American Camping Association - Tent and Trail Songs

Tent and Trail Songs

An American Camp Association Book

2012 American Camping Association, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States.

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ISBN: 978-1-60679-182-0
Library of Congress Control Number: 2011932961

Book layout: Angela Stucky for Bean Creek Studio
Cover design: Bean Creek Studio
Front cover photo: Jupiterimages
Back cover photo: Stockbyte

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Sun, Stars, and Singing

There can be a forest without deer and a woods path without songbirds. There can be a dark pool without a bass and a green lawn without a red robin. And there can be a camp without music, a campfire without a song.

But a singing camp is a place where you find other signs of good campership too: nature walks that are more than identification lectures, crafts that are more than busywork, vespers that are more than mumbled readings, and all-camp evenings that are more than a string of stunts and contests.

In such a camp, eyes and ears may be a little more open to catch the subtle teachings of the wide out-of-doors. In such a camp, counselors are likely to be more tent-mates than distant idols to the campers, and a sport somehow turns into a game of living, instead of a means of our guys making losers out of your guys. On such a camp, the sun shines down with a friendly and special warmth.

On such a camp, the great sapphire eye of Vega beams with a special meaning, for Vega, highest and brightest star of the summer sky, is the harp star, the star of music.

Let singing spring up in camp like grass underfootall kinds of singing: singing at flag-raising, singing at meals, singing at work, play, hiking, and canoeing, singing at sundown, vespers, and campfire, or just singing under a quiet tree. If that kind of singing comes into your camp, some other things will come along with it. Its worth finding a good songbook for!

Max V. Exner

TENT AND TRAIL SONGS-WAKE UP

Katherine Davis

Slovakian Folk Song

*Other voices may enter for a 2-part round.

From Ten Folk Songsand Ballads 193, E.C. Schirmer. By permission

Psalm 113:3

Eng. by M.V.E.

Rise and Shine

4-part round

Max Exner

The "hold" signs indicate the final notes of the parts when ending all together

Hop Out of Bed

3-part round

Ludwig Schuster

Paul Shoner

Kee lee lye ya

Oklahoma Indian Chant

Sung by Mary Margaret Edmondson, Dallas, Texas

Morning Song

Las Maanitas

Trans. by Olcutt and Phyllis Sanders

Mexican Fold Song

Morning Song

First stanza and chorus adapted from Janet E. Tobitt.

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To the Colors

Chapter 2: To the Colors

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TENT AND TRAIL SONGS-TO THE COLORS

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America

Samuel F. Smith, 1832

English, c. 1740

America

God of Our Fathers

National Hymn

Daniel Crane Roberts

George W Warren

God of Our Fathers

America the Beautiful

Katharine Lee Bates

Tune: Materna

O beautiful for spacious skies,

For amber waves of grain,

For purple mountain majesties

Above the fruited plain.

America! America!

God shed His grace on thee,

And crown thy good with brotherhood

From sea to shining sea.

O beautiful for patriot dream

That sees beyond the years

Thine alabaster cities gleam

Undimmed by human tears.

America! America!

God shed His grace on thee,

And crown thy good with brotherhood

From sea to shining sea.

Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory

1. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord,
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on.

Chorus:
Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on.

2. He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat;