Announcements Song

Announcements, announcements, announcements!
What a terrible way to die,
A terrible way to die,
A terrible way to be talked to death.
A terrible way to die.

Announcements, announcements, announcements!
(London Bridge)
Make the announcements short and sweet,
Short and sweet,
Short and sweet.
Make the announcemnts short and sweet,
They're so BORING!

Announcements, announcements, announcements!
(Ever Seen a Windmill)
Have you ever seen a windbag,
A windbag, a windbag?
Have you ever seen a windbag?
Well, there's one right now.
Swings this way and that way,
And this way and that way,
Have you ever seen a windbag?
Well there's one RIGHT NOW!

Announcements, announcements, announcements!
(Freres Jaques)
Words of wisdom,
Words of wisdom.
Here they come,
Here they come.
Boring words of wisdom,
Boring words of wisdom.
Dum, dum, dum,
Dum, dum, dum.

Announcements, announcements, announcements!
(What Do You Do With A Drunken Sailor)
What do you do with a loud Cubmaster?
What do you do with a loud Cubmaster?
What do you do with a loud Cubmaster,
Early in the evening?
Hit him in the face with a chocolate cream pie!
Hit him in the face with a chocolate cream pie!
Hit him in the face with a chocolate cream pie,
Early in the evening!

Announcements, announcements, announcements!
Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream
Throw the announcements overboard and listen to them scream.
Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream.
Ha Ha! Fooled you,
I'm a submarine.

(There are so many verses created by many different troops… What’s your version?)

Holiday Thoughts

Tune: She’ll be Comin’ ‘Round the Mountain

We will decorate the house on holidays.
We will decorate the house on holidays.
We will write down all our wishes,
And set out the special dishes.
We will decorate the house on holidays.

We’ll prepare a special feast on holidays.
We’ll prepare a special feast on holidays.
We will make the cakes and pies,
That smell good and tempt our eyes.
We’ll prepare a special feast on holidays.

We’ll give thanks for love and peace on holidays.
We’ll give thanks for love and peace on holidays.
We’ll share presents with our friends,
And hope the spirit never ends.
We’ll give thanks for love and peace on holidays.

Scout Vespers

Sing to the tune: “Oh Christmas Tree”

Softly falls the light of day, 
While our campfire fades away. 
Silently each Scout should ask 
Have I done my daily task? 
Have I kept my honor bright? 
Can I guiltless sleep tonight? 
Have I done and have I dared 
Everything to be prepared? 

Listen Lord, oh listen Lord, 
As I whisper soft and low. 
Bless my mom and Bless my dad, 
These are things that they should know. 
I will keep my honor Bright, 
The oath and law will be my guide. 
And mom and dad this you should know, 
Deep in my heart I love you so. 

On My Honor

On my honor, I'll do my best, to do my duty to God.

On my honor, I'll do my best, to serve my country as I may.

On my honor, I'll do my best, to do my good turn each day,

To keep my body strengthened and keep my mind awakened.

To follow paths of righteousness.

On my honor, I'll do my best.

Cub Scout Chant

Rhythmic Chant (you can also create a beat by clapping your hands). Ask the audience to repeat each line after the leader. Some of you may recognize that this song is similar to “Froggy!”:

Wolf!

Wolf, Bear!

Wolf, Bear, Webelos!

Cub Scouts!

Jumping, running, noisy playing, wanna be a Boy Scout!

Grow, grow, grow little Cub Scout.

Den meeting treats are scrumdiddleyicious!

Cookie, cookie, cookie, cookie, cookie, cookie, YUM!

(you have the option of only singing once or sing multiple time getting faster and faster each time)

FASTER!

I'm a Little Leprechaun

(Tune of I’m a Little Teapot)

Song:

I'm a little leprechaun 
Dressed in green, 
The tiniest man 
That you have seen.
If you ever catch me, so it's told,
I'll give you me big pot of gold.

Actions:

I'm a little leprechaun
(hands on hips)

Dressed in green, 
(point to shirt)

The tiniest man
(hold thumb and index finger about an inch apart)

That you have seen.
(point to the other people)

If you ever catch me, so it's told,
(make a motion like you're grabbing at a leprechaun)

I'll give you me big pot of gold.
(make a motion like you're giving something away)

The Grand Old Duke of York

Oh, the grand old Duke of York,
He had ten thousand men,
He marched them up the hill
Everyone stands up
And He marched them down again
 Everyone sits down

And when your up your up.
Everyone stands up
And when your down your down.
Everyone sits down
And when your only halfway up,
Your neither up nor down.
Everyone half-way up
(repeat continually singing each verse faster than the last)

Boom Chicka Boom

This is a repeat after me song! Lets get a beat!
(repeat each line after song leader) 

I said a Boom Chicka Boom 
I said a Boom Chicka Boom 
I said a Boom Chicka Rocka Chicka Rocka Chicka Boom 
Uh huh 
Oh yeah 
One more time ______ style. 

Janitor Style: 
I said a Broom Sweep-a Broom 
I said a Broom Sweep-a Broom 
I said a Broom Sweep-a Mop-a Sweep-a Mop-a Sweep-a Broom 

Valley Girl Style: 
I said like boom chicka boom 
I said a totally boom chicka boom 
I said like boom chicka like rocka chicka like gag me with a spoon 

Barn-yard Style: 
I said a moo chicka moo 
I said a moo chicka moo 
I said a moo chicka watch your step, don't track it in the room. 

Race Car Style: 
I said a vroom shifta vroom 
I said a vroom shifta vroom 
I said a vroom shifta grind-a shifta grind-a shifta vroom 

Parent Style: 
I said a boom GO TO YOUR ROOM 
I said a boom GO TO YOUR ROOM 
I said a boom GO TO YOUR ROOM and don't come out 'til next June. 

Cheerleader Style: 
I said a Boom-Go-Fight-Boom 
I said a Boom-Go-Fight-Boom 
I said a Boom Go-Fight-Win Go-Fight-Win Go-Fight-Boom 

Taco Bell Style: 
I said a bean chicka bean 
I said a bean chicka bean 
I said a bean and cheese burrito and a nacho supreme.

Photographer Style:
I said a zoom clicka zoom.
I said a zoom clicka zoom. 
I said a zoom clicka Smile Watch the Birdie clicka zoom.

Thunderstorm Style:
I said a boom crasha boom
I said a boom crasha boom
I said a boom crasha flasha crasha flasha crasha boom

Surfer Style:
I said a dude chicka dude
I said a dude chicka dude
I said a dude chicka wipe out chicka WHOA chicka dude

Bee Style:
I said a Bzzzz chicka Bzzzz
I said a Bzzzz chicka Bzzzz
I said a Bzzzz flower nectar pollen honey chicka Bzzzz

Star Wars Style:
I said a zoom chicka zoom
I said a zoom chicka zoom
I said a Luke I am your father Join the Dark Side chicka zoom.

Chicken Lips and Lizard Hips

Tune: Supercalifragilisticexialidocious

Oh, when I was a little kid I never liked to eat,
Mama’d put things on my plate,
I’d dump them on her feet.
But then one day she made this soup, I ate it all in bed.
I asked her what was in it, and this is what she said.

Chorus
Ohhhh, chicken lips and lizard hips, and alligator eyes,
Monkey legs, Buzzard eggs, and Salamander thighs,
Rabbit ears and Camel rears, and tasty toenail pies.
Stir them all together, and it's mama’s soup surprise.

I went into the bathroom and I stood beside the sink,
I said I'm feeling slightly I'll, I think I’d like a drink.
Mama said “I’ve just the thing, I’ll get it in a wink,
It's full of lots of protein, and vitamins I think!”

Chorus

School's doing it, so why not :P © Disney

Bill Grogan's Goat

MC: It’s time to sing a song!

Audience: A song! A song! It’s time to sing a song!

MC: There’s only two ways to sing a song, Standing up or on your feet, so… Stand Up!

Audience: Stand Up! We love to stand up!

MC: This is a repeat after me song! …

Bill Grogan’s Goat

Bill Grogan's goat,
was feeling fine.
Ate three red shirts,
right off the line.

Bill took a stick,
gave him three whacks,
And tied him to,
the railroad tracks.

The whistle blew,
the train grew nigh;
Bill Grogan's goat,
was doomed to die.

He gave three moans,
of mortal pain,
Barfed up those shirts,
and flagged that train.

The Engineer,
got out to see,
What in the world,
this thing could be.

And when he saw,
It was a goat,
Pulled out his knife,
and cut it's throat.

Now Billy Goat
is really dead,
He went to heaven,
without a head.

And when he got there,
St. Peter said,
'Dear Billy Goat,
where is your head?'

I do not know,
I can not tell,
For all I know,
It just may be ...

Way down yonder in the paw paw patch.

(You may immediately begin singing the Paw Paw Patch.)

Great Big Moose

A song! A Song! It's time to sing a song!

This is a fun repeat after me song that you can do with either your Cub Scouts or Boy Scouts.  If wanted, you can even make it into a do as I do song.  There are multiple renditions of this song online, but here is ours:

There was a great big moose
And he drank a lot of juice
There was a great big moose
And he drank a lot of juice

(Chorus, clap to beat)
Singing oh-way-oh
Way-oh-way-oh-way-oh
Waaay-oh-way-oh
Way-oh-way-oh-way-oh

The moose's name was Fred
And he drank his juice in bed
The moose's name was Fred
And he drank his juice in bed

(Chorus)

He drank his juice with care
But he spilled it in his hair
He drank his juice with care
But he spilled it in his hair

(Chorus)

The moose's hair went stiff
So he combed it in a quiff
The moose's hair went stiff
So he combed it in a quiff

(Chorus)

(Don't repeat) His friends began to laugh
(Everyone) HA HA HA HA
So he went to take a bath
(Don't repeat) His friends began to laugh
(Everyone) HA HA HA HA
So he went to take a bath

(Chorus)

As the water went down
Fred the Moose began to drown
As the water went down
Fred the Moose began to drown

Glug-glug-glug-glug-glug
Glug-glug-glug-glug-glug-glug-glug-glug
Glug-glug-glug-glug-glug
Glug-glug-glug-glug-glug-glug-glug-glug

(Don't repeat) now let's all count to five
(Everyone) one two three four five!
Fred the Moose is back alive!

Here is another rendition found on YouTube, enjoy.

America (My Country Tis of Thee)

My country, 'tis of Thee,
Sweet Land of Liberty
Of thee I sing;
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From every mountain side
Let Freedom ring.
My native country, thee,
Land of the noble free,
Thy name I love;
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and templed hills,
My heart with rapture thrills
Like that above.
Let music swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees
Sweet Freedom's song;
Let mortal tongues awake;
Let all that breathe partake;
Let rocks their silence break,
The sound prolong.
Our fathers' God to Thee,
Author of Liberty,
To thee we sing,
Long may our land be bright
With Freedom's holy light,
Protect us by thy might
Great God, our King.
Our glorious Land to-day,
'Neath Education's sway,
Soars upward still.
Its hills of learning fair,
Whose bounties all may share,
Behold them everywhere
On vale and hill!

McTavish Is Dead!

Fun song that is sung as a round and gets fast and faster each time. Just make sure to stop singing before your head explodes! Sung to the tune of "The Irish Washerwoman".

McTavish is dead,
and his brother don't know it,
his brother is dead
and McTavish don't know it,
They both lie dead in the very same bed,
and neither one knows that the other is dead.
Rank, Rank, Rank...

Check out the staff members at Camp Loll and their rendition of the song.

Watch this video to get a better idea of how the tune goes.

The Quartermasters Store

Classic camp song that the scouts will usually take and turn into a loud stomping song.

Burl Ives' rendition is a little more mellow than how it's sung up at camp.

Lyrics

There are snakes, snakes, snakes
Big as garden rakes,
At the store! At the store! 
There are snakes, snakes, snakes, 
Big as garden rakes, at the Quartermaster's store.

Chorus
My eyes are dim I can-not see. 
I have not got my specs with me. 
I have HEY! Not HO! got my specs with me.

There are mice, mice, mice
Running though the rice,
At the store! At the store! 
There are mice, mice, mice, 
Running through the rice, at the Quartermaster's store.

Chorus
Continue with each of the following:
3. lice - living on the mice. 
4. rats - big as alley cats. 
5. roaches - big as football coaches
6. watches - big as sasquaches
7. snakes - big as garden rakes
8. bears - but no one really cares
9. beavers    - with little meat cleavers
10. foxes    - stuffed in little boxes

The Other Day, I Met A Bear

The leader begins by "singing" one line of each verse and the group repeats it in the same sing-song fashion. Then everybody sings each whole verse once together.

The other day
I met a bear
Out in the woods
Oh way out there

He looked at me
I looked at him
He sized up me
I sized up him

He said to me
Why don't you run
I see you ain't
Got any gun

I said to him
That's a good idea
So come on feet
Away from here

And so I ran
Away from there
But right behind
Me was that bear

And then I see
Ahead of me
A great big tree
Oh, glory be!

The lowest branch
Was ten feet up
I'd have to jump
And trust my luck!

And so I jumped
Into the air
But I missed that branch
A way up there

Now don't you fret
Now don't you frown
'Cause I caught that branch
On the way back down

This is the end
There ain't no more
Until I meet
That bear once more

See The Forest

Tune: Frere Jacques

Sing as a round. Or for something different, sing through once together. Then divide the group in half. Let once half sing the first verse while the other half sings the second verse simultaneously.

See the forest, see the forest
Trees so tall, trees so tall.
Tow'ring overhead,
Tow'ring overhead.
I seem small. I seem small.

See the river, see the river
Rushing on, rushing on.
Rumbling and a-tumbling,
Rumbling and a-tumbling.
Here, then gone. Here, then gone.

Throw It Out The Window

Back in 1997 at Island Park Scout Camp I was introduced to one of my favorite camp songs, Throw it Out the Window. Not necessarily an action involved song, but for some reason your arms just start swinging in the motions of throwing something out of the window as you continue to sing each verse.  Each verse involves throwing a nursery rhyme out the window.  My favorite has always been Jack and Jill. 

Throw It Out The Window

Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard

to get her poor dog a bone.

When she got there the the cupboard was bare,

so, She threw it out the window!

The window, the window,

The second story window.

With a heave and a ho and a mighty throw,

She threw it out the window!

Nursery Rhymes:

• Jack and Jill
• Humpty Dumpty
• Mary Mary
• Little Miss Muffet
• Old Lady Lived in Shoe
• Jack Sprat
• Little Boy Blue
• Hey Diddle Diddle
• Old King Cole
• Little Bo Peep
• Peter Pumpkin Eater

Green Grow the Rushes O

One of my favorites from when I was a staff member at Island Park Scout Camp in Idaho.  Green Grow the Rushes O is a song with twelve verses that will have your scouts clapping and stomping by the end of it.

Here are the lyrics

I'll sing you one, O
Green grow the rushes, O
What is your one, O?
One is one and all alone
And evermore shall be so.

I'll sing you (the next number), O...

I'll sing you twelve, O
Green grow the rushes, O
What are your twelve, O?
Twelve for the twelve Apostles
Eleven for the eleven who went to heaven,
Ten for the ten commandments,
Nine for the nine bright shiners,
Eight for the April Rainers,
Seven for the seven stars in the sky,
Six for the six proud walkers,
Five for the symbols at your door,
Four for the Gospel makers,
THREE!, THREE!, THE RIVALS!,
Two, two, the lily-white boys,
Clothed all in green, O
One is one and all alone
And evermore shall be so.

Alice The Camel Song

Alice the camel has three Humps

Alice the Camel has three humps

Alice the Camel has three humps

So go alice, Go

Boom,Boom,Boom

Alice the camel has two humps

Alice the camel has two humps

Alice the camel has two humps

So go Alice, Go

Boom, Boom, Boom

Alice the camel has one hump

Alice the camel has one hump

Alice the camel has one hump

So go alice, Go

Boom,Boom,Boom

Alice the camel has no humps

Alice the camel has no humps

Alice the camel has no humps

'Cause Alice is a horse!

My Paddles Keen And Bright Song

One of the first songs I remember singing when I was 12 at my first Scout Camp at Camp Loll, Wyoming... ahhh good memories of swamping the canoe in the glacier fed lake on an overnight trip during a rain storm.

Lyrics:

3 part round

Our paddles keen and bright,

Flashing like silver;

Swift as the wild goose flight,

Dip, dip, and swing.

Dip, dip, and swing them back,

Flashing like silver;

Swift as the wild goose flight,

Dip, dip and swing.

repeat