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“Here’s to all the happy hours, cheer for the HK Scouting
Here’s to all the comrades of ours, gathered here besides the sea….”
This was the first scout song I learned, and I sang it from tenderfoot to ASM, during a hundred campfires and hikes.
In the stillness of the night, with only the campfire crackling, boys sang…out of tune, out of key, out of tempo…but nonetheless belted out, with joyous abundance, this song and others. There was nothing quite like it …ever !
Moments of simple joy, seared into memories of a distant past, never to be forgotten……
Hey Leo, not only scout songs. Sitting around a campfire, we sang songs/lyrics from radio/TV’s advertisement too. We competed with the other patrols, and we had to think quick, when pointed to by the MC, we have to sing one ad quick, with no repeats, and around the campfire, on and on we went. That was fun.
Remembered those days π
LOL…just reading yours, this came to mind..
ζ΄εΎι, ε«ζε½, εε±εεε°Ώ, θ«η¨ζθη, ζ°ε₯ζ΄θ‘£η²…de da dum
LOL..don’t ask me what the original was!
(oh yes..we got fouled out because we had to ‘invent’ some words)
Wasn’t that a time !