Paul Daffinee brings back some old camp songs.

Camp Clark Songs

Row Your Boat

Sung as a round

Row, row, your boat

Gently down the stream

Merrily, merrily, merrily

Life is but a dream

Jon Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

Sung unceasingly softer on each verse until the last line which is sung as loud as possible

Jon Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

That's my name too

Whenever I go out

The people always shout

There goes

Jon Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt

Da, da, da, da da da da

The Ants go Marching

Ants go marching one by one (two by two, three by three etc.)

Hurrah, hurrah

The ants go marching # by #

Hurrah, Hurrah!

The ants go marching one by one (or whatever verse),

The little one stopped to stick out his tongue (see below for other verses)

And they all go marching

Down

To the ground

To get out of the rain

Boom, boom, boom

2 Tie his shoe

3 Climb a tree

4 Slam the door

5 Pick up Sticks

Do Your Ears Hang Low?

Do your ears hang low?

Do they wobble to and fro?

Can you tie them in a knot?

Can you tie them in a bow?

Can you throw them o’er your shoulder like a Continental soldier?

Do your ears hang low?

Goober Peas

Sitting by the lakeside on a summer's day

Chatting with my bunkmates,

passing time away

Lying in the shadow underneath the trees

Goodness, how delicious,

eating goober peas

Peas, peas, peas, peas,

eating goober peas

Goodness, how delicious,

eating goober peas

Hole In the Bottom of the Sea

Each verse is sung faster and faster and then the chorus is sung slowly

Chorus

There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea

There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea

(Chorus)

There’s a hole, there’s a hole

There’s a hole in the bottom of the sea

There’s a log in the hole in the bottom of the sea

There’s a log in the hole in the bottom of the sea

(Chorus)

There’s a bump on the the log in the hole in the bottom of the sea

There’s a bump on the the log in the hole in the bottom of the sea

(Chorus)

There’s a frog on the bump on the log in the hole in the bottom of the sea

There’s a frog on the bump on the log in the hole in the bottom of the sea

(Chorus)

There’s a wart of the frog on the bump on the log in the hole in the bottom of the sea

There’s a wart of the frog on the bump on the log in the hole in the bottom of the sea

(Chorus)

There’s a fly on the wart on the frog on the bump on the log in the hole in the bottom of the sea

There’s a fly on the wart on the frog on the bump on the log in the hole in the bottom of the sea

(Chorus)

There’s a flea on the fly on the wart on the frog on the bump on the log in the hole in the bottom of the sea

There’s a flea on the fly on the wart on the frog on the bump on the log in the hole in the bottom of the sea

(Chorus)

Happy Song

If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands (clap hands)

If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands (clap hands)

If you’re happy and you know it

And you really want to show it

If you’re happy and you know it clap your hands (clap hands)

2nd verse

If you’re happy and you know it

Stomp your feet. (stomp feet)

3rd verse

If you’re happy and you know it

Shout “Hooray!” (shout hooray)

4th verse

If you’re happy and you know it

Do all three (clap hands, stomp feet, shout hooray)