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Brownie and Guide songs

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Diversion · 31/10/2023 22:14

Carrying on from the school hymns thread I thought I would ask if any of you remember your Brownie or Guide songs? For some strange reason many of these are stuck in my head, to pop out from time to time including the actions 😂. I'm taking home my baby bumble bee, This little guiding light of mine, Oh I had an Aunty an Aunty Monica (and when she went out shopping they would all say ooh la la, because her hat is swaying, swaying to and fro) Our chalet, Camp fires burning, Kookaburra and a game we played called Walk the Deck.

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NickMarlow · 31/10/2023 22:19

You've just taken me back to songs I've not thought of in years! Found a peanut, 3 little angels, Kookaburra, a pizza hut, oh you'll never get to heaven.
And that one where you repeat the lines getting louder and louder "everywhere we go, people ask us, who we are, where we come from..."

Beanbunnalapoo · 31/10/2023 22:22

I remember a song about passing a shoe and we would all take one shoe off and it went round in a circle. 'I'm going to pass this shoe from me to you' was one of the lines!

gotomomo · 31/10/2023 22:22

Kookaburra, Green grow the rushes

GeorgeSpeaks · 31/10/2023 22:31

Barges!

FizzyWizard · 31/10/2023 22:33

Yes!

Ging Gang Goolie

Thunder, thunder, thunderation, we are the Girl Guides Association

Oh you never get to heaven

Land of the silver birch

Little Bunny Foo-Foo

Campfire's burning

Oh remember our web footed friends

Terfosaurus · 31/10/2023 22:33

He jumped from 40 thousand feet.

Ging gang gooley.

SisSuffragette · 31/10/2023 22:33

Yes barges is beautiful. This thread is well timed as I've been singing taps tonight for some reason..

Does anyone remember "he jumped from 40 thousand feet and he ain't gonna jump no more"
Also I lost my poor meatball

FizzyWizard · 31/10/2023 22:34

Gladys the Camel (or Alice the Camel)

PollyannaWhittier · 31/10/2023 22:35

Beanbunnalapoo · 31/10/2023 22:22

I remember a song about passing a shoe and we would all take one shoe off and it went round in a circle. 'I'm going to pass this shoe from me to you' was one of the lines!

That's the Dutch Shoe Song 'I pass this shoe from me to you, to you; just pass this shoe and do just as I do'

Pinkchairs · 31/10/2023 22:36

I vaguely recall one about a quarter master store. But honestly cannot remember. And another to do with a frog or a toad.

coloursquare · 31/10/2023 22:38

Good morning friend Brownie

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Diversion · 31/10/2023 22:39

How did I forget Little Bunnny Foo foo, Alice the Camel and I Lost My Poor Meatball? I raise you Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow and everywhere that Mary went a sooty foot he put, shouting out the battle cry for freeeeeeeeeeeedom.

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Diversion · 31/10/2023 22:41

@Pinkchairs there were rats, rats as big as bloomin cats in the quarter masters store.

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SirSamVimesCityWatch · 31/10/2023 22:42

Does anyone remember Oh Sir Jasper? It was total filth! Guides song, not Brownies.

NeverDropYourMooncup · 31/10/2023 22:42

Pinkchairs · 31/10/2023 22:36

I vaguely recall one about a quarter master store. But honestly cannot remember. And another to do with a frog or a toad.

There were rats, rats, the size of blimmin' cats
In the stores (in the stores), in the stores (in the stores)
There were rats, rats, the size of blimmin' cats
In the Quartermaster's Store.

My eyes aa--re dim I cannot see,
I have no-ot brought my specs with me,
I have no-ot brought my specs with me.

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Diversion · 31/10/2023 22:43

Thanks for indulging me everyone, singing away in my head now, I really needed a giggle tonight 😀

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WholeHog · 31/10/2023 22:43

Pinkchairs · 31/10/2023 22:36

I vaguely recall one about a quarter master store. But honestly cannot remember. And another to do with a frog or a toad.

Gloop gloop went the little green frog?

PuttingDownRoots · 31/10/2023 22:44

We had one about a squirrel and a nut.

And one I've taught my Cubs called Willy had a Goldfish.

ElizaWinter · 31/10/2023 22:44

A ram Sam Sam a ram Sam Sam

SoftandQuiet · 31/10/2023 22:45

Land of the silver birch! Forgot that one, you’ve just given me chills!

minisoksmakehardwork · 31/10/2023 22:45

My ship sailed from china is one I remember most. Along with Taps. Pizza Hut! (Decades before it was a pop song!)

Tzena and Auntie Monica (and her swinging hat!) were my favourites and I was introduced to go well and go safely when my girls were in guiding.

NeverDropYourMooncup · 31/10/2023 22:45

We went to the Animal Fair
The birds and the beasts were there,
The big baboon by the light of the moon
Was combing his auburn hair.

The monkey fell out his bunk (thump)
And slid down the elephant's trunk (wheeee!)
The elephant sneezed and fell to his knees
And what became of the monkey, monkey, monkey, monkey....

ElizaWinter · 31/10/2023 22:46

NeverDropYourMooncup · 31/10/2023 22:45

We went to the Animal Fair
The birds and the beasts were there,
The big baboon by the light of the moon
Was combing his auburn hair.

The monkey fell out his bunk (thump)
And slid down the elephant's trunk (wheeee!)
The elephant sneezed and fell to his knees
And what became of the monkey, monkey, monkey, monkey....

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Yes!!

LostMySocks · 31/10/2023 22:46

SirSamVimesCityWatch · 31/10/2023 22:42

Does anyone remember Oh Sir Jasper? It was total filth! Guides song, not Brownies.

We sang that but never with the leaders... although as a leader myself now I know that they probably did hear us as Guides don't do quiet

justjeansandanicetop · 31/10/2023 22:48

The Pizza Hut song.

Except it was the late 80s and I'd never heard of Kentucky Fried Chicken, so I thought it was:

A Pizza Hut
A Pizza Hut

Can tuck a fried chicken in a Pizza Hut...

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