On My Honour
(source: "Campfire Activities", Girl Guides of Canada, 1993.)
(Words and music by Cindy Dasch, Two Rivers Council of Girl Scouts, Quincy, IL -
I'm not sure if all of these verses are actually part of the original song)
- On my honour I will try
- There's a duty to be done, and I say "aye",
- There's a reason here, for a reason above
- My honour is to try, and my duty is to love
People don't need to know my name
- If I hurt someone, then I'm to blame
- If I help someone, then I've helped me
- And that's the way that it should be
I've tucked away a song or two
- If you're feeling low, there's one for you
- If you need a friend, then I will come
- There's plenty more where I come from
Come with me where a fire burns bright
- You can see much better by its own light
- You can find more meaning in a campfire's glow
- Than you'll ever find in a year or so
Friendship is the strangest thing
- If you keep it to yourself no reward will it bring
- But you gave it away, and you gave it to me
- And from now on great friends we'll be
We've got a promise to always keep
- We will sing "Day is Done" before we sleep
- We are Girl Guides together, and when we're gone
- We'll still be a-trying and a-singing this song...
- (repeat first verse)