Campfire Songs

CHORUS:
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Bats eat bugs, they don’t eat people,
C G
Bats eat bugs, they don’t fly in your hair,
C F
Bats eat bugs, they eat insects for dinner,
C G
That’s what they’re doing up there

Coyotes eat rabbits, they don’t eat people,
Coyotes eat rabbits, ‘cause you’re too big to bite,
Coyotes eat rabbits, they eat rabbits for dinner,
That’s why they’re out in the night.
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Snakes eat mice, they don’t eat people,
Snakes eat mice, that’s why they’re on the ground,
Snakes eat mice, they eat rodents for dinner,
And they don’t want you hanging around.
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Vultures eat dead things, they don’t eat people,
Vultures eat dead things, ‘cause you don’t smell right,
Vultures eat dead things, they eat dead things for dinner.
So you better take a shower tonight.
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Bears eat berries, they don’t eat people,
Bears eat berries, they don’t eat you or me,
Bears eat berries, and they might steal your dinner,
So you better hang it high in a tree.
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Nothing out there wants to eat you,
Nothing out there wants to make you its meal,
Nothing out there eats people for dinner,
‘Cause they know how sick they would feel.

We will love the Earth wherever we roam,
For this big blue marble is our home
And we know that everyone in it (clap, clap, clap)
And we know that everyone in it (clap, clap, clap)
Will always be a part of who we are

We will love _____ wherever we roam,
For this big blue marble is our home
And we know that everyone in it (clap, clap, clap)
And we know that everyone in it (clap, clap, clap)
Will always be a part of who we are

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Big Tree, Big Tree (tsch, tsch)
Oooh, baby, let your xylem flow (slurp)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Big Tree, Big Tree (tsch, tsch)
Oooh, baby, let your xylem flow (slurp)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Chickaree told me just the other day
He found an acorn and ran away
He dug a hole and stuck it in the sand
And now Big Trees grow across this land

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A Big Trees roots grow out to the side
They may not be deep but their really wide
They raise their branches and wave to the sun
And now photosynthesis has begun

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A Big Trees needles have pointed ends
Chickarees and beetles are their friends
They need fire to reproduce
They have adaptations to make them fireproof

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By the Banana Slug String Band

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Dirt made my lunch, Dirt made my lunch.
Thank you Dirt, thanks a bunch,
For my salad, my sandwich, my milk and my munch ’cause Dirt, you
made my lunch.

Dirt is a word that we often use,
When we’re talkin’ about that earth beneath our shoes.
It’s a place where plants can sink their toes;
In a little while a garden grows.

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A farmer’s plow will tickle the ground,
You know the earth has laughed when wheat is found.
The grain is taken and flour is ground,
For making a sandwich to munch on down.
CHORUS A stubby green beard grows upon the land,
Out of the soil the grass will stand.
But under hoof it must bow,
For making milk by way of a cow.

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Mammals, Mammals, Mammals everywhere
Mammals, Mammals, they’re flying in the air,
Mammals, Mammals, they’re swimming in the sea,
Mammals, Mammals, just like you and me
Mammals like camels come by land or sea,
They can sky high in the forest canopy
Could be a lion or a manatee,
They feed off what is called a mammary

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Bats are mammals even though they fly up in the sky,
Finding their prey with a sonar-like eye,
Echolocation helps to guide them in the night
Just a vibration creates a sense of sight
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I know some mammals that are square pegs
Funky southern mammals that lay eggs
I see you laughin’, but I wouldn’t kid ya
They’re the duck billed platypus and the spiny echidna
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Let me tell you ‘bout some mammals in the ocean,
Dolphins, whales, and seals are causing commotion,
Trying to get a bite so that they can eat,
Turning fat to blubber, to insulate their heat

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Attention! Alert! There are mammals all around us,
Hairy, smelly mammals, they’ve got the place surrounded,
So turn to your neighbor, say “I’m a mammal too”
And throw your hands up if you’re in the mammal crew

Chorus:
On the loose to climb a mountain
On the loose where I am free
On the loose to live my life
The way I think my life should be
For I’ll only have a moment, and a whole world left to see
I’ll be searching for tomorrow, On the Loose.

Have you ever seen a sunrise turn the sky completely red?
Have you slept beneath the moon and stars, a pine bough for your bed?
Do you sit and talk with friends although no word is ever said?
Then you’re just like me and you’ve been, On the Loose.

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There’s a trail that I’ll be hiking just to see where it might go
Many places yet to visit, and many people yet to know
And in following my dreams I will live and I will grow
On a trail that’s waiting out there, On the Loose.

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So in search of love and laughter I’ll be traveling ‘cross this land
Never sure of where I’m going, for I haven’t any plan
But in time when you are ready, come and join me, take my hand
And together we’ll share life out, On the Loose.

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I’m wearing my red tail feathers as I fly
I’m wearing my red tail feathers as I fly
I circle around
I circle around
The boundaries of the Earth
The planet of my birth.

By Steve Van Zandt and the Banana Slug String Band

CHORUS:
IT….. Starts with “S” and it ends with a “T”
It come out of you and it comes out of me
I know what your thinking but don’t call it that
Let’s be scientific and call it “SCAT”

A squirrel ate a nut
It digested in its gut
It came out of it but
It was a piece of scat!