Camp Songs

I may be dating myself her, but. . .

Moshe Rosner in Camp Agudah, “Zishe Edison. . .”

Wow, I cannot believe it, but I DO. I was a counselor in Morasha for two years, and this was our camp song:

Anu Bnei Morasha (bum, bum, bum, bum)

Yerushateinu Hee haTorah (bym, bum, bum, bum)

B’darcheha neileich kol yameinu

U’nekayeim mitzvoteha.

Rotz ka-tzvi

Gibor ka-ari

B’chol mitzvot haTorah (bum, bum, bum, bum)

K’dei shenizkeh l’ziv HaShechinah

B’Yerushalayim habenuyah.

YOSSI151 – CTV was the greatest camp in the mountains!! I was there much after you, but with guys like Shloime Dachs, Rabbi Finkelman, etc and how can we forget Mr. Newhouse! So many talented, great people, so many great memories…

Yatzmich – was there too!! Do you remember “the french mirage” story?

I remember that one year I was in Chaim Day Camp (in Brooklyn), and the alma mater went like this:

8 weeks in the summer

the good times that I always had

sports and activities

they went by so fast

Oh Chaim Day Camp

the one thing I really will miss

is the spirit of achdus

and ruchniyus

Some guys decided to make a spoof, and it went like this:

8 weeks what a bummer

the good times that we never had

sports and activities

thank G-d they went by so fat

Oh Chaim Day Camp

the one thing that we really missed

was the spirit

of Ruach-niyus

(for those who don’t know, Ruach Day Camp was the “other” day camp in Brooklyn at the time. This was before Temimah, Ohr Shraga, and other were around.)

BeHarim Harei Yehuda,

Sham Timtzeu Ir Kol Yafa

He Ha’ir shelanu Yerushalayim

V’Im Eshkacha tishkach yimini

Gam Ha’ir HaAtika,

Gam Ha’ir hachodosha,

He Ha’ir Ha Meuchada Yerushalayim

Az Bo Kulanu Na’aleh

El Makom hAchi Yafeh

B’virotaynu Bo Nichyeh Yerushalayim.

(It was a zionist camp, we sang in hebrew)

TTTO I’ts a Small World:

It’s a camp of laughter, a camp of fun

And for me Gan Yisrael is the only one

It’s a camp for me, it’s a camp for you, it’s a camp for every Jew

It’s a great camp after all

We will miss you in the fall

It’s a great camp after all

Machaneinu Gan Yisrael!

CHORUS

Ain’t gonna work on Saturday

Ain’t gonna work on Saturday

Double, double, triple pay

Won’t make me work on Saturday

Ain’t gonna work on Saturday

It’s shabbos kodesh

Repeat chorus after each stanza.

I’m big Gedalia Goomber

I’m not exactly small

But really not so very big

Just seventeen feet tall

I’m really rigged for working

For that I’m very fit

Six days a week I’m at it

And on the seventh day I quit

I once helped raise a building

And on the hundredth floor

I was carrying a load of bricks

An easy ton or more

And her, it’s late on Friday

I knew I’d have to stop

So I yelled, “Watch out below!”

And let the whole thing drop

At driving a locomotive

I thought I’d take a crack

I had the throttle wide open

Zooming down the track

And here it’s almost shabbos

The sun’s about to set

So I dove into a mud hole

And the train is running yet

I worked down in a coal mine

And lost myself alright

I couldn’t tell the days apart

Because there was no light

So I set myself to digging

Just as fast as you may please

And popped up in an hour

Where the people speak chinese

I had a job a dandy

On a construction crew

A great big mountain had us stuck

We couldn’t dig it through

And soon it will be shabbos

But not say I’m proud

I took that stubborn mountain

And kicked it on a cloud

I turned to deep-sea diving

And took an awful chance

On a sunken steamer’s deck

I got caught by my pants

And trapped beneath the ocean

I couldn’t set me free

But I went home for shabbos

And dragged the boat with me

I once was an explorer

To Africa I went

One shabbos hungry lions

Came roaring round my tent

My assistant held my rifel

“Go Goomber shoot these pests.”

But I called them in instead

To be my shabbos guest

Once to split an atom

With effort I had learned

Suddenly there was a blast

boy did I get burned

Everyone was so worried

So the doctors I did tell

That by keeping the shabbos holy

I will soon be fit and well

I worked at Cape Kennedy

And things were going right

A great big rocket ship was set

On a launching site

And here it’s getting dark

Shabbos was coming soon

So I pushed the starting button

And spent shabbos on the moon

I once was an astronaut

And flying through the stars

I came across a space ship

Whose pilots were from Mars

I said “Hello there Martians”

And stayed with them

Until I taught them to keep the shabbos

And they’re keeping shabbos still

I dress my best on shabbos

Three meals I feast me fine

I make a royal kiddush

On a barrel full of wine

And when I sing my zemiros

For a thousand miles they know

That I’m enjoying shabbos

For hashem has told us so

Mod 42, my all time favorite camp sung song was the Little Bird. In fact, I was a counselor at Camp HASC MANY MANY years ago, and used that song for our finale when my campers put on a special play about the zechus of the birds during Yetzias Mitzrayim, for flying over Bnei Yisrael and being a protective “umbrella” for them. When I wrote the play, I was searching for an appropriate song to end it, and this one just filled the bill perfectly. I still get teary-eyed whenever I hear it.

TO: Yatzmich:

Moshe Rosner is from Camp Rayim not Agudah.

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TO: This name is already taken:

Which Camp Yachad?

Shopping- Raninu? 😉 tell me which song and ill write it out, I know all of them by heart…. lol….

Same here but this was a one time thing they did for kinor bas mitzvah party one year….I’m pretty sure it wasn’t sang in camp raninu before or after that year….and it was actually not a song the camp made up…..

Taken from classic.frumteens

@ sadah. it was written by Mrs stefansy who is a teach at prospect. I dont know if it was ever recorder however, if it was it would be on a senior tape probably around 2000-2003

13 April 2011 22:28

Sadah- This song we sang in camp and I rlly need info. on it…this was also mentioned a few times on page 26 of this thread….someone said they thought the prospect park sing this

HEY what’s the name of this song and whoose it by:

High up on a mountain, far across the sea,

all the busy creatures scurry frantically.

Above them soars the eagle, flying towards the distant light,

not a glance back at the shadows as he spreads his wings in flight.

The world thats all around me calls me to join in.

Its glamour seems to beckon but my beauty lies within.

I want to soar like the eagleand live a better life.

I want to be a bas yisroel, a mother, and a wife.

Can I rise above the glitter, continuing the chain?

a thousand grandmothers before me, their mission not in vain.

Will my children ever look at me and try to emulate?

Will they take pride in their tradition, an inheritance so great?

Will the shechina have a place inside the person I become?

“v’asu li mikdash v’shachanti b’socham”

Can I follow Das Yehudis as I was meant to be?

Am i the link to the future; the answer lies in me.

In my mind, I see a woman, a treasure in her heart.

There’s a special air about her in the way she stands apart.

Her fortress, bayis neeman, protects her family,

and I know this is my future. This vision, yes, it’s me.

I can rise above the glitter, continuing the chain,

a thousand grandmothers before me, their mission not in vain.

Yes, my children will look at me and try to emulate.

They will take pride in their tradition, an inheritance so great.

Yes, the shechina has a place inside the person I’ve become.

“v’asu li mikdash v’shachanti b’socham”

I can follow Das Yehudis as I was meant to be.

I am the link to the future; the answer lies in me.

I am the link to the future; the answer lies in me

Bygirl- Guess were not the only ones who remember it……..does this song ring a bell? I REALLY want the tape if its on one…..if anyone has it PLEASE tell me the name of it!

(Because this website does not have a recorder I cannot write a tune, but it is VERY beautiful)

I thought it was a one year thing…..last past 2 years I don’t think kinor even HAD a bas mitzvah party……

sternberg your song, it echoes in our hearts, how can we forget, our home way from home way from home? we will never stop singing cuz sternberg your song…

Mincha Song -one of my camp raninu favorites!

The sun will soon go down

the day will soon be through

There’s so much to accomplish still

There’s so much more to do

Though caught within our world

We pause along the way

Recharge our souls, uplift our world

as joyfully we pray

So join us we lift up our eyes

and our heartfelt tefillos ascend to the skies

And we focus on our purpose and then we will

Daven the tefillah of mincha again

So join us as we lift up our voices

Cuz when we pray our neshama rejoices

lets fill our lives with meaning and then we will

Daven the tefilla of mincha again

Fellow raninu girl have no fear cuz shopping613 is now here!

No I’m not THAT old but in last years end of the summer book they put in your first song!

One of my favorite songs!

Its two girls hand and hand, a smile on each face

Its the thoughtful conversation, that you never will erase

Its the friendship and the laughter, the ruach and the fun

its the seperate individuals that together become ONE

Its the achdus and the ruchniyus that help us grow each day

its the constast dedication that is always sent our way

Its the warm and dozy atmosphere whereever you may roam

Its the place that we call RANINU our home away from home

So take each other by the hand and sing along with me

Cuz although were from all over we are family

created and untied each girl played a part

RANINU I cherish you deep inside my heart

Did they have the shabbos song back then? You know…”there is a camp called raninu and every shabbos this is what they do…..”

Beth was around back then! Btw I found the lyrics look at my above post! No I meant the second song I don’t kknow they still sing that song after night activity to this day, I can assure you

Yes I know but in the packets they give out they never bothered to change it…no I know beth is still there what I’m saying in I am still in raninu/rina so I know that but I haven’t been there that long and I had no idea how long shes been in the camp for…is it true Tzivia has only been there for 3 years? She has so much authority in the camp I would of never guessed it but someone told me she was there before she was…..

Shopping-sorry I was out then doing school work so I just saw your post.

thanks for the lyrics. Beth was there from at least year 5-I think she wrote that song in year 5. the version I remember is a little different but very similar. now the question is do you know the mosquito spoof?

and they were singing the shabbos song in year 6 and it was well known then too so its an older one

1 is be quiet, dont start a riot

2 is OD, how good can you be

3 is ruach singing and cheering

4 is kavana in your davening

5 is on time and thats the rhyme

be quiet, ____, ____, be on time and sing!

the mincha song is also nice, IMHO nicer than the shacharis song

BYgirl, the still sing ‘freed from the shadows?’ or are you referring the the night activity song and mincha song?

Nisht Ahe Nisht Aher -“TO: Yatzmich:

Moshe Rosner is from Camp Rayim not Agudah.”

He was probably talking about when Rosner was a camper or a counselor, not nowadays as a camp owner.

I already posted it on this thread, but here it is again! This is the correct order of the stanzas:

Mincha Song -one of my camp raninu favorites!

The sun will soon go down

The day will soon be through

There’s so much to accomplish still

There’s so much more to do

Though caught within our world

We pause along the way

Recharge our souls, uplift our world

as joyfully we pray

So join us we lift up our eyes

and our heartfelt tefillos ascend to the skies

And we focus on our purpose and then we will

Daven the tefillah of mincha again

So join us as we lift up our voices

Cuz when we pray our neshama rejoices

lets fill our lives with meaning and then we will

Daven the tefilla of mincha again

If anyone needs lyrics to ANY raninu song I have all the packets! I even stole one of the ones with a bunch of songs that you weren’t supposed to keep (they use them every year) I also have the packet of the nine days songs I believe they only started that around 7 years back…..

My most prized raninu possetions is my raninu cup collection, they use them at the washing station and only make a few extra every year, they are VERY hard to get since your not suppposed to take them!