Campfire Song Book

Everyone knows it

ON TOP OF SPAGHETTI

[Tune: On Top of Old Smokey. Lyrics by Tom Glazer.]

On top of Spaghetti, all covered with cheese,
I lost my poor meatball when somebody sneezed.

It rolled off the table, and onto the floor,
And then my poor meatball rolled out of the door.

It rolled down the garden, and under a bush,
And then my poor meatball was nothing but mush!

The mush was as tasty, as tasty could be,
And then the next summer it grew into a tree.

The tree was all covered, all covered with moss,
And on it grew meatballs, all covered with sauce.

So if you have spaghetti, all covered with cheese,
Hold onto your meatball, 'cause someone might sneeze.

GORY, GORY

[Tune: Battle Hymn of the Republic]

My sergeant major jumped from 70 thousand feet [Repeat 3x]
[Alternative: He jumped from 30 thousand feet without a parachute.]
But he ain't going to jump no more.

CHORUS
Gory, gory, what a heck of a way to die. [Repeat twice more.]
Well, he ain't going to jump no more.

We scraped him off the tarmac like a dab of strawberry jam...
We put him in an envelope and sent him home to mum...
She put him on the matelpiece for everyone to see...

MICHAEL FINNEGAN

There was an old man named Michael Finnegan,
He grew whiskers on his chinnigin,
The wind came around and blew them in again,
Poor old Michael Finnegan,
begin again.

There was an old man named Michael Finnegan,
He got drunk through drinking ginnigin,
Thus he wasted all his tinnigin,
Poor old Michael Finnegan,
begin again.

. . . He kicked up and awful din again,
Because they said he must not sin again, . . .
. . . He went fishing with a pin again,
Caught a fish and dropped it in again, . . .
. . . Climbed a tree and barked his shin again,
Took off several yards of skin again, . . .
. . . He grew fat and then grew thin again,
Then he died and had to begin again, . . .

IT'S A SMALL WORLD

Its a small world after all, [x 3]
Its a small, small world.
It's a world of laughter, a world of tears,
It's a world of hopes and a world of fears.
There's so much that we share, it's time we're aware
It's a small, small world.

There is just one moon and one golden sun
And a smile means friendship for everyone,
Though the oceans are wide, and the mountains divide
It's a small, small world.