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Listed below are some of our regular campfire songs. If the songs are incorrect or incomplete, please drop me an E-mail. If any one knows the lyrics to any song omitted, please do likewise. Enjoy! Campfire's Burning Ging Gang Goo Canooing Indian Song (?) The Budgie Song Irish Scout Yell Singing in the Rain Everywhere We Go Oh! Aley-la! Oh You'll Never get to Heaven... I Wanna Be a Drill Instructor The Other Day... We're Goin' on a Bear Hunt Boom-Chicka-Boom There was a Scout who had a Dog Rathlin Bog My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean Cum-Bay-Ah Taps |
Campfire's Burning Campfire's burning, Campfire's burning, Draw nearer, Draw nearer, In the gloming, In the gloming, Come Sing and be Merry. The group can be split into several groups, each group beginning with line 1 when the previous group is beginning line 2. Back to top 
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Ging Gang Goo Ging gang gooli gooli gooli gooli Watcha, Ging gang goo, ging gang goo, Ging gang gooli gooli gooli gooli Watcha, Ging gang goo, ging gang goo, Heyla, oh Heyla Sheyla, oh Heyla Sheyla, Heyla Hoo! Heyla, oh Heyla Sheyla, oh Heyla Sheyla, Heyla Hoo! Shalli walli, shalli walli, shalli walli, shalli walli, Oompah, oompah, oompah, oompah.... Group 1 continues to sing "oompah, oompah, oompah..." while Group 2 sings the chorus again until they reach the "oompah" bit, and then roles reverse. Back to top
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The Canooing Indian Song (Does ANYONE know the proper name?) Hey Ho, Anybody Home? Food, nor drink, nor money have I got, But still, I will, Be Happy happy happy happy Hey Ho..... Here is the story that accompanies the song... "An indian is canooing up a river towards the campfire. As here draws nearer, his song becomes louder and louder, until he passes by the campfire on the shore, and canoes on down the river. His song then gets quieter and quieter until he can no longer be heard." Back to top
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The Budgie Song I am a little Budgerigar, (Flap arms) I have a big belly-ache, (Rub Belly in circular motion) Because the people that I live with, (Outline a roof with fingers) They are so stingy, (Hand out food) They feed me herring every day, (Make wave motion with hand) And I don't like that at all, (Shake head from side to side) Oh I'd rather, yes I'd rather, (Nod head up and down) Drink Coca-Cola, (Drink from bottle) And Ice Cream, (Lick Ice Cream Cone) Repeat the song with the actions in the (exaggerared) style of various nationalities. eg: American: Extra Large, Japanese: Very Tiny, German: Rigid & precise, Kerry (Irish): Wrong actions, etc. Back to top
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Irish Scout Yell Hick-a-maliah Ha! Hick-a-maliah Hee! I-R-E-L-A-N-D A-Boomalaka, Boomalaka, Have you any doubts? We are, we are Irish Scouts! Céad Míle Fáilte, (100,000 welcomes) Eire go Brách, (Ireland for ever) Fág an bhealach, Fág an bhealach, (Clear the way) Sea, Sea Seaaaa! (Yes, yes, yes!) Source and date of first use not known, but probably in the very early years of Irish Scouting circa 1912-1920. Back to top
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Singing in the Rain I'm singing in the rain, Just singing in the rain, What a glorious feeling, I'm hap-hap-happy again, Arms Out! A-ru-cha-cha, A-ru-cha-cha, (Bump hips with people either side) A-ru-cha-cha-cha! A-ru-cha-cha, A-ru-cha-cha, (Bump hips with people either side) A-ru-cha-cha-cha! I'm singing in the.... Everyone stands for this song, and every verse, an extra complication is added to the "ru-cha-cha" bit. eg: Arms Out, Thumbs Up, Knees Bent, Bums Back, Chest Out, Tongues Out (mmphmhpmhp!!) Back to top
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Everywhere We Go Everywhere we go, (Repeat) People always ask us, (Repeat) Who we are, (Repeat) And where do we come from, (Repeat)(or And What we had for breakfast!) And we always tell them, (Repeat) We're from Cobh, (Repeat) (or We had cornflakes!) Mighty, mighty Cobh, (Repeat) (or Soggy, soggy cornflakes!) And if they can't hear us, (Repeat) We shout a little louder, (Repeat) EVERYWHERE WE GO,.... (Repeat) When no-one can shout any louder, "And if they can't hear us..." is met with "THEY MUST BE DEAF!" Back to top
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Oh! Aley-la! Oh! Aley-la! (Repeat) Aley-la chicka-tonga, (Repeat) Moza moza moza, (Repeat) Oh! Aley, Balu-ah, Balu-ay! (Repeat) Repeat verse in different voices... eg: Deep, High pitch, Beating Chest, Quiet, Loud, etc. Note: I'm not quite sure where, how or why this song originated. Or even if these non-sensical words have been mutated from something that actually made sense once-upon-a-time! Whatever it's origins, we have sung it as long as I have been in scouts (1988). Back to top
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Oh you'll Never get to Heaven! Oh you'll Never get to Heaven, (Repeat) On a bottle of Gin, (Repeat) Cos the Lord don't let, (Repeat) No Spirits in, (?) (Repeat) Oh you'll never get to heaven on a bottle of gin, (All Together) Cos the Lord don't let no spirits in, (All Together) Ain't gonna meet my Lord, Ain't gonna meet my Lord, (All Together) Ain't gonna meet, My Lord no more, (All Together) Oh you'll Never get to Heaven, (Repeat) On a Girl Guide's Bra, (Repeat) Cos a Girl Guide' Bra, (Repeat) Don't Stretch that far, (Repeat) Oh you'll never get to heaven on a Girl Guide's Bra, (All Together) Cos a Girl Guide's Bra don't stretch that far, (All Together) etc, etc. Oh you'll never get to heaven in Koby's Car, Sorry Koby!! Cos Koby's Car won't go that far, If anyone knows more verses, PLEASE E-mail us Back to top
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I Wanna Be a Drill Instructor I wanna be a drill instructor, (Repeat) I wanna cut off all of my hair, (Repeat) I wanna be a drill instructor, (Repeat) I don't want no Smokey Bear, (?) (Repeat) I don't want no teenage Queen, (Repeat) I just want my M-16, (Repeat) And if I die in the combat zone, (Repeat) Box me up, and ship me home, (Repeat) Pin my medals upon my chest, (Repeat) Tell my momma I done my best, (Repeat) Drop my body six feet down, (Repeat) Till ya hear me hit the ground, (Repeat) When I hit the bottom, you'll hear me say, (Repeat) I wanna be a Drill Instructor..., (Repeat) And on, and on, and on..... Back to top
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The Other Day... The other day, (Repeat) I met a bear, (Repeat) Up in the woods, (Repeat) Away up there, (Repeat) The other day I met a bear, up in the woods away up there, (All Together) I looked at him, He looked at me, I sized up him, he sized up me, He said to me, why don't you run, I see you ain't, got any gun, And so I ran, away from there, but right behind, me was that bear, Just up ahead, I saw a tree, a great big tree, oh Lordie me, (?) The nearest branch, was ten 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, now don't you frown, 'cos I caught that branch, on the way back down, And when I met, that bear once more, he was a rug, on the bedroom floor, (?) All verses are repeated in the fashion of the first verse with the crowd repeating each line of the verse before all singing that verse together. Back to top
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We're Goin' on a Bear Hunt (Stand & Slap thighs: slap, slap, slap, slap.....) Chorus: We're goin' on a Bear-hunt, (Repeat) But we're not scared! (Repeat) 'cos we've got Guns!, (Repeat) And bullets (Repeat) Lots of bullets!, (Repeat) We come to a Mountain, (Repeat) Can't go around it, (Repeat) Can't go through it, (Repeat) Can't go under it, (Repeat) Have to go over it, (Repeat) (Grunting noises while pretending to scale a steep rock face) Chorus We come to a River, Can't go under it, can't go around it, can't go over it, Have to got through it, (Splish-Splash noises while pretending to swim across the river) Chorus We come to a Field of Grass, Can't go under it, can't go around it, can't go over it, Have to got through it, (Swish noises while pretending to push through long grass) Chorus We come to a Cave, (Repeat) It's kinda dark in here, (Repeat) And vewy scawy, (Repeat) There's something in here, (Repeat) It's Big and Fuwwy, (Repeat) IT'S A BEAR!!! Back to the Grass, (Swish, swish, swish) Back through the river, (Splish, splash, splish, splash) Back over the Mountain, (grunt, grunt, grunt) We're Goin' on a Bear hunt, (Repeat) TOMORROW! (Repeat) Back to top
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Boom-Chicka-Boom I said a Boom-Chicka-Boom, (Repeat) I said a Boom-Chicka-Rocka-Chicka-Rocka-Chicka-Boom, (Repeat) Ah-Ha, (Repeat) Oh Yeah, (Repeat) One More Time Now, (Repeat) But this time, a little slower, (Repeat) Each verse is sung differently. eg: faster, higher, deeper, like a car (Vroom-Chicka-Vroom), like a flower (Bloom-Chicka-Bloom), like a janitor (Broom-Chicka-Broom), etc. Back to top
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There was a Scout who had a Dog There was a Scout who had a dog, And Bingo was his name-o, B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O, And Bingo was his name-o, There was a Scout who had a dog, And Bingo was his name-o, B-I-N-G-(Clap), B-I-N-G-(Clap), B-I-N-G-(Clap), And Bingo was his name-o.... Each verse, replace the last letter with another clap, remembering not to sing the letters already discarded! Back to top
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Rathlin Bog Chorus: O-Ro, the Rathlin Bog, The Bog down in the valley-o, O-Ro, the Rathlin Bog, The Bog down in the valley-o, And in that Bog there was a hole, A rare hole, a Rathlin hole, With the hole in the bog, And the bog down in the valley-o, Chorus And in that hole there was a tree, A rare tree, a Rathlin tree, With the tree in the hole, And the hole in the bog, And the bog down in the valley-o... And so on... Branch, Stick, Twig, Leaf, Nest, Egg, Bird, Wing, Feather, Flea (!) Back to top
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My Bonnie lies over the ocean My Bonnie lies over the ocean, My Bonnie lies over the sea, My Bonnie lies over the ocean, So bring back my Bonnie to me, Bring back, oh bring back, Oh bring back my Bonnie to me, to me, Bring back, oh bring back, Oh bring back my Bonnie to me, Every time we sing a word beginning with "B", we change positions (From Standing to crouched, or vice-versa). Then we speed up the song each verse! Back to top
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Cum-bay-ah Cum-bay-ah, m'lord, Cum-bay-ah, Cum-bay-ah, m'lord, Cum-bay-ah, Cum-bay-ah, m'lord, Cum-bay-ah, Oh Lord, Cum-bay-ah, Someone's Singing Lord, Cum-bay-ah, Someone's Singing Lord, Cum-bay-ah, Someone's Singing Lord, Cum-bay-ah, Oh Lord, Cum-bay-ah, Someone's Crying Lord, Cum-bay-ah, etc. Someone's Praying Lord, Cum-bay-ah, etc. Someone's Camping Lord, Cum-bay-ah, etc. Back to top
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Taps Day is done, Gone the sun, From the sea, from the hills, from the sky, All is well, Safely rest, God is Nigh This song is traditionally song at the end of a day at camp, or as the final campfire song. Back to top |
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