Scout-Songs on 12 Hole Ocarina Tabs

99 Bottles of Beer

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:00:00 +0000

About 99 Bottles of Beer
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Ninety-nine verses is a long time to play anything, but this song was never about the melody. It belongs to the bus and the campfire, nobody owns it, and the same short tune carries every verse, so once you know it you know the whole thing.

Military Taps

Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:00:00 +0000

About Military Taps
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Taps is the bugle call heard at the end of the day and at military funerals, arranged during the American Civil War in 1862 by Union General Daniel Butterfield with his bugler, Oliver Norton. I tabbed it when the scouts needed it for their ocarinas while practicing a flag ceremony, where it is played as the flag comes down.

Roadkill Stew

Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000

About Roadkill Stew
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Scouts sometimes sing funny songs, and Roadkill Stew is one of the more gruesome ones. It is still funny. The tune is the same as Three Blind Mice, but the words are different, and the new words are the whole joke.

Kumbayah

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000

About Kumbayah
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I used to make fun of this song when I was growing up, and I still do, even though I think the Boy Scouts of America are cool. It is an African American spiritual, and it has spent a long time as a campfire song, which is where most of us learned it and started teasing it.

Ghost Chickens in the Sky

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000

About Ghost Chickens in the Sky
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Ghost Chickens in the Sky is a Boy Scout campfire parody of Ghost Riders in the Sky, the cowboy song Stan Jones wrote in 1948 and Johnny Cash later recorded. The scouts keep the haunting western melody and put chickens in the sky instead, which is exactly as silly as it sounds around a fire.

Scout-Songs on 12 Hole Ocarina Tabs

99 Bottles of Beer

About 99 Bottles of Beer #

Military Taps

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