The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-07-11
AIR FULL OF
MUSIC IN CAMP
Ditties and Rhymes to Fit
Every Period in the
Day.
BIRDS JOIN CHORUS
Words Foolish, but Music
Comes Straight From
Girlish Hearts.
Pv PAULINE LAYMAN.


singingl This is the vurr' most
popular indoor and outdoor sport at
he y. w. c. =. camp at Parthenia
park! ~
,..be,ber she can or not. The grade
scbool Girl In the very early teens
s,nes the high school girls sweet
s,steen" as to age, the college girl,
srtirr as councillor. the business
uom1n. the association secretary.
,bo leader of girl scout or Sunday
school group.
Sounds OF singing go winging their
u,av nm to the blue sky above the
r,,y, grounds and outward TO the
bus on all sides at every hour OF
,be day and evening. The campers
begin the day with song and con-
sgide II in the same manner. They
~ at meal time, on hikes, when
resting, and even when on Is. r.
duty.
Something in the very atmosphere
% tho camp induces musical ex-
,roesion and the birds on the camp
,,r,unds seem to carol more onthu-
s,etirally than those in adjacent
,soods. Most of the girl campers
never sang so much and so variedly
I'm their lives before.
Tho songs are patriotic, religious,
continental collegiate--and just
main "foolishment" The most pop
mar songs are the merest nonsense
Tbymcs, but they have a contagious
rhythm and swing and words as
funny as a joke.
When the campers assemble Tor
breakfast in the morning, this Is
the song which echoes through
Friendship Lodge:
Good morning, dear camp girls,
with a coGt of tan as thick as
mine;
Good morning, dear camp girls,
You surely are looking flne'
30 to ashes and dust to dust
IL the swimming don't tan you
The hiking must
n Cooa morning dear camp girls,
!. TWith a coat OF tan as thick as
A coat of tan as thick as :,
A coat of tan as thick as NINE
Thon to show that they are en-
towing camp life just as much as tht
day before, their fresh young voices
are lifted in the refrain:
|
10 Friendship Lodge l would fly
There with my friends | would lonI
remain
Remain there until l die.
Youalec you la lee, You la lee.
Again (Spoken)
You Ia Ice, You la lee l.
once more. (Spoken) ,o
You Ia Ice, You Ia lee, You Ia lee
Concluding. tSpoken)
You la lee, You la lee L
The end, (Spoken)"
As songs in which each table sing
a verse are always in order, M
campers seated at table convey TN
following information to the diner
yocaly: Il found peanut. l fouh'
n peanut, found a peanut just now
Just now | found a peanut, toun'
a peanut lust now" Whereupon TN
rirls at another table chant: "Wher
did YOU find 1t, where did you find IL
wrcro did you find 1t just now
Just now where did you find y
where did you find 1t Just now
TITS song is subject to daily I'm
provisitiun and, like the little brooh
can 70 on forever.
The tune most frequently intone
by the X. P.'s as they wash and Or
the dishes after breakfast has tn
following frivolous words;
Il know man named Michael Fin
nigan
He had whiskcrs on his chin-igan
Along came the wind and blew ther
in again,
P0r old Michael Finnigan."
Sometime in the forenoon som
one group OF girls Is sure to taketh
well-beloved tree walk" and
they swing along the path they sing
"Oh me, oh my. we1I get there b
and by,
II anybody loves a walk, it's l, I, j,
oh my. oh me. our hearts are fu
OF glee,
II anybody loves a walk, it's we, W.
we, We"
During the lazy afternoon hour
songs with a bit of accompanyin
action are mostly rendered by I'll
group stretched out on army blar
kets beneath n tree, or lolling
t,s. ,g,fr Of