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Lacking "a common fund of song", Ince founded a "Song Book Committee" [2] and in December 1921, the first edition of the new song book was printed. It was a soft-covered pocket-sized book in the traditional Songster format [ 3 ] and included a mix of folk and popular songs, together with some hymns and items composed specifically for Scouts.
Camp songs or campfire songs are a category of folk music traditionally sung around a campfire for entertainment. Since the advent of summer camp as an activity for children, these songs have been identified with children's songs, although they may originate from earlier traditions of songs popular with adults.
[citation needed] The earliest documented reference is The Hackney Scout Song Book (Stacy & Son Ltd, 1921). It also appears in The Oxford Song Book, Vol.2, Collected and arranged by Thomas Wood (Oxford University Press, 1927). The song has a simple repetitive structure. [1] [2]
This was the first championship to be held under the open draw. Maol Muire Tynan later to become a prominent journalist, played in goal as Kilkenny defeated Tipperary| 1–7 to 1–1 in the new open draw quarter-final at Gowran. Tipperary failed to score in the second half as Carmel Doyle scored Kilkenny’s goal.
Ives had a long-standing relationship with the Boy Scouts of America. He was a Lone Scout before that group merged with the Boy Scouts of America in 1924. [5] The collection of his papers at the New York Library for the Performing Arts includes a photograph of Ives being "inducted" into the Boy Scouts in 1966. [6]
The woggle was first created in the early 1920s by Bill Shankley, a member of the Gilwell staff. [6] He produced a two-strand Turk's head slide which was adopted as the official woggle. From 1943 to 1989, the Gilwell woggle was awarded on the completion of Basic Training, and the Gilwell scarf and the Wood Badge beads were awarded on the ...
"Sarasponda" is a children's nonsense song that has been considered a popular campfire song. It is often described to be a spinning song, that is, a song that would be sung while spinning at the spinning wheel.
Scouting for Boys: A handbook for instruction in good citizenship is a book on Boy Scout training, published in various editions since 1908. Early editions were written and illustrated by Robert Baden-Powell with later editions being extensively rewritten by others.