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If you are going to take a group of Cub Scout songs, the best advice to you is to have fun and get silly, but the more foolish, the better! Cub Scout-age children have more energy than anyone I know. They are just about to explode. To get to sit still long enough to do something he has talent, patience and nerves of steel. Only there was some way to bottle that energy, could make a fortune.
A good way to use that energy to move. The fact that they are singing, does not mean they have to remain seated with arms crossed without moving a muscle. These are some good songs Cub Scout that should work for you:
- My Bonnie: This is a good song to get kids moving. Each time you sing the letter "B", to go back and forth between sitting and standing. For example: B (Onnie My Support) is on the ocean, My Onnie B (SIT) is on the sea, My Onnie B (standing) is on the ocean. O, the ring B (SIT) ack B (standing) my Onnie B (sitting) for me. Ring B (Support) B ack (SIT), the ring B (standby) ack B (SIT), O ring B (standby) ack B (SIT) my Onnie B (Support) me, me. Ring B (SIT) ack B (standing), the ring B (SIT) ack B (standing), O ring B (SIT) ack B (standing) my Onnie B (sitting) for me. I like to go faster each time I sing.
- There Is There are no bugs on me: You can use this to teach rhyming words and to remember the children to work. Have Cub Scouts form their own words for each new verse. You only have to change two words, just change "bugs" and the cups "two other words that rhyme. Some of my favorites are flies and small, the bees and knees, bears and hair, ants and pants, pumas and snot (mucus is a cool word to a Cub Scout!), and many more that can be imagined. There are some simple hand movements that you can use in the choir, move your finger around like a mosquito flying. As you sing: "Mosquito, flying high" lifting a finger high "Mosquito, flying under" Put your finger down low "If the old Skeeter lands on me" land your finger on the knee or shoulder, or elsewhere in his body "He will not fly now." In the word "no" slap on the body where the Skeeter landed.
- Jenny Jenkins: This is another song where kids can make their own verses. In the first verse, Jenny wears white. The word that rhymes with the white is bright. Leave that children come with different colors, and then think of a word that rhymes with that color. For example: red, I do not wear red, the color of my head. Or, I will not wear red, I'd rather stay in bed. Or black, I will not wear black, I would rather sit on a tack. O, blue, I do not wear blue, I like the smell of shoes for Bobby. The possibilities are endless. Try to keep one or two colors syllable. However, you can have a lot of fun colors like trying to rhyme "pomegranate, magenta or lavender."
- Waddaly Atcha: This is another good move song to sing while seated. The only moving part is the hands and arms. These the motions are: Pat legs twice, clapping twice, passing a hand over the other two times, change hands and do the same, with the index finger touches nose opposite shoulder then repeat with the index finger of other good-bye twice with one hand and then repeat with your other hand. That's it. Repeat over and over again until you or the boys have had enough. This is another song that is fun to speed up or slow down every time I sing.
Chumba: I want to use this song all ages and groups. It is very easy to learn, have a word. It is also easy to think of new verses. Whatever word or combination of words with syllables 3 works better. You can use names like Ta-ba-tha or Jen-ny-Jones. You can use food as a ho-mi-ny or scratch-ber-ry. You can use sites like Ne-bra-ska-ta me-or mind. You do not have follow the tracks of three syllables, try some 1, 2 or 4 or even more and see what happens!
Cub Scouts also like songs as: ears Hang Low, nobody likes me, McGregor, and I like bananas, coconuts and grapes.
Any of these songs are excellent for sing with young boys. You can also use any of the songs of boy scouts, girl scouts and church groups of young people. I have written articles for each one of these groups, so check out for more ideas. I'm always looking for new songs to sing around a campfire. If you have some favorites you'd like share, I'd love to hear from you.
Roger Turner is a campfire song enthusiast. For more great tips and advice on cub scout songs visit http://www.bestcampingsongs.com. He is also the editor of The Great American Campfire Songbook.
You cand find the words, music and chords to all the above songs in The Great American Campfire Songbook.