Hermy The Worm

Hey guys! Just wanted to share this... For Girl Scouts we're doing a SWAPS event.
(SWAPS by the way, means "Special Whatchamacallits Affectionally Pinned Somewhere")
Our troop swap is made of one of these babies, stuffed inside a tiny plastic bag along with a hair clip. [if you look in our hair in the video, you can see those weird colored... things? Yeah. Those are the worms, with teh strings wrapped around our ears. We figured we'd make it easier for people to put them in their hair by including a hair clip. We're just nice that way.] On the outside of the bag there are two stickers, one on either side. One says "Making New Friends: Troop 1747" (Or just... Making New Friends) and the other one has the link to that YouTube video up there.

Now, there is a short story behind this.
Let me begin with the song.

Despite what most people may think, that song we're singing up there is not the "original" Hermy the Worm song. There are, in fact, two "original" versions, with that one being neither.
Here is the original version I learned. (The words in parenthesis are the words to the other original version, which we didn't use because it was too bloody. ;))

Sitting on my fence post, chewing my bubble gum.

Playin with my yo-yo.

Woo, Woo!

And along came Hermy the worm. He was THIS BIG!

I said, Hermy, what happened?

I ate a bug. (my sister.)

Sitting on my fence post, chewin my bubble gum.

Playin' with my yo-yo.

Woo-Woo!

And along came Hermy the worm. He was THIS BIG!

I said, Hermy, what happened?

I ate a snake. (My brother.)

Sitting on my fence post, chewin my bubble gum.

Playing with my yo-yo.

Woo-Woo!

And along came Hermy the worm. He was THIS BIG!

I said, Hermy, what happened?

I ate a dog. (My mother.)

Sitting on my fence post, chewin my bubble gum.

Playin' with my yo-yo.

Woo-Woo!

And along came Hermy the worm. He was THIS BIG!

I said, Hermy, what happened?

I ate a cow. (My father.)

Sitting on my fence post, chewin my bubble gum.

Playin' with my yo-yo.

Woo-Woo!

And along came Hermy the worm. He was this big.

I said, Hermy, what happened?

I burped.

Now, this is a Girl Scout song.
We sing it every time we go on any camp out.
You could say that it's become our sort of theme song.

Moving on with the story.

I've been in Girl Scouts for six years. So, since I was 8. I started out as my first year in Juniors- because it was either my last year of Brownies or my first year of Juniors, and the rest of the troop was already Juniors, so, yeah.

A few years into being a Girl Scout- I think it was one or two- my first SWAPS event came around. We were wondering what the heck we should do as a troop swap, until we thought of this song.
"Hermy!" we said. "We should make Hermy!"

And so we did.
(this is where I'd have a picture of our original swap, except I'm too lazy to go take a picture of it. I have one on my bulletin board.)

So, the swap was baiscally a green pipe cleaner, wrapped around a pencil (and then taken off) to make a worm. We then glued two googly eyes to the worm, and then we glued it to a fake leaf and put a piece of paper that says "Girl Scout Troop 1747" under the worm, and then glued a pin to the back.

We made a ton of those.

Needless to say, when this year's SWAP event came around, and we were wondering what to make, of course we chose Hermy the Worm.

My troop loves traditions.

So, we decided that the best thing to do was to get the toy worms, and use them as Hermy- and then write the lyrics to the song and put them with the worm.
Unfortunately, though, there were too many lyrics to fit.

So, the YouTube thing happened. Only we changed the lyrics.
I don't remember what fruits we used exactly, but I know the last one was a watermellon. I think the first was a strawberry..
You're just going to have to watch it for yourself.

Anyway, if anyone's wondering, I'm on the far, far left, on the bottom row, in the blue shirt. :) The girl sitting directly behind me, with the long hair and white shirt is Valerie/Veela, and the one on the far right with the blue shirt is Cat/Linda. And no, I don't feel bad revealing her identity, since, y'know, there's like a ton of pictures of her up on the Book blog. So. ;)


Anyway, thought I'd share.
Toodleoo.