{"id":327,"date":"2008-09-07T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T12:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=327"},"modified":"2008-09-07T12:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-07T12:54:00","slug":"mspp-48-the-hole-in-the-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"MSPP #48: The Hole In The Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/melrosetroop68.org\/uploaded_images\/holeinground-784506.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/melrosetroop68.org\/uploaded_images\/holeinground-784464.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">When I was a Boy Scout<\/span> I attended summer camp at Parker Scout Reservation in Central Minnesota. We ate our evening meals in a dining hall. Once the troops were seated, one of the staff members would get up in front of the troops and lead us in a song. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Hole In The Ground<\/span> song was one of the songs I learned during those meals.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Hole In The Ground<\/span> song is an audience participation song. The song leader sings a portion and the audience repeats it. Everyone joins in on the refrain. As the song continues it gets a lot longer and a whole lot faster. By the end of the song there are only a few people who will usually be able to keep up. It is a song that does require some practice if you plan to lead it.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the words to the refrain of the song:<\/p>\n<p>Refrain:<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Well, in the ground, there was a hole,<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The prettiest little hole, that you ever did see.<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Well, the hole&#8217;s in the ground and the green grass grew all around and around<\/span>. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">And the green grass grew all around.<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">(The refrain will get longer with each verse.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I invite you and your son(s) to watch this video posting to the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Melrose Scouting Productions Podcast<\/span> and let me know if you were able to keep up with the singers. Learn it and use it during your next campfire program.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Please leave a comment<\/span> here using the link below, at the iTunes Music Store, or at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ptcmedia.net\/\">PTC Media<\/a> forums. Or drop me an email at <a href=\"mailto:webmaster@melrosetroop68.org\">webmaster@melrosetroop68.org<\/a>. It is great to hear what you think about the podcast videos.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/melrosetroop68.org\/QTmov\/HoleInTheGround.mov\">Click here to DOWNLOAD this Podcast<\/a><br \/>Subscribe to <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=251187870\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Melrose Scouting Productions Podcast<\/span> through<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">iTunes<\/span><\/a>.<br \/>or at <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/melrosescoutingproductions\">http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/melrosescoutingproductions<\/a><br \/>Check out the other Scouting podcasts at <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ptcmedia.net\/\">PTC Media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Subscribe to &#8220;A Scoutmaster&#8217;s Blog&#8221; at<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.blogger.com\/feeds\/28330606\/posts\/default<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a Boy Scout I attended summer camp at Parker Scout Reservation in Central Minnesota. We ate our evening meals in a dining hall. Once the troops were seated, one of the staff members would get up in front of the troops and lead us in a song. The Hole In The Ground [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campfire","category-podcast"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melrosetroop68.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}