Your Favorite Campfire Songs?
June 16, 2018 11:11 AM Subscribe
What are your favorite campfire songs? because singing around a fire with friends is generally the best.
Have you checked out the book Rise Up Singing? It's a great resource.
you might also want to check out the Girl Scout Songs channel on youtube.
Some favorites from my childhood spent singing at camp:
Acres of Clams
Barges
Plant a Watermelon Vine
posted by vespabelle at 11:46 AM on June 16, 2018 [8 favorites]
you might also want to check out the Girl Scout Songs channel on youtube.
Some favorites from my childhood spent singing at camp:
Acres of Clams
Barges
Plant a Watermelon Vine
posted by vespabelle at 11:46 AM on June 16, 2018 [8 favorites]
Wor Geordie's Lost His Penka
(or Liggy - it's a marble) lyrics
..you probably weren't after a Geordie dialect song but it's my fave to sing round the campfire with me aad favva an wor marras
posted by sarahdal at 11:48 AM on June 16, 2018 [3 favorites]
(or Liggy - it's a marble) lyrics
..you probably weren't after a Geordie dialect song but it's my fave to sing round the campfire with me aad favva an wor marras
posted by sarahdal at 11:48 AM on June 16, 2018 [3 favorites]
Old tv theme songs are great, and most tell stories; Gilligan's Island, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Brady Bunch, The Flintstones to name a few.
posted by NoraCharles at 12:50 PM on June 16, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by NoraCharles at 12:50 PM on June 16, 2018 [2 favorites]
no children.
Works great as an acoustic song.
posted by kaibutsu at 12:56 PM on June 16, 2018 [1 favorite]
Works great as an acoustic song.
posted by kaibutsu at 12:56 PM on June 16, 2018 [1 favorite]
Banks of the Ohio
Leaving on a Jet Plane
Take Me Home Country Roads
One Tin Soldier
Many Indigo Girls songs
Simon & Garfunkel songs
(Why yes, I also spent many a summer singing around the campfire at a girls' camp.)
posted by ImproviseOrDie at 2:56 PM on June 16, 2018 [3 favorites]
Leaving on a Jet Plane
Take Me Home Country Roads
One Tin Soldier
Many Indigo Girls songs
Simon & Garfunkel songs
(Why yes, I also spent many a summer singing around the campfire at a girls' camp.)
posted by ImproviseOrDie at 2:56 PM on June 16, 2018 [3 favorites]
Best answer: Anything Peter Paul and Mary played (Puff the Magic Dragon, Jet Plane, Blowin in the wind)
Most of Pete Seeger ( e.g. Darlin Corrine, If I had a Hammer)
So much of this depends on who knows what though.
posted by SaltySalticid at 3:02 PM on June 16, 2018 [3 favorites]
Most of Pete Seeger ( e.g. Darlin Corrine, If I had a Hammer)
So much of this depends on who knows what though.
posted by SaltySalticid at 3:02 PM on June 16, 2018 [3 favorites]
A few more..
Big Rock Candy Mountain (Burl Ives doesn't get the repsect he deserves!)
The Storms on The Ocean
Mountain Dew (my number 2 camping jam after Acres of Clams)
We camped at sailboat regattas so our songs were a bit nautical:
Drunken Sailor
Sailor's Alphabet
posted by vespabelle at 4:23 PM on June 16, 2018 [1 favorite]
Big Rock Candy Mountain (Burl Ives doesn't get the repsect he deserves!)
The Storms on The Ocean
Mountain Dew (my number 2 camping jam after Acres of Clams)
We camped at sailboat regattas so our songs were a bit nautical:
Drunken Sailor
Sailor's Alphabet
posted by vespabelle at 4:23 PM on June 16, 2018 [1 favorite]
I met a bear. It's a great song, with call and repeat, so only one person needs the lyrics.
posted by hydra77 at 4:26 PM on June 16, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by hydra77 at 4:26 PM on June 16, 2018 [2 favorites]
Best answer: Seconding Rise Up Singing as a resource.
I'm partial to The Rainbow Connection, myself.
posted by duffell at 6:39 PM on June 16, 2018 [1 favorite]
I'm partial to The Rainbow Connection, myself.
posted by duffell at 6:39 PM on June 16, 2018 [1 favorite]
The Austrian Yodeler, I learned the refrain as Olee-a-kee-kee.
posted by brujita at 11:05 PM on June 16, 2018
posted by brujita at 11:05 PM on June 16, 2018
Best answer: I also grew up doing a lot of this, so nice. Some favourites:
The Eddystone Light
Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag
Donna Donna
Green Grow the Rushes O
Blood Red Roses
Whiskey in the Jar
The Black Velvet Band
Drill Ye Tarriers Drill
Whilst looking for these I found this list that someone had made of the songs from the hippyish camp holidays (Forest School Camps, still going strong!) I went on and loved, which has loads more favourites (Sixteen Tons, It takes a Worried Man, She Moved Through the Fair) - well worth a look. FSC also have a link with rounds and songs on their site.
posted by tardigrade at 6:55 AM on June 17, 2018 [1 favorite]
The Eddystone Light
Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag
Donna Donna
Green Grow the Rushes O
Blood Red Roses
Whiskey in the Jar
The Black Velvet Band
Drill Ye Tarriers Drill
Whilst looking for these I found this list that someone had made of the songs from the hippyish camp holidays (Forest School Camps, still going strong!) I went on and loved, which has loads more favourites (Sixteen Tons, It takes a Worried Man, She Moved Through the Fair) - well worth a look. FSC also have a link with rounds and songs on their site.
posted by tardigrade at 6:55 AM on June 17, 2018 [1 favorite]
Baby Shark, doo doo, doo doo doo doo
posted by The corpse in the library at 5:39 PM on June 17, 2018 [1 favorite]
posted by The corpse in the library at 5:39 PM on June 17, 2018 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: The upcoming event ranges from 90s to 20-somethings, but mostly the campfire group is baby boomer/ old hippies. I do have Rise Up Singing. I'm having fun working my way through the links.
posted by theora55 at 6:38 PM on June 19, 2018
posted by theora55 at 6:38 PM on June 19, 2018
This thread is closed to new comments.
posted by Jellybean_Slybun at 11:31 AM on June 16, 2018 [1 favorite]