Mine are in this thread: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=57037&highlight=camp+songs
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.
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…
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
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!*
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!!!
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:
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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?
The Titanic song and the “I Didn’t Know the Gun Was Loaded” song are the songs that haunt me most.
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
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.
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.
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!
*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
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.
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.
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.
Depends on whether the star is Matt Damon or not… 
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?