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Strange songs you sang at Guides/Scouts

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  • Blackheathen
    Blackheathen Posts: 6,656
    One that you probably didn’t sing or talk about at Guides KB was the ballad of Eskimo Nell
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    The Corporation muck cart was full up to the brim,
    The Corporation driver fell in and could not swim.
    He sank right to the bottom, just like a little stone,
    And you could hear him whistling, "There's no place like home"
    You can't put your muck in our dustbin, our dustbin, our dustbin,
    You can't put your muck in our dustbin, our dustbin's full.
    There's rats in, there' s cats in there's me fathers Auld spats in
    So ye can't put your muck in our dustbin, our dustbin's full.

    Something about Zulu warriors as well.

    It's like I was a scout in the 50s rather than the 90s...
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    edited October 2023
    Oh your never go to heaven 
    Oh your never go to heaven
    In Akela's car
    Cos Akela's car won't go that far.

    I aint"t going to grieve, I ain't going to worry, I ain't going to leave this world in a hurry and I ain't a-gonna grieve my Lord no more.

    Oh your never go to heaven 
    Oh your never go to heaven
    In a biscuit tin
    Cos a biscuit tin, has got biscuits in.

    Etc etc etc.
  • sillav nitram
    sillav nitram Posts: 10,169
    I wasn’t in the cubs or scouts but remember my sister singing this ditty below though I don’t remember the lyrics as they appear?

    Found a peanut, found a peanut, found a peanut just now.
    Just now I found a peanut, found a peanut just now.
    Cracked it open, cracked it open, cracked it open just now
    Just now I cracked it open, cracked it open just now.
    It was rotten, it was rotten, it was rotten just now,
    Just now it was rotten, it was rotten just now 

    Ate it anyway
    Got a stomachache
    Called the doctor
    Said I wouldn't Die
    Died anyway
    Went to Heaven
    Found the gates locked
    Got hotter
    Woke up
    Found it was a dream


  • Athletico Charlton
    Athletico Charlton Posts: 14,282
    edited October 2023
    Gribbo said:
    I remember our Akela doing the "We're all going on a bear hunt......" story, sitting round the campfire in the woods in the Scout campsite in Downe
    Been or being sold to developers sadly.  Have happy memories of camping at Downe with cubs and scouts.

  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    When Suzi was a baby
    A baby Suzi was and she went
    Wah! Wah! Wah wah wah!
    Wah wah wah wah wah wah wah!

    When Suzi was a schoolgirl
    A schoolgirl Suzi was and she went
    Miss! Miss! I can’t do this!
    I got my knickers in a terrible twist.

    A teenager she was and she went
    Ooh! Ah! I lost my bra!
    I must have left it in my boyfriend’s car!

    When Suzi was a mother
    A mother Suzi was and she went
    Brush your teeth! Comb your hair!
    Don’t forget your underwear!

    When Suzi was a granny
    A granny Suzi was and she went
    Knit! Knit! Knit knit knit!
    Knit knit knit knit knit knit knit!

    When Suzi wa-as de- ead
    De-ead Suzi was and she went…
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    I know someone you don't know
    Yogi, Yogi
    I know someone you don't know
    Yogi, Yogi Bear
    Yogi, Yogi Bear, Yogi, Yogi Bear
    I know someone you don't know
    Yogi, Yogi Bear

    Yogi has a little friend
    Boo-boo, Boo-boo
    Yogi has a little friend
    Boo-boo, Boo-boo Bear
    Boo-boo, Boo-boo Bear, Boo-boo, Boo-boo Bear
    Yogi has a little friend
    Boo-boo, Boo-boo Bear

    Yogi has a girlfriend too
    Cindy, Cindy
    Yogi has a girlfriend too
    Cindy, Cindy Bear
    Cindy, Cindy Bear, Cindy, Cindy Bear
    Yogi has a girlfriend too
    Cindy, Cindy Bear

    Amd some much ruder verses...
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,893
    Cafc43v3r said:
    Oh your never go to heaven 
    Oh your never go to heaven
    In Akela's car
    Cos Akela's car won't go that far.

    I aint"t going to grieve, I ain't going to worry, I ain't going to leave this world in a hurry and I ain't a-gonna grieve my Lord no more.

    Oh your never go to heaven 
    Oh your never go to heaven
    In a biscuit tin
    Cos a biscuit tin, has got biscuits in.

    Etc etc etc.
    That's one I remember. 
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,619
    Blackheathen said:
    One that you probably didn’t sing or talk about at Guides KB was the ballad of Eskimo Nell
    Blooming eck I just googled it 😱
    We most certainly did not!!!!!!
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,038
    As a Cub Scout, something about Going down the garden to eat worms and The Meatball song.

    As an Air Cadet, The Engineers Daughter and Four and Twenty Virgins. 

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  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    Stig said:
    As a Cub Scout, something about Going down the garden to eat worms and The Meatball song.

    As an Air Cadet, The Engineers Daughter and Four and Twenty Virgins. 
    Nobody likes me
    Everybody hates me
    Guess I'll go eat worms
    Big, fat, juicy ones
    Long, thin, slimey ones
    Itsy bitsy, fuzzy wuzzy worms
    Down goes the first one
    Down goes the second one
    Oh, how they wiggle and squirm!
    Big, fat, juicy ones
    Long, thin, slimey ones
    Itsy bitsy, fuzzy wuzzy worms
    Up comes the first one
    Up comes the second one
    Oh, how they wiggle and squirm!
    Big, fat, juicy ones
    Long, thin, slimey ones
    Itsy bitsy, fuzzy wuzzy worms
    Nobody likes me
    Everybody hates me
    Guess I'll go eat worms!
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    With my hands on my head, what have we here, this is my brain box and nothing to fear. Brain box and willy willy willy woo, that’s what they taught me when I went to school 

    With my hand on my tum what have we here, this is my bread bin and nothing to fear. Brain box and bread bin and willy willy willy woo. That’s what they taught me when I went to school. 

    With my hand on my knee, what have we here. This is my kick about and nothing to fear. Kick about and bread bin and brain box and willy willy willy woo. That’s what they taught me when I went to school. 

    Brownies. Downe. 1989. 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,893
    Stig said:
    As a Cub Scout, something about Going down the garden to eat worms and The Meatball song.

    As an Air Cadet, The Engineers Daughter and Four and Twenty Virgins. 
    That does ring a bell. Something about a meatball rolling into the garden!
  • charltonbob
    charltonbob Posts: 8,270
    Athletico Charlton said:
    Gribbo said:
    I remember our Akela doing the "We're all going on a bear hunt......" story, sitting round the campfire in the woods in the Scout campsite in Downe
    Been or being sold to developers sadly.  Have happy memories of camping at Downe with cubs and scouts.

    Not sold, the developers pulled out after their bid was accepted, FriendsofDowne are trying to raise additional funding to buy the site.

    This was on facebook
      · 
    UPDATE!
    Late on Friday, TSA contacted us to kindly inform us that the successful bidder for Downe has not progressed with the sale, and they invited us to submit a new bid to purchase the site. They have, however, told us that only a fully funded bid will be considered moving forward.
    Our previous bid included a large lump sum and a part deferred payment structure, which obviously won't be acceptable to TSA.
    Reflecting on the changing market conditions, the present state of the site and the increase in materials costs, the FoDAC trustees have decided to commission a new site valuation. The team are also visiting the site to reassess the current conditions.
    After considering these findings, we can give a more definitive answer on the funding shortfall and how much we need to enable us to submit a new fully funded bid to save the site.
    We will let you know more about how you can support us moving forward as soon as we are able.
    Many thanks, as always.
    'Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, it's not the end.' – John Lennon.
    May be an image of grandfather clock and text that says Downe UPDATE
    All reactions:
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  • Athletico Charlton
    Athletico Charlton Posts: 14,282
    Good luck to them. I think the sale price was £2M and last I heard Friends of Downe had raised £400K so a big gap... But land prices will be plummeting hard at the moment so maybe they get it.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,894
    Bedsaddick said:
    This had to be in contention for one of the weirdest threads of the year.  I'm in my mid fifties and i don't have clue what's going on here!
    I'm definitely with you on that.

    Some of these "songs" sound distinctly odd.
  • TimAddick
    TimAddick Posts: 216
    This thread brings back lots of memories.
    I recall several of the songs we sang around campfires. It so sad about Downe. I have wonderfully memories camping there in late 50s and early 60s. I hope for a good outcome.
  • letthegoodtimesroll
    letthegoodtimesroll Posts: 10,629
    I didn’t join anything like the scouts etc and neither did any of my mates, we were all far too busy having fun, playing football or generally running wild all day long when we were not at school. There was a lad that joined the boys brigade but he emigrated to Canada; and there was another lad from down the road that sometimes hung around with us who was given the option by a judge or magistrate of 4 years borstal or 2 years in the merchant navy and, as I recall, he chose the latter. We did all use to walk down to the Valley and support charlton and sing songs, sometimes at night, though not around campfires.
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,619
    killerandflash said:
    Stig said:
    As a Cub Scout, something about Going down the garden to eat worms and The Meatball song.

    As an Air Cadet, The Engineers Daughter and Four and Twenty Virgins. 
    That does ring a bell. Something about a meatball rolling into the garden!
    The full lyrics of the meatball song are further up the thread………you’re welcome 🤗 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,339
    I know a song that will get on your nerves 
    Get on your nerves
    Get on your nerves
    I know a song that will get on your nerves 
    Get on your neeeeee-eeeeeee-eeeeerves
     
    I know a song that will get on your nerves 
    Get on your nerves
    Get on your nerves
    I know a song that will get on your nerves 
    Get on your neeeeee-eeeeeee-eeeeerves  

    I know a song that will get on your nerves 
    Get on your nerves
    Get on your nerves
    I know a song that will get on your nerves 
    Get on your neeeeee-eeeeeee-eeeeerves

    I know a song that will get on your nerves 
    Get on your nerves
    Get on your nerves
    I know a song that will get on your nerves 
    Get on your neeeeee-eeeeeee-eeeeerves
     
    I know a song that will get on your nerves 
    Get on your nerves
    Get on your nerves
    I know a song that will get on your nerves 
    Get on your neeeeee-eeeeeee-eeeeerves
     
    I know a song that will get on your nerves 
    Get on your nerves
    Get on your nerves
    I know a song that will get on your nerves 
    Get on your neeeeee-eeeeeee-eeeeerves
     
    I know a song that will get on your nerves 
    Get on your nerves
    Get on your nerves
    I know a song that will get on your nerves 
    Get on your neeeeee-eeeeeee-eeeeerves
     
    I know a song that will get on your nerves 
    Get on your nerves
    Get on your nerves
    I know a song that will get on your nerves 
    Get on your neeeeee-eeeeeee-eeeeerves
     
    I know a song th- *is hit with a big branch*

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  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,619
    Bet everyone loved you round the campfire Leuth 🤐
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,339
    We also did the Fast Food Song before the Fast Food Rockers ever coopted it into a single! A Pizza Hut...
  • Athletico Charlton
    Athletico Charlton Posts: 14,282
    letthegoodtimesroll said:
    I didn’t join anything like the scouts etc and neither did any of my mates, we were all far too busy having fun, playing football or generally running wild all day long when we were not at school. There was a lad that joined the boys brigade but he emigrated to Canada; and there was another lad from down the road that sometimes hung around with us who was given the option by a judge or magistrate of 4 years borstal or 2 years in the merchant navy and, as I recall, he chose the latter. We did all use to walk down to the Valley and support charlton and sing songs, sometimes at night, though not around campfires.

    You missed out. It's a wonderful organisation that gets weirdly sneered at by some.
    My kids are 8 and 10 and have shot air rifles, done archery, visited the local fire station, tried taekwondo, played badminton, been to a silent disco and stayed on a couple of camps away where they sang odd songs... and all that is only since May. 
    I can't remember the hundreds of things they did before, but through COVID lockdowns their group "met" on teams once a week and had artists, poets, comedians and tonnes of others entertain them for an hour which was some of their only outside contact excluding school.
    All by volunteers and costs me less than £100 per child per year! It is insanely good value.
    Their friends play computer games and watch TV and when the oldest boys class went away for 2 nights last year most of them were petrified having never been away from their families before.
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,736
    What do you do if you need a poo in an English country garden?
    Pull down your pants and shit on the ants in an English country garden. 


  • WrightCharlie
    WrightCharlie Posts: 743
    My grandfathers clock was too large for the shelf
    So it stood ninety years on the floor 
    It was larger by half
    Than the old man himself
    And it weighed half a hundredweight more

    Ninety years without wandering
    Tick tock tick tock
    His life seconds numbering
    Tick tock tick tock

    It stopped short
    Never to go again
    When the old man died.


    Many happy scouting days at Hammerwood for me.
    Thanks for bringing the memories back.
  • swordfish
    swordfish Posts: 4,234
    edited October 2023
    This thread is a triumph for bringing reminiscence classes online. So many things I thought I'd long forgotten brought quickly back to mind. Thanks all so far. Needs a Kum ba yah too though 😉

    Think we also used to sing  "15 men on a dead man's chest. Yo! ho! ho and a bottle of rum," but I don't recall reciting the whole thing. (No, I wasn't a sea scout)
  • redman
    redman Posts: 5,286
    One I remember as a scout was Dina Dina show us your legs. Can't type whole thing out but to give you a taste:
    " A rich girl has a ring of gold,
     a poor girl's made of brass
     but the only ring that Dina's got
    is the ring around her arse. "

    A rich girl uses.... cream,
     a poor girl uses vaseline
     but  Dina uses axle grease
    because her c**t is hard
  • eastterrace6168
    eastterrace6168 Posts: 22,614
    edited October 2023
    redman said:
    One I remember as a scout was Dina Dina show us your legs. Can't type whole thing out but to give you a taste:
    " A rich girl has a ring of gold,
     a poor girl's made of brass
     but the only ring that Dina's got
    is the ring around her arse. "

    A rich girl uses.... cream,
     a poor girl uses vaseline
     but  Dina uses axle grease
    because her c**t is hard
    A rich girl has a brassiere 
    A poor girl uses string 
    But Dina use nothin’ at all
    She let’s the bleeders swing

    Dina Dina show us your legs 
    Show us your legs, show us your legs 
    Dina Dina show us your legs 
    The yard above yer knee…
  • thai malaysia addick
    thai malaysia addick Posts: 18,341
    Were all these songs really sung in the scouts? They sound more like bawdy rugby songs? Surely, the scoutmasters didn’t join in. Shocked and appalled 😳
  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,051
    Karim_myBagheri said:
    What do you do if you need a poo in an English country garden?
    Pull down your pants and shit on the ants in an English country garden. 


    Paralyse the ants is what we sung

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