Campfire Planning Sheet

PROMOTE PARTICIPATION, FUN & FRIENDSHIP

 

Date:	January ____, 2014
Campfire Leader:	___________________________________
Campfire Theme:	Sing, Sing a Song!
Time Allowed:	45 - 60 minutes
Official Opening:	Love for the Music – Waldo Garcia
	Let Us Sing Together (4-Part Round)
Well Known Songs:	Sing, Sing a Song – The Carpenters
	Do-Re-Me – Rodgers & Hammerstein
Round Songs:	Music Alone Shall Live (3-Part Round)
	Listen to the Earth (4-Part Round) – Dorothy Lind
Part Songs:	Orchestra (3-Part Song)
	Merry-Go-Round (4-Part Song)
Action Songs:	Ach Ven de Musica - Germany
	An Austrian Went Yodelling - Austria
Skit:	The Take Turners
Rousing Song:	All Girl Guides
Quieter Songs:	I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing – The New Seekers
	Sound of Music – Rodgers & Hammerstein
Reflection:	I Believe in Music – Mac Davis
Vespers & Taps:	As I Go to Sleep (2-Part Round)
	Taps

 

 

 

 

 

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
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...

 

 

 

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 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

 

 

 

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 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