Another song from my childhood.....

One of the many songs I remember singing at Boy Scout camp was "Bound For Australia". (Original lyrics here.)

But I remember a corrupted version of the song. The was another troop at a neighboring campsite -- Troop 547 from Lackawanna, if I remember correctly. One year, one of the boys was going for Bee Keeping merit badge. And the rest of the guys in his troop razzed him for it. They subsituted the word "Bees" for the word "Heave". And that's how I remembered the song:


Bees away, my bonnie boys
Bees away! Bees away!
Bees away, my bomnnie boys
For we're bound for Australia


I tried going for Signaling merit badge one year. And didn't get it.

"Be kind to your web-footed friends......."