Glee
Index
of Songs A-K
Index
of Songs L-Z
Rounds and Cyclic Songs
Dance
Music Downloads
Welcome to the FSC online songbook, a selection of some of the songs that we sing when we're out in the fields and sitting around our campfires (and sometimes back home in the bathroom). These songs have been passed down over many years and countless camps and are the legacy of all the unnamed people who put the effort in to discover and introduce them to our organisation.
Glee is central to the FSC ethos. It reflects our belief in "learning by doing, teaching by being." On our camps we come together to sing and dance and collectively create our own entertainment.
Our songs also connect us to our historical roots and Glee on FSC was recently described as "one of the few genuine oral singing traditions left in England." Many of our songs are hundreds of years old and we should be very proud of our link with the past.
It's nice to try to learn the words to the songs so that we don't always have to use the book - the songbook is a tool, not a crutch and here on the web you can take your time to learn the words. There's also room on these pages for all the songs we've had to leave out of the printed book and for alternative versions of some of them. Of course there are plenty of other songs that are wonderful to sing on camp, too.
This songbook was compiled by the Glee committee, the group in FSC responsible for maintaining and extending the role of traditional song and dance in our organisation. We have meetings in London once a month where we sing, dance and socialise. There are also regular get-togethers outside London – in Bristol, Cambridge and Sheffield currently. Anyone is welcome to come along to these and we are always looking for new people to get involved.
For information or suggestions on this or anything else to do with glee in FSC please email: glee@fsc.org.uk
Blue Sky
The Glee Committee
May 2006
You may also like to log on to the Singalong Virtual Forest School Campfire at www.virtualcampfire.co.uk