Songs for Scouts to Sing
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Kee Chee

Actions:

  1. Hands on own knees; hands on knees of person to the left; hands on own knees; hands on knees of person to the right.
  2. Hands on own knees; hands crossed on own knees; hands uncrossed on own knees; Left hand on knee of person to the left while right hand in knee of person to the right.
  3. Left arm extends forward; right hand touches left wrist then left shoulder; left hand crosses to to right shoulder; right arm extends forward; left hand touches right wrist then right shoulder; right hand crosses to left shoulder. (At end of song, hands are crossed, touching opposite shoulder.)

Kum Ba Yah (Come By Here)

Add other verses, as appropriate.

Actions:

Little Bunny Fru-Fru

Little Rabbit

Menu Song

Continue in the same way, adding a new day each time and sing back down to Monday with each verse:

To add variety and interest, break up your audience into groups and assign a specific day to each group. The group assigned to a specific day stands while singing and sits while not. Everyone sings "Is everybody happy...."

Music Concert

In this song, the sound of each instrument is added to the previous one after each verse.

My Aunt Came Back

At the end of each stanza, add a suitable motion for the audience to do (standing). As the motions accumulate the audience has an increasingly difficult time doing them all the same time, hence the appropriateness of the last stanza.

My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean

Action: As you sing each word beginning with the letter B, change from a standing to a sitting position and vice versa. All should be standing at the end of the song. When you have mastered these movements, sing it again, faster.

My Hat It Has Three Corners

The first time, sing all the words. The second time, touch the top of the head instead of saying the word, "hat." The third time, also hold up three fingers instead of saying the word, "three." The fourth time, keep all the previous actions and hold up an elbow instead of saying the word, "corners."

One Finger, One Thumb

With each new verse, add the following in succession: 3. One arm; 4. Two arms; 5. One leg; 6. Two legs; 7. Stand up---sit down; 8. [Stand up] Turn around [Sit down].

Pass the Shoe

For this song game you can substitute a cup, rock, or any suitable object for a person's actual shoe. Form an ring; as you sing, give the "shoe" you currently have to the person on your right whenever you get to an underlined word. Note that only the second "do" is underlined; on the first "do", you simply wave the "shoe", you don't give it up just yet.

Peanut Butter and Jelly

Chorus

Peanut, peanut butter; jelly! [Repeat.]

The last time through the chorus, after eating the sandwich, mumble the words terribly as though there is peanut butter stuck to the roof of the mouth.

Pizza Hut, and More

[Tune: A Ram Sam Sam]

Actions: On "Pizza Hut" use your hands to make the outline of a house. On "Kentucky Fried Chicken" flap your 'chicken wings'. On "MacDonalds" trace out the 'golden arches' in the air.

On "Burger King" put fingers on head to make a crown. On "Long John Silver's" mimic sword play. On "Red Lobster" hold up arms and bring fingers down on thumbs like lobser claws snapping.

On "Dairy Queen" mimic milking a cow. On "Chucky Cheese" mimic tossing a pizza. On "Roy Rogers" mimic riding a horse.

May also be sung as a round.

She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain

Actions: Sing each verse and make appropriate gestures. Following the last singing of each verse, repeat sounds and gestures of all preceding verses.

'Automotive' verses:

Make up more verses, for example: radiator boiled over, steering wheel fell off, tires went flat, etc.

Finally: She'll wind up in the junk yard when she comes. (Quissh, quissh)

Singing in the Rain

Add each of the following, in turn:

The Grand Old Duke of York

The Little Green Frog

This Old Man

Three Wood Pigeons

Actions: Choose three persons to represent the pigeons. On cue, these 'fly' off (or in) with comical antics.

Waddley-Atcha

Actions:

Slap knees, twice; clap hands together, twice.

Pass right hand over left, twice; pass left hand over right, twice.

When you get to "doodly, do," place you right hand over your left and grab your ear with the right hand and your nose with the left; then, switch hands and grab the other ear. [The key is to grab your nose before grabbing the ear.]

Repeat these motions with each line, until you get to the last line. Here you simply circle first one finger and then the other finger in the air, twice. On the final "woo", put both hands up in the air.

Way Over the Irish Sea

[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; first left, right, forward, and back} "...over the Irish Sea." {make waves with hand} "...bottle of coke..." {as if chugging a soft drink} "...to soothe my throat..." {touch throat with hand} "...that's the life..." {slap knee and raise hand} "...da, da, dum..." {step forward, step back}

With My Hand on Myself

To continue, substitute a word from the following list for "topnotcher" and add to the list each time you sing. Recite in reverse as with the Menu Song.

3 SILLY SONGS

... Scout Camp

Chorus

After the Ball Was Over

Bananas, Coconuts, and Grapes

Sing three or four times: the first time loudly; the second time softly (except for the "Tarzan" part); the third time, whisper all but the "Tarzan" part; the last time, no one makes a sound until all shout in unison, "TARZAN....

Bill Grogan's Goat

Black Socks

[Typically sung as a round.]

By the Light of my Scout Flashlight

[Tune: By the Light of the Silvery Moon]

Bye Bye Long Johns

[Tune: Bye Bye Birdie]

Cannibal King, Medley

Cheese

Commercial Mix-up

[Tune: Farmer in the Dell]

Dummy Line

Chorus

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