There Was a Girl Who Came to Camp

DESCRIPTION: "There was a girl who came to camp" and refuses to do her tasks: "She wouldn't make her bed because it tired her so, She wouldn't do the dishes, sweep the cabin floor, The Camp Fire Girls just picked her up and threw her out the door."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 2014 (Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, who however dates it pre-1960)
KEYWORDS: work campsong
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Averill-CampSongsFolkSongs, pp. 166, 218, 496, 500, "There Was a Girl Who Came to Camp"/"There Was a Girl" (notes plus a partial text on p. 218)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Coming Through the Rye" (tune)
File: ACSF166T

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