"Barges" Scout Campfire Song

A lot of people online have been looking for the song "Barges" and surprisingly, no videos with it have been added to youtube, so here it is. This is a song that I sang when I was in Boy Scouts (I made it to Eagle Scout) and I made this video for it using Pinnacle Studio 11. Here are the lyrics:

Barges, I would like to go with you
I would like to sail the ocean blue
Barges, have you treasures in your hold
Do you fight with pirates brave and bold?

Out of my window, looking in the night
I can see the barges flickering light
Starboard's glowing green and port is glowing red
I can see the barges from my bed

Barges, I would like to go with you
I would like to sail the ocean blue
Barges, have you treasures in your hold
Do you fight with pirates brave and bold?

How my heart longs to sail away with you
As you sail across the ocean blue
But I must sit beside my window clear
As the barges sail away from here

Barges, I would like to go with you
I would like to sail the ocean blue
Barges, have you treasures in your hold
Do you fight with pirates brave and bold?

Out of my window looking in the night
I can see the barges flickering light
Taking their cargo out into the sea
How I wish that someday they'd take me

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[tecnogeek36]

it is a girl scout song as well and does any1 know where i can find a girl scout cd with camp music like this

[BenjaminJSullivan]

@tecnogeek36 Yes. The album Girl Scouts Greatest Hits "We Change The World." You can find it on Amazon.

[momfishx2]

Out of my tent flap, looking in the night

I can see the leaders having a fight.

Silently floats a pillow through a pillow through the air

And there goes someone's underwear

Leaders, I don't want to fight with you,

or I might become a leader too.

Leaders, I don't want to fight with you,

or I might become a leader too.

[sincemarchoflastyear]

Alternative Version I learnt from my Senior Section:

Looking from my tentflap, looking in the night

I can see the Guiders' cigarette lights,

Silently flows a whisky to the glass as the Guiders have some fun at last.

Guiders, who is that man in your tent?

Isn't it about time that he went?

Guiders, how I long to be with you, I would like to have some whisky too. :D

[misorihara]

Such a sad song once you know why it was written ;c

[xXNannersXx]

It was written by a little girl who was in the hospital. She had a room that looked out over some body of water and at night when she couldn't sleep, she would watch the lights from the barges go by. She eventually died and they found this song on a piece of paper under her mattress. Her parents showed the song to the scout troop she was a part of. When her troop went to camp, they made little "barges" out of their milk cartons and put candles in them. They let them go in a lake and sang this s

[vampireheart85]

we sing this song  as we put boats we made on the fish pond and I'm usually crying lol

[Tsagiglalal]

-I learned this song about 50 yrs ago at a Girl Scout camp in Washington State. I didn't know the background story, so sad. Does anyone know about when the song was written?

[DUUUUDEEEEimbored162]

@SelenaGomezFan7252 LOL

[SelenaGomezFan7252]

@DUUUUDEEEEimbored162 same here!

[DUUUUDEEEEimbored162]

... this is a CAMP song??? we sing this during MUSIC CLASS!!!!