Song # 19 - Summer & The Great Outdoors And Inside Jokes

Here is a song about a girl named Summer. I get to spent a week at camp each year teaching at a Rock and Roll camp... and have learned all about camp culture... I was a little confused for a while but after a few years I'm starting to understand all the hand motions and jokes... haha. I see why people love to go to camp (at least this one)... it is this awesome little subculture and community of people... People go to camp all through school and then become counselors. I know people who get married at camp... and/or met their spouse at camp... etc. If you've worked at a camp you'll understand this campy little song. Camp has SO many inside jokes... each year/week/day... some live on forever. I threw a couple little hints of inside jokes in the end... for the campers that will hear this eventually. :)

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Summer & The Great Outdoors And Inside Jokes

“Summer! Summer... time to go to camp!”
A now familiar phrase at the end of June
The first time she was scared out of her mind
But soon it became like a second home
She had friends that she couldn't wait to see
And by the end, she never wanted to leave

CHORUS:
Along this gravel road, you'll find a wooden sign
That reads -Welcome to Camp. Leave your troubles behind.

There is something about camp that other people don't understand
It is more than waterfront sand, hand motions to all of the songs
It's more than crowed cabins and campfires every night
You catch a glimpse of truth in each others faces at moonlight
Acoustic guitar comes from across the lake
You could sing camp songs, the whole night long.

A camper from grade to middle to high school
She became a counselor, She spends the whole summers
She sees her friends and sing all the songs
Oh the great outdoors and great inside jokes
Bandannas, Crocs, Tye Dies, bathing is optional
If you find love at camp, you know it must be real

Oh the great outdoors and great inside jokes.

(c) & (p) Daniel L. Vaillancourt (ASCAP)