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[listersgirl]

Show of hands!

Who else had to sing "Land of the Silver Birch/My Paddle's Keen and Bright" year after year?

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[dramaqueen-23.livejournal.com]

The one that goes like this?

Land of the silver birch,
Home of the bea-ver.
Something, something, something.
Something, somthing.
Rocky moutain, lake and shore
I shall return once more.

I don't think I ever had to sing it; however, I did have to learn how to play it on the piano.

[circe-tigana.livejournal.com]

I've followed the wild goose flight in my day.

[starfishchick]

I know Land of the Silver Birch, but not the other one.

[zarahemla.livejournal.com]

We did one year in choir ... I think ... though my words are a bit different:

Land of the silver birch
home of the beaver
where still the mighty moose
wanders at will:
blue lake and rocky shore
I will return once more

{{add in the boom did-y thing as you like}}

Oh, the memories.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

oh jeeze. because i needed that earworm first thing in the morning. and i don't really know it, just like one bit over and over again. *stabs self in ear*

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[morag-gunn.livejournal.com]

High on a rocky ledge
I'll build my wigwam
Close to the water's edge
Silent and still

*raisehand*

[sarcasma.livejournal.com]

We had a set of songs that we did every week in "music time" with the librarian. It was basically a singalong, and this was my music education until Grade 5. A few folky things, some anti-war 60s stuff, anything by the Beatles, Muppets, or Gordon Lightfoot... yeah. It was odd.

ETA: I meant to mention that we didn't have word sheets or anything, so I now know all of these songs with those weird ellided kid-lyrics one comes up with. That, too, is odd.

[globetrotter1.livejournal.com]

I am blissfully, blissfully ignorant. :-D

[eanja]

Down in the forest,
deep in the lowlands
My heart cries out for thee,
hills of the north.
Blue lake etc., etc.

I still know this one by heart, and I think my son even did it. I haven't heard the other one, though.

[idella]

Hell yeah.

[emiline.livejournal.com]

Oh so many times. I spent waaay too many years involved in Guiding.

[forzani.livejournal.com]

ahah, yes. grade four music class. there were clapping rhythms to go along with 'land of the silver birch' that no one could ever understand.