# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 4
**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, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/61 "2004-03-15T12:01:01Z")
> [@SnoopyFan](#): > > 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? [Out of This World](http://imdb.com/title/tt0092423/) ---
**Author:** ![PalJuicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a8b319/32.png) [@PalJuicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PalJuicy)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 12:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/62 "2004-03-15T12:26:02Z")
_Do your ears hang low Do they wobble to and fro Can you tie 'em in a knot Can you tie 'em in a bow Can you throw 'em over your shoulder Like a continental soldier Do your ears hang low?_ _My Gal’s a corker She’s a New Yorker I buy her everything to keep her in style. She’s got a pair of hips Just like two battle ships Yeah man, that’s where my money goes._ ---
**Author:** ![williamweigand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b3f665/32.png) [@williamweigand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/williamweigand)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/63 "2004-03-15T14:34:01Z")
> [@PalJuicy](#): > > - > > She’s got a pair of hips > Just like two battle ships > Yeah man, that’s where my money goes.\* Thank you for helping to clear up a decades- old mystery for me.A buddy of mine sang a song ,back in the 60s , with those lines in it. Although I can’t recall if he said as much , he gave the impression that those lines , and others - such as “She’s got a big,long nose - just like a garden hose” were his own invention.Since I know you aren’t him (my buddy died last year) I finally know that ,if not you , then someone other than he thought them up. Getting back to O.P. - One summer in Boy Scout camp we got pretty good at singing “The Age of Aquarius”. We also had a rather raunchy chant that I’ll post only if requested. ---
**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 15, 2004, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/64 "2004-03-15T15:36:29Z")
> [@williamweigand](#): > > We also had a rather raunchy chant that I’ll post only if requested. I’m requesting, please. 😉 Just think of it as your contribution to the dying American oral tradition. It’s for the sake of anthropology! ---
**Author:** ![TelcontarStorm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@TelcontarStorm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TelcontarStorm)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/65 "2004-03-15T18:31:21Z")
Damn, we sang more then a few of these at Camp Storer.The best one we sang was when the coucilers were not about. I can’t remember much of it, hopefully someone will know it and refresh my memory. There was about 4 verses to it but I can only remember one. It’s about a Square Dance. I hope no one os offended by the content. Chorus Balls to your partner, ass against the wall. If you don’t get laid on Saturday night you won’t get laid at all Verse The town Whore, she was there lying on the floor When she opened he legs, the suction closed the door! ---
**Author:** ![luluBahrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e5b9ba/32.png) [@luluBahrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luluBahrain)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/66 "2004-03-15T18:42:06Z")
I can’t believe I forgot “A Boom Chick A boom” BEST CAMP SONG EVER…valley girl style ---
**Author:** ![williamweigand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b3f665/32.png) [@williamweigand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/williamweigand)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/67 "2004-03-15T19:00:46Z")
> [@Eva Luna](#): > > I’m requesting, please. 😉 Just think of it as your contribution to the dying American oral tradition. It’s for the sake of anthropology! O.K. Out pops Willie from the coconut grove He’s a real live fucker - you can tell by his pose. He once lined a hundred girls against the wall And bet ten dollars he could fuck them all. He got to ninety-eight and he had to stop - The friction was too much , and his balls got hot. Old Willie died , and he went to Hell He fucked the Devil , and His wife as well. Up on his tombstone , written in green Says “Here lies Willie - the Fuckin’ Machine”! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/68 "2004-03-15T19:24:45Z")
Our counselor was named Skeeter, so to the tune of _If You’re Happy And You Know It_, we’d sing… _There’s a Skeeter on my peter Knock it off There’s a Skeeter on my peter Knock it off There’s a Skeeter on my peter And his brother’s even sweeter There’s a Skeeter on my peter Mazeltoff_ ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/69 "2004-03-16T01:23:08Z")
I went a variety of camps and have a darn good memory, so I remember a wide variety of songs. The one that seems to be the most unique was localized entirely (as far as I know) to **Camp Oljato** , a boy scout camp a few hours outside the SF bay area. It’s called _Mary Had a Little Lamb_\*, but its melody and rhythm is in no way related to the traditional song of the same name. It goes like this: Oh, Mary had a little lamb, with fleece as white as snow, hey! Shouting out the battle cry of freedom And everywhere that Mary went, that lamb was sure to go, hey! Shouting out the battle cry of freedom chorus: Hurrah for the Mary! Hurrah for the lamb! Hurrah for the teacher, Who wouldn’t give a particle. If all the lambs in region 12 went marching off to school, hey! Shouting out the battle cry of freedom There are tons of verses, but they all share the “hey!” on the end of each line and the interjected "shouting out the battle cry of freedom"s. Some favorites include: Mary had a little lamb, she fed it castor oil And every time it jumped the fence it fertilized the soil Mary had a little lamb, she kept it in the closet And every time she let it out, it left a little deposit Mary had a little lamb, she also had a duck She put them on the table, to see if they would fall Mary had a little car, and it was painted red And everywhere that Mary went, the cops picked up the dead Mary had a bathing suit, and it was very airy It didn’t help her much to swim, but it showed a lot of Mary Mary had a little lamb, she also had a bear Now often I have seen her lamb, but I’ve never seen her bare Mary had a little lamb, the doctors were astounded And everywhere that Mary went, gynecologists surrounded Mary had a little lamb, the doctors were surprised But when Old McDonald had a farm, you should have seen their eyes And the final verse: Mary had a little lamb, her father shot it dead So now she takes that lamb to school between two hunks of bread ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/70 "2004-03-16T02:04:22Z")
I remember a version of **Mary Has a Little Lamb** (though not from camp) that went: Mary had a little lamb She also had a bear And everywhere that Mary went You could see her bare behind There was also a song whose name I don’t remember that went: We are the girls from Starlight revue We’ll take it off and show it to you We’ve got style, we’ve got class We like to wiggle our big—toe! And another one whose name I don’t recall, and that I never heard anywhere else: Oh, oh, oh, oh, in the moonlight I want to hold your hand (repeat) Like all the little bearsies, all the little beesies Always go in pairsies, never go in threesies Oh, oh, oh, oh, in the moonlight I want to hold your hand. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/71 "2004-03-16T04:14:52Z")
> [@KRC](#): > > We also sang \*\*Juvenile Delinquent \*\* and **Boom Boom, Ain’t it Great to be Crazy,** both of which had lyrics just suggestive enough that we were told not to teach them to the Brownies. Your camp must have had raunchier **Boom Boom** lyrics than the ones I learned: \*A horse and a flea and three blind mice Sat in a barnyard shotin’ dice The horsie slipped and fell on the flea “Whoops!” said the flea. “There’s a horsie on me!” (chorus) Boom boom, ain’t it great to be crazy? Boom boom, ain’t it great to be crazy? Silly and foolish all day long Boom boom, ain’t it great to be crazy? Way down south where bananas grow A flea stepped on an elephant’s toe The elephant cried with tears in his eyes, “Why don’t you pick on someone your own size?” (Repeat Chorus, new verse, repeat chorus, etc.)\* ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/72 "2004-03-16T05:32:16Z")
I just remembered another favourite at Guide Camp. The Second Story Window It went: The window the window The second story window If you don’t know what it’s about We’ll throw you out the window! Hickory dickory dock, The mouse ran up the clock, The clock struck one and we threw him out the window [Chorus] Marry had a little lamb It’s fleece was white as snow And everywhere that Mary went We threw him out the window [Chorus] and so on and so forth. You had to split the camp into 2 groups and we’d go back and forth. You weren’t allowed to repeat nursery rhymes and you could go on as long as the rhymes were not done a second time or we got sick of it (or the leaders got sick of hearing us yelling at the top of our lungs back and forth) ---
**Author:** ![themindreels](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc29f/32.png) [@themindreels](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themindreels)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/73 "2004-03-16T14:29:31Z")
I learned a slightly different version of the worm song. Nobody likes me Everybody hates me, I guess I’ll go eat wo-o-rms. Long ones, short ones, Fat ones, skinny ones. Itsy-bitsy teenie-weenie little wo-o-rms. First you bite the heads off. Then you suck the blood out. Then you throw the skins a-way-a-ai. Nobody knows How I survive On worms three times a day-a-ai! My husband was SHOCKED when I passed this and “Miss Mary” onto my daughters. Can you tell he has never been to sleep-away camp? I can’t wait until he hears some of the ones from this thread! I could use a little help though…my memory is a little foggy on a song I’d like to teach the girls. It started out with something along the lines of: Every morning at half past 8 I say eewie-eewie-eewie to Miss Bates. It ends with a window coming down on her head, chopping it off. The final line is something along the lines of “off goes her head…eewie-eewie-eewie”. Any help out there? ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2004, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966/74 "2004-03-16T14:52:26Z")
**Sternvogel,** our camp’s version of **Boom Boom** had a verse that went: Now I lay me down to sleep With the boy across the street Won’t my mommy be surprised When she sees my little tummy rise! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-did-you-sing-at-summer-camp/233966.md?page=3)