The Guiding Trail

We're on the Guiding trail,
We're on the Guiding trail

Swinging as we go,

Guiding bound.

We're on the Guiding trail

We're on the Guiding trail

Singing, singing, everybody singing

Guiding bound

The jamboree song

March, march, march on the road with me

To the Boy Scout Jamboree

Join the throng & swing along

As we sing our song



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Jamboree, jamboree

Come give three hearty cheers

And we'll go marching on together

Another 50 years



Every hour let the valleys ring

With the scouty songs we sing

Underneath the stars at night

In the camp fire's light



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We're the boys of the left hand shake

Boy Scouts all & wide awake

Hiking over hill & dale

Singing on the trail



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Marching on with the BP lead

Ev'ry colour, ev'ry creed

All for one & life is good

In our brotherhood



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Years from now down a mem'ry lane

We shall work & live again

Their guest days with you & me

At the Jamboree



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A Guide's got a face like a ping pong ball

A Guide's got a face like a ping pong ball

Ping pong ball.



Ping pong, ping pong,ping pong, ping pong, ping pong, ping pong, ping pong ball (repeat)



Ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping

PONG

The Golden Jubilee in 1959 was celebrated with a Jamboree at Chatsworth, which I attended

Rockets & races, sputniks & spaces

This is the world we know

Speed is our master

Faster, faster

That is the way things go.

Yet we remember how in September

Just 50 years ago

Girls in their pigtails

Gate-crashed gaily

Into the boys own show


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And so the Guides come swinging along

Still young & strong

And we can't imagine how you'd get on without us

Now that we've lived so long

Now we are older, stronger, bolder

Playing a wider game

Yet in our camping, questing, tramping

Surely we're just the same.

Love for our labour, care for our neighbour,

These are the things we learn

Doing & daring, seeking, sharing

Finding the next good turn

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Growing & changing, now we all are ranging

Out to the farthest sea

From distant places smiling faces

Join in, Greeted our Jubilee

You who love Guiding, where are you hiding?

This is a gift to give

You who pass by us, come & try us

This is the life to live

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This little Guiding light of mine
I'm going to let it shine
This little Guiding light of mine
I'm going to let it shine
This little Guiding light of mine
I'm going to let it shine, let it shine
All the time, let it shine.


Don't you pouf my little light out
I'm going to let it shine
Etc

Take my little light round the block
I'm going to let it shine
Etc

Hide it under a bush? Oh no!
I'm going to let it shine
Etc

Don't you pouf my little light out
I.m going to let it shine
Take my little light round the block
I'm going to let it shine
Hide it under a bush? Oh no!
I'm going to let it shine, let it shine
All the time, let it shine

Ive got the B-P spirit
Right in my head
Right in my head
Right in my head.
Ive got the B-P spirit
Right in my head to stay

Ive got the B-P spirit
Deep in my heart
Deep etc

Ive got the B-P spirit
All round my feet
All round etc

Ive got the B-P spirit
Right in my head
Deep in my heart
All round my feet
Ive got the B-P spirit all over me to stay

Who are these?
Swinging along the road
With a pack on the back
A song in the heart
To ease the load.
It is forty years or more
Since they crowded through the door
And they're coming along
As brave & strong
As ever they were before

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They are Guides, all Guides.
And in unexpected places
You'll find their friendly faces
And a ready hand besides.
And theres not much danger
Of finding you're a stranger
For Commissioner or Ranger
They are Guides, all Guides

Who are these?
Living beneath the sky
While the shining sun
The pattering rain
The clouds pass by.
They will dine beneath the boughs
And their leader always vows
That they're never afraid of wasps
And hardly ever afraid of cows

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Who are these?
Sitting around the fire
They'll be happy to have your company
If that is your desire
And the evening will be gay
At the sunset hour of day
With a song to sing
And a tale to tell
And many a tune to play

Captain she has coffee

Lieutenant she has tea

Patrol Leaders have cocoa - its good for them you see.

Seconds they have lemonade or sometimes they have lime

And all thats left for the poor Girl Guides

Is water all the time

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Thats the way thy treat the Girl Guides

Thats the way they treat the Girl Guides

Thats the way they treat the Girl Guides

With water all the time

Captain she is married

Lieutenant is engaged

Patrol leaders are courting

Although theyre under age

Seconds they are trying & sometimes they succeed

And all thats left for the poor Girl Guides

Is Scouts with knobbly knees

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Captain she has lavender

Lieutenant she has Pears

Patrol Leaders have Wrights Coal Tar

And dont they put on airs

Seconds they have sunshine to make their faces shine

And all thats left for the poor Girl Guides?

Carbolic all the time

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Captain - turkey

Lieutenant - duck

PLs - boiled ham and think they are in luck

Seconds - sausages & sometimes they have spam

Poor Girl Guides - mouldy bread & jam

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Captain has an aeroplane

Lieutenant has a car

Patrol leaders have tuppenny rides

Upon a trolley car

Seconds they have pushbikes

Which take a lot to beat

And all thats left for the poor Girl Guides -

A pair of weary feet

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Captain she does nothing

Lieutenant she does less

Patrol leaders do cooking

And dont they make a mess

Seconds they do sewing

Which isnt very much

And all thats left for the poor Girl Guides -

Mouldy washing up