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

Fight Song snippets

To the tune of “Hello, I love you.” Definitely 1969:

L-C boys are winning tonight
L-C boys are out of sight…

Sub-senior girls (1970?)

To the tune of the Noah’s Ark song:
So Don, and Ed, and Sid come and hear our song
And something a spirit …
We’re 25 and (clap) thousands strong
Sub-senior girls are here.

(My sister probably remembers every word of this one.)

Per request:

Does anyone have the lyrics to the winning Senior Greasers? I’m told it was to Sounds of Silence, which does not ring the slightest bell with me. I remember only the part that went, “Each night I ask the stars up above…Why must I be a senior greaser in love?”

All I can remember from the famous Camper Workers in ‘75 (which beat out us senior girls) was the line (to Wouldn’t it be nice?):

With the turtlenecks at night we hide things.

This was quite nicely choreographed, as I recall, and they all pointed to their necks when they sang that. I guess the other part of it was to California Girls, i.e.:

I wish they all could be Camper Worker girls…

This was supplied by Gary Siegel.

LC girls in ‘69

Led by Peggy. Liz Bender remembered this one at the reunion. She is in the videos as well with Meryl and me and also Robin Hemlock on Visiting Day 1969.

To “Alexander’s Ragtime Band”

Oh wait. Peggy had two belly buttons. Actually, I think she had a scar near her belly button but at 8 years old, I thought (we all thought) it was two belly buttons. I saw it once when she was getting into the shower. She was kind of a  much older woman (in my mind she was like 60, but I doubt that’s right) and the whole thing kind of freaked me out.

Well, anyhow, here are the lyrics you are waiting for:

Come on along, Come on along
Let me take you by the hand
Right to a camp, right to a camp
That’s the leader of the land

And when we hear the bugle call
We’ll come rushing one and all
We love this camp so much
that we want to stay til fall
Our hearts will always be with you
Dear CLC (Ding*)

We play all games we play all sports
We always have a lot of fun
We put on shows, we put on skits
There’s something here for everyone

So if you’re looking for a place to stay
in good old West Stockbridge
Come on along, come on along
Come on along to CLC!

 * Triangle bell we played on visiting day. Betsy/Meryl silly joke from then on.

All Stars winning fight song

Meryl supplied, I tweaked, but how can you forget this one anyhow?

Give us an A for Action that’s what we’re about
Two L’s for Loving Lenny, too
Give us an S for being Super Soccer Stars
T for trying even when we lose
Give us an A for the ashtrays we make in arts and crafts
R for running to the dining room
You’ll find that we’re okay
No matter what they say
Always fighting for the White and Blue.

All Stars!

Sub-senior girls of ‘72

Lyrics provided by Susan S. Song written by Lynn Cramer, who I can still see pounding her fist to the beat. We couldn’t believe we lost with such a great song. What’d we lose to?

(Starts to “I enjoy being a girl” )
We’re 26 proud and strong girls
We’ve got spirit and pep and drive
We will always put our best forward for perfection we will strive
 
Bunks 1 and 3, 5 and 7
Have a style and class all our own
As a group there is none quite like us
We’re unique, that we have shown
 
(Then “I’m a Yankee Doodle Dandy” )
For we’re sub senior girls of Crane Lake
The group that starts the day off right
We stay in bed until we hear first call
And won’t get back in at night
 
We drove our counselors all to drinking
Our favorite sport is to complain
Nonetheless we are the best here
All of you believe us
Sub-senior girls do own Camp Crane

We’re 26 proud and strong girls,
We’ve got spirit and pep and drive
We are hell-raising Crane Lake Campers
Don and Ed, you’ll never see, another group like we

We walked in and out to “Subsenior girls of Camp Crane Lake, marching unto a victory” to the tune of “Hineh matov umanayim,” sung in a round.