Camp Fire Girls Organizational Songs

BELOW IS A LIST OF SONGS INCLUDED IN CAMP SONGS, FOLK SONGS WITH THE PAGE REFERENCES. A COMPLETE ALPHABETAL INDEX IS AT THE RIGHT.

By the Blazing Council Fire
      190, 338
Camp Fire (acrostic) )
      125
Camp Fire Closing Song (Now our camp fire fadeth)
      463
Camp Fire Girls Are Happy
      334
Camp Fire Girls Are High Minded
      See: Indians Are High Minded
Camp Fire Good Night
      463
Camp Fire Law
      167
Camp Fire Maid
      49
Camp Fire Maidens True
      455
Camp Fire Pledge
      338
Camp Fire Prayer (For nights with stars)
      188, 195
Kahinto Kamyo
      See: Processional
Now Our Council Endeth
      455
Now Our Council Fire Burns Low
      463
Oh We Cheer for Wohelo
      132
Onward We Go with a Song
      166, 499
Processional
      145
Recessional
      463
Round the Blazing Council Fire
      190, 338

Song of the Flame
      463
Step along in the Camp Fire Way
      131
Symbol Song
      338
That's a Camp Fire Girl
      251
We Are the Camp Fire Girls
      126, 130
Who Is the Camp Fire Girl
      251
Wohelo for Aye
      370
Wohelo March
      167
Wohelo, Spirit of Joy and Youth
      463
Wohelo Your Maidens Have Gathered
      23

Photograph: Camp Tanawida, Michigan Camp Fire Girls' day camp, 1956.

More Camp Fire Girls Songs

Blue Birds
B That's the Way to Begin
      125
Blue Bird Candle
      258
Blue Birds, Blue Bird, Happy Friends
      253
Blue Bird Closing Song
      See: Now Our Blue Bird Meeting Ends
Blue Bird, Come Out and Play with Me
      250
Go to the Blue Birds
      433
I Like Being a Blue Bird
      125, 126
Magic Ring Song (We are called the blue birds)
      374
Now Our Blue Bird Meeting Ends
      258
Pretty Little Blue Bird
      464
Sing Blue Birds Sing
      340
They Call Us the Blue Birds
      166

Horizon Clubs
My Blue Horizons
      10

Neidlinger songs
Boating Song
      342
Burn, Fire, Burn
      337
For Health and Strength
      See: Graces
Mammy Moon
      343
Our Guests
      378
Pretty Little Blue Bird
      See: Blue Bird Songs (above)

Photograph: Arbor Day, 1951. My mother's Bluebird group planting a tree in Victory Park.

Songs from Co-ed Groups

Four-H
I'm Looking over a 4-H Clover
      370
We're Ohio's Sons and Daughters
      491, 492

Catholic Youth Organization (CYO)
Cheer, Cheer for Old CYO
      299
I Was CYO Born
      288

Photographs: Calhoun County 4-H camp, 1958.

Girls' Organizational Songs

Girl Scouts
Brownie Smile Song
      517
Girl Scout Pep Song
      97, 125, 472
Girl Scout Pep Song (parodies)
      97
Girl Scouts Are We
      464
Girl Scouts Together
      464, 472
Our Chalet
      464
When E'er You Make a Promise
      437

YWCA
Above a Plain
      56, 146, 311, 444
Follow the Gleam
      365, 366, 457
We're Loyal
      461

Photograph: Girl Scout leaders at national training course, Long Pond, Massachusetts, 1921. Original in Anne Hopson Chapin's papers, Kent Historical Society, Kent, Connecticutt

Boys' Organizational Songs

Boy Scouts
Be Prepared
      290
Be Prepared (parodies)
      290
Boy Scouts, The
      See: Inn of the Starry Sky
Camp Fire Song
      339
Climbing up the Ladder
      386
Cub Mates
      250
Danish Honor Chorus
      See: Bravo, Bravissimo
Footsteps on Distant Trail
      189
Hail, Hail Scouting Spirit
      166
I'm a Scouting Trooper
      232
I'm Glad I'm a Scouter
      491
My Boy Scout Hat
      416

On My Honor
      10
Onward Boy Scouts
      262, 288
Region 4 Song
      See: We're the Ones You've Heard So Much About
Region 12 Song
      See: Pink Pajamas
Scout Company
      129
Scout Hearted Men
      461
Scout Laws in Song
      137
Scout Leader's Prayer
      334
Sea Scout Chantey
      288
There above in the breeze
      166
Three Good Deeds
      137
Trail the Eagle
      172, 290
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp the Scouts Are Marching
      288

Photographs: Boy Scouts, originals owned by Battle Creek, Michigan, Willard Library. Their camp was Ben Johnston on Sherman Lake.

Camp Fires

Camp fires are the other time camps sing. Some have evenings set aside for songs, recitations and skits around a fire. They may be sentimental or humorous in mood, or some combination.

Kitanniwa had two fire programs built into its schedule. One was the weekly cookout on the cook’s day off. It was seen as a pragmatic activity, with an expectation groups returned their dirty pots to the kitchen before dark. There was no relaxed period for singing.

Every Friday, the Camp Fire Girls camp held a council fire. These were formal programs, with planned songs taken from a conventional list. Many were organization. Some were sentimental or embodied the camp spirit.

Some times, when the schedule or mood allowed, the after supper sing would be extended and took on the contours of a camp fire. The songs then were slow or pretty, but could expand to include songs like "Home on the Range."

The only time I remember informally singing around a fire was on an overnight. I had been on several overnights before, which like the weekly cookouts, were too practical to allow for singing. But, one, when we were adolescents did conclude the evening with singing slow songs.

Pictures of cook outs appear elsewhere on this page. The 1958 council fire is the city-wide one held in Albion, Michigan, in front of the band shell in Victory Park. The photographs of Friendly Acres posted 4/11/13 look like a ceremonial camp fire.