It’s Shark Week on Discovery Channel. Someone posted this video of “Baby Shark” in honor of Shark Week and as it’s a camp song and as a former camp counselor, I think these songs need to be shared. This video is from a Boy Scout camp in Connecticut and as usual, the Boy Scouts know how to do these songs well.
I think we need to add The Penguin Song for good measure. It’s another camp song that I learned from some members of my Bible study in college who learned it as YMCA camp counselors. I have memories of standing outside Marianne’s (an awesome ice cream parlor in Santa Cruz) singing it. I’m pretty sure it would have been banned in the Girl Scouts because it looks like you’re mocking people with mental disabilities.
OK… throwing a question out to my readers. What were your favorite camp songs? They can be from whatever camps you attended — Girl Scout, Boy Scout, church, CYO, whatever.
By the time you read this, I’ll be down in southern California with Jon, Daniel, and my in-laws. Jon’s birthday is Saturday and he wants to take a weekend off. Since he hasn’t actually had one in like… a year, we’re doing it! He has a few surprises waiting for him on this trip so hopefully it will be enjoyable for him.
I got a few books read on the way down. No, I wasn’t the one driving. I finished The Wurst Is Yet to Come by Mary Daheim, read The Fifty Shames of Earl Grey by Fanny Merkin (a.k.a Andrew Shaffer — it’s a parody of THAT OTHER BOOK, stop judging me!) before starting/finishing The Cinnamon Roll Murder by Joanne Fluke, and starting on Clergy Killers by G. Lloyd Rediger. Yes, I do read that fast.
My in-laws are the only people I know with more cats than me. I think the current count is 5 or 6? My mother-in-law is seriously deserving of the hashtag #crazycatlady that I bat around the Twitter. My sister-in-law has three chihuahuas but we don’t talk about it.
Why yes, I’m aware that I’m not #1 this week in posting my Quick Takes. I’ve been busy taking care of my kid and attempting to be social with my in-laws? Oh yes… also catching up on Twitter and Facebook because I didn’t get a chance to be online until tonight.
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Oh man, the shark song brings back great memories. Also I love one I can’t find the video of but it started like “Womp womp said the little Mr. Froggy, Womp womp said the misses froggy too, womp womp said they both together, and their eyes went wooo wooo woooo….” One from church I always loved was the song and motions too Our God is an Awesome God.
Have a fun weekend!
Haha, I used to stay up to be 1 on there.. but not anymore. Work has instantly turned me into an old lady where I go to bed before 11.
How is that parody book? It sounds good!
Haha we sang Baby Shark soooo many times at camp! Some of my favorites from the autism camp I worked at were An Austrian Went Yodeling, The Littlest Worm, Little Green Frog, and The Bo-diddly Man! Have fun with your family! 🙂
Okay here goes:
#1 – Never heard that camp song before, but I love it! I was laughing a lot.
#2 – Never heard the Penguin Song.
#3 – Favorites are lots of Girl Scout songs: If I had the wings of a buzzard, the Baby Duck Song, 3 Bears, My Aunt Came Back (like Father Abraham, with different movements), 5 Giant Buzzards
#4 – Hippo Birdie Ewe Ewe Jon
#5 – Since you like murder mysteries, do you read either Lillian Jackson Braun (The Cat Who . . . ) or Rita Mae Brown (Mrs. Murphy mysteries)?
#6 – We have 6 cats plus ferals. Dashielle is our grumpy old lady (15), then Yoda (11), then the twins, Unix and Linux (6), then the boys, Pinky & Brain (4 months), plus 2 or 3 ferals that hang around. When we lived in San Pablo, we had 4 indoor/outdoor cats, and a colony of about a dozen ferals (all fixed). We definitely qualify as crazy cat ladies, but we’re organized, and everyone is spayed or neutered.
#7 – You posted. And since I read it on Friday mornings anyway, it’s cool.
Hope you have lots of fun in SoCal, and that it isn’t too hot for you.
That is my idea of a vacation!! But I really dont get to read as often as I would like. Have an awesome vacation weekend!!
Enjoy SoCal, although I don’t think you’ll get a break from the heat down here. 🙁 And you read CRAZY fast!
It’s okay I’ve been like 150 lately haha. 50 shames sounds interesting. We had 3 or 4 cats at one time but 1 passed away and then we got in trouble from our landlord for having too many so we had to give some of them away 🙁 Milo we’ve had the longest and then 2 yrs ago we saved Pierre from our crazy neighbor who’s cat had kittens.
My mom is visiting a friend this week and she has like 5 or 6 dogs!! Yeah we won’t discuss that…