Sunshine Mountain

We’re going up to Sunshine Mountain (point up)
Where the North wind blows (cup hand around mouth like a megaphone- 3 blows)
We’re going up to Sunshine Mountain (point up)
Faces all a glow owe owe owe(cup hands around face – moving head left to right)
Turn your back on all your troubles (turn 180 degrees)
Lift your spirits high (jump)
We’re going up to sunshine mountain, you and I, you and I (grab someone to join in)

Starting with preferably 2 leaders, each time a verse is finished every singer grabs a volunteer until everyone is up singing and dancing.

Joe

In this one the audience repeats each line straight after the leader and keeps the ever increasing actions going through the whole thing.
Hi
My names Joe
And I work in a button factory
One day me boss says to me
Are you busy Joe?
So I says no
So he says push this button with your right hand.

As the song progresses, you add in more bits to push the button with until you are leaping around like mad things. You can push buttons with almost anything including hands, legs, heads, tongues (always a favourite) and backsides.

The Ants Were Marching

The ants were marching one by one hurrah, hurrah
The ants were marching one by one, hurrah hurrah
The ants were marching one by one, the little one stopped to scratch his bum
And they all went marching, across the floor (hands flat out in front of you at shoulder height), under the door (make a down and up movement with hands), down the drain (point down, arms still full out), into the rain (tickly downwards movement with hands) Zoom, Zoom, Zoom! (exaggerated hips thrust out, arms pull in towards you)

2 – tie his shoe
3- have a wee
4- shut the door
5- said it’s great to be alive
6- pick up some sticks
7- died and went to heaven
8- opened the gates
9- said I feel fine
10- if you want any more you can sing it again

The Lapper Dance

Sung to the tune of ‘Do you know the Muffin Man?’ this is guaranteed to kill of a few of the audience. Basically the same verse is sung through a few times but with your hands on a different part of you neighbour’s anatomy. Everyone needs to be in a big circle doing the actions to the person on either side of them. Always good for a few injuries.

Can you do the Lapper Dance, the Lapper Dance, the Lapper Dance
Can you do the Lapper Dance, the Lapper Lapper Dance

Verse 1 – arms around neighbours shoulders
Verse 2 – arms around neighbours waist
Verse 3 – hands on neighbours knees
Verse 4 -  hold neighbours ankles

The Fly Song

Everywhere you see * you make a loud raspberry noise. You need to train your audience before singing this song so that their noises are short and to the point.

There was a little fly flew into a grocers store, and he * on the ceiling and he * on the floor.
He * on the bacon and he * on the ham and he * on the head of the little grocer man.

So the little grocer man said before this day is done, I will go and get my spray and I’ll go and get my gun.
But before the grocer man could count from one to ten, the fly flew in the door and * on him again.

Grey Squirrel

Grey Squirrel, Grey Squirrel wag your bushy tail (hands like a squirrel, wag your tail)
Grey Squirrel, Grey Squirrel wag your bushy tail (repeat actions)
Put your nuts between your toes (put nuts between toes)
Then you rub your shiny nose (rub your nose)
Grey Squirrel, Grey Squirrel wag your bushy tail (repeat actions)

I know this sound silly bit if you get a few people from the audience to be squirrels it goes down very well.
Anyway squirrels are cute.

Alive, Alert, Awake, Enthusiastic

To the tune of ‘If You’re Happy and You Know It :-

I’m alive (hands on head)
Alert (hands on shoulders)
Awake (hands crossed on chest)
Enthuse (slap thighs)
Eeass (clap hands)
Tic (click fingers of both hands)

Repeat this twice then the last bit is :-

I’m alive, alert, awake
I’m awake, alert, alive
I’m alive, alert, awake, enthusiastic

All accompanied by the appropriate actions. An excellent item if you can remember the order of things. I never can so I have it on a piece of card on the floor in front of me. Its so subtle the punters never notice.

The Elephant in the Attic

What is that noise I hear (cup hand over ear)
Up in the attic (point up)
It is an elephant (make a trunk with your arm)
Cycling round and round (cycling action)
It is an elephant (trunk)
So chique and elegant (interlace fingers, palms down, hold over left hip)
With one tail here (trunk)
And one tail there (make a tail with your arm)

Repeat this through, losing one line at a time and replacing it with the action until there is no speaking at all. Then go through it once very fast with words and actions.

Yell

Middlesex or Winnie the Pooh

Basically this is the same as Oggie Oggie Oggie with the words changed. Split the audience into 2 groups or the leader can speak and the audience repeat, whatever rattles your chain.

Middle middle middle, sex sex sex, middle middle middle, sex sex sex
Middle, sex,middle, sex
Middle middle middle, sex sex sex.    Or try

Winnie winnie winnie, Pooh Pooh Pooh    etc…………

They Were Only Playing Leapfrog

A very confusing song with lots of different verses. The tune is ‘John Brown’s Body’.

One hedgehog hedged up the hedge, the other hedgehog hedged down (3times)
As the end of the day drew near.

Chorus

They were only playing leapfrog,
They were only playing leapfrog,
They were only playing leapfrog
As one hedgehog hedged up the hedge, the other hedgehog hedged down.

All the other verses basically follow the same pattern and are introduced in degrees of complexity :-

One grasshopper jumped right over the other grasshopper’s back

One pink poodle pampered his paws, the other pink poodle paused

A busy buzzy bumble bee was busily buzzing by

One slow worm slid up the sluice, the other slow worm slid down

A spider espied a spider astride another spider’s back

One bed bug bled black blue blood, the other bed bug bled blue

Cool and Creamy

This needs 2 of you with no sense, and 2 cans of shaving foam. The tune is ‘Alouette’

Chorus
Cool and creamy we like cool and creamy, cool and creamy that’s what we like best.

Would you like some on your head?
Yes I’d like some on my head!
On your head,
On my head (spray the one who’d like it on their head)

It then carries on alternating the sprayer and the sprayee and different parts of their bodies. Have fun!

Whoops la la la la

 A very easy song. If you know the tune to ‘Pop Goes the Weasel’ then you can do it. Split the audience into about 3 groups, and they la la to the afore mentioned tune. At the end the last 3 syllables are not la la’d but are replaced with a very loud

‘Whoops LA LA LA’ with a bit of a Mexican wave type leap in the air. After a couple of practices, start it off as a round. The next group starts when the previous group is on their second line as follows.

La la la la la li la la,
La la la li la la (group 2 start when group 1 start this line)
LA la la la la li la la
WHOOPS la la la la!

My Bonnie and some of her Variations

My bonnie lies over the ocean
My bonnie lies over the sea
My bonnie lies over the ocean
Oh bring back my bonnie to me

Bring back, bring back, Oh bring back my bonnie to me to me
Bring back, bring back, Oh bring back my bonnie to me

With this version you can get everyone to stand up or sit down or put their hands up in the air or down, whatever you want really, every time a word starting with B is sung. So on the first bonnie you stand up, and on the second you sit down etc. You can then make it as complicated as you want by splitting the audience in 2 aand having them do the opposite actions to eachother.

Other versions include

My bonnie has tuberculosis
My bonnie has only one lung
She coughs up a bloody solution
And rolls it around on her tongue

Rolls it, rolls it, rolls it around on her tongue her tongue
Rolls it, rolls it, rolls it around on her tongue her tongue

10 in the Bed

There was ten in the bed, and the little one said, roll over roll over,
So they all rolled over and one fell out, and banged his head and began to shout,
Please remember, to tie a knot in my pyjamas.
Single beds are only made for...

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
Repeat over and over dropping one number each time around until there's no one left in bed.

Damper Song

Oh you push the damper in (thrust arm in with index finger pointing)
And you pull the damper out (pull it back)
And the smoke goes up the chimney just the same (point finger up with swirly motion)
Oh you push the damper in and you pull the damper out
And the smoke goes up the chimney just the same

Chorus

Star ar of the evening (point up)
Shining on the cookhouse door or or (slam the door)
Star ar of the ev e ning (point up)
And the smoke goes up the chimney just the same (point finger up with swirly motion)

Song is repeated several times in different styles for different versions. For example the Scout Leaders style (gut out) Guiders style (loud as you can) sex maniacs style (how do you push that damper in?) sissy boys version (guess), hippie style (hey man, like you push the damper in dude). Really, you can make it up yourself.

I’ve something in my pocket (TUNE: John Brown’s body)

I’ve something in my pocket that belongs upon my face
I keep it close beside me in a most convenient place
You’d never ever guess it though you’d try for quite a while
So I’ll take it out and put it on it’s a GREAT BIG BEAVER (CUB, SCOUT,VENTURE SCOUT) SMILE
Chorus
 It’s a great big ? smile ( 4 times, 4th time really loud)

 Over the Deep Blue Sea

When I was one, I had just begun the day I went to sea,
I climbed aboard a pirate ship and the captain said to me,
"We're going this way, that way, forward backwards
Over the deep blue sea (or the Irish Sea)
A bottle of Rum to warm my tum,
And that's the life for me.
Da, da, da dum dum dum ... Da, da, da dum dum dum ...

When I was two, I tied my shoe  the day I went to sea…
When I was three, I bumped my knee ...
When I was four, I shut the door ...
When I was five, I was still alive ...
When I was six, I gathered sticks ...
When I was seven, I was almost in heaven ...
When I was eight, I closed the gate ...
When I was nine, I was feeling fine ...
When I was ten, I started again ...

[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, forward, and back then left, right so it doesn’t tie in with the words} "...over the Irish Sea." {make waves with hand} "...bottle of rum..." {as if chugging a drink} "...to warm my tum..." {rub tum} "...that's the life..." {slap knee and raise hand} "...da, da, da dum dum dum ..." {step forward, step back or do the shadows walk}

Mrs O’Grady

To the tune of K K K Katy

Mrs O’Grady, she was a lady
She had a daughter I used to know
I used to court her
I mean the daughter
Every… Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday night at half past four.

Then spoken:
She is tall, and fair, and her hair, is a delicate shade of Ginger.

This is a singing game to find out who has the biggest lungs. After the ‘every’ in the last line, someone is nominated by the leader to repeat the days of the week as many times as possible without taking a breath.

A very rude song to finish

To the tune of the ‘Yellow Rose of Texas’

There is a winding passage that leads up to my heart
And what comes down this passage is commonly called a fart
A fart is very useful, it sets the mind at ease
It warms the bed on Winter nights and disinfects the fleas!

A fart it is quite wonderful it’s made inside your belly
It passes through you bottom and it’s often very smelly
Everybody does them from vicars down to Queens
And you can do some corking chuffs if you’ve been eating beans

So hurrah for your methane, 3 cheers for your trumps
But if you strain a tad too hard………please check your pants for lumps!
 
 

I hope you enjoyed these songs. Camp fires are the second most fun thing you can do with your clothes on, so take the plunge and have a go.

Alouette

Chorus

Ooooh alouette, jaunte allouette
Alouette jaunte plumerai

Oh I love her stringy hair, how I love her stringy hair
Leader -  Stringy hair    (audience repeats) -  then into chorus

Oh I love her bloodshot eyes, how I love her bloodshot eyes
Bloodshot eyes (audience repeats) stringy hair (audience repeats)  - then chorus

After this, the rest of the verses are as follows with the young ladies catalogue of charms getting longer and longer each time around. You may want to elongate your Oooooooooooh at the beginning of the chorus as well.

broken nose
2 buck teeth
double chins
hairy bum
nobbly knees   etc etc…