SONGS
Song tip from Commissioner Dave - The
York-Adams Council Pow Wow Book CD has a folder with a lot of midi files for
the most popular Scouting tunes. This will give you something to play to help
you lead the song. It will help prevent a problem like I had this year
teaching “The Scout Who Never Returned,” so many leaders are so young that
they never even heard of The Kingston Trio let alone that song!!! Their
website is
www.yaac-bsa.org
The Ballad of Davy Crockett
Heart of America Council
HOAC suggested using this song as a closing,
introducing it with following words – “To close our Circle the wagons theme,
lets sing about a famous scout and pioneer.”
Born on a
mountain top in Tennessee,
Greenest
state in the land of the free,
Raised in
the woods, so's he knew ev'ry tree,
Kilt him
a bar when he was only three.
Davy, Davy Crockett, the man of the wild
frontier.
In 1813, the Creeks up rose,
Addin'
redskin arrows to the country's woes,
Now,
Injun fightin' is somethin' he knows,
So he
shoulders his rifle an' off he goes.
Davy,
Davy Crockett, the man who don't know fear.
Off
through the woods he's a marchin' along,
Making up
yarns an' singin' a song,
Itchin' fer fightin' an'
righin' a wrong,
He's big as a bar and twice't
as strong.
Davy,
Davy Crockett, the buckskin buccaneer.
His land
is biggest an' his land is best,
From
grassy plains to the mountain crest,
He's
ahead of us all a meetin' the test,
Following
his legend into the west.
Davy,
Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier.
From Commissioner
Dave - There are actually 30 plus verses to this song. Having been 6
years old when Walt Disney put Davy Crockett on the air, I have the sheet
music, a song sheet with all the verses, multiple recordings of the song, the
LP that tells his story, the new Disney DVD with all 6 episodes (Of course, I
know the three with Mike Fink are made up but the original three are true),
and the Little Golden Book (with the 25 cent price). I also have several
coonskin caps (but none real or original) Give me an angle in a theme, and I
can work in Davy Crockett!
Wagon Train Song
Viking Council
(Tune: If you're Happy and You Know it)
Won't you come along and
join the wagon train?
Won't you come along and join the wagon train?
We will blaze the trail before us,
And will sing this western chorus.
Won't you come along and join the wagon train?
Home on The Range
Heart of America Council
Oh, give me a home where the
buffalo roam
Where the dear and the
antelope play.
Where seldom is heard a
discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day
Where the deer and the antelope play.
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the
skies are not cloudy all day.
Fun On the Range
Heart of America Council
(tune: Home on the range)
Oh give me a home where the
Webelos roam
And the wolves and the Bears
like to play,
Where seldom is heard, a
discouraging word
And the Tigers Cubs wrestle all day
Where the Den Leaders smell kind of strange.
Where seldom is heard, a discouraging word,
And the Pack is at home on
the range.
Happy Wanderer
Heart of America Council
I love to go a-wandering
along the mountain track
And as I go, I love to sing.
My knapsack on my back
Chorus:
Valderi, valdera, valderi,
valderha, ha,ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
Valderi, valdera, my
knapsack on my back.
I wave my hat to all I meet
and they wave back to me
And black birds call so loud and sweet from
every greenwood tree.
Chorus: … from every greenwood tree
Oh, may I go a-wandering
until the day I die
Oh, may I always laugh
and sing beneath God's clear blue sky.
Chorus: …beneath God’s clear blue sky
Deep in the Heart of Texas
Heart of America Council
The stars at night are big and bright
Deep in the heart of Texas.
Reminds me of the one I love,
Deep in the heart of
Texas.
The prairie sky is wide and high,
Deep in the heart of Texas.
The cowboys cry "K-YIP-PE-Y"
Deep in the heart of Texas.
Oh, Susannah
Heart of America Council
Oh, I come from Alabama with a banjo on my knee
I'm goin' to Louisiana, my true love for to see.
It rained all night, the day I left, the weather, it was
dry.
The sun so hot, I froze to death, Susannah don't you cry.
Oh, Susannah, don't you cry for me.
For I come from Alabama with
a banjo on my knee.
Wagons, Ho!
Viking Council
One of the important ways to
travel during the settlement of the west was the covered wagon. Give the boys
a chance to recreate this adventure by practicing this chant several times
until the boys can experience the rhythm and feel of the rolling wagons.
Let's go across the country
Life folks did so long ago,
Hitch-up the team
Let's pack the covered wagon,
Get inside, Wagons, Ho!
Roll on across the prairie,
Tall grass swishing by,
Swish, Swish, Swish, Swish.
Roll on through the river,
Water splashing at our wheels,
Splash, Splash, Splash, Splash.
Roll on over mountains,
Foot hills rumble by,
Rumble, Rumble, Rumble, Rumble.
Roll on to the new land,
Clear the forest, build a home.
Journey's ended. We are settlers.
This was wilderness. Now
we're home!
