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.

I was just thinking of That's the way they treat the Girl Guides!

Aha! All the verses.

dragon.sleepdeprived.ca/songbook/songs7/S7_13.htm

I bet you're still singing 'Queen' sometimes by accident!

Ours was like a cross between that one and this one, but with some bits that weren't in either! http://www.retiredscouter.com/songs/girl_guide_songs_wb25788.php

Kookaburra sits on the electric wire
Jumping up and down cos his bum's on fire
Cry, Kookaburra, cry Kookaburra
How hot your bum must be

In terms of inappropriate ones the favourite at the old unit I was a leader with (but I only learned it there, we didn't sing it as Guides) was "sipping cider"

The cutest guy,
I ever saw
Was sipping ci-
-der through a straw
The cutest guy I ever saw
Was sipping cider through a straw

And then future verses go...

I asked him if he'd show me how
To drink some cider through a straw

He said of course he'd show me how
To drink some cider through a straw

So cheek to cheek and jaw to jaw
We drinked some cider through a straw

Then all at once that damned straw slipped
And we were sipping lip to lip

And that is how I got my mother in law
And forty nine brats all call me ma

The moral of this story is
Never drink cider through a straw

And then the guides all shout "drink coke" at the end 😂 I guess it has a moral but it's a while before you get there 😂

We sang that as well . We sang

patrol leaders go courting at a very early age

seconds they go flirting with the [ name of village ] BBs ( boys Brigade )

There were other verses in a similar vein, one about food that ended “ but the poor girl guides get a piece of bread and jam “.

Softly falls the rain today
As our campsite floats away
Silently each Guide should ask,
Have I brought my scuba mask ?
Have I tied my tent flaps down ?
Learned to swim so I won't drown ?
Have I done and will I try,
Everything to keep me dry ?

Empompie, kolonie, kolonastik...

I’m a little acorn brown
Sitting on the cold cold ground
Someone came and trod on me
That is why I’m cracked, you see
I’m a nut, I’m a nut, I’m a nut nut nut nut nut

Anyone else remember Corpses?
Woman in a churchyard sat ooh ooh ooh ooh aah aah aah aah
She was very short and fat
ending with a glorious SCREAM
Think it's banned these days

Oh. How about An Old Austrian went yodelling on a mountaintop high?

😁Almost every week in my case! The muscle memory is strong!😂

Come to think of it we don't sing "To love our God" any more either since the promise has changed. We cram "To be true to ourselves and serve our King" into that line.

Lots of happy memories reading this thread, of Brownies, Guides, pack holidays, camps, Venture scouts, gang shows etc.

Where have you been to Henry my son?
Where have you been to my beloved one?
. . .
Green and Yeller
Green and Yeller
O mother come quick
As I'm feeling very sick
And I want to lay down and die . . .

Did anyone else used to sing this one at Brownies:

Hey, my name is Joe,
And I work in a button factory
And one day my boss came up to me.
He says: ‘Joe’, I said: ‘Yo!’
He says: ‘You busy?’, I said ‘No.’
‘Can you push this button with your right hand?’
Hey, my name is Joe,
And I work in a button factory
And one day my boss came up to me.
He says: ‘Joe’, I said: ‘Yo!’
He says: ‘You busy?’, I said ‘No.’
‘Can you push this button with your left hand?’
Hey, my name is Joe,
And I work in a button factory
And one day my boss came up to me.
He says: ‘Joe’, I said: ‘Yo!’
He says: ‘You busy?’, I said ‘No.’
‘Can you push this button with your right foot?’
Hey, my name is Joe,
And I work in a button factory
And one day my boss came up to me.
He says: ‘Joe’, I said: ‘Yo!’
He says: ‘You busy?’, I said ‘No.’
‘Can you push this button with your left foot?’
Hey, my name is Joe,
And I work in a button factory
And one day my boss came up to me.
He says: ‘Joe’, I said: ‘Yo!’
He says: ‘You busy?’, I said ‘No.’
‘Can you push this button with your head?’
Hey, my name is Joe,
And I work in a button factory
And one day my boss came up to me.
He says: ‘Joe’, I said: ‘Yo!’
He says: ‘You busy?’, I said ‘No.’
‘Can you push this button with your bum?’
Hey, my name is Joe,
And I work in a button factory
And one day my boss came up to me.
He says: ‘Joe’, I said: ‘Yo!’
He says: ‘You busy?’, I said ‘Yes!’

I loves tzena so much I wanted to call my firstborn it ❤

Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree-ee
Merry merry king of the woods is he-ee
Laugh, Kookaburra,
Laugh Kookaburra
Gay your life must be

The red men is a song I'm sure wouldn't be sung now
Something about... in our feathers, and war paint

All of us are red men
Feathers in our head men
Down amongst the dead men
(Throast slitting action)
Pow wow
Pow wow

@DesdemonasWinterBloom yes we sang a slightly different version.

hi, my name is Jo and I work in a button factory. I have a spouse and two kids, both boys and I spend all my life pushing buttons. One day my boss came up to me and said hi Jo, are you busy? I said no. he said push this button with your right hand. Etc

when we sang “ in a cottage in a wood “, we missed out a line each time we sang it and substituted it with actions. So we ended up with just actions.

Brilliant thank you!

We used to sing this to.

Alice the Camel - was popular. We’d link arms and have actions to it.

I remember it as:

We're brownie guides
We're brownie guides
We're here to lend a hand
To love our God and serve our Queen and help our Homes and Land

We're brownie friends We're brownie friends
From North South East and West
We join together in our wish
To try to do our best.

Oh you'll never get to Heaven
In a Girl Guide's bra
Coz a Girl Guide's bra
Don't stretch that far!

I ain't gonna grieve my lord no more

It's "urghh what a mess"

We then had a verse that went

I'm sweeping up my baby bumble bee, won't my mummy be so proud of me. I'm sweeping up my baby bumble bee. Just like a good brownie should.