This is a song I learned at Good News Camp.  I have loved it for years and sing it still.  An internet search revealed one website that mentioned it but I couldn't figure out where.  If anyone knows who wrote it, let me know.

Yellow Pages

When you're in search for something special

and you don't know where to look,

Over by the telephone

there sits a handy book!

You open it up and look into the pages

and you'll see

A yellow section in the back listed alphabetically!

There you can find anything that's underneath the sun,

Things for home and family and lots of things for fun,

But if you're in search of peace of mind

and life eternally,

let me explain

you're lookin' in vain,

please listen close to me.

You can't find Jesus in the Yellow Pages!

Search for years and ages but you'll never find him there!

You don't need an area code, a number or a dime

His line is never busy you can call Him anytime,

For treasure here on earth,

just let your fingers do the walkin'!

For treasures up in Heaven,

let the Savior do you the talkin'!

If you're lookin' for a piece of the Rock of Ages,

You'll never find Jesus in the Yellow Pages!

You can find sunglasses for your parakeet,

water skies for your dog,

mittens for your kitty cat,

a bonnet for your frog!

Trees and bees and dungarees

and artificial hair!

There's even a cow that can tell you how

to be a millionaire!

Jet propelled tennis shoes,

automobiles with wings,

clocks with hands and fingers,

telephones that sing!

People who can take your house

and tear it all apart,

Others who can fix it up

but never fix your heart!

You can't find Jesus in the Yellow Pages!

Search for years and ages but you'll never find him there!

You don't need an area code, a number or a dime

His line is never busy you can call Him anytime,

For treasure here on earth,

just let your fingers do the walkin'!

For treasures up in Heaven,

let the Savior do you the talkin'!

If you're lookin' for a piece of the Rock of Ages,

You'll never find Jesus in the Yellow Pages!

I don't know who wrote this song, nor could I find music for it, so you won't know the tune, but here are the lyrics as I learned them, which I think are much better than the lyrics I found for it on a search.

A boy and a girl in a little canoe

and the moon was shining all around

The boy he dipped his paddle in

never even made a sound

Well, they talked and they talked

till the moon grew dim

and He said you better kiss me

or get out and swim

So what do you do in a little canoe

when the moon is shining all a,

moon is shining all a,

moon is shining all around?

YOU GET OUT AND SWIM!

© Copyright 2005, 2006 High Desert Hi-Jinks, and Sagerat Scribbles.

I loved going to camp as a girl.  I've been to 4-H camps, Camp Fire Girls Camp (back when it was still just Camp Fire Girls), and Good News Camp. 

I came home from camp singing the songs we learned for weeks!  I can still pull many of them up from memory and I have shared them with my children.  Dear Man once said I could sing about anything. 

I still have many of my camp song books.  Some have become politcally incorrect, and others I have decided are immoral and I won't sing them anymore. 

Over the course of time, I will share some of those songs.  I want them down, somewhere, for all to see in the the form I learned them.  Many of them the orginal way, many of them changed even by the time I had learned them.  Not sure what they would look like now! 

So, keep your eyes open as I share The Best of Sagerats Camp Song Lyrics.  You're in for a rollicking good time!

© Copyright 2005, 2006 High Desert Hi-Jinks, and Sagerat Scribbles.