# What songs did you sing at summer camp? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 12, 2004, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966 "2004-03-12T21:05:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/41 "2004-03-13T23:28:47Z")
Mine are in this thread: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=57037&highlight=camp+songs](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=57037&highlight=camp+songs) ---
**Author:** ![Empress\_Jolrael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d2c977/32.png) [@Empress\_Jolrael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Empress_Jolrael)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/42 "2004-03-13T23:46:41Z")
No summer camp, but I have yet another version of a not-quite-dirty song… Mary had a canary, she also had a duck One day she took them behind the kitchen door and taugh them how to… Fry eggs for dinner, fry eggs for tea, The more you eat the more you drink the more you wanna… Peter had a boat, the boat began to rock, Up jumped Jaws and beat him on the… Cocktails, gingerale, forty cents a glass, If you don’t like it then shove it up your… Ask no questions, tell no lies, I saw a policeman doing up his… Flies are bad, mosquitoes are worse, This is the end of our dirty little verse. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2004, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/43 "2004-03-13T23:51:50Z")
Wadat enchew! (Wadat enchew!) Bodo ski dottendotten wadat enchew! (Bodo ski dottendotten wadat enchew!) It skiddley ipdip bodo ski dottendotten wadat enchew! (It skiddley ipdip bodo ski dottendotten wadat enchew!) Itten ditten little kitten Oaten doaten little goaten It skiddley ipdip bodo ski dottendotten wadat enchew! Okay, that’s as much of that as I remember… ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/44 "2004-03-14T05:02:28Z")
> [@Katisha](#): > > One of my colleagues calls kids’ camp/schoolyard songs the last vestige of oral tradition in Western culture… 😉 I totally agree. And seeing folks post their different versions of the same songs reminds me of this book I have: [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0874834449/104-0429671-2895965?v=glance](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0874834449/104-0429671-2895965?v=glance) It has dozens of different childhood songs, and their varying lyrics. Some I knew, some I didn’t. Didn’t anybody else sing the Worm Song? \*Nobody likes me Everybody hates me, I’ll go ear some worms! Fat ones, skinny ones, Juciy, juicy, juicy ones, Ones that squirm and squirm. Cut off their heads and suck out the juice Throw the skins away! You’ll be surprised how many you can eat Three times a day, not including snaaaacks! 'Cause they taste so gooooood!\* ---
**Author:** ![SnoopyFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SnoopyFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnoopyFan)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/45 "2004-03-14T05:14:17Z")
Remember this one? Two bonus points if you can do the hand motions: There’s a boy and a girl in a little canoe With the moon shinin’ all around Well he dipped in the paddle And it didn’t even make a sound (make a sound) And they talked and they talked till the moon went in He said you better kiss me or get out and swim So you know what to do in a little canoe With the moon shinin’ all a- The moon shinin’ all a- The moon shinin’ all around Get out and swim!!! ---
**Author:** ![ZoomZoom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/5daacb/32.png) [@ZoomZoom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZoomZoom)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/46 "2004-03-14T05:35:41Z")
a lovely marching tune from girl scout camp… left, left I left my wife and 48 children to die of starvation without any gingerbread Did I do right? right, right Right to the country of Hipmajig left, left rinse… repeat… on and on and on :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/47 "2004-03-14T05:45:31Z")
> [@](#): > > Lord Said to Noah: > > The Lord said to Noah there’s going to be a floody floody > The Lord said to Noah there’s going to be a floody floody > Get those animals, out of the muddy muddy > Children of the lord We did it slightly different. The Lord said to Noah there’s going to be a floody floody The Lord said to Noah there’s going to be a floody floody Get those children (clap) out of the muddy muddy Children of the lord With accompanying gestures as well. > [@](#): > > We are from Nairobi > Our tribe is a good one > We fight the Watusi > They’re seven feet tall > > The cannibals may eat us > But they’ll never beat us > Cause we’re from Nairobi > The best tribe of all Slightly different as well We’re from Nairobi and we’re on the best team We do the watusi We’re seven feet tall The cannibals may eat us But they’ll never beat us Cuz we’re from Nairobi And we’re on the ball (the rest the same) There were also a few gestures to go along with this song. It is interesting to see the variations on the songs. ---
**Author:** ![angelicate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@angelicate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/angelicate)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/48 "2004-03-14T06:04:59Z")
> [@Glory](#): > > **We also did the famous Lord Said to Noah** : > > The Lord said to Noah there’s going to be a floody floody > The Lord said to Noah there’s going to be a floody floody > Get those animals, out of the muddy muddy > Children of the lord > > So Noah he built him, he built him an arky arky > So Noah he built him, he built him an arky arky > Built it out of gopher barky barky > Children of the lord > > The animals they came on, they came on by twosies twosies > The animals they came on, they came on by twosies twosies > Elephants and bumblebeesies beesies > Children of the lord We did this too! In between the verses was a chorus of: Soooo, rise and shine, and give God the glory, glory rise and shine, and give God the glory, glory RISE AND SHINE AND _clap_ GIVE GOD THE GLORY, GLORY Children of the lord. And we had “the animals, the animals, they came in by twosies, twosies Elephants and kangaroosies, roosies.” ---
**Author:** ![Taters](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/taters/32/2845_2.png) [@Taters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taters)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/49 "2004-03-14T06:13:11Z")
**Baker,** Yup, we sang the worm song every time we ate spaghetti in the dining hall. **JayJay,** I remember that song too! Then there was “John, Jacob, Jingle Heimer Schmidt” as well. I can’t believe I still remember some of these songs. I attended summer camp back in the mid 70s through. Then when I was in high school (79-82), I attended the Pacific Region YMCA High School Conference, as well as working as a junior counselor at summer camp in 79 and 80. It’s amazing the inane stuff one can remember. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/50 "2004-03-14T06:27:37Z")
> [@angelicate](#): > > We did this too! In between the verses was a chorus of: > > Soooo, rise and shine, and give God the glory, glory > rise and shine, and give God the glory, glory > RISE AND SHINE AND _clap_ GIVE GOD THE GLORY, GLORY > Children of the lord. > > And we had “the animals, the animals, they came in by twosies, twosies > Elephants and kangaroosies, roosies.” That’s right! I forgot that… It starts out with Floody Floody then the chorus is Rise and Shine then on to he built an arky arky, animals came on in twosies twosies (we sang it Kangaroosies not bumblebeesies. And the name of the song is Rise and Shine. Sheesh we sang that song a LOT in school, how could I forget that? ---
**Author:** ![Tortuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@Tortuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tortuga)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/51 "2004-03-14T06:49:52Z")
The Titanic song and the “I Didn’t Know the Gun Was Loaded” song are the songs that haunt me most. ---
**Author:** ![SnoopyFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SnoopyFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnoopyFan)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/52 "2004-03-14T06:55:34Z")
It rained and it poured For forty long daysie daysies Rained and it poured For forty long daysie daysies Nearly drove those (clap) Animals crazy crazy Children of the Lord ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 8:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/53 "2004-03-14T08:02:44Z")
It wasn’t 'til the animals came off the ark that you got the bumblebeezies. Because they came off in threesies, threesies. And then everything was hunky-dory, dory. And that was the end of the story. Children of the Lord. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/54 "2004-03-14T15:49:48Z")
> [@Taters](#): > > Some song that started out like this, but I can’t remember the name of it. > > “Big, bad John was a desparado!” > “From Cripple Creek, way down in Colorado!” > “and he hit the trail like a squashed tomato!” (pronounced to-mah-to) > “and everywhere he went, he gave his war whoop!” > “YAHOOOO!” > > …there are more verses, but I can’t remember them Actually, I think you have the chorus. These are the verses I remember: There was a desperado form the wild and wolly West, He rode into Chicago just to give the West a rest, He wor a big sombrero and two guns beneath his vest, And everywhere he went, he gave his war whoop - WHOOP! He went to Coney Island just to take in all the sights, He saw the hoochie-coochie and the girls all dressed in tights, It got him so excited that he shot out all the lights, And everywhere he went, he gave his war whoop - WHOOP! I think there are more, but I can’t remember them. ---
**Author:** ![Kakofonous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9a140/32.png) [@Kakofonous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kakofonous)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/55 "2004-03-14T16:35:32Z")
> [@Eva Luna](#): > > I think there are more, but I can’t remember them. I only know 1 more verse. There was a desparato just a walkin’ down the street. Along came a police-man just a walkin’ on his beat. He grabbed him by the collar and he grabbed him by his seat And put him where he couldn’t give his WAAA-HOOOO! ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/56 "2004-03-14T20:25:23Z")
\*Sweet Sadie Sazinski, Was a blacksmith by birth. She was tired of living, and She wanted to leave this earth. She wanted to die by inches, But dying by inches was hard, So she went out in the back alley, and She died by the yard.\* Or \*I am a villain, A dirty, dirty villain and I leave a trail of blood where 'ere I go, I go, I have gotten A rep for being rotten, and I Beat Little Kids On the Head 'Till They’re Dead. And I poisoned My mommy’s Shredded Wheat! And I EAT (slurp) RAW (slurp) MEAT (slurp slurp)!\* And pretty much all the rest mentioned here. I thought Pine Lake Bible Camp was the only ones who did the Announcements song. My family went there nine summers in a row, I was a counselor there for two years, and my family and I have gone to Imago Dei for the last eight years. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/57 "2004-03-14T23:09:11Z")
Well…it was religious camp, so we had such uplifting fare as “I Don’t Want to See Them Burn (While I’m Alive in the Sky)”. Nice. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_Heart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5e9695/32.png) [@Angel\_Heart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_Heart)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/58 "2004-03-15T05:41:31Z")
I remember: “Everybody loves Saturday Night” which goes like this: _Everybody loves Saturday night, Everybody loves Saturday night, Everybody!_ [clap] _Everybody!_[clap] _Everybody loves Saturday night._ We learned to sing that song in French, Spanish and German as well. > [@yawndave](#): > > This song was a regular at the National Park fireside programs when I was growing up… > > Little Tommy Tucker sat on a yucca, > He began to cry: The version I learned in camp was "Little Tommy **Tinker** sat on a **clinker** Another one we sang was: \*I come a zimba zimba ziah I come a zimba zimba zee I come a zimba zimba ziah I come a zimba zimba zee See him there, the Indian warrior See him there, the Indian chief\* (then half the group starts over, while the other half chants “chief”, then they switch places) “Would You Like to Swing on a Star” was another popular one. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/59 "2004-03-15T05:49:51Z")
> [@Angel Heart](#): > > “Would You Like to Swing on a Star” was another popular one. Depends on whether the star is Matt Damon or not… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SnoopyFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SnoopyFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnoopyFan)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/60 "2004-03-15T06:19:38Z")
That swinging on a star song always reminds me of that TV show about the girl who could stop time and her mom was normal and her dad was an alien in outer space and she talked to him every night via some bigass piece of cubic zirconia … What was that show? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966.md?page=4)