Barges
This story you may have heard before or you may have heard a different version. My story is about a little girl who was dying of leukemia. She lay in her hospital bed one night watching out the window at the passing ships and barges in the distant waters. She wrote a poem about what she saw and felt that night. After the little girl died her mother found the beautiful poem and had it turned into the song that we know today "Barges"... At camp now, Girl Scouts sing the song in the Barges ceremony. It symbolizes the little girls dreams that she will never accomplish and all of our dreams, that haven't come true yet.
These are the words to the song, Barges.
Out of my window looking in the night I can see the barges flickering light. Silently flows the river to the sea and the barges too go silently.
Barges I would like to go with you I would like to sail the ocean blue. Barges have you treasures in your hold do you fight with pirates brave and bold.
Out of my window looking in the night I can see the barges flickering light. Starboard shines green and port is glowing red I can see the barges far ahead.
Barges I would like to go with you I would like to sail the ocean blue. Barges have you treasures in your hold do you fight with pirates brave and bold.
How I would like to sail away with you I would like to sail the ocean blue, but I must stay beside my window here As I watch you sail away from here.
Barges I would like to go with you I would like to sail the ocean blue. Barges have you treasures in your hold do you fight with pirates brave and bold.
In a Barges ceremony, Girls take a piece of tree bark, a piece of gum, and a candle. They chew the gum, then stick it on the tree bark and put the candle in the gum. Okay, so that sounds gross when you write it, but it really isn't. Then they light their candles and sing the song as they put the "barges" into the water and watch them sail away.
