Help me find a regionally specific Girl Scout song

Post date: 2024-04-26 13:21:21

I have vague memories of a song we sang as Mariner Scouts (the branch of Senior Girl Scouts that learned about sailing) in southern CA in the late 90s/early aughts. I can't find any record of its existence and it's driving me crazy. Lyrics fragment below the fold.

My recollection is that there were two annual events for Mariner Scouts, one in spring and one in fall. One was called TAMBU (I think this was for all Senior Scouts actually) and the other was called GAM. I don't remember which was which. As the one in spring was coming to a close, we'd sing a song about the one coming up in fall. All I remember of it are the following fragments, which are not from the beginning of the song:

Say, do you remember
Adventures here, and on the sea?
Say goodbye till September or sometimes October, depending on when the fall one was]
...my memory is missing this line]...
To where the sun shines down on the golden sands
And the wind makes ripples on the sea
To where the moon looks down on the blue lagoon
Castaic Lake! or wherever the fall event was slated to be] That's where I'll be!

I am not exaggerating that this song still gets stuck in my head a few times a year and I haven't been a Scout for 20 years. I don't know if this was an original song/tune or some pop song that was repurposed for the events (not uncommon!), so if the lines in the song sound familiar to you but you weren't a GS, or if you knew a song with similar lyrics as a GS from another region/about something else, that would be very useful data!

I think the song was about GAM because TAMBU had its own song (of which all I remember is "Woo-woo, TAMBU" - and hell, if you know the TAMBU song I want to know that one too) but the Girl Scouts had a song for fkn everything so maybe there was one song for getting excited about TAMBU and other song we actually sang there.

I was going to these events from about 1998 to 2003, but at the time it felt like these songs were from time immemorial and would be around forever, as things do when you're young. I would be thrilled to hear from anyone else who remembered them - even getting that missing line from the middle of the verse I know filled in would make it much nicer to have this song in my head.

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