We Change the World
When I learned this song, we learned not just the English lyrics but also the hand motions for the song in American Sign Language. We would sing the song while signing it. Our association all-camp weekends we would sing it, but I don’t remember ever singing it with the ASL at our Council’s summer camps, so I don’t know where adding the ASL came from. Perhaps for a deaf scout that was just part of the association in our small city. If you know the ASL that goes along, please share diagrams or videos!
Change the world, come with me
Time to let our dreams fly free.
And it comes so easily, that is our way.
Every moment we’re alive, it’s our love that will survive,
In the Girl Scouts, together, We Change The World.
Sisters of every color, and friends from everywhere.
We all make the difference, when we show the world we care.
The Girl Scouts are our family,
And they show us what we can be
And I believe, together, We Change The World.
Change the world, come with me
Time to let our dreams fly free.
And it comes so easily, that is our way.
Every moment we’re alive, it’s our love that will survive,
In the Girl Scouts, together, We Change The World.
In a world with many faces, Girl Scouts find a way
To help in many places, along the trails we blaze.
We’ll light the light and do our share,
Reach out your hand and someone’s there,
And I believe, together, We Change The World.
Change the world, come with me
Time to let our dreams fly free.
And it comes so easily, that is our way.
Every moment we’re alive, it’s our love that will survive,
In the Girl Scouts, together, We Change The World.
Johnny Appleseed
With this song, we often changed the word Lord to Earth for the various religions and non-religious girls in the group. It works just as well. I always substituted “earth” and got along just fine. To me, it actually makes more sense that way!
The Lord is good to me, and so I thank the Lord,
For giving me the things I need,
The sun and the rain and the appleseed,
The Lord is good to me.
And every seed that grows, shall grow into a tree.
And one day soon there’ll be apples there,
For everyone in the world to share,
The Lord is good to me.
The Little Green Frog
There are a lot of great movements associated with this song. You can continue to sing the song faster or louder until it gets out of control. We also knew this song sometimes as MMM ACK Since most of the “EH”s were pronounced more like ACK.
- Make frog eyes with hands next to head and open and close them when saying MMMM, EH
- Swing hands in circle on hips for TRA LA LA LA LA
- Honk truckers horn (pull down on an imaginary string with your arm bent 90 degrees) on HONK HONK
- Lick hand when the Frog gets licked up
MMMM, EH Went the little green frog one day
MMMM, EH Went the little green frog
MMMM, EH Went the little green frog one day
and they all went MMMM, EH
WEELLLL, we all know frogs go..
TRA LA LA LA LA
TRA LA LA LA LA
TRA LA LA LA LA
we all know frogs go
TRA LA LA LA LA
they dont go MMMM, MMMM, EH!
HONK! HONK! went the big red truck one day
SPLIT, SPLAT! went the little green frog
Now the little green frog dont MMMM. EH no more
cuz he got licked up by a dog *slurping noise*
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Linger
One of my favorite songs for closing campfire! To this day it still brings back memories of that last night at camp, wanting to linger all summer and not wanting to say goodbye to new friends. Even worse, that last night after working the whole summer as a counselor and really not wanting to go back to real life after 2 1/2 magical months in nature!
Mmm Mmm I want to linger,
Mmm Mmm a little longer,
Mmm Mmm a little longer here with you.Mmm Mmm it’s such a perfect night,
Mmm Mmm it’s doesn’t seem quite right,
Mmm Mmm that this she be my last with you.Mmm Mmm and come September,
Mmm Mmm we’ll still remember,
Mmm Mmm our camping days and friendship true.Mmm Mmm and as the years go by,
Mmm Mmm I’ll think of you and sigh,
Mmm Mmm this is good night and not goodbye.Mmm Mmm I want to linger,
Mmm Mmm a little longer,
Mmm Mmm a little longer here with you.
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Girl Scouts Together
This might be one of the first songs ever taught when you join Girl Scouts! This song was actually an Honorable Mention from the Girl Scout Nation Song Contest in 1941. Way to go, Gladys Cornwall Goff!
Girl Scouts together, That is our song,
Winding the old trails, rocky and long.
Leaning our motto, living our creed,
Girl Scouts together in every good deed.Girl Scouts together, Happy are we,
Friendly to neighbors far over the sea,
Faithful to country, loyal to home,
Known as true Girl Scouts wherever we roam.
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Whene’er You Make a Promise
This might have very well been one of the first songs I learned as a Brownie. It’s a classic Girl Scout song that we sang all the way through Senior scouts. It’s a very short song, but lovely. It’s sometimes sung in a four-part round.
Whene’er you make a promise,
Consider well it’s importance
And when made,
Engrave it upon your heart.
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