Campfire Closing #7 - Taps
| Category: | Campfire Closings |
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| Link: | Performance Example |
| Notes: | A traditional campfire closing featuring the first verse of "Taps," often played on bugle or sung by Scouts. |
| Notes: | The sun imagery progresses from lake to hills to sky, making it easy to remember. |
Before ever singing the words, it's certain Scouts have heard the familiar melody played on a bugle. The first verse of Taps is an appropriate campfire closing and easy to sing. Scouts can remember the words because the three "places" the sun has gone from, proceed from lowest to highest: "the lake," "the hills," "the sky."
Before ever singing the words, it's certain Scouts have heard the familiar melody played on a bugle. The first verse of Taps is an appropriate campfire closing and easy to sing. Scouts can remember the words because the three "places" the sun has gone from, proceed from lowest to highest: "the lake," "the hills," "the sky."
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Day is done.
Gone the sun
From the lake, from the hills, from the sky.
All is well. Safely rest.
God is nigh.