Camp Walden Canada Songbook

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SongbookPass the Music On

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Front Cover (Page 1)Back Cover (Page 24)


Some Thoughts from Ted

Singing and camp have gone together since I first started my

own camping days. At its best, group singing represents the

unity, spirit, fun, friendship, and just plain feeling good that the

“sing-song” experience gives to so many campers and staff each

summer.

Since the first days of Walden, back in the summer of 1970, we

have been a singing camp. Our campers and staff have always

looked forward to the various types of sing-songs and serious

concerts that have been done with them during their stays at

camp.

I believe that singing is as important to the over-all camp pro-

gram as any other activity. I also believe that young people

should be exposed to as many different kinds of music as pos-

sible. With these beliefs firmly entrenced, I expanded my own

repetoire and taught and introduced lots of new songs and mu-

sic to Walden.

The seeds of the Pass the Music On Project were planted many

years ago by any number of our Walden family. They thought it

would be a great idea to have a recording of Walden music as

one of their camp memories.

“W” – That’s the Way it Begins(Honickman, Brown, Cole)

Chorus:W, that's the way it begins

A, that's the second letter in

L, that is the third

D, in the middle of the word

E, now we're near the end

N, now lets say it again

W-A-L-D-E-N – That is the way you spell Walden

Walden is the place for me

It's the place we want to be

It's the best, of all the rest

Ted does it with slavery

Canoeing and Sailing and A&C

Lots of fun when we swim and ski



Inside Back Cover (Page 23)Inside Front Cover (Page 2)


HERE IT IS - done in one take only, with all its spirit, enthusasim,

serious moments, misplaced microphones, broken banjo strings,

singing off-key, clapping, whistling, shouting, singing too quickly

(or playing too slowly) and a just plain good time.

To those of you who will be coming to Walden for the first time, here

is an opportunity to learn some of our songs before you arrive at

camp. For those who have been coming to Walden for years, or are

former campers, here are a few memories for you to hold onto.

LET’S SING OUT- Ted Cole

This Land is Your Land(Woody Guthrie)

As I went walking that ribbon of highway

I saw above me that endless skyway

I saw below me that golden valley

This land was made for you and me

ChorusThis land is your land

This land is my land

From Bonavista

To the Vancouver Island

From the Arctic Circle

To the Great Lake Waters


I roamed and rambled

And I followed my footsteps

To the sparkling sands of

Her diamond desert

And all around me

A voice was sounding


Chorus

I saw each village

I saw each farm land

Their people smiling

Giving me a warm hand

And all around me




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Inch By Inch(Traditional)

Chorus:Inch by inch and row by row

Gonna make this garden grow

Gonna mulch it deep and low

Gonna make it fertile ground

Inch by inch and row by row

Please bless these seeds I sow

Please keep them safe below

'Till the rain comes a-tumblin' down

Verses:Digging weeds, picking stones

We are made of dreams and bones

Need a place to call my own

For the time is here at hand

Grain for grain, sun and rain

Find my way in natures chain

Tune my body and my brain

To the music of the land

Plant your rows short or long

Season with a cheerful song

Mother Earth will make you strong

If you give her love and care

There's an old crow watching from a tree

Got his hungry eye on me

In my garden, I'm as free

As that feathered bird up there

Pass the Music On Songbook

1. Pass the Music On2. Marching to Pretoria

3. Go Tell it on the Mountain4. Michael Row Your Boat Ashore

5. Rise and Shine6. Green Grass Grew All Around

7. If I had a Hammer8. I’ve been Working on the Railroad

9. My Old Man10. Green Grow the Rushes

11. Garbage12. For Our Hands are Strong

13. This Land is Your Land14. “W” – That’s the Way it Begins


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For Our Hands are Strong(Unknown)

For our hands are strong and our hearts are young

And the dreamer keeps-a-dreaming, keeps-a-dreaming along

What'd we do when we needed corn

We plowed and we sowed 'till the early morn (x2)

Chorus

What'd we do when we needed a town

We hammered and we nailed 'till the sun went down (x2)

Chorus

What do we do when it's peace we want

When it's more than a man can build or plant

We'll gather friends from the ends of the earth

To lend a hand at this hour of birth

We'll plow

We'll sow

We'll hammer and we'll nail

We'll work all day

'Till peace is real

Chorus


Page 5Page 20


Pass The Music On

I did not learn my music

At my parents knees

But from many singers

Some I never got to see

I know them from recordings

Their voices and their songs

I'm glad to be with you tonight to

Pass the Music On

Chorus:For the good times and the fun times

Through the laughter and the joy

These are songs of generations

I started singing as a boy

I still here that old time music

Of musicians now long gone

I am here tonight to

Pass the Music On

Now you know I'm not traditional

I've never claimed to be

But I come from a tradition

That others came from me

They're still alive inside me

Though some are now long gone

I'd like to think they trusted me to

Pass the Music On

(Chorus)

He gets home and takes off his shoes

He settles down with the evening news,

While the kids do homework with the TV in one ear

While Superman for the thousandth time

Sells talking dolls and conquers crime

Dutifully they learn the date of birth of Paul Revere.

The newspaper has a piece about

The mayor's middle name,

And he gets it read in time to watch the

Celebrity wrestling game

Chorus

What will we do when there's nothing left to wear

Nothing left to talk about

Nothing left to walk upon

Nothing left to ponder on

Nothing left to see

And nothing left to be

But Garbage!!!


Page 19Page 6


Bridge:Now most of the songs we'll sing tonight

I know that others wrote

And I learnt them in my heart

Instead of note by note

And now as I grow older

And new folk come along

I'll help them out the best I can

To Pass the Music On

(Chorus)

I've sung these songs with lots of folks

I never will forget

I've sung them with audiences

I have hardly met

So here we are together

We'll celebrate in song

We'll sing and play our parts tonight

And Pass the Music On

Garbage(M. Cooney)

Mr. Thompson calls the waiter

Orders steak and baked potato,

Then he leaves the bone and grizzle and he never eats the skin

The bus boy comes and takes it

With a cough, contaminates it

Then he puts it in a can with coffee grounds and sardine tins.

The truck comes by on Friday to take it all away

And a thousand trucks just like it are converging on the bay

Garbage - Garbage, Garbage, Garbage (x2)

They're filling up the sea with garbage


What will we do when there's nothing to drink but


Mr. Thompson starts his Cadillac and winds it up the freeway track

Leaving friends and neighbors in a hydro-carbon haze;

He's sending gases to the stars, there to hang around near mars

There they form a cloud that hangs for thirty days.

And the sun licks down upon it with an ultraviolet tongue.

And it forms a smog and settles down and ends up in our lungs, oh,

Chorus


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Marching to Pretoria(Traditional)

1. Sing with me

I'll sing with you

So we will sing together



(x2)

Chorus:We are Marching to Pretoria (Where!?)

Pretoria, Pretoria

We are Marching to Pretoria

Pretoria hoorah!

2. Laugh with me

3. Walk with me

4. Run with me

5. Sing with me


Page 17Page 8


Go Tell it on the Mountain(Traditional)

Chorus:Go Tell it on the Mountain

Over the hills and everywhere

Go Tell it on the Mountain

To let my people go!

Verse:Who's that yonder dressed in white? (Let my people go!)Must be the children of the Israelite (Let my people go!)Who's that yonder dressed in white?

Must be the children of the Israelite



Who's that yonder dressed in red? (Let my people go!)Must be the children that Moses led (Let my people go!)Who's that yonder dressed in red?

Must be the children that Moses led



Who's that yonder dressed in black? (Let my people go!)Must be the hypocrites turning back (Let my people go!)Who's that yonder dressed in black?

Must be the hypocrites turning back



Green Grow the Rushes(Traditional)

I'll sing you one ho, green grow the rushes ho (What is your one ho?)One is one and all alone and ever more shall be so.

I'll sing you two ho, green grow the rushes ho (What is your two ho?)Two, two the little white boys, clothed all in green O.

I'll sing you three ho, green grow the rushes ho (What is your threeho?)What is your three ho? Three, three arrivals.

Four for the gospel makers.

Five for the symbols 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.

Thirteen for the Bar Mitzvah.


Page 9Page 16


Michael Row Your Boat Ashore(Traditional)

Chorus:Michael Row The Boat Ashore, Hallelujah (x2)

Verses:Sister helped to trim the sails, Hallelujah

Sister helped to trim the sails, Hallelujah

Jordan's river is chilly and cold, Hallelujah

Chills the body but not the soul, Hallelujah

Jordan's river is deep and wide, Hallelujah

Greener pastures on the other side, Hallelujah

Michael's boat is a music boat, Hallelujah

Takes everybody singing to keep it afloat, Hallelujah

My Old Man(Traditional)

Chorus:And one day, if I can

I wanna be a sailor just like my old man

Now my old man is a sailor, now what do you think of that?

He wears a sailor's shirt and he wears a sailor's hat

He wears a sailor's pants and he wears a sailor's shoes

And every Sunday morning, he reads the sailor's news

Chorus

My old man is an anthropologist

My old man is a television repair man

My old man is a cotton-picken chicken plucker

My old man is a travel guide in the Brazilian pavilion

of the Canadian National Exhibition


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Rise and Shine(Traditional)

Chorus:Rise and shine and give God your glory, glory (x3)

Children of the Lord.

The Lord told Noah there's gonna be a floody, floody (x2)

Get your children out of the muddy muddy

Children of the Lord

Chorus

So Noah he built him, he built him an arky, arky (x2)

Built it out of hickory barky, barky


Chorus

The animals they marched in, they marched in by twoey, twoey (x2)

The elephants and kangarooy, rooy


Chorus

Well it rained and rained for forty daysy, daysy (x2)

Drove those counsellors crazy, crazy


Chorus

I’ve Been Working on the Railroad(Traditional)

I've been working on the railroad, all the live long day

I've been working on the railroad, just to pass the time away

Can't you hear the whistle blowing

Rise up so early in the morn


Dinah blow your horn

Dinah wont you blow (x2)Dinah wont you blow your horn

(x2)

Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah

Someone's in the kitchen I know


Strumming on the old banjo

And singing...

Fee fie fiddly eye o





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Green Grass Grew All Around(Traditional)

There's a tiny hole (there's a tiny hole)In the middle of the ground (in the middle of the ground)Oh, the cutest little hole (oh, the cutest little hole)That you ever did see (that you ever did see)

The hole's in the ground

And the green grass grew all around, all around

And the green grass grew all around

Now in that hole there was a little seed

Oh, the cutest little seed (oh, the cutest little seed)That you ever did see (that you ever did see)

Now the seeds in the hole

And the hole's in the ground



Verses: On that seed there was a little root

There was a little tree

There was a little trunk

There was a little limb

There was a little branch

There was a little twig

There was a little leaf

There was a little nest

There was a little bird

If I Had a Hammer(Pete Seeger)

If I had a hammer

I'd hammer in the morning

I'd hammer in the evening

All over this land

I'd hammer out danger

I'd hammer out warning

I'd hammer love

Between my brothers and my sisters

All over this land

If I had a bell

I'd ring it in the morning

I'd ring it in the evening

All over this land

I'd ring out danger

I'd ring out warning

I'd ring out love


All over this land

If I had a song

I'd sing it in the morning

I'd sing it in the evening

All over this land

I'd sing out danger

I'd sing out warning

I'd sing out love


All over this land

I've got a hammer

And I've got a bell

And I've got a song to sing

All over this land

It's the hammer of justice

It's the bell of freedom

It's the song about love between

my brothers and my sisters

All over this land


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Green Grass Grew All Around(Traditional)

There's a tiny hole (there's a tiny hole)In the middle of the ground (in the middle of the ground)Oh, the cutest little hole (oh, the cutest little hole)That you ever did see (that you ever did see)

The hole's in the ground



Now in that hole there was a little seed

Oh, the cutest little seed (oh, the cutest little seed)That you ever did see (that you ever did see)

Now the seeds in the hole

And the hole's in the ground



Verses: On that seed there was a little root

There was a little tree

There was a little trunk

There was a little limb

There was a little branch

There was a little twig

There was a little leaf

There was a little nest

There was a little bird

If I Had a Hammer(Pete Seeger)

If I had a hammer

I'd hammer in the morning

I'd hammer in the evening

All over this land

I'd hammer out danger

I'd hammer out warning

I'd hammer love


All over this land

If I had a bell

I'd ring it in the morning

I'd ring it in the evening

All over this land

I'd ring out danger

I'd ring out warning

I'd ring out love


All over this land

If I had a song

I'd sing it in the morning

I'd sing it in the evening

All over this land

I'd sing out danger

I'd sing out warning

I'd sing out love


All over this land

I've got a hammer

And I've got a bell

And I've got a song to sing

All over this land

It's the hammer of justice

It's the bell of freedom

It's the song about love between

my brothers and my sisters

All over this land


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Rise and Shine(Traditional)

Chorus:Rise and shine and give God your glory, glory (x3)


The Lord told Noah there's gonna be a floody, floody (x2)

Get your children out of the muddy muddy


Chorus

So Noah he built him, he built him an arky, arky (x2)

Built it out of hickory barky, barky


Chorus

The animals they marched in, they marched in by twoey, twoey (x2)

The elephants and kangarooy, rooy


Chorus

Well it rained and rained for forty daysy, daysy (x2)

Drove those counsellors crazy, crazy


Chorus

I’ve Been Working on the Railroad(Traditional)

I've been working on the railroad, all the live long day

I've been working on the railroad, just to pass the time away


Rise up so early in the morn


Dinah blow your horn

Dinah wont you blow (x2)Dinah wont you blow your horn

(x2)


Someone's in the kitchen I know



And singing...






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Michael Row Your Boat Ashore(Traditional)

Chorus:Michael Row The Boat Ashore, Hallelujah (x2)

Verses:Sister helped to trim the sails, Hallelujah

Sister helped to trim the sails, Hallelujah

Jordan's river is chilly and cold, Hallelujah

Chills the body but not the soul, Hallelujah

Jordan's river is deep and wide, Hallelujah

Greener pastures on the other side, Hallelujah

Michael's boat is a music boat, Hallelujah

Takes everybody singing to keep it afloat, Hallelujah

My Old Man(Traditional)

Chorus:And one day, if I can

I wanna be a sailor just like my old man

Now my old man is a sailor, now what do you think of that?

He wears a sailor's shirt and he wears a sailor's hat

He wears a sailor's pants and he wears a sailor's shoes

And every Sunday morning, he reads the sailor's news

Chorus

My old man is an anthropologist

My old man is a television repair man

My old man is a cotton-picken chicken plucker

My old man is a travel guide in the Brazilian pavilion

of the Canadian National Exhibition


Page 15Page 10


Go Tell it on the Mountain(Traditional)

Chorus:Go Tell it on the Mountain

Over the hills and everywhere



Verse:Who's that yonder dressed in white? (Let my people go!)Must be the children of the Israelite (Let my people go!)Who's that yonder dressed in white?

Must be the children of the Israelite



Who's that yonder dressed in red? (Let my people go!)Must be the children that Moses led (Let my people go!)Who's that yonder dressed in red?

Must be the children that Moses led



Who's that yonder dressed in black? (Let my people go!)Must be the hypocrites turning back (Let my people go!)Who's that yonder dressed in black?

Must be the hypocrites turning back



Green Grow the Rushes(Traditional)

I'll sing you one ho, green grow the rushes ho (What is your one ho?)One is one and all alone and ever more shall be so.

I'll sing you two ho, green grow the rushes ho (What is your two ho?)Two, two the little white boys, clothed all in green O.

I'll sing you three ho, green grow the rushes ho (What is your threeho?)What is your three ho? Three, three arrivals.

Four for the gospel makers.

Five for the symbols 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.

Thirteen for the Bar Mitzvah.


Page 9Page 16


Marching to Pretoria(Traditional)

1. Sing with me

I'll sing with you




(x2)

Chorus:We are Marching to Pretoria (Where!?)

Pretoria, Pretoria

We are Marching to Pretoria

Pretoria hoorah!

2. Laugh with me

3. Walk with me

4. Run with me

5. Sing with me


Page 17Page 8


Bridge:Now most of the songs we'll sing tonight

I know that others wrote

And I learnt them in my heart

Instead of note by note

And now as I grow older

And new folk come along

I'll help them out the best I can

To Pass the Music On

(Chorus)

I've sung these songs with lots of folks

I never will forget

I've sung them with audiences

I have hardly met

So here we are together

We'll celebrate in song

We'll sing and play our parts tonight

And Pass the Music On

Garbage(M. Cooney)

Mr. Thompson calls the waiter

Orders steak and baked potato,

Then he leaves the bone and grizzle and he never eats the skin

The bus boy comes and takes it

With a cough, contaminates it

Then he puts it in a can with coffee grounds and sardine tins.

The truck comes by on Friday to take it all away

And a thousand trucks just like it are converging on the bay


They're filling up the sea with garbage


What will we do when there's nothing to drink but


Mr. Thompson starts his Cadillac and winds it up the freeway track

Leaving friends and neighbors in a hydro-carbon haze;

He's sending gases to the stars, there to hang around near mars

There they form a cloud that hangs for thirty days.

And the sun licks down upon it with an ultraviolet tongue.

And it forms a smog and settles down and ends up in our lungs, oh,

Chorus


Page 7Page 18


Pass The Music On

I did not learn my music

At my parents knees

But from many singers

Some I never got to see

I know them from recordings

Their voices and their songs

I'm glad to be with you tonight to

Pass the Music On

Chorus:For the good times and the fun times

Through the laughter and the joy

These are songs of generations

I started singing as a boy

I still here that old time music

Of musicians now long gone

I am here tonight to

Pass the Music On

Now you know I'm not traditional

I've never claimed to be

But I come from a tradition

That others came from me

They're still alive inside me

Though some are now long gone

I'd like to think they trusted me to

Pass the Music On

(Chorus)

He gets home and takes off his shoes

He settles down with the evening news,

While the kids do homework with the TV in one ear

While Superman for the thousandth time

Sells talking dolls and conquers crime

Dutifully they learn the date of birth of Paul Revere.

The newspaper has a piece about

The mayor's middle name,

And he gets it read in time to watch the

Celebrity wrestling game

Chorus

What will we do when there's nothing left to wear

Nothing left to talk about

Nothing left to walk upon

Nothing left to ponder on

Nothing left to see

And nothing left to be

But Garbage!!!


Page 19Page 6


For Our Hands are Strong(Unknown)

For our hands are strong and our hearts are young

And the dreamer keeps-a-dreaming, keeps-a-dreaming along

What'd we do when we needed corn

We plowed and we sowed 'till the early morn (x2)

Chorus

What'd we do when we needed a town

We hammered and we nailed 'till the sun went down (x2)

Chorus

What do we do when it's peace we want

When it's more than a man can build or plant

We'll gather friends from the ends of the earth

To lend a hand at this hour of birth

We'll plow

We'll sow

We'll hammer and we'll nail

We'll work all day

'Till peace is real

Chorus


Page 5Page 20


Inch By Inch(Traditional)

Chorus:Inch by inch and row by row

Gonna make this garden grow

Gonna mulch it deep and low

Gonna make it fertile ground

Inch by inch and row by row

Please bless these seeds I sow

Please keep them safe below

'Till the rain comes a-tumblin' down

Verses:Digging weeds, picking stones

We are made of dreams and bones

Need a place to call my own

For the time is here at hand

Grain for grain, sun and rain

Find my way in natures chain

Tune my body and my brain

To the music of the land

Plant your rows short or long

Season with a cheerful song

Mother Earth will make you strong

If you give her love and care

There's an old crow watching from a tree

Got his hungry eye on me

In my garden, I'm as free

As that feathered bird up there

Pass the Music On Songbook

1. Pass the Music On2. Marching to Pretoria

3. Go Tell it on the Mountain4. Michael Row Your Boat Ashore

5. Rise and Shine6. Green Grass Grew All Around

7. If I had a Hammer8. I’ve been Working on the Railroad

9. My Old Man10. Green Grow the Rushes

11. Garbage12. For Our Hands are Strong

13. This Land is Your Land14. “W” – That’s the Way it Begins


Page 21Page 4


HERE IT IS - done in one take only, with all its spirit, enthusasim,

serious moments, misplaced microphones, broken banjo strings,

singing off-key, clapping, whistling, shouting, singing too quickly

(or playing too slowly) and a just plain good time.

To those of you who will be coming to Walden for the first time, here

is an opportunity to learn some of our songs before you arrive at

camp. For those who have been coming to Walden for years, or are

former campers, here are a few memories for you to hold onto.

LET’S SING OUT- Ted Cole

This Land is Your Land(Woody Guthrie)

As I went walking that ribbon of highway

I saw above me that endless skyway

I saw below me that golden valley


ChorusThis land is your land

This land is my land

From Bonavista

To the Vancouver Island

From the Arctic Circle

To the Great Lake Waters


I roamed and rambled

And I followed my footsteps

To the sparkling sands of

Her diamond desert

And all around me



Chorus

I saw each village

I saw each farm land

Their people smiling

Giving me a warm hand

And all around me




Page 3Page 22


Some Thoughts from Ted

Singing and camp have gone together since I first started my

own camping days. At its best, group singing represents the

unity, spirit, fun, friendship, and just plain feeling good that the

“sing-song” experience gives to so many campers and staff each

summer.

Since the first days of Walden, back in the summer of 1970, we

have been a singing camp. Our campers and staff have always

looked forward to the various types of sing-songs and serious

concerts that have been done with them during their stays at

camp.

I believe that singing is as important to the over-all camp pro-

gram as any other activity. I also believe that young people

should be exposed to as many different kinds of music as pos-

sible. With these beliefs firmly entrenced, I expanded my own

repetoire and taught and introduced lots of new songs and mu-

sic to Walden.

The seeds of the Pass the Music On Project were planted many

years ago by any number of our Walden family. They thought it

would be a great idea to have a recording of Walden music as

one of their camp memories.

“W” – That’s the Way it Begins(Honickman, Brown, Cole)

Chorus:W, that's the way it begins

A, that's the second letter in

L, that is the third

D, in the middle of the word

E, now we're near the end

N, now lets say it again


Walden is the place for me

It's the place we want to be

It's the best, of all the rest

Ted does it with slavery

Canoeing and Sailing and A&C

Lots of fun when we swim and ski



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