Campfire Song Book

Grey Squirrel

Grey Squirrel, grey squirrel

Shake your bushy tail

Grey Squirrel, grey squirrel

Shake your bushy tail

Wrinkle up your little nose

Hold a nut between your toes

Grey Squirrel, grey squirrel

Shake your bushy tail

Repeat for “Red Squirrel”

Dingle Dangle Scarecrow

When all the cows were sleeping

And the sun had gone to bed

Up jumped the scarecrow

And this is what he said

I’m a dingle dangle scarecrow with a flippy floppy hat

I can shake my hands like this and shake my feet like that

When all the hens were roosting

and the moons behind the clouds

Up jumped the scarecrow and shouted very loud

I’m a dingle dangle scarecrow with a flippy floppy hat

I can shake my hands like this and shake my feet like that

Bingo

There was a farmer had a dog and bingo was his nameo

B-I-N-G-O

B-I-N-G-O

B-I-N-G-O

And bingo was his nameo

Repeat above and each time replace one letter from BINGO with a clap.

*-I-N-G-O etc.

Five little monkeys

Five little monkeys jumping on the bed

One fell off and bumped his head

Mama called the doctor and the doctor said

No more monkeys jumping on the bed

Repeat four…three…two…one…

Then at zero. No little monkeys jumping on the bed

They’re all jumping on the sofa instead

If you’re happy and you know it

If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands*

If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands*

If you’re happy and you know it and you really want to show it

If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands.*

*Stamp your feet

*Nod your head

*Do all three

Hokey Cokey

You put your left arm in

You put your left arm out

You put your left arm in and you shake it all about

You do the Hokey Cokey and you turn around

That’s what its all about

WAY- hokey cokey cokey

WAY –hokey cokey cokey

WAY-hokey cokey cokey

Knees bend arms out RA!RA!RA!

Repeat for Right arm, Left leg, Right leg and whole self

Little bunnies sleeping

Little bunnies sleeping ‘til its nearly noon

Shall we wake them with a merry tune

They’re so still…

Are they ill…

WAKE UP LITTLE BUNNIES!!

Hop little bunnies hop hop hop

Hop little bunnies hop hop hop

Hop little bunnies hop hop hop

Hop Hop Hop Hop Hop

Old Macdonald

Old Macdonald had a farm

E-I-E-I-O

And on that farm he had a *cow

E-I-E-I-O

With a moo moo here

And a moo moo there

Here a moo there a moo

Everywhere a moo moo

Old macdonald had a farm

E-I-E-I-O

Repeat for animals sheep,pig,dog etc

She’ll be coming round the mountain

She’ll be coming round the mountain when she comes

She’ll be coming round the mountain when she comes

She’ll be coming round the mountain

‘coming round the mountain

She’ll be coming round the mountain

When she comes.

Singing aye aye ippy ippy aye

Singing aye aye ippy ippy aye

Singing aye aye ippy ippy, aye apy ippy

Singing aye aye ippy ippy ayeRepeat for she’ll be driving six white horses

We’ll all go out and meet her

She’ll be wearing pink pyjamas

Head and Shoulders

Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes

Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes

And eyes and ears and mouth and nose

Head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes

Repeat increasing in speed until actions are impossible.

Music Man

I am the music man, I come from far away and I can play

“What can you play”

I play the piano…. Pia pia piano, piano, piano, pia pia piano, pia-piano

Repeat I am the music man.

I play the Big bass drum – boom, boom, boom

I play the triangle – ting-a-ling-a-ling

I play the Bagpipes –na-na-na-na

I play the Trombone – Um-pa-um-pa-um-papa.

The Grand old Duke of York

The grand old Duke of York

He had ten thousand men

He marched them up to the top of the hill and he marched them down again

And when they were up the were up

And when they were down they were down

And when they were only half way up they were neither up nor down.

(stand, sit or crouch accordingly) then do the opposite.

MeatballOn top of spaghetti, All covered with cheese,I lost my poor meatball, When somebody sneezed.It rolled off the table,And on to the floor,And then my poor meatball,Rolled out of the door.It rolled in the garden,And under a bush,And then my poor meatball,Was nothing but mush.The mush was as tastyAs tasty could be,And then the next summer, It grew into a tree.The tree was all covered,All covered with moss,And on it grew meatballs,And tomato sauce.So if you eat spaghetti,All covered with cheese,Hold on to your meatballWhenever you sneeze

Quarter master’s StoresMy eyes are dim I cannot see

I have not brought my specs with me

I have not brought my specs with me

There were mice, mice eating all the rice

In the stores, in the stores,

There were mice, mice eating all the rice

In the quarter masters stores

Repeat for the below or adapt for local characters or events.

There was gravy, gravy enough to sink a navy

There was soup, soup supposed to feed the group

There was honey, honey melting and rather runny

There was beef, beef harder than your teeth

There was cake, cake they bought it by mistake

My Bonnie

My Bonnie lies over the ocean,my Bonnie lies over the sea,My Bonnie lies over the ocean, O bring back my Bonnie to me.

Chorus:Bring back, bring back, O bring back my Bonnie to me, to me:Bring back, bring back, O bring back my Bonnie to me.

The Happy WandererI love to go a-wandering, Along the mountain track, And as I go, I love to sing, My knapsack on my back. Chorus:Val-deri,Val-dera,Val-deri,Val-dera-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha Val-deri,Val-dera. My knapsack on my back.I love to wander by the stream That dances in the sun, So joyously it calls to me, "Come! Join my happy song!"I wave my hat to all I meet, And they wave back to me, And blackbirds call so loud and sweet From ev'ry green wood tree.High overhead, the skylarks wing, They never rest at home But just like me, they love to sing, As o'er the world we roam.Oh, may I go a-wandering Until the day I die! Oh, may I always laugh and sing, Beneath God's clear blue sky!

Land of the Silver Birch

Land of the silver birch, Home of the beaverWhere still the mighty mooseWanders at will

Chorus:

Blue lake and rocky shoreI will return once moreBoom diddy-ah da, boom diddy-ah da, boom diddy-ah da, Boom

Down in the forest.Deep in the low landMy heart cries out for thee hills of the north

Chorus

High on a rocky ledgeI’ll build my wigwamClose to the water’s edgeSilent and stillChorus

My heart grows sick for theeHere in the low landsI will return to theeHills of the northChorus

Alice the Camel

Alice the camel has 5 humpsAlice the camel has 5 humps Alice the camel has 5 humpsSo go, Alice, go, boom-boom-boom

Alice the Camel has 4 humps etc.

Alice the camel has no humps (repeat twice more)

Because Alice is a horse.

(Arms around the waist of the person next to you – wiggle on boom)

Kumbaya

Kum ba yah, my lord, Kum ba yah! Kum ba yah, my lord, Kum ba yah! Kum ba yah, my lord, Kum ba yah. O Lord, Kum ba yahSomeone's crying, Lord, Kum ba yah!Someone's crying, Lord, Kum ba yah!Someone's crying, Lord, Kum ba yah! O Lord, Kum ba yah Someone's singing, Lord, Kum ba yah!Someone's singing, Lord, Kum ba yah!Someone's singing, Lord, Kum ba yah! O Lord, Kum ba yah Someone's praying, Lord, Kum ba yah!Someone's praying, Lord, Kum ba yah!Someone's praying, Lord, Kum ba yah! O Lord, Kum ba yah Someone's sleeping, Lord, Kum ba yah!Someone's sleeping, Lord, Kum ba yah!Someone's sleeping, Lord, Kum ba yah! O Lord, Kum ba yah

More songs to be added.

Do your ears hang lowMy bonnie lies over the oceanThis little light of mineYogi BearFive Green and Speckled frogsThe more we get togetherBaby BumblebeeBaby SharkI’m a little BeaverTen Brown Beavers building up a damCamp Fire BurningGing gang goolie.