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TROOP 45 SONG SHEET #1

(1) PATSY OREY AY

Eighteen hundred & fifty one, American Railroad just begun American Railroad just begun Workin' on the railroad

Chorus: Pat-sy-o-ree-o-ree-ay

(three times) Workin' on the railroad

1852 looking around for someting to do

1853 railroad company hired me

1854 found my back was mighty sore

1855 found myself on the way more dead than alive

1856 found I had stepped on a pile of dynamite sticks

1857 found myself on the way to heaven

1858 pickin' the lock on the pearly gate

1859 floating around on a cloud sublime

Eighteen hundred & fifty ten,

Let's go back and do it again.

(2) RISE AND SHINE

Rise and shine and give God your glory, glory (three times) Children of the Lord.

1

The Lord said to Noah there's gonna be a f100dy-f100dy (twice) Get your children out of the muddy, muddy, Children of the Lord.

2

So Noah, he built him, he built him an arky, arky (twice) He made it out of Hic'ry barky, barky, Children of the Lord.

3

The animals they came,they came, by twosy, twosy (twice) Elephants and Kangaroozy, roozy, Children of the Lord.

4

It rained and rained for forty daysy, daysy (twice) It almost drove those animals crazy, crazy, Children of the Lord.

(3) HAIL, HAIL, SCOUTING SPIRIT

Hail, Hail Scounting Spirit Best in the land Hail, hail, Scouting Spirit United we stand Onward and upward we're treading Always alert to make Scouting ready We are prepared Hail, Hail Scouting Spirit Uai1, Hail, Hail.

(4} TAPS

Day is done ••• gone the sun From the lake, from the hill From the sky' All is we11---safe1y rest

God is nigh.

(5) YOU ARE MY SUNSHINE

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine You make me happy when skies are grey You'll never know, dear, how much I love you Please don't take my sunshine away.

The other night, dear, when I lay sleeping I dreamed I held you in my arms When I awoke, dear, ' I was mistaken, And I hung my head and I cried.

(Chorus)

(6) ON MY HONOR

On my honor, I'll do my best, to do my duty ' to God. On my honor, I'll do my best, to serve my country as I may. On my honor, I'll do my best, to do my good turn each day, to keep my body strengthened, to keep my mind awakened, to follow paths of rightousness. On my honor, I'll do my best.

(7) GREEN GROW THE RUSHES HO

I'll sing you one ho Green grow the rushes ho What is your one ho One is one and all alone and evermore shall be it so.

I'll sing you two ho Green grow the rushes hOe What is your two hOe Two, two the lily white boys Clothed and all in green ho One is one and all alone and evermore shall be it so.

I'll sing you three ho Gree grow the rushes ho What is your three ho Three, three the rivals, Hey, two, two the lily white boys

etc.

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Five for the cymbals at your door Six for the six proud walkers Seven for the seven stars in the sky Eight for the April rainers , Nine for the nine bright shiners Ten for the Ten Commandments Eleven for the eleven who went to heaven Twelve for the twelve apostles.

(8) VIVE L'AMOUR

Let every good fellow now join in a song Vive La compagnie Success to each other and pass it along Vive 1a compagnie

Vive la, vive la, vive l'amour Vive la, vive la, vive l'amour Vive l'amour, vive l'amour Vive la Compagnie

A friend on your left, and a friend on your right, (Vive la compagnie) In love and good fellowship let us unite (Vive 1a compagnie)

Let every good fellow now raise up his glass (Vive la compagnie) And drink to the health of his favorite lass (Vive la compagnie)

Let every good fellow now drink to his wife (Vive la compagnie) Success to his marriag~, the wreck of his life (Vive la compagnie)

Should time on occasion compel us to part (Vive 1a compagnie) These days shall forever enliven our hearts (Vive la compagnie).

(9) BILLY HO

There was a man by the name of Billy Ho He had a goat and that was all

One day this goat was feelin fine Ate six red shirts, right off the line, First Billy cursed, and then he swore That this darn goat, would eat no more. .

He took him by, his wooly back And he tied him to, the railroad track.

The big black train, was coming by, and this poor goat, was sure to die.

He gave three shrieks, in mortal pain Coughed up those shirts, and flagged the train.

The engineer stopped, got out to see, What this strange sight, on the tracks could be.

And when he saw, it was a goat, He took his knife and slit his throat.

Now this poor/goat, was surely dead, He went to heaven, without his head.

When he got there, St. Peter said, Tell me poor goat, Where is your head?

The goat replied, I cannot tell, It must have gone, straight down to ••••

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(10) TITANIC

Oh they built the ship Titanic, To sail the ocean blue And they said it was a ship That the sea could never pass through It was on her maiden trip That an iceberg hit the ship It was said when the great ship went down .

Chorus : It was sad, so sad, it was s ad, so sad, It was sad when the great ship went down to the bottom of the , Husbands and wives, little children l ost their lives It was sad when the great ship went down .

It wa s near the English shore, 'bout a thousand miles or more, When the rich refused to associate with the poor SQ they put them down below Where they were the first to go It was sad when the great ship went down. (Chorus)

Little children wept and cried As the waves swept over the side And the band on deck played "Lord with Me Abide". Oh the heroes saved the weak as the ship began to leak, It was sad when the great ship went down. (Chorus)

Now the morale that we gain, Of all this woe and pain Is that if you're rich you should not be so vain For in the good Lord's eyes, You're the same as other guys It was sad when the great ship went down. (Chorus)

(11) BORIS

Boris was a gentleman in the Czars regime Boris was a gentleman although it did not seem. Boris had a lady friend, Her name was Miss Louine And often on the coldest nights, She'd wake right up and scream

Chorus : Boris, Boris, save me, save me, From the Kossacks at my heels. Hey, Hey, Hey~ Boris, Boris, save me, save me, there are only two more reels.

Boris came a riding on a horse playing on the fiddle, Boris on the horse, sagging in the middle Twas the horis, not Boris Playing on the fiddle. (Chorus)

(12) MERMAID SONG

Twas Friday night when we set sail And we were not far from the land When the captain spyed a pretty mermaid With a comb and a brush in her hand.

Chorus: On the ocean waves may roll And the balmy breezes may blow While we poor sailors Go skipping through the tops And the land lubbers lie down below, below, below While the land lubbers lie down below.

Then up spoke the captain of our gallant ship And a well spoken captain was he. I have me a wife in Salem Town And tonite a widow she will be.

Then up spoke the cookie of our gallant ship And a red hot cookie was he. I care much more for my pots and my pans Than I do for the bottom of the sea.

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For three times around went our gallant ship And three times around went she. And three times around went our gallant ship, And she sunk to the bottom of the sea.

(13) PICK A BALE OF COTTON

I'm gonna jump down, turn around Pick a bale of cotton Jump down, turn around, pick a bale of hay Jump down turn around, pick a bale of cotton Jump down turn around pick a bale of hay.

Chorus: Oh Lordy, Pick a bale of cotton Oh Lordy, pick a bale of hay Oh Lordy, pick a bale of cotton Oh Lordy, pick a bale a day.

Me and my wife are gonna pick a bale of cotton, etc.

Pick,pick, pick, pick, pick a bale of cotton, etc.

(14) DUNDERBECK

In a satre at Palamore, there lived a mean old man His name was Mr. Dunderbeck and he could surely can, The place was filled with cats and dogs and ringtai1ed rats a few, So Dunderbeck he made , a machine to grind them all to stew.

Chorus; Oh Dunderbeck, Oh Dunderbeck how could you be so mean, To ever 'have invented a sausage meat machine Now all the rats and pussy cats will never more be seen They'll al1 ' be ground to sausage meat in Dunderbeck's machine.

One day a boy came walking, a-walking in the store And bought a pound of sausages and put them on the floor The boy began a whistle, and he whistled up a tune And all the little sausages went dancing 'round the room.

One day the darn thing busted, the darn thing wouldn't go And Dunderbeck climbed into it, the reason for to know His wife was having a nightmare, and was walking in h~r sleep, The she gave the crank a-heck-of a yank, and Dunderbeck was meat.

(15) SIPPING CIDER

The prettiest girl I ever sa\07 Was sippin' cider through a straw

(Repeat every stanza)

I said to her, whatche doin' that for, A-sippin' cider through a straw

She said to me, why don't you know, that sippin' cider's all I know.

Then cheek to cheek, and jaw to jaw, we both sipped sider through a straw.

And sudden-ly, the straw did slip, And we sipped cider lip to lip.

That's how I got, My mother-in­law, A-sippin' cider through a straw.

Now forty-nine kids, all call me paw, From sippin' cider through a straw.

Now boys and girls, take my advice And don't sip cider through a straw.

That's al~ there is, there ain't no more, From sippin' cider through a straw.

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(16) I KNOW AN OLD LADY

I know an old lady who swallowed a fly I don't know why she swallowed the fly Perhaps she'll die. I know an old lady who swallowed a spider It wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her She swallowed the spider to catch the fly I don't know why she swallowed the fly Perhaps she'll die. I know an old lady who swallowed a bird How absurd she swallowed a bird She swallowed the bird to catch ..•...•. (etc.)

Imagine that she swallowed a cat What a hog she swallowed a dog She opened her throat and swallowed a goat I don't know how she swallowed a cow.

I know an old lady who swallowed a horse She's dead of course~~~~~~~

(17) TRAIL THE EAGLE

Trail the Eagle, trail the Eagle Climbing all the time

. First the Star, and then the Life, Will on our bosom shine ••... keep climbing~ Blaze the trail and we will follow Hark~ the Eagle's call, On, brothers, on until we're ~agle' s all ~