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Songs

Categories: Xiii Camp Fun And Frolics

Then come the songs. If there is some one in the party who can lead in

singing, she can use a familiar air with a rousing chorus as a frame

upon which to hang impromptu verses, made up of personalities and local

hits. This is always fun and you are surprised how quickly doggerel

rhymes suggest themselves when your turn comes to furnish a verse to the

song.



The leader begins something like this, using, per
aps, the air and

refrain of an old chantey or college song.



_Leader_

"I spotted a beaver,

But he wasn't very nye."



_Chorus_

"Don't you rock so hard!"



_Second Soloist_

"His fur was all ragged

And he had but one eye."



_Chorus_

"Don't you rock so hard.

Oh! You rock and I rock, and

Don't you rock so hard!

Everybody rocks when I rock, and

Don't you rock so hard."



_Third Soloist_

"You may laugh at the beaver,

But he's always up to time."



_Chorus_

"Don't you rock so hard!"



_Fourth Soloist_

"Oh, do drop the beaver,

And start a new rhyme."



_Chorus as before_



A song like this may go on indefinitely or until the rhyming powers of

the party are exhausted.



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