Brownie and Guide songs

[Diversion]

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.

Barges
Land of the silver birch
The Quartermaster’s Store
Tzena
Oh, Sir Jasper! (this one was NOT approved of by the leaders 😂)
The bumblebee song
Campfire’s burning/Frere Jacques
A Pizza Hut
On Top Of Spaghetti (the meatball song)

I’m sure I can come up with others if I think for a bit!

Oh yes, My Ship Sailed From China!

Coca Cola
Coca Cola
Makes you burp
Makes you burp
Have another bottle
Have another bottle
Burp burp burp
Burp burp burp

Ending with a resounding belch from anyone able to burp on command, Brown Owl was great at it.

Our Brown Owl had a touch of Miriam Margoyles about her, robust, posh, with a bit of an irreverent manner.

Edelweiss with the hand clapping and then the reverse where everyone got confused.
Pizza Hut
Little Bunny Foo Foo
Taps (both versions)
Land of the Silver Birch

Oh, and I don't know what it's called but little rabbit - last line 'come little rabbit come to me, happy we shall be'.

Also of course, Oh You’ll Never Get To Heaven, which could go on all night….favourite verses included “in Brown Owl’s car”, “on roller skates”, and “in a biscuit tin”. Good times!!!

What a larf.

I was rude in the Brownies 8 years old, for not 'towing the line". So got "kicked out".

Thank fuck for that. Bunch of misogynists. And their handmaidens.

Most of the above, and
on top of spaghetti (meatballs)
Adaptation of barges - out of my tent flap looking in the night, I can see the guiders having a fight... Guiders I woukd like to fight with you, I would like to beat you black and blue..

And 'oh you'll never go to heaven... On a boy scout's knee... Cos a boy scout's knees.. Too knobboly' (or you never know where.... His hands might be!!!! '

30+ years later I am somewhat disturbed by the underlying messages!

Grey squirrel grey squirrel swish your bushy tail. Wrinkle up your tiny nose, put a nut between your toes, grey squirrel grey squirrel swish your bushy tail

(I'm a brownie leader, I don't just have a ridiculously good memory for campfire songs )

This thread is bringing back some great memories.
I loved singing Barges.
The Ooey Goey was a Worm poem was always dropped in between the campfire songs too.

We did the Pizza Hut song, the second verse was about cars (a Ford Escort, a Mini (Mini Mini) and Ferrari, Ferrari!). There was a third verse about Brownies specifically but I can't remember it. I think it was "A Brownie Guide, a Brownie Guide" but the rest escapes me.

DD currently goes to Brownies, and they do Pizza Hut too. Their version is food, cars, then toys:
A Barbie doll, a Barbie doll,
An Action Man and a Barbie doll
Transformers, Transformers!

Give me oil in my lamp keep it burning
Give me oil in my lamp I pray
Give me oil in my lamp keep it burning
keep it burning to the break of day.

Give me hope in my heart keep it loving
Etc
Etc

Until the fire goes out.

@PollyannaWhittier it wasn't that one. The chorus was along the lines of "I'm a nut, I'm a nut, I'm a nut"

When I was a kid we also used to sing 'a fat girl guide, a skinny little brownie, a leader' sketching outlines with your hands (small circle, straight down, massive circle at arms length)
I don't use that verse with my units ...

She died, she did, she died of a broken rib, she did.
There are suitors at my door ohalayabiah
Six or 8 or maybe more ohalayabiah
And my father wants me wed ohalayabiah
Or at least that's what he said

Tails Tails Tails…you can wave them to and fro,
you can tie them in a knot,
you can tie them in a bow
And if it was prehensile what a glorious thing to be
The envy of your neighbours
as you swing from tree to tree…

Someone stole the cookie from the cookie jar.

Silver dollar.

I remember one about my baby going down the plug hole… vague I know but it was a long time ago that I was a Girl Guide

I know a song with that chorus too, but it doesn't have a squirrel in it ! www.boyscouttrail.com/content/song/im_a_nut-486.asp
I'm intrigued now 😆

You've just reminded me of a similar song (might be the same?)

Do your ears hang low,
Do they waggle to and fro,
Can you tie them in a knot,
Can ou tie them in a bow,
Can you throw them over your shoulder
Like a regimental solider,
Do your ears hang low.

memories

@PollyannaWhittier thats the song but I'm sure it was an acorn and there was a squirrel somewhere.

However I haven't sung it in 17 years so may be misremembering!

(DH and I compare campfire songs... our versions differ slightly. He was a Yorkshire Scout and I was a London Guide. Weve added quite a few more Guide and Scout districts since then! He's on 8 I think now, I've managed 5)

Ooh, we used to sing that to the tune of 'my bonnie lies over the ocean' (vaguely, it doesn't quite fit !)
My baby has gone down the plug hole
My baby has gone down the plug
The poor little thing was so skinny and thin
He should have been bathed in a jug

I can't remember any more of the words 😆

Along with (apologies in advance to anyone of a sensitive disposition)
My bonnie has tuberculosis
My bonnie has only one lung
She coughs up a bloody solution
And rolls it around on her tongue

There’s one we used to sing which is inappropriate now but my kids laugh when I sing it.

Verse:

I wear my pink pyjamas in the summer when it’s hot

And I wear my flannel nightie in the winter when it’s not

And sometimes in the springtime and sometimes in the fall - I jump in to my little bed with nothing on at all.

Chorus….

That’s the time when you should seeee meeee
That’s the time when you should seeee meeee That’s the time when you should see me…when I jump in to my little bed with nothing on at all.

Those aren't quite the words I sing either, my coconut is lying on the cold hard ground 😆
Pretty sure there are as many versions of most campfire songs as there are guide and scout groups ! Even within the same county we have a rule at joint campfires that you sing the same words as the person leading the song, otherwise chaos ensues ! (The rangers and younger guiders still sing the rude / silly choruses to wind up the campfire leader though )

There were eggs, eggs walking about on legs in the stores etc.

We also sang one that went :
I wear my pink pyjamas in the summer when it's hot,
I wear my flannel nightie in the winter when it's not,
But sometimes in the spring time,
And sometimes in the fall
I jump into my little bed with nothing on at all.
That's the time you ought to see me,

That's the time you ought to see me,
That's the time you ought to see me, when I jump into my little bed with
nothing on at all.
I'm now slightly dumbfounded as to how that was ever considered OK for 8 year olds to sing.