Repeat-After-Me Songs (or Call and Answer Songs) are camp songs in which the leader (or part of the group) calls out a line of the song and the rest of the group repeats it back to them. Singing a new song as a Repeat-After-Me Song is a great way to help campers learn the lyrics and actions. You can let your campers know that you’re about to sing a Repeat-After-Me Song by saying one of the following and having your
campers say it back to you to start the song. These camp songs are sung by the leader, and responded to by the audience. A great way to teach fun songs to new campers and parents. This is a repeat after me song! And a do-as-I-do song! It’s a sixties party from a sixties movie (index fingers up and down) See the surfers on their surfboards (hand as though shielding eyes from sun, looking back and forth) Da-na-na-na-na na-na-na-na na! (jump to the left and act like you are standing on a surf board) Da-na-na-na-na na-na-na-na … Read More A girl one day She ran away To stay at a Girl Scout camp Each ringlet fair, left her hair Each curly curl went down And there she washed the dishes And there she scrubbed the floors Until one sunny day While rowing in the bay She fell in all the way And she wrote home just to say Ohhhh … Read More Alice with legs like toothpicks, snap And a neck like a giraffe raff raff raff raff Alice where are you going? *whisper* Wonderland Upstairs to take a bath, dirty dirty dirty Alice pulled up the plug, oh no! Oh my goodness, oh my soul, there goes Alice down the hole To the sewer, the sewer, the sewer, which is only … Read More The alligator is my friend. He can be your friend, too. I’d rather have him as my friend, Than wear him as my shoe. (point to shoe) [Chorus] (whispered) Alligator. (spoken) Alligator. (shouted) Alligator! Can be your friend, can be your friend, can be your friend, too! The alligator is my friend. He likes to sing and dance. I’d rather … Read More You have to dance when you sing this song. It goes “Aaallligator, Aaaalllligator” and the “too” is a 2. To have fun! Alligator Song An Alligator is my friend He can be your friend too But what you have to understand Is he has feelings too. Alligator Alligator Can be your friend Can be your friend Can be your friend … Read More I know a song that gets on everybody’s nerves, everybody’s nerves, everybody’s nerves! I know a song that gets on everybody’s nerves, this is how it goes! (bump bump bump) I know a song that gets on everybody’s nerves, everybody’s nerves, everybody’s nerves! I know a song that gets on everybody’s nerves, this is how it goes! (bump bump bump)etc. Read More My momma She gave me a dollar She told me to buy a collar But I didn’t buy no collar Instead I bought some bubblegum BAZOOKA, ZOOKA bubble gum (x2) My momma She gave me a quarter She told me to tip the porter But I didn’t tip no porter Instead I bought some bubblegum BAZOOKA, ZOOKA bubble gum (x2) … Read More Song leader, and Participants to repeat after him. A good transition between activities. Bill Grogans Goat Was feeling fine Ate three red shirts Right off the line Bill took a stick Gave him a whack And tied him too The railroad track The whistle blew The train grew nye Bill Grogans Goat Was doomed to die He gave three groans … Read More Way up in the sky The little birds fly Way down in the nest The little birds rest With a wing on the left and a wing on the right The little bird sleeps all through the night Shhh! They’re sleep-ing The bright sun comes up THE DEW FALLS A-WAY Good morning! Good Morning! The little birds say. With a … Read More Early in the morning, (echo) When I was fast asleep, (echo) I heard a little birdie, (echo) Going cheep cheep. (echo) This little birdie (echo) Had a funny name. (echo) Its (echo) name (echo) was (echo) IGA-FLIGA-FLEEGA-FLIGA-ISHKA-NISHKA-NIGA-NIGA-IGA-FLIGA-FEEGA-FLIGA-BIRDIIEEE! (echo) Read More Early in the morning When I’m fast asleep I hear a little birdy That goes cheep and the little bidrie Has a funny name it’s called… Iyga flyga.. Fleega Flyga..Ishga Nishiga..Nyga nyga..Iyga Fyga..Fleega Flyga..Biiirrrdie. I’m goona buy some bird seed for my windowsill Just to keep him quiet Just to keep him still It’s for the little birdie with the … Read More I’m being swallowed by a boa constrictor, I’m being swallowed by a boa constrictor, I’m being swallowed by a boa constrictor, And I don’t like it very much. Oh no, he swallowed by toe. Oh gee, he’s up to my knee. Oh fiddle, he’s up to my middle, Oh heck, he’s up to my neck. Oh dread, he swallowed my … Read More Several people can line up with the leader for this song with their arms around each other’s shoulders campers should do the same facing the leaders. Leader: Drop the beat! All: chh chh chhÛ_..(stomp feet to beat) Leader: Let me see you boogaloo! All: WHAT’S THAT YOU SAY? Leader: I said let me see you boogaloo! All: WHAT’S THAT YOU … Read More I said a boom chicka boom (echo) I said a boom chicka boom (echo) I said a boom chicka Rocka chicka Rocka chicka boom (echo) Oh yeah (echo) Uh huh (echo) One more time (echo) ___________ style (echo) Different styles: Loud, Whisper, Southern, Valley Girl, Opera, Attitude, British, Rocket, Harley, Janitorial, Teacher. Read More
Energetic Song Leader A very fun repeat-after-me style song! And it’s customizable! Campers simply repeat after the leader, who sings: A-Boom-chicka-boom I said a-boom-chicka-boom I said a-boom-chicka-rocka-chicka-rocka-chicka-boom UH-HUH OH YEAH! One more time, (insert here) style! Then you insert a “style” that follows the same pattern. Here are some examples: Astronaut Style: Zoom-chicka-zoom I said a zoom-chicka-zoom I said a … Read More A horse and a flea and three blind mice Sat on a curbstone shooting dice The horse he slipped and fell on the flea “Whoops!” said the flea, “There’s a horse on me!” Chorus: Boom, boom! Ain’t it great to be crazy? Boom, boom! Ain’t it great to be crazy? Giddy and foolish the whole day through Boom, boom! Ain’t … Read More Only the girls sing this, there is a version the boys sing too but they slam their hands on the table while singing it and I can’t make out a word they are saying. Boys are made of Greasy, grimy, gopher guts Chopped up monkey meat Mutilated birdy feet Two big eye balls Swimming in a bowl of soup Oops … Read More This is a call and repeat song with hand motions. Repeat after everyline, there is no chorus Way out in the dessert(sweep hand out) Where cactus knows no man(pose like a cactus, then like a man) Lived a buffalo and his brother(for buffalo put hands on the side of your head like antlers. For Brother, put hands on the front … Read More During the chorus sing as fast as you can that is the fun part of the whole song. See who can sing the fastest but it is ok to just have fun! “The Camp Fire Song Song” [verse 1] Let’s gather around the camp fire and sing our campfire song Our C-A-M-P-F-I-R-E S-O-N-G song and if you can’t sing it … Read More This is a song we used to sing while canoeing: Our paddles clean and bright, flashing like silver, swift as a wild goose flight Dip dip and swing Dip dip and swing her back Flashing with silver Swift as a wild goose flight, dip dip and swing. Read More A fun campfire song. My personal favorite! Captain Jack (Repeat/Sing along/ Do along) Hey, ho, Captain Jack! Meet me by the railroad Track, With your_____ in your hand, You can be my _______man! Go left, Go left, Go boogie on down, Go left, Go left, Go right, Go right, Go right, Go boogie on down, Go right, Go right, Go … Read More Old Mr. Johnson had troubles of his own. He had a yellow cat that wouldn’t leave He gave it to a man goin far, far away But, the cat came back the very next day. But the cat came back It just wouldn’t stay away, away, away Hey, Hey, Hey The man around the corner said he’d kill that cat … Read More No requirements necessary. No requirements necessary, however this is for the big boisterous crowd, usually sung near the beginning. It was first created to be an opposite song to the Princess Pat, it’s not as melodious or beautiful sounding, but try and keep the same cadence. Really try to emphasis the words BIG CHAINSAW, SAWED, Black and Red, Ch-ch-chrome, really … Read More
This is a repeat after me song… so after every line let the others repeat 🙂 to get the camp to know who you are! You can edit this any way you need to to fit your group… From coast to coast, (Group name) is/are the most From coast to coast, (Group name) is/are the most na-na-na-na-na-NAH Na na nana … Read More They’re made outta sugar, butter and flour You can bake ’em in the oven ’bout a quarter of an hour But the thing that gives them, their magical power, Are the Chocolate Chips inside Boom Boom Boom CHORUS: Chocolate Cookies You gotta have more You can bake ’em in the oven Or buy them at the store But whatever you … Read More |