Thursday Camp Song – Counting Song

This isn’t really a song. The leader memorizes the words and the audience repeats them back on line at a time. Repeat each line before the new ones. I first heard this done during the summer of 1994 in Michigan at the Great Lakes Recreational Leaders Lab. The key is for the leader to be able to recite the entire 10 lines in one breath. Try that!

I have since learned that this is something called the Announcer’s Test – read about that here.

The Counting Song

one hen
two ducks
three squawking geese
four limerick oysters
five corpulent porpoises
six pairs of Don Alverzo’s tweezers
seven thousand Macedonians all dressed in full battle array
eight brass monkeys from the ancient secret crypts of Egypt
nine apathetic sympathetic diabetic old men on roller skates all with a marked propensity toward the procrastination of sloths – “Yea, Sloths!” (crowd must raise arm at this point for the Yea, Sloths part).
ten lyrical spherical diabolical denizens of the deep all answering to the call of the quail of the quievey all coming around the corner all at the same time

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