Blue Rams ‘75 song

Guess the brain is primed this week to think about these things. This was I think a second part of a two part entrance.

This part went to The Halls of Montezuma

From the moment it was broken
Color war belonged to blue
Although not a word was spoken
Even whites knew it was true

How can white riders expect to win
When blue team cannot be beat
Even the rec hall is confident
The white team will meet defeat

Mustangs trot ‘69

To the tune of I’ve got a lot of living to do (from Bye Bye Birdie)

Mustangs trot
Right into their victory
Blue team braves
Take heed to our call
Whites are here
to show you who’s with it
Blue team, you’re bound for a fall

Tonight’s the night
That we’re gonna win it
We have galloped
All through the rec hall
[Argh, can't remember lyrics here]
White mustangs are gonna take it all

For we’ve got [people to see? Places to go? something?]
As we sing and march along

Tonight’s the night (excellent harmony thing was going here)
That we’re gonna win it
We have galloped
All through the rec hall
[Argh, can't remember lyrics here]
White mustangs are gonna take it all

Ba ba ba , ba da ba da ba ba (Gimme a W) (we formed each letter as we did this)
Ba ba ba da ba da ba (Gimme an H)
Ba ba da, ba da ba da ba da (Gimme an I)
Ba da ba da ba da ba (T)
Ba ba da ba da ba (E)

This will be a white team color war

Waiters’ song

Was this ‘69 or ‘70? or ‘71 even? I can only remember a few lines:

To the tune of Hava Nagila

We are
the Crane Lake Waiters
We serve potaters
And a lot of P&J

Senior girls ‘75

I’m sure Meryl and I both remember at least some of this, but neither wants to put it up because we realize how inane the lyrics really are. Then again, we were 14 when we wrote it all on our own (our group leader had quit, or was still there and completely ineffective), and we taught it to our huge group of seniors, and choreographed it. It was unheard of for campers to write the fight song. The entrance was written by some of the girls in the Chalet (Dani Klein, I think was involved, and maybe Jamie Goldfarb?), and that was actually pretty good in retrospect. We were proud of ourselves, but I don’t think it’ll go down in CLC history as one of the greats.

We lost to the Camper Workers, whose song was truly one of the greats. Robin Ulanoff was one of the judges and Meryl and I felt she was biased in favor of the CWs, but I think in our hearts we both realized we had not won. We pretended to be upset, but we both confessed to each other that we really weren’t.

 BTW, I never, in 6 years at camp, won fight song night.

Entrance to the theme from The Sting 

We’re the seniors of ‘75
The greatest senior group ever alive

(Actually, I can’t remember the entrance version, only the exit, unless we used a different entrance from exit, which we might have, as we threw everything but the kitchen sink at this event)

Now that our song is done
We are sure that you know that we have won
We’re the seniors of ‘75
The greatest senior group ever alive
We’re the sexy, sensational, sassy, successful super seniors of 75

To the tune of When I’m 64

Winning this fight of 75, senior girls are here
We’ll be showing you our pep and drive (oy, how corny)
Senior girls are really alive (cringe)

[surely a verse missing here, but thanks to Susan Stein for this verse]

Seniors of crane lake our time has come

We’ll convince you all

Who’s gonna win it, we’re gonna win it

we are on the ball

Then, to the tune of California Here I Come (we had the hardest time keeping people from changing keys in the middle of this):

Listen to us, Don and Ed
Senior girls are way ahead
If you’ve heard all that we’ve said then we’ll conquer this sing night

Sports and games and tennis too
We all show our strength to you
Blah blah blah all that we do
As we sing with all our might

[Then back to When I'm 64]

Okay, I forget all the rest of this, except the last few lines

Who’s gonna win it? We’re gonna win it…
The seniors, yes the seniors, the seniors naturally

(Curtain close, curtain open)

The seniors, yes the seniors, the seniors naturally

(Curtain close, curtain open…Big finish)

The seniors naturally