FE
FI
Camp Fires
burning
Sunshine Mountain
Pizza Hut
Farmyard
Carols
Joe
Old Macdonald
The Ants Were
Marching
Gloop Gloop
If You`re Happy and you Know
It
The Motorcycle Policeman`s Got a Puncture in his
Tyre
The Lapper Dance
The Fly Song
Rule
Britannia
Grey Squirrel
Three Blind
Jellyfish
Alive, Alert,
Awake, Enthusiastic
Green Grow the Rushes
Oh
BINGO
Alouette
Yell
The Court of King
Caractacus
Middlesex or Winnie the Pooh
They Were
Only Playing Leapfrog
Cool and Creamy
The
Wing Commander
Whoops la la la
la
Oh You`ll Never Go to Heaven
The Quartermasters Store
I'm a little
Beaver
My Bonnie and some of her Variations
Boom
Chikka Boom
10 in the Bed
Damper Song
I`ve
something in my pocket (TUNE: John Brown`s body)
The
Pirate Song
Thanks
There`s a Hole in my
bucket
Mrs O`grady
A very rude song to
finish
FE FI
The leader speaks these
wonderful lines accompanied with alternately slapping their thighs, and
clapping
their hands to produce the rhythm. The audience repeats them once
he has finished a line. The whole
thing is usually repeated 3 times,
getting progressively faster until in the end the audience should have
real
difficulty in keeping up with you. Feel free to complain about their clapping,
rhythm, noise level etc
in order to get them going. The spelling is
phonetic.
Fe
Fe Fi
Fe Fi Fo
Cwmala
Veesa
Cwmala cwmala cwmala veesa
Oh no no no no la veesa
Eeeny meeny decimeeny ooh aah na wanah meeny
Beep diddly odun bodun doo aah
skaduda bodun.
The last line can be replaced
with:-
Big mac, french fries
strawberry shake ( or raspberry if you want!)
Camp Fires burning
Camp fires burning, camp fires
burning
Draw nearer, draw nearer
In the gloamin, in the gloamin
Come sing and be merry (or Mary if you like)
Everyone sings it through once
very loudly, and then it works well if you split the audience into groups
and sing it as a round.
Sunshine Mountain
We`re going up to Sunshine
Mountain (point up)
Where the North wind blows (cup hand around mouth like
a megaphone- 3 blows)
We`re going up to Sunshine Mountain (point up)
Faces all a glow owe owe owe(cup hands around face moving head left to
right)
Turn your back on all your troubles (turn 180 degrees)
Lift your
spirits high (jump)
We`re going up to sunshine mountain, you and I, you and
I (grab someone to join in)
Starting with preferably 2
leaders, each time a verse is finished every singer grabs a volunteer until
everyone is up singing and dancing.
Pizza Hut
A pizza hut, A pizza hut (make
shape of a house with index fingers twice)
Kentucky fried chicken (flap
arms like a chicken) and a pizza hut
Macdonalds Macdonalds (point out
arches in opposite directions)
Kentucky fried chicken and a pizza hut
Macdonalds Macdonalds Kentucky fried chicken and a pizza hut
If you can`t follow my
directions for the actions then go and find someone to sing it to you. Please
feel free to make up your own actions for the following verses, or again ask
someone who knows to show you the usual ones. I`ve abbreviated the verses down
just to show what is included in each one.
A ford escort, a tiny
little mini, ferrari
A burger king, a little chef, a wimpy
A dinosaur,
tyrannosaurus rex, pterodactyl
A TV screen, a tiny little arial,
teletubby
A fat girl guide, a tiny little brownie, a ranger
A snot
nosed cub, a know it all scout, a venture
Farmyard Carols
Split your audience into 3
groups (1, 2 and C) Each group gets a sound. MOO , QUACK or BAA. You point at a
group when you want them to make their noise.Get them to do a farm yard version
of Good King Wenceslas,or any other tune you want to destroy.
Joe
In this one the audience
repeats each line straight after the leader and keeps the ever increasing
actions
going through the whole thing.
Hi
My names Joe
And I
work in a button factory
One day me boss says to me
Are you busy
Joe?
So I says no
So he says push this button with your right hand.
As the song progresses, you add
in more bits to push the button with until you are leaping around like mad
things. You can push buttons with almost anything including hands, legs, heads,
tongues (always a favourite) and backsides.
Old Macdonald
Everyone probably knows old
Macdonald had a farm (but he got off with a caution) . There is a slightly
different version which changes the chorus. On the cow verse it would be:-
There were big cows little cows, little cows big cows
Fat cows thin cows,
thin cows fat cows
Old Macdonald had a farm E I E I O!
Appropriate hand actions can be
added for extra complications.
There is also another chorus
for Venture Scouts which goes like:-
Rams Rammin it here, rammin it
there (guess what the
actions are)
Cows Cowin it here, Cowin it there
(imagine John
Inman in Are You Being Served)
Turkeys Gobblin it here,
gobblin it there (don`t even
ask)
Bulls Bullin it here, Bullin it there
(needs two for
this one)
Cockrels . . . . . . (work it out yourself)
The Ants Were Marching
The ants were marching one by
one hurrah, hurrah
The ants were marching one by one, hurrah hurrah
The
ants were marching one by one, the little one stopped to scratch his bum
And they all went marching, across the floor (hands flat
out in front of
you at shoulder height),
Under the door (make a down and up movement with
hands), Down the drain (point down, arms still full out),
Into the rain
(tickly downwards movement with hands)
Zoom, Zoom, Zoom! (exaggerated hips
thrust out, arms
pull in towards you)
2 tie his shoe
3- have a
wee
4- shut the door
5- said it`s great to be alive
6- pick up some
sticks
7- died and went to heaven
8- opened the gates
9- said I
feel fine
10- if you want any more you can sing it again
Gloop Gloop
Gloop gloop went the little
green frog one day (slap thighs on each gloop)
Gloop gloop said the little
green frog (repeat actions)
Gloop gloop went the little green frog one day
(repeat actions)
And they all went gloop gloop glob (repeat actions, extra
slap on glob)
BUT!
We know frogs go la di
da di da (clap after word go, then
arms out stand on
La di da di da one
leg and wave hands
Switch legs/sides on
La di da di da every la di da)
We know frogs go la di da di
da
Don`t go gloop gloop glob ( usual slapping of thighs here)
Alternative chorus
We know frogs go pop in the
microwave
Splat when you step on them
Squelch on the motorway
We
know frogs go (fart noise) when you tickle them, don`t go gloop gloop glob
(slapping)
There are also other verses
involving growly bears, buzzy bees, pink phones and choo choo trains but
you can make up your own actions.
If You`re Happy and you Know It
Probably you already know If
You`re Happy and You Know it Clap Your Hands so I`m not going to include the
words here. However, using the same tune:-
If you`re happy and you know it
pick your nose
If you`re happy and you know it
roll it round
If you`re happy and you know it flick it off
If you`re
happy and you know it pick it up
If you`re happy and you know it take a
bite
If you`re happy and you know it do all 5
You can also do If you`re Daffy
and You Know itwhich is the same as the normal version but with the actions and
descriptions mixed up. That is you would clap when singing about clicking your
fingers.
The Motorcycle Policeman`s Got a Puncture in his
Tyre
The motor cycle policeman`s got
a puncture in his tyre
The motorcycle policeman`s got a puncture in his
tyre
The motorcycle policeman`s got a puncture in his tyre
So he mended
it with chewing gu-u-um
Chewy chewy chewy cheww eey
Chewy chewy chewy cheww eey
Chewy chewy chewy cheww eey
And he mended
it with chewing gu-u-um
The tune to this is John
Brown`s body. Each time it is sung through, a word is dropped out and replaced
with a sound and an action as follows :-
- The motor cycle
- vroom vroom (like revving the
throttle
on a motorbike)
- Policeman
- nick nick ( make hand like a
duck beak, open
and close it on head)
- Puncture
- pssssss (pointy/stabby motion
with index
finger)
- Tyre
- high pitched wooooooo (each
hand points out half a
circle in front of you)
Chewing - like you`re stretching
the gum from your mouth)
The Lapper Dance
Sung to the tune of do you know
the Muffin Man this is guaranteed to kill of a few of the audience.
Basically the same verse is sung through a few times but with your hands on a
different part of you neighbour`s anatomy. Everyone needs to be in a big circle
doing the actions to the person on either side of them. Always good for a few
injuries.
Can you do the Lapper
Dance, the Lapper Dance, the Lapper Dance
Can you do the Lapper Dance, the
Lapper Lapper Dance
Verse 1 - arms around
neighbours shoulders
Verse 2 - arms around neighbours waist
Verse 3 -
hands on neighbours knees
Verse 4 - hold neighbours ankles
The Fly Song
Everywhere you see * you make a
loud raspberry noise. You need to train your audience before singing this song
so that their noises are short and to the point.
There was a little fly flew
into a grocers store, and he on the ceiling and he on the floor.
He on the bacon and he on the ham and he * on the head of the little
grocer man.
So the little grocer man said
before this day is done, I will go and get my spray and I`ll go and get my
gun.
But before the grocer man could count from one to ten, the fly flew in
the door and * on him again.
Rule Britannia
Rule Britannia with marmalade
and jam, 5 Chinese crackers in your earhole
Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang!
(accompanied by 5 claps)
Sing it through 5 times
dropping one cracker, and so one clap, every time. I will guarantee that
someone will get it wrong.
Grey Squirrel
Grey Squirrel, Grey Squirrel
wag your bushy tail (hands like a squirrel, wag your tail)
Grey Squirrel,
Grey Squirrel wag your bushy tail (repeat actions)
Put your nuts between
your toes (put nuts between toes)
Then you rub your shiny nose (rub your
nose)
Grey Squirrel, Grey Squirrel wag your bushy tail (repeat actions)
I know this sound silly bit if
you get a few people from the audience to be squirrels it goes down very
well.
Anyway squirrels are cute.
Three Blind Jellyfish
Three blind jellyfish
Three
blind jellyfish
Three blind jellyfish sitting on a log
Actions:- Three - 3 fingers
up
Blind - cover eyes
Jellyfish - wobble hand
A very easy song. Go through it
losing one jellyfish at a time. Volunteers make good jellyfish and they must
ham up their disappearance as much as possible by rolling and diving off the
log. You can also bring them back one at a time to much applause.
Alive, Alert, Awake,
Enthusiastic
To the tune of If You`re Happy
and You Know It :-
I`m alive (hands on head)
Alert (hands on shoulders)
Awake (hands crossed on chest)
Enthuse (slap
thighs)
Eeass (clap hands)
Tic (click fingers of both hands)
Repeat this twice then the last
bit is :-
I`m alive, alert, awake
I`m
awake, alert, alive
I`m alive, alert, awake, enthusiastic
All accompanied by the
appropriate actions. An excellent item if you can remember the order of things.
I never can so I have it on a piece of card on the floor in front of me. Its so
subtle the punters never notice.
The Elephant in the Attic
What is that noise I hear (cup
hand over ear)
Up in the attic (point up)
It is an elephant (make a
trunk with your arm)
Cycling round and round (cycling action)
It is an
elephant (trunk)
So chique and elegant (interlace fingers, palms down, hold
over left hip)
With one tail here (trunk)
And one tail there (make a
tail with your arm)
Repeat this through, losing one
line at a time and replacing it with the action until there is no speaking
at
all. Then go through it once very fast with words and actions.
Green Grow the Rushes Oh
A good song for a larger
audience when accompanied by the following actions. Appoint a group of singers
to do the actions for each verse. So, for example, you would have 5 people
doing the actions for the verse `5 for the symbols at your door`. It is likely
that some people will have to do more than 1 action during the song.
I`ll sing you one oh, green
grow the rushes oh
What is your one oh?
One is one and all alone and
never more shall be oh. (This is the camp fire leader)
Two two the lilly white boys,
cloth ed all in green hoho (2 volunteers to dance around)
Three three the
ri i i i vals (a gentle punching action)
Four for the gospel makers (hands
like a book opening)
Five for the symbols at your door (clap in time with
words of the verse)
Six for the six proud walkers (walk on the spot)
Seven for the seven stars in the sky (point up)
Eight for the April Rainers
(shimmery hand type effect)
Nine for the nine bright shiners (index fingers
into cheeks)
Ten for the ten commandments (like Moses writing on a
tablet)
Eleven for the eleven who went to Heaven (flap arms like an angel`s
wings)
Twelve for the twelve apostles (hold hands as though praying)
Alternatively, make up your own
actions.
BINGO
There was a man who had a dog
and Bingo was his name oh
B I N G O,
B I N G O
And Bingo was his
name oh.
All you do is sing it through a
number of times, dropping one letter of the dog`s ame every verse and
replacing it with a clap until all you have is 5 claps. You can also change it
to there was a beaver had a Kit, anything really that you consider suitable for
your audience e.g. There was a Scouter had a can,
and Lager was it`s name
oh.
L A G E R etc
Alouette
Chorus
Ooooh alouette, jaunte
allouette
Alouette jaunte plumerai
Oh I love her stringy hair, how
I love her stringy hair
Leader - Stringy hair (audience repeats) - then
into chorus
Oh I love her bloodshot eyes,
how I love her bloodshot eyes
Bloodshot eyes (audience repeats) stringy
hair (audience repeats) - then chorus
After this, the rest of the
verses are as follows with the young ladies catalogue of charms getting
longer
and longer each time around. You may want to elongate your
Oooooooooooh at the beginning of the chorus
as well.
broken nose
2 buck
teeth
double chins
hairy bum
nobbly knees etc etc
Yell
Ham and eggs :- split the
audience into 2 groups. The leader says the lines to each group in turn and
they reply very loudly. Everyone shouts the first and last lines as loudly as
possible.
All - Haaaam and eggs, Haaaam
and eggs
First group - I like mine done golden brown
Second group - I
like mine done upside down
First group - Flip `em
Second group - Flop
`em
First group - Flip `em
Second group - Flop `em
All - Haaaam and
eggs
The Court of King Caractacus
This is one guaranteed to
impress your audience if you can keep breathing right the way through. It
has
just one line, which is introduced bit by bit through the song and
repeated 4 times per verse. The first
verse is :-
Theladies of the harem of the
court of King Caractacus were just passing by (repeated 4 times)
This bit is then added to every
time around as follows, and the whole thing repeated 4 times per verse.
That is why you need lots of breath especially for the last verse.
The noses on the faces of
The boys who put the powder on
The fascinating witches who put the
scintillating stitches in the britches of
The last verse, which is not
repeated ,is:-
Now if you want to take some
pictures of the fascinating witches who put the scintillating stitches in the
britches of the boys who put the powder on the noses of the faces of the ladies
of the harem of the court of King Caractacus, then you`re too late, cos they
just passed by!
Although this songs was made
most famous by the greatest entertainer in the world Rolf Harris (see his
website at The Rolf Harris Fan Club Website) he actually got it from a old
scout campfire song book.
Yell
Middlesex or Winnie the Pooh
Basically this is the same as
Oggie Oggie Oggie with the words changed. Split the audience into 2 groups
or the leader can speak and the audience repeat, whatever rattles your chain.
Middle middle middle,sex sex
sex,
Middle middle middle, sex sex sex
Middle, sex,
Middle, sex
Middle middle middle, sex sex sex.
Or try
Winnie winnie winnie, Pooh Pooh
Pooh etc??
They Were Only Playing Leapfrog
A very confusing song with lots
of different verses. The tune is John Brown`s Body?
One hedgehog hedged up the
hedge, the other hedgehog hedged down (3times)
As the end of the day drew
near.
Chorus
They were only playing
leapfrog,
They were only playing leapfrog,
They were only playing
leapfrog
As one hedgehog hedged up the hedge, the other hedgehog hedged
down.
All the other verses basically
follow the same pattern and are introduced in degrees of complexity :-
One grasshopper jumped right
over the other grasshopper`s back
One pink poodle pampered his
paws, the other pink poodle paused
A busy buzzy bumble bee was
busily buzzing by
One slow worm slid up the
sluice, the other slow worm slid down
A spider espied a spider
astride another spider?ack
One bed bug bled black blue
blood, the other bed bug bled blue
Cool and Creamy
This needs 2 of you with no
sense, and 2 cans of shaving foam. The tune is Alouette
Chorus
Cool and creamy we
like cool and creamy, cool and creamy that`s what we like best.
Would you like some on your
head?
Yes I`d like some on my head!
On your head,
On my head (spray
the one who`d like it on their head)
It then carries on alternating
the sprayer and the sprayee and different parts of their bodies. Have
fun!
The Wing Commander
There are loads and loads of
versions to this song which yet again uses the tune of John Brown`s Body?
The Wing Commander tried to
jump without a parachute
The Wing Commander tried to jump with out a
parachute
The Wing Commander tried to jump without a parachute
And he
aint gonna jump no more or or.
Chorus
Glory glory what a
hell of a way to die
with a finger up your backside and a bullet in your
eye
Glory glory what a hell of a way to die
And he aint gonna jump no
more ore ore
The rest of the verses are as
follows:-
They scraped him off the
runway like a lump of Raspberry jam
They put him in an envelope and took
him home to mam
She put him on the mantlepiece for everyone to see
They
took him down the local and they sprinkled him with beer (sad verse)
The
next day in the NAAFI they had raspberry jam for tea
Whoops la la la la
A very easy song. If you know
the tune to Pop Goes the Weasel, then you can do it. Split the audience into
about 3 groups, and they la la to the afore mentioned tune. At the end the last
3 syllables are not la la`d but are replaced with a very loud
Whoops LA LA LA LA with a bit
of a Mexican wave type leap in the air. After a couple of practices, start it
off as a round. The next group starts when the previous group is on their
second line as follows.
La la la la la li la la,
La
la la li la la (group 2 start when group 1 start this line)
LA la la la la
li la la
WHOOPS la la la la!
Oh You`ll Never Go to
Heaven
Leader = L
Audience
response = A
L Oh you`ll never go to
Heaven
A Oh you`ll never go to Heaven
L In an old Ford car
A IN an
old Ford car
L Cos an old ford car
A Cos an old Ford car
L W`on`t
get that far
A W`on`t get that far
Chorus (All)
Oh you`ll never go to Heaven in
an old Ford car
Cos an old Ford car won?et that far
I aint gonna grieve
my Lord no more
I aint gonna grieve my Lord (or
I aint gonna grieve I aint gonna worry?
I aint gonna grieve my Lord (or I
aint gonna leave this world in a hurry?
I aint gonna grieve, my Lord no
more.
All the other verse follow the
same format.
In a ping pong ball, cos a
ping pong ball is much to small
On a Boy Scouts knee, cos a Boy
Scouts knee is too wobbly
In a Girl Guides bra, cos a
Girl Guides bra w'on`t stretch that far
If your name is Ron, cos the
Lord don`t want no more Rons in
On a Jumbo jet, cos the Lord
aint got no runways yet
In a biscuit tin, cos a biscuit
tins got biscuits in
With a fat Girl Guide, cos the
pearly gates are not that wide
On roller skates, cos you?skate
right past the pearly gates
If you get to Heaven, before I
do, then dig a hole and pull me through
There are loads of verses
to this song, variations of the same verse and new ones are made up all the
time often specific to one event such as a group camp.
The Quartermasters Store
There were mice mice, eating
all the rice
In the stores (In the where?)
In the stores (Say it
again)
There were mice mice eating all the rice
In the
Quartermaster`stores (behind the doors)
Chorus
My eyes are dim I cannot
see
I have not brought my specs with me
I have not brought my specs
with me. (or I left my specs in the lavatory)
This is another song where the
rest of the verses follow the same format and again there are lots of
them,
with new ones made up all the time
Gravy gravy, enough to
sink the navy
Cheese cheese, that brought you to your knees
Soup soup,
supposed to feed the group
Chip chips, as big as battleships
Rats rats,
as big as alley cats
Ventures Ventures wearing plastic dentures
Bread
bread, as hard as ??ead
Skip skip, looking a bit of a drip
Scouts
scout, chewing on some sprouts
The list is endless????
I'm a little Beaver
I`m a little beaver short and
stout
Here`s my tail and here?y snout
If you pull my tail you?hear me
shout
Hey I`m a Beaver, CUT THAT OUT!
Feel free to add appropriate
actions as you see fit.
My Bonnie and some of her Variations
My bonnie lies over the
ocean
My bonnie lies over the sea
My bonnie lies over the ocean
Oh
bring back my bonnie to me
Bring back, bring back,
Oh
bring back my bonnie to me to me
Bring back, bring back,
Oh bring back
my bonnie to me
With this version you can get
everyone to stand up or sit down or put their hands up in the air or
down,whatever you want really, every time a word starting with B is sung. So on
the first bonnie you stand up,and on the second you sit down etc. You can then
make it as complicated as you want by splitting the audience in 2 aand having
them do the opposite actions to eachother.
Other versions include
My bonnie has tuberculosis
My bonnie has only one lung
She coughs up a bloody solution
And rolls
it around on her tongue
Rolls it, rolls it,
rolls
it around on her tongue her tongue
Rolls it, rolls it,
rolls it around
on her tongue her tongue
Boom Chikka Boom
This is a repeat after me type
thing, the audience copying the leader.
This song has a beat, and it
goes like this (slap thighs and clap hands till end of song)
Are you ready?
Allright, here we go
I say, boom
I say boom
chikka boom
I say boom chikka rakka chikka rakka chikka boom
Oh
yeah
Uh Huh
One more time ? style
Then repeat but in a funny
voice/accent. For example high or low pitch, sexy, posh english, French,
Australian, Dracula, deep voice, Chinese??.
10 in the Bed
There was ten in the bed, and
the little one said, roll over roll over,
So they all rolled over and one
fell out, and banged his head and began to shout,
Please remember, to tie
a knot in my pyjamas.
Single beds are only made for...
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
Repeat
over and over dropping one number each time around until there's no one left in
bed.
Damper Song
Oh you push the damper in
(thrust arm in with index finger pointing)
And you pull the damper out
(pull it back)
And the smoke goes up the chimney just the same (point
finger up with swirly motion)
Oh you push the damper in and you pull the
damper out
And the smoke goes up the chimney just the same
Chorus
Star ar of the evening (point
up)
Shining on the cookhouse door or or (slam the door)
Star ar of the
ev e ning (point up)
And the smoke goes up the chimney just the same (point
finger up with swirly motion)
Song is repeated several times
in different styles for different versions. For example the Scout Leaders
style (gut out) Guiders style (loud as you can) sex maniacs style (how do you
push that damper in?) sissy
boys version (guess), hippie style (hey man,
like you push the damper in dude). Really, you can make it up
yourself.
I`ve something in my pocket (TUNE: John Brown`s
body)
I`ve something in my pocket
that belongs upon my face
I keep it close beside me in a most convenient
place
You`ll ever ever guess it though you`d try for quite a while
So
I`ll take it out and put it on its a GREAT BIG BEAVER (CUB, SCOUT,VENTURE
SCOUT) SMILE
Chorus
Its great big ?
smile ( 4 times, 4th time really loud)
The Pirate Song
When I was one, I had just
begun the day I went to sea,
I climbed aboard a pirate ship and the captain
said to me,
"We're going this way, that way, forward backwards
Over the
deep blue sea (or the Irish Sea)
A bottle of Rum to warm my tum,
And
that's the life for me.
Da, da, da dum dum dum ... Da, da, da dum dum dum
...
When I was two, I tied my shoe
the day I went to sea??
When I was three, I bumped my knee ...
When I
was four, I shut the door ...
When I was five, I was still alive ...
When I was six, I gathered sticks ...
When I was seven, I was almost in
heaven ...
When I was eight, I closed the gate ...
When I was nine, I
was feeling fine ...
When I was ten, I started again ...
[Suggested motions: "...climbed
aboard..." {as if climbing up the side of a ship} "...the captain said..."
{give salute} "We'll go..." {bend at the waist, forward, and back then left,
right so it doesn?ie in with
the words} "...over the Irish Sea." {make
waves with hand} "...bottle of rum..." {as if chugging a drink}
"...to warm
my tum..." {rub tum} "...that's the life..." {slap knee and raise hand} "...da,
da, da dum dum dum
..." {step forward, step back or do the shadows walk}
Thanks
Rather than just giving someone
a clap for their performance in the campfire circle you could try :-
- Round of applause
- clapping while moving your
hands in a
circle
- Seal of approval
- clapping and making a noise
like a
seal
Big hand - holding right hand up
in the air
A Mexican wave - normal, or hey Pedro, how`s your donkey
- A Bravo
- The leader speaks the letters
of the
word Bravo and each letter is
repeated by the audience with a
big cheer after the last ?
There`s a Hole in my bucket
H = Henry
L = Liza
H There`s a hole in my bucket
dear Liza dear Liza
There`s a hole in my bucket dear Liza a hole
L Then fix it dear Henry dear
Henry dear Henry
Then fix it dear Henry dear Henry dear Henry
Continue this way
H With what shall I fix it?
L With straw
H The straw is too long
L Then cut it
H With what
shall I cut it?
L With an axe
H The axe is too dull
L Then sharpen
it
H With what shall I sharpen it?
L With a stone
H But the stone
is too dry
L Then wet it
H With what shall I wet it?
L With
water
H With what shall I fetch it?
L With a bucket
H But there?
hole in my bucket!
This song works very well in
larger campfires when you can split the audience into 2 groups. Each group
should be led by one of the campfire leaders and I always like to have a copy
of the words in front of
me as I am guaranteed to get it wrong otherwise.
Mrs
O`grady
To the tune of K K K Katy
Mrs O`grady, she was a lady
She had a daughter I used to know
I used to court her
I mean the
daughter
Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
Sunday night at half past four.
Then spoken:
She is tall,
and fair, and her hair, is a delicate shade of Ginger.
This is a singing game to find
out who has the biggest lungs. After the all try the last line, someone is
nominated by the leader to repeat the days of the week as many times as
possible without taking a breath.
A very rude song to
finish
To the tune of the `Yellow Rose of Texas`?
There is a winding passage that
leads up to my heart
And what comes down this passage is commonly called a
fart
A fart is very useful, it sets the mind at ease
It warms the bed
on Winter nights and disinfects the fleas!
A fart it is quite wonderful
its made inside your belly
It passes through you bottom and its often very
smelly
Everybody does them from vicars down to Queens
And you can do
some corking chuffs if you`ve been eating beans
So hurrah for your methane, 3
cheers for your trumps
But if you strain a tad too hard, please check your
pants for lumps!
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