Songs

Then come the songs. If there is some one in the party who can lead in singing, she can use a familiar air with a rousing chorus as a frame upon which to hang impromptu verses, made up of personalities and local hits. This is always fun and you are surprised how quickly doggerel rhymes suggest themselves when your turn comes to furnish a verse to the song.

The leader begins something like this, using, perhaps, the air and refrain of an old chantey or college song.

Leader

"I spotted a beaver,

But he wasn't very nye."

Chorus

"Don't you rock so hard!"

Second Soloist

"His fur was all ragged

And he had but one eye."

Chorus

"Don't you rock so hard.

Oh! You rock and I rock, and

Don't you rock so hard!

Everybody rocks when I rock, and

Don't you rock so hard."

Third Soloist

"You may laugh at the beaver,

But he's always up to time."

Chorus

"Don't you rock so hard!"

Fourth Soloist

"Oh, do drop the beaver,

And start a new rhyme."

Chorus as before

A song like this may go on indefinitely or until the rhyming powers of the party are exhausted.