.
I thought you might like your own summer’s day
to put it on away.
I’d be pleased if you didn’t ask why I gave this gift to you.
Don’t know myself , did it on a whim, as the thought came runnin’ through.
Thought it might make you happy in a summertime sort of way .
And I thought you might like your own summer’s day ,
to put it on away.
Now, can you read the writing on this tiny bottle wall?
I knwo it’s quite small but I can read it all.
It says… she who is a readin’ me and lookin’ at my side, might be interested at what lies inside.
it holds one breath of a butterfly, and
one ray from the sun, and
lots ‘n’ lots of laughter from little children’s fun.
So- don’t you dare uncork me
or everything will get away.
I’d like to hold on to my own summer’s day
……………to put it on away………
May 31, 2007 at 12:12 pm
I was just surfing the internet and came across this page. I am glad some are trying to keep the memories alive. This time of year is especially piercing as we head into summer. I work at a school and on an over night trip I got to sing some of the old songs to the girls I work with. I look back on my years at camp as some of the best times of my child and young adulthood. I will work on remembering songs. By the way Finnigan, you were my counselor years ago.
June 21, 2007 at 6:07 am
What happend to the song’s we use to sing on the last night when we would light up “the ferry barges” and send them off into the lake….I think there are some song’s that are still missing.(??)
June 26, 2007 at 6:47 pm
Ah, I remember it like yesterday- little pieces of wood all decorated with moss and candles then floating them off into the canoe lake. So pretty.
Barges
Out of my window looking in the night
I can see the barges flickering light
silently flows the water to the stream
and the barges too go silently
Barges I would like to go with you
I would like to sail the ocean blue
Barges have you treasures in your hull
do you fight with pirates brave and bold
Enjoy! (This was my favorite camp song)
October 15, 2007 at 11:21 am
Oh I loved the songs we sang at camp. My favorite all time song was the bear one where we sang in teams, like pete and repete.
The other day
I met a bear
A great big bear
Away out there! (both groups repeat)
He looked at me
I looked at him
He sized up me
I sized up him! (repeat)
He said to me
“Why don’t you run?
I see you ain’t
Got any gun!” (repeat)
And so I ran
Away from there
But right behind
Me was that bear! (repeat)
Ahead of me
There was a tree
A great big tree
Oh, glory be! (repeat)
The nearest branch
Was ten feet up
I’d have to jump
And trust my luck! (repeat)
And so I jumped
Into the air
But I missed that branch
Away up there! (repeat)
Now don’t you fret
Now don’t you frown
‘Cause I caught that branch
On the way back down! (repeat)
That is the end
There ain’t no more
Unless I meet
That bear once more! (repeat)
And so I met
That bear once more
Now he’s a rug
On my bedroom floor! (repeat)
October 24, 2007 at 4:41 pm
The second and third verses to “Barges” (as I recall them):
Out of my window, looking in the night
I can see the barges flickering light
Starboard shines green and port is glowing red
I can see the signals far ahead
(Chorus)
How my heart longs to sail away with you
I would like to sail the ocean blue
But I must stay beside my window drear
as I watch you sail away from here
(Chorus)
April 30, 2008 at 8:51 am
I remember this one Tiger taught it to us I love this one…
Little ducky duddle
Was swimming in a puddle a puddle a puddle
Quite Small
He said it doesn’t really matter
How much I splash and splatter
I’m only a ducky
Thats all!