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Choosing The Best Camping Songs

Choosing the Best Camping Songs

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The evening dutch oven meal is over. All that is left is to roast a few marshmallows, make some s’mores and relax around the campfire. Uncle Stan tells a few stories about your mom and her family. It seems you learn a little more at each family reunion about her.

One of your cousins brings out his guitar and starts plucking out a tune. Aunt Jamie suggests a campfire singalong. Somebody suggests “This Old Man”, but cousin Steve doesn’t really know the chords. So, sing without the guitar.

Uncle Travis suggests his favorite Jack Johnson song, but nobody else knows it.

So, now what?

Well, it was a good idea, but it doesn’t look like there will be any campfire singing. This is the point where most campfire singalongs die. A little preparation can avoid the death of singing camping songs.

The best camping songs for a group are silly songs and fun songs that the group already knows. You can also sing songs that are easily learned. So trying to sing long songs like “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” or “El Paso”, or all the verses of “A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief” probably won’t work.

If you have a song you really want to do that is long, then make copies for people to read. You may be having a special campfire where a certain song would be just perfect. Don’t forget that it is dark, so make sure everybody brings flashlights. They also may be able to stand close enough to the fire to see the words.

Some simple movement songs would be a great addition for the younger children. Here are a couple of good movement songs:

B-I-N-G-O. With this one you can have everyone sing the first verse. Then on the next verse, leave out the B, and clap once in it’s place. For the third verse, leave out the B and the I, and clap in each of their places. Continue through all the verses until you are not spelling out the word, but just clapping.
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean. You need to be sitting for this song. Whenever you come to a b, you either stand up or sit down, going back and forth between sitting and standing.

In the Great American Campfire Songbook, there are more camping songs that you can use for young children involving movement. There are also some excellent campfire songs that most of the group may not know, but are simple to learn. Two songs that you can use are:

Chumbara. This is a Canadian folk song. You just sing one word over and over again, but it can be lots of fun. There are other words you can use. Three syllable words work really well, but you can also try 2 or 4 syllable words. Try names, like Ste-pha-nie, or Ken-ne-dy. Use food names like black-ber-ry, cook-ie-dough, or broc-col-li. This is good for groups because everyone can help make up new verses.
There Ain’t No Bugs On Me. Here is another “make up new verses” song. For verse one, the two words that rhyme are Bug and Mug. In the next verse, think of two new words to put in their place like, “bees and knees”, “spiders and fighters”, “ants and pants”, “flies and guys”, “cougars and boogers”.

Songs that we like to do around our campfires include the following:

Clementine
You Are My Sunshine
Red River Valley
I’ve Been Working on the Railroad
Home on the Range

The three things to remember are:

Do songs everybody knows, or
Do songs that are easy to learn, or
Have a copy of the words

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