Campfire Planning Sheet
PROMOTE PARTICIPATION,
FUN & FRIENDSHIP
Date: |
January ____, 2014 |
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Campfire Leader: |
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Campfire Theme: |
Sing, Sing a Song! |
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Time Allowed: |
45 - 60 minutes |
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Official Opening: |
Love for the Music – Waldo Garcia |
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Let Us Sing Together (4-Part Round) |
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Well Known Songs: |
Sing, Sing a Song – The Carpenters |
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Do-Re-Me – Rodgers & Hammerstein |
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Round Songs: |
Music Alone Shall Live (3-Part Round) |
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Listen to the Earth (4-Part Round) – Dorothy Lind |
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Part Songs: |
Orchestra (3-Part Song) |
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Merry-Go-Round (4-Part Song) |
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Action Songs: |
Ach Ven de Musica - Germany |
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An Austrian Went Yodelling - Austria |
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Skit: |
The Take Turners |
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Rousing Song: |
All Girl Guides |
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Quieter Songs: |
I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing – The New Seekers |
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Sound of Music – Rodgers & Hammerstein |
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Reflection: |
I Believe in Music – Mac Davis |
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Vespers & Taps: |
As I Go to Sleep (2-Part Round) |
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Taps |
Love for the
Music – Waldo Garcia
The rhythm, and of course the beat.
Moving side to side and dancing the floor.
Feel
the music flowing all through your feet.
The beats so good, it makes you want some more.
Get lost in the music, carried
away.
Feel the deep passion coming from your heart.
Warm like the sun on the beach on mid-day.
It’s been a
part of my life from the start.
Made from things happening in real life.
If you listen closely there is a song.
Some
are love and some are blunt as a knife.
I can listen to music all day long.
Music’s love or whatever it can be.
Music’s
the life that is inside of me.
Let
us sing together, let us sing together,
One
and all a joyous song.
Let
us sing together; one and all a joyous song.
Let
us sing again and again, let us sing again and again,
Let
us sing again and again, one and all a joyous song.
Sing, Sing a Song
– The Carpenters
Sing, sing a
song
Sing out loud, sing out strong
Sing of good things not bad
Sing of happy not sad
Sing, sing a song
Make
it simple to last your whole life long
Don't worry that it's not good enough
For anyone else to hear
Just sing, sing
a song
La la la la la
La la la la la la...
Sing, sing a song
Let the world sing along
Sing of love
there could be
Sing for you and for me
Sing, sing a song
Make it simple to last your whole life long
Don't
worry that it's not good enough
For anyone else to hear
Just sing, sing a song
Just sing, sing a song
Just sing,
sing a song
La la la la la
La la la la la la...
Do-Re-Mi – Rodgers & Hammerstein
Let's start at the very beginning
A very good place to
start
When you read you begin with A B C
When you sing you begin with Do Re Mi
Do Re Mi, Do Re Mi
The first three
notes just happen to be
Do Re Mi, Do Re Mi
Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti
Doe, a deer, a female deer
Ray, a drop of golden sun
Me,
a name I call myself
Far, a long long way to run
Sew, a needle pulling thread
La, a note to follow So
Tea, a drink
with jam and bread
That will bring us back to Do, oh oh oh
Doe, a deer, a female deer
Ray, a drop of golden sun
Me,
a name I call myself
Far, a long long way to run
Sew, a needle pulling thread
La, a note to follow so
Tea, a drink
with jam and bread
That will bring us back to
Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do, So Do
All things shall perish from
under the sky;
Music alone shall live, music
alone shall live,
Music alone shall live, never
to die.
Listen to the Earth; it's
singing to me.
Hear all nature's harmony.
Waterfalls and raindrops,
wind and sea.
Sing the song of the Earth
to me.
Drums:
Drum drum, drum drum drum drum, drum drum drum
Clarinets:
Yea,
o yea, O yea, o yea o yea
Flutes:
La la la...
Oom-pah-pah
(Four times, then add #2)
(This is the engine running the
carousel)
Oom-sss-sss
(Four times, then add #3)
(This is the steam from the engine)
Oom-tiddle-dee-dee
(Four times, then add #4)
(These are the penny whistles)
Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
(This is the organ)
(Groups are phased out in reverse
order)
(Divide your group into sections; each one takes a different verse. Imagine you're building up the
sounds of one of those old-fashion steam driven carousels!)
Leader - Ach
ven de musica
All - Deutches Faderlander
Leader
- Ach von spielen
All - Ach
von spielen
Leader - Ich-en-bee-en-sumba-za
All - Zumba,
zumba, zumba, za (4 times)
(make an action as though playing a bass fiddle)
Leader - Ach
ven de musica
All - Deutches Faderlander
Leader - Ach von spielen
All - Ach
von spielen
Leader - Ich-en-bee-en-viola
All - Vio-vio-viola
(4 times)
(make an action as though playing a violin)
Zumba,
zumba, zumba, za (4 times)
(make an action as though playing a bass fiddle)
Other
Verses (make up appropriate actions)
Picolo-la
Trumpet-ta
Piano-la
Once an Austrian went yodeling on a mountain so high.
When along came a cuckoo bird interrupting his cry.
Yoooo-de-yo
Yodel-lay-hee, Yodel-lay-a-cuckoo, coo (3X)
Yodel lay-hee-hoo.
An Austrian went yodeling on a mountain so high.
When along
came an avalanche interrupting his cry.
Yoooo-de-yo
Yodel-lay-hee, Yodel-lay-a-cuckoo, coo, swish (3X)
Yodel lay-hee-hoo.
Add the following in succession:
St. Bernard……….Dog panting sounds
Dairy Maid……….Swish, swish
Pretty Girl………Kiss,
Kiss
Actions:
Yoooo-de-yo
(rapidly slap knees)
Yodel-lay-hee-hoo (Slap thighs, Clap hands, snap fingers throughout the chorus)
Cuckoo coo (snap
fingers)
Swoosh
(swoop hands downward).
Grrr (hands up like bear claws)
Arf,
arf (hands up like dog begging)
Tss, tss (pantomime milking cow)
Smack, smack (make kissing sound)
Characters:
Narrator
Mrs. Melody, a pianist
Do
Re
Mi
Fa
Sol
La
Ti
Do
Setting:
The Musical Notes are lined
up facing audience. A chair is set in front of them. A few items which indicate a musical theme, such as instruments or sheet
music, may be set in the background.
Narrator:
Ladies,
we would like you to see and hear an exciting story.
The
story is about eight young musical notes who lived inside a piano.
(Gesture
to Notes who briefly and awkwardly jump up and down in unison.)
Their
names are Do, Re, Me, Fa, Sol, La, Ti and Do. As you can see, the Notes are all played at the same time; they had not as yet
learned to take turns playing.
(Notes
again jump in unison)
Our
story is also about Mrs. Melody, a world-famous pianist.
(Gesture
to Mrs. Melody who enters, bows to audience, sits in chair facing Notes.)
Narrator:
One
day Mrs. Melody sat down to play a lovely piece of music.
(Mrs.
Melody pretends to play by striking an imaginary keyboard. As the Musical Notes awkwardly jump up and down, more or less in
unison, an actual off stage pianist plays a few notes in disharmony.)
Narrator:
(Dismayed.)
What
is this? What has happened?
This
isn’t a lovely song.
(To
Mrs. Melody.)
Mrs.
Melody. Please try again.
(Mrs.
Melody again plays with the same discordant result.)
Narrator:
(To
Audience)
Perhaps
Mrs. Melody has not shown the musical notes how to take turns.
(To
Mrs. Melody)
Mrs.
Melody did you notice that all the notes played at the same time? Perhaps you should show them how to take turns. Once they
know how to be take-turners, I am sure we will have a lovely song.
(Mrs.
Melody nods. As she taps each note, one at a time and going upscale, the notes jump up in turn. The off stage pianist taps
notes accordingly. The action is then repeated downscale.)
Narrator:
(Pleased)
Now
that they are take-turners, I am sure we will have a lovely song. Try again, Mrs. Melody.
(Mrs.
Melody plays a slow piece as the notes jump up and down. Note: They jump in any order and not in unison, much as actual notes
might move. The result is a melody!)
Narrator:
(Brightly)
And
that is just about the end of our story. The take-turners have learned how to make a merry melody by taking turns. So they
play
(Music plays as Notes happily jump in rapid movements.)
And
play, and play.
(As
music ends, all bow and exit.)
I
don't know but I've been told,
All
Girl Guides are good as gold.
I
am one, and I say it's true,
Guiding's
great for me and you.
Chorus:
Sound
off: 1, 2,
Sound
off: 3, 4.
Bring
it on down: 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4
Sparks
wear clothes the colour of pink,
They
are Guiding's first strong link.
They
are cute and they are sweet
Sparkie
girls are fun to meet.
Brownies
have an orange tie
They're
second level, me oh my.
They
wear a uniform that's brown.
Their
big smiles can erase a frown.
Girl
Guide level is the next,
Blue
is the colour that we expect.
They
say that camping is big fun,
And
they earn badges one by one.
Pathfinders
care a lot,
Their
service projects hit the spot.
Green
ties are the emblem that they wear,
The
Girl Guide promise they're proud to swear.
Senior
Branches are red, navy, gold,
They
are Girl Guides on the go.
With
many and widening chances to soar,
Some
Girl Guides go overseas and more.
Leaders
wear no ties at all
They
come all sizes, big and small.
They
share their time and talents too.
They
make Girl Guiding great for you.
I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing – B. Backer, B. Davis, R. Cook &
R. Greenaway
I'd like to
build the world a home
And furnish it with love
Grow apple trees and honey bees
And snow white turtle doves
I'd
like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
I'd like to hold it in my arms
And keep it company
I'd
like to see the world for once
All standing hand in hand
And hear them echo through the hills
For peace throughout
the land
That's the song I hear
Let the world sing today
A song of peace
That echoes on
And never goes
away
I'd like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
I'd like to teach the world to sing
In perfect
harmony
I'd like to build the world a home
And furnish it with love
Grow apple trees and honey bees
And snow
white turtle doves
I'd like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony
I'd like to hold it in my arms
And
keep it company
Sound of Music – Rodgers & Hammerstein
The hills are alive
With the sound of music
With songs they have sung
For a
thousand years
The hills fill my heart
With the sound of music
My heart wants to sing ev'ry song it hears
My
heart wants to beat like the wings of the birds
That rise from the lake to the trees
My heart wants to sigh like a chime
that flies
From a church on a breeze
To laugh like a brook when it trips and falls
Over stones on its way
To
sing through the night
Like a lark who is learning to prey
I go to the hills
When my heart is lonely
I know
I will hear
What I've heard before
My heart will be blessed
With the sound of music
And I'll sing once more
I Believe in Music – Mac Davis
I could just sit around making music all day long.
As long as I'm making my music,
ain't gonna do nobody no harm.
And who knows, maybe I'll come up with a song
To make people want to stop all their fussing
and fighting
Long enough to sing along.
Chorus:
I believe in music.
Oh, I believe in love.
And I believe in music.
Oh,
I, I believe in love.
Music is love, and love is music, if you know what I mean.
People who believe in music
are the happiest people I've ever seen.
So clap your hands and stomp your feet and shake your tambourine,
And lift your
voices to the sky; tell me what you see.
Music is the universal language, and love is the key
To peace, hope, and understanding,
and living in harmony.
So grab your sister by the hand, let's sing along with me,
And lift your voices to the sky; tell
me what you see.
As I go to sleep tonight,
Jesus with me stay
Till the touch of morning light
Welcomes the new day.
Day is done
Gone the sun
From the lake,
From the hills,
From the sky,
All is well
Safely rest
God is nigh.
Keep on singing
Don't stop singing
You're
gonna be a star someday
You're gonna make a lot of people happy
When they come to hear you play
They said keep on
singin'
Keep the bells a ringin'
Spread the music from town to town
There's not enough song in this old world
So
spread your song around