Posts Tagged "Girl Scout Pocket Songbook"
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.
Buy the Girl Scout Pocket Songbook here for full sheet music.
Rise Up O Flame
Rise Up O Flame is a great song to sing at any camp out as the fire is being lit. It’s intended to be sung in an eight-part round, but we usually just cut it off once the fire was nice and roaring. If it took too long, sometimes we’d sing it until we were sick of it or we’d usually cut it off and start it up again once the counselors broke to figure out why the dang fire wasn’t lighting! There was a superstition I was told about as a young scout that if you didn’t sing the song, you’d have problems lighting the fire. My “research” did not bear this out, but it’s a nice tale for the campers!
Rise up, O Flame by thy light glowing,
Show to us beauty, vision and joy.
Buy the Girl Scout Pocket Songbook here for full sheet music.
Make New Friends
Interestingly, in doing my research I found another verse to this song that I’d never been taught! We always just sang the first verse in our meetings, and even in going away to Girl Scout camp, I never learned another version. I wonder if this is a regional thing? If you know, please share!
Make new friends, but keep the old,
One is silver and the other’s gold.
A circle’s round, it has no end,
That’s how long I want to be your friend.Friendships come and friendships go,
But we’ll be together, this I know.
You’ll need me and I’ll need you,
And together we will make it through.
Buy the Girl Scout Pocket Songbook here for full sheet music.
