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Songs of Troop 376
Amazing Grace Swing
Low, Sweet Chariot Junior
Birdman
Men from Nairobi Bear Song Boy
Scout Camp Cat Came Back
Yellow
Bird My Bonnie He
Jumped from 40,000 Feet
Amazing Grace
Sung during our Sunday church services
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost but now am found
Was blind but now I see
'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear
And grace my fears relieved
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed
Through many dangers, toils and snares
I have already come
'Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far
And grace will lead me home
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
In a believer's ear
It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds
And drives away his fear
Must Jesus bear the cross alone
And all the world go free?
No, there's a cross for ev'ryone
And there's a cross for me
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Swing low, sweet chariot
Comin' for to carry me home
Swing low, sweet chariot
Comin' for to carry me home
I looked over Jordan and what did I see
Comin' for to carry me home
A band of angels comin' after me
Comin' for to carry me home
Swing low, sweet chariot
Comin' for to carry me home
Swing low, sweet chariot
Comin' for to carry me home
If you get to heaven before I do
Comin' for to carry me home
Tell all my friends I'm comin' there too
Comin' for to carry me home
Swing low, sweet chariot
Comin' for to carry me home
Swing low, sweet chariot
Comin' for to carry me home
I'm sometimes up and sometimes down
Comin' for to carry me home
But still I know I'm heavenly (freedom) bound
Comin' for to carry me home
Swing low, sweet chariot
Comin' for to carry me home
Swing low, sweet chariot
Comin' for to carry me home
If I get there before you do
Comin' for to carry me home
I'll cut a hole and pull you through
Comin' for to carry me home
Swing low, sweet chariot
Comin' for to carry me home
Swing low, sweet chariot
Comin' for to carry me home
Junior Birdman
Chorus:
Up in the air junior birdman
Up in the air upside down
Up in the air junior birdman
Keep your noses off the ground
When you hear the doorbell ring (buzz, buzz)
When you see the badge of tin (tin, tin)
Then you know that Junior Birdman,
has turned his box tops in.
For it takes: 5 box tops,
4 bottle bottoms,
3 coupons,
2 wrappers,
and one thin dime!
B-i-r-d, B-i-r-d, B-i-r-d-m-a-n
Birdman, Birdman, Birdman
Buzzzzzzzz!
Men from Nairobi
We're the men from Nairobi
And our team's a good one
We play the Watusi they're seven feet tall.
The cannibals may eat us
But they'll never beat us
'Cause we're from Nairobi
The best of them all.
(Chorus)
Singing
Umgawa, umgawa, umgawa, umgawa, umgawa, umgawa, umgawawa.
They sent fifty men
Down from Kilamanjaro
But they didn't have what it takes.
We took all the losers
Out into the jungle
And left them tied up for the snakes
What a bite!
(Chorus)
The men from 'round Kenya
Know our team's a good one
We played them 'bout this time last year.
Their number one hero
Was disqualified when he
Fell on a Nairobi spear
What a shaft!
(Chorus)
Bear Song
(repeat song with chorus to the tune of Sippin' Cider)
The other day
I met a bear
A great big bear
Oh, way out there
He looked at me
I looked at him
He sized up me
I sized up him
He said to me
Why don't you run
I see you ain't
Got any gun
And so I ran
Away from there
But right behind
Me was that bear
Ahead of me
There was a tree
A great big tree
Oh lucky me
The nearest branch
Was ten feet up
I'd have to jump
And trust my luck
And so I jumped
Into the air
But I missed that branch
Oh way up there
Now don't you fret
And don't you frown
Cuz I caught that branch
On my way back down
This is the end
There ain't no more
Unless I meet
That bear once more
Boy Scout Camp
Chorus:
I don't want no more of Boy Scout camp,
Gee mom, I want to go, but they won't let me go,
Gee, mom, I want to go home.
They say the food at camp,
They say is mighty fine.
A roll fell off the table
and killed a friend of mine
Chorus
The t-shirts at camp,
They say are mighty fine,
Me and my buddy
can both fit into mine
Chorus
The watermelon at camp,
They say is might fine,
the counselors get the red part
And we get all the rind
Chorus
The water here at camp,
They say it's mighty fine,
The counselors all drink soda
And we get turpentine
Chorus
The cocoa here at the camp,
They say is might fine,
It's good for cuts and bruises
and tastes like iodine
Chorus
The counselors here at camp,
They say there mighty fine,
Ours walked in the cabin
And looked like Frankenstein
Chorus
The girls they have at Scout camp
they say are mighty fine
the Cooks are over 80
the sisters under 9
Chorus
The Cat Came Back
Old Mister Johnson had troubles of his own
He had a yellow cat which wouldn't leave its home;
He tried and he tried to give the cat away,
He gave it to a man goin' far, far away.
But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea, yea, yea
The man around the corner swore he'd kill the cat on sight,
He loaded up his shotgun with nails and dynamite;
He waited and he waited for the cat to come around,
Ninety seven pieces of the man is all they found.
But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea, yea, yea
He gave it to a little boy with a dollar note,
Told him for to take it up the river in a boat;
They tied a rope around its neck, it must have weighed a pound
Now they drag the river for a little boy that's drowned.
But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea, yea, yea
He gave it to a man going up in a balloon,
He told him for to take it to the man in the moon;
The balloon came down about ninety miles away,
Where he is now, well I dare not say.
But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea, yea, yea
He gave it to a man going way out West,
Told him for to take it to the one he loved the best;
First the train hit the curve, then it jumped the rail,
Not a soul was left behind to tell the gruesome tale.
But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea, yea, yea
The cat it had some company one night out in the yard,
Someone threw a boot-jack, and they threw it mighty hard;
It caught the cat behind the ear, she thought it rather slight,
When along came a brick-bat and knocked the cat out of sight
But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea, yea, yea
Away across the ocean they did send the cat at last,
Vessel only out a day and making water fast;
People all began to pray, the boat began to toss,
A great big gust of wind came by and every soul was lost.
But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea, yea, yea
On a telegraph wire, sparrows sitting in a bunch,
The cat was feeling hungry, thought she'd like 'em for a lunch;
Climbing softly up the pole, and when she reached the top,
Put her foot upon the electric wire, which tied her in a knot.
But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea, yea, yea
The cat was a possessor of a family of its own,
With seven little kittens till there came a cyclone;
Blew the houses all apart and tossed the cat around,
The air was full of kittens, and not a one was ever found.
But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea, yea, yea
The atom bomb fell just the other day,
The H-Bomb fell in the very same way;
Russia went, England went, and then the U.S.A.
The human race was finished without a chance to pray.
But the cat came back the very next day,
The cat came back, we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back; it just couldn't stay away.
Away, away, yea, yea, yea
A yellow bird
with a yellow bill
Was perched upon
my window sill
I lured him in
with a piece of bread
And then I smashed
his little head
The doctor came
to check his head
"Indeed" he said
"this bird is dead"
A little mouse
with little feet
Was perched upon
my toilet seat
I pushed him in
I flushed him down
I watched him spin
'round and 'round
My Bonnie
Tune: "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean"
My Bonnie leaned over the gas tank,
The height of its contents to see.
I lit up a match to assist her,
Oh bring back my Bonnie to me.
( Chorus: bring back, bring back, oh bring back my bonnie to me, to me...)
Last night as I lay on my pillow,
Last night as I lay on my bed,
I stuck my feet out of the window,
Next morning my neighbors were dead.
(chorus with bring back, bring back, oh bring back my neighbors to me, to me)
My Bonnie has tuberculosis,
My Bonnie has only one lung,
My Bonnie can cough up raw oysters'
And roll them around on her tongue.
(chorus: Roll them, roll them, roll them around on her tongue, her tongue...)
My luncheon lies over the ocean,
My breakfast lies over the rail.
My supper lies in great commotion,
Won't someone please bring me a pail.
( chorus: Clams & ice cream don't agree with me, with me; clams & ice cream don't agree with me.")
Who knows what I had for breakfast?
Who knows what I had for tea?
Who knows what I had for supper?
Just look out the window and see!
(Chorus: look out, look out, look out my window and see, and see, look out, look out look out my window and see)
He Jumped from 40,000 Feet
Sung to the tune of Battle Hymn of the Republic
He jumped from 40,000 feet and forgot to pull the cord,
He jumped from 40,000 feet and forgot to pull the cord,
He jumped from 40,000 feet and forgot to pull the cord,
And he ain't gonna fly no more.
Chorus:
Glory, glory, what a heck of a way to die
Glory, glory, what a heck of a way to die
Glory, glory, what a heck of a way to die
And he ain't gonna fly no more.
He was last to leave the cockpit and the first to hit the ground..
He was last to leave the cockpit and the first to hit the ground..
He was last to leave the cockpit and the first to hit the ground..
And he ain't gonna fly no more.
Chorus
He landed on the runway like a blob of strawberry jam.
He landed on the runway like a blob of strawberry jam.
He landed on the runway like a blob of strawberry jam.
And he ain't gonna fly no more.
Chorus
They scraped him off the runway with a little silver spoon.
They scraped him off the runway with a little silver spoon.
They scraped him off the runway with a little silver spoon.
And he ain't gonna fly no more.
Chorus
They sent him home to mother on a slice of moldy bread.
They sent him home to mother on a slice of moldy bread.
They sent him home to mother on a slice of moldy bread.
And he ain't gonna fly no more.
Chorus
His mother didn't want him so she sent him back to us.
His mother didn't want him so she sent him back to us.
His mother didn't want him so she sent him back to us.
And he ain't gonna fly no more.
Chorus
Suggested hand motions:
1. last to leave (flap arms like bird) the cockpit..
2. first to (slap hands) hit the..
3. He (slap hands) landed on..
4. They (make scooping motion) scraped him..
5. in a little (make small box with hands) box.
6. so she sent (make overhand throwing motion) him back to us.
