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Since the 1930s, the song has been popular with Scouts and Girl Guides. Its origin is unclear. Its origin is unclear. It is sung regularly at Canadian Scout and Guide camps, including Doe Lake , Camp Maple Leaf , Camp Wenonah (co-educational camp) and Camp Peaceful Waters in Quebec's lower Laurentians .
"The Other Day I Met a Bear" is one of the songs sung by Barney the dinosaur on the 1990 children's video Campfire Sing-along except it was shortened to 4 stanzas instead of 10. On Barney & Friends, the tune was used for The Exercise Song. The 2007 album For the Kids Three! includes a version of the song by Barenaked Ladies. [3]
The song is a parody that complains about the fictional "Camp Granada" and is set to the tune of Amilcare Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours, from the opera La Gioconda. [1] The name derives from the first lines: Hello Muddah, hello Fadduh. Here I am at Camp Granada. Camp is very entertaining. And they say we'll have some fun if it stops raining.
Many Scouting, Girl Scouts and Guiding groups around the world sing the first verse of "Taps" ("Day is done ...") at the close of a camp or campfire. Scouts in encampment may also have the unit's bugler sound taps once the rest of the unit has turned in, to signify that the day's activities have concluded and that silence is expected in the ...
[4] In 1931, Elmira, New York, newspaper the Star-Gazette reported that at a Boy Scout gathering at Seneca Lake, as scouts entered the mess hall, "Troop 18 soon burst into the first camp song, 'John Jacob Jingleheimer Smith'." [5] A 1941 Milwaukee Journal article also refers to the song, with the same alternate title of "John Jacob Jingleheimer ...
After early adoption by the Scandinavian Scout organisations, the song became eventually (starting in the 1940s and 1950s) a global hit among Scouts. The Ging Gang melody is today the same as in 1905, whereas the spelling of the lyrics has changed in translations. The 1905 lyrics: Hinkan, kolikolikolikolifejsan / Kinkan koh, kinkan koh
This is a repeat after me song (This is a repeat after me song) The Princess Pat (The Princess Pat) Light Infantry (Light Infantry) She sailed across (She sailed across) The seven seas (The seven seas) She sailed across (She sailed across) The channel two (The channel two) And took with her (And took with her) A Ric-A-Dam-Doo. (A Ric-A-Dam-Doo)
One version of the lyrics, [2] for two groups of singers, is Group 1: boom-da, boom-da, boom-da (repeated to chorus) Group 2: Sarasponda, sarasponda, sarasponda ret set set Sarasponda, sarasponda, sarasponda ret set set All (chorus): Ah do ray oh, ah do ray boomday oh Ah do ray boomday ret set set Ah say pa say oh. Refrain starting at Group 2