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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.
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
Campfire Songs is one of only three Animal Collective-related releases (the others being 2007's Strawberry Jam and 2012's Centipede Hz) to include a booklet with full lyrics. The original Catsup Plate version of the album went out of print in 2008, and was reissued by Paw Tracks Records on January 26, 2010. [10]
The Carter Family learned of the song from A. P. Carter's uncle who was a music teacher, and they recorded the song in Camden, New Jersey in 1928. "Keep on the Sunny Side" became their theme song on the radio in later years. A.P. Carter's tombstone has a gold record of the song embedded in it. [2] [3]
Land of the Silver Birch" (Roud 4550) is a traditional Canadian folk song that dates from the 1920s. The lyrics are sometimes erroneously attributed to Pauline Johnson, perhaps in confusion with her well-known poem, "The Song My Paddle Sings". [1] It is sometimes sung to keep time while canoeing, and sometimes sung at campfires in a round.
The piece became a standard campfire song in Scouting and summer camps and enjoyed broader popularity during the folk revival of the 1950s and 1960s. In American politics , the song title gave rise to the phrase " sing Kumbaya ", denoting unrealistic, excessively optimistic attempts at compromise .
The Bear Went Over the Mountain" is a campfire song sung to the tune of For He's a Jolly Good Fellow, [1] which, in turn, got its melody from the French tune Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre (Marlborough is going to war). The public domain lyrics are of unknown origin. Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his 1961 album 101 Gang Songs.
The album includes an illustrated 32-page book with the lyrics and chords to every song to inspire living room sing-alongs. Their most recent album, released in March 2023, is called Brambletown. The album is a 17-song collection that celebrates a fantastical place where “critters can talk, trees can walk and nothing’s as it seems.”