Campfire Song Book (PDF) - Halifax Ukulele Gang (HUG)

SCOUTING AND CAMPFIRE SONGS PAGE 66 OF 124
SCOUTING AND CAMPFIRE SONGS PAGE 59 OF 124
MY UNCLE
(Tune: My bonnie lies over the ocean)
DGHL
D G D
My uncle once trusted a lion.
A7
He put his head into its mouth.
D G D
Now most of him lies in Chicago.
G A7 D
His head and the lion went south.
Chorus:
D G
Bring back, bring back,
A7 D
oh bring back my uncle to me, to me.
D G E7
Bring back, bring back,
A7 D
oh bring back my uncle to me.
My uncle was hiding from tigers
When pepper got into his nose.
He knew that the tigers were hungry
So he tried not to sneeze, but he snoze.
MCTAVISH IS DEAD
DH
D
Oh, McTavish is dead and his brother don't know it
A7
His brother is dead and McTavish don't know it,
D
They're both of them dead and in the same bed
A7 D
And neither one knows that the other is dead.
MICHAEL FINNEGIN
CN
C
There was a man named Michael Finnegin.
G7
He had whiskers on his chinnagin.
C
Cut them off, but they grew in again.
G7 C
Poor old Michael Finnegin.
My uncle made friends with hyenas.
They gave him a ride on his raft.
When the crocodiles reached up and grabbed him,
The hyenas just sat there and laughed.
My uncle once fell in a pothole
In a glacier while climbing an Alp.
He's still there after fifty long winters
But all you can see is his scalp.
When my uncle annoyed his dear parents,
They threw him right off of the bus!
And if we keep singing this song
Why, that's what will happen to us.