Neshaminy Service Unit
This web page was updated on June 24, 1999
Girl Scout Graces
Many thanks to Barb Hunter for compiling these graces for us to enjoy!
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Adams Family Grace
Tune: Adams Family TV show theme
Da da da dum (snap fingers twice) XX
Da da da dum XX
Da da da dum
Da da da dum
Da da da dum XX
We thank you for our food, Lord
For all the things you do, Lord
For Mom and Dad and you, Lord
And for our family
---or---
We thank you Lord for giving
The food we need for living
For fun and friends and family
We thank you now oh Lord
Da da da dum XX
Da da da dum XX
Da da da dum
Da da da dum
Da da da dum Amen!
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Allelu
Christian version
(This can be sung in 2 parts: Group 1 sings the "odd-numbered" lines and Group 2 sings the "even-numbered" lines. Groups can be sitting to begin, stand when they sing their line, then sit again.)
Allelu, Allelu, Allelu, Allelujah
Praise ye the Lord
Allelu, Allelu, Allelu, Allelujah
Praise ye the Lord
Praise ye the Lord, Allelujah
Praise ye the Lord, Allelujah
Praise ye the Lord, Allelujah
Praise ye the Lord
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Back of the Bread
Back of the bread is the flour
And back of the flour is the mill
And back of the mill is the wind
And the rain and the Fathers will.
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Be Present at our Table
Tune: Chim Chimini
Be present at our table Lord
Be here and everywhere adored
For food and drink and happy days
Accept our gratitude and praise.
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Bless our Food (written by Sharon Murray of Alexandria, VA)
Tune: Make new Friends
Bless our food we share with friends today
Grant us peace and love along the way.
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Bless Us Everyone
Tune: Jingle Bells
Bless this day bless this food
Bless us everyone
Guide us as we go our way
And fill our day with fun.
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Cheerios
Thanks to: Phyllis Rowley- Totem Council-Seattle, rowley@home.com
Tune: Eidelweiss
Cheerios, Cheerios,
Every morning you greet me,
Small and round,
Toasty brown,
You look happy to meet me.
Bowls full of milk how you sink and float,
Sink and float forever.
Cheerios, Cheerios,
Bless my breakfast forever.
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Coca Cola Grace
Tune: I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing
I'd like to thank the Lord above
For lending me this land
For apple trees and honey bees
The harvest and my home
To Him we must give thanks today
For all the things to come
For health and strength and happiness
Be thankful everyone.
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Come Good Girl Scouts
Tune: Jesus Loves Me
Come good Girl Scouts
Bow your head
Thank the Lord for
This good bread
Reverent Girl Scouts
We will be
Thanks oh Lord
Our thanks to Thee.
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Doo Wa Ditty Ditty
Thank you Lord for the food that we receive
Singing doo wa ditty ditty dum ditty doo
Thanks to Thee for bread 'n butter and the meat
Singing doo wa ditty ditty dum ditty doo
Looks good (echo: looks good)
Tastes Fine (echo: taste fine)
Looks good, tastes fine
And we praise God for all time!
Singing doo wa ditty ditty dum ditty dooooo.
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Flintstones Grace
Tune: Flintstones
God is--great--and God is--good
And let us thank Him for our food.
God is--great--and God is--good
And let us thank Him for our food.
Amen. Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-men.
Amen. Ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-men.
God is--great--and God is--good
And let us thank Him for our...
We'll thank Him for our...
We'll thank Him for our food!
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For Health and Strength
Old English 4 part round
For health and strength
And daily bread
We give Thee thanks oh Lord
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For Goodness
Tune: She'll be coming 'round the mountain
Let us all thank God for goodness at this meal
Let us all thank God for goodness at this meal
Let us all thank God for goodness,
Let us all thank God for goodness,
Let us all thank God for goodness at this meal.
Other Phrases:
We will honor God with goodness every day.
We will stand and shout His praises, Yeah God!
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Girl Scout Grace
Tune: Edelweiss
Bless this camp
Bless this bread
Come oh Lord and sit with us
May our hearts glow with peace
Come with Your love and surround us
Friendship and love may they bloom and grow
Bloom and grow forever
Bless our friends
Bless us all
Bless all Girl Scouts forever.
(alternative verse)
Bless our friends, bless our food
Come dear lord and sit with us
Make our hearts grow in peace
Send your love to surround us
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God Is Great
Tune: theme from the TV game show Jeopardy
God is great
And God is good
Let us thank Him
For our food
By His hand we all are fed
Give us Lord our daily bread
Amen
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God is Great
Tune: For the Beauty of the Earth
God is great and God is good
Let us thank him for our food
By His hand we all are fed
Give us Lord our daily bread
Lord of all to Thee we raise
This our hymn of grateful praise.
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God is Great
Tune Rock Around the clock
God is great
God is good
And we thank Him for our food
We're gonna thank Him morning noon and night
Gonna thank Him 'cause He's out of sight
Gonna thank Him thank Him thank Him for every bite.
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God Our Father
Tune: Frere Jacques
God our Father God our Father
Once again once again
We will ask Thy blessing we will ask Thy blessing
Amen Amen.
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Hallelu
Hebrew version
Hallelu, hallelu, hallelu, hallelujah
Hodu lashem
Hallelu, hallelu, hallelu, hallelujah
Hodu lashem
Hodu lashem, Hallelujah
Hodu lashem, Hallelujah
Hodu lashem, Hallelujah
Hodu lashem
("Ho" as in "hoe", "du" as in "do", "la" as in "tra la", and "shem" to rhyme with "hem")
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Hark to the Chimes
At the word 'bread' the person at the head of the table strikes a gong (or partly filled water glass) to indicate the time of day; 12 times for noon etc.
Hark to the chimes
Come bow thy head
We thank Thee Lord
For this good bread.
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He Hears
Tune: On Top of Old Smokey
My God is so great, and I am so small,
But it doesn't matter, he hears when I call!
He hears when I whisper, he hears when I shout.
He hears my thank you, 'cause I'm a Girl Scout.
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Let's Join Hands
Tune: Mary had a little lamb
Let's join hands and give our thanks,
Give our thanks, give our thanks,
Let's join hands and give our thanks,
Give our thanks to God.
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The Lord is Good to Me / Johnny Appleseed Grace
words and music by Kim Gannon & Walter Kent
The Lord is good to me
And so I thank the Lord
For giving me the things I need
The sun and the rain and an apple seed
Yes He's been good to me
I owe the Lord so much
For everything I see
I'm certain if it weren't for Him
There'd be no apples on this limb
Yes He's been good to me
Oh here am I neath a blue blue sky
A doin' as I please
Singin' with my feathered friends,
Hummin with the bees
Yes He's been good to me
I wake up every day as happy as can be
Because I know that with His care
My apple trees
They will still be there
Oh the Lord's is good to me
And every seed that grows
Shall grow into a tree
And one day soon There'll be apples there
For every one in the world to share
The Lord is good to me.
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Lord We Thank Thee
Tune: Frere Jacques
Lord we thank Thee, Lord we thank Thee
For this food, for this food
And Thy many blessings, and Thy many blessings
Amen, amen
--or--
God our father, God our father,
Once again, once again,
We would ask thy blessing, we would ask thy blessing,
A-men, a-men.
--or-
Lord above, Lord above
We want to thank Thee, we want to thank Thee
For our food, for our food
And Your love, and Your love
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Lovely Treat
Tune: This Old Man
Bread and jam, Bread and jam,
I am grateful, yes I am
I thank God kindly for the food I eat.
Thank Him for this lovely treat.
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Morning is Here
Morning (noontime, evening) is here
The board is spread
Thanks be to God
Who gives us bread.
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'Neath These Tall Green Trees
'Neath these tall green trees we stand
Asking blessings from Thy hand
Thanks we give to Thee above
For Thy health and strength and love.
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Super Woman Grace
Tune: Theme from Superman the Movie
Thank You Lord for giving us food
Thank You Lord for giving us food
For the food we eat
For the friends we meet
Thank You Lord for giving us food
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Taps Grace
Tune: Taps
Thanks to God,
For our food,
For our milk, for our stew, for our bread
God is Joy, God is love,
Bow your head.
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Ten Big Thank Yous To God
Tune: One little, two little, three little indians
One little, two little, three little thank yous.
Four little, five little, six little thank yous,
Seven little, eight little, nine little thank yous,
Ten big thank yous to God.
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Thanks be to God
Tune: Wendy
Thanks be to God the Father almighty
Thanks be to God who gave us this earth
Thanks be to God the spirit eternal
Thanks be to God forever.
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Thank The Lord
Tune: Teapot
I am strong and healthy
Thank the Lord.
I have bread, room and board
I have good friends and family,
God takes very good care of me.
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Thank Thee
Tune: Ruben, Ruben
Thank thee, thank thee heavenly Father
For thy blessings we have gathered.
Give us strength and understanding,
Bless us now, oh Lord, we pray.
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Thank Thee
Tune: Jacobs Ladder
Thank Thee thank Thee heavenly Father
For Thy blessings as we gather
Grant us peace and understanding
Hear us now oh Lord
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Thank You
Tune: Doxology
We thank You God for each new day
For flowers strewn along the way
For blessings spread before us now
With grateful hearts our heads we bow.
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Thank You For the World So Sweet
Tune: Michael Row the Boat Ashore
Thank You for the world so sweet alleluia
Thank You for the food we eat alleluia
Thank You for the birds that sing alleluia
Thank You God for everything alleluia
--or-
Neath these tall green trees we stand, alleluia
Asking blessing from thy hand, alleluia
Thanks we give to thee above, alleluia
For thy health and strength and love, alleluia.
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Thank You For This Mountain Blue Day
Thank you for this mountain blue day
Wildflowers ferns and the forest
Thank you for this mountain blue day
And the friends we cherish today
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Thank You God
Tune: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Thank you God for all that grows,
Thank you for the skies rainbows,
Thank you for the stars that shine,
Thank you for these friends of mine,
Thank you for the moon and sun,
Thank you God for all you've done!
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Thank You, Thank You Lord
Tune: Row Your Boat
Thank you, thank you, thank you Lord
For all the food we eat.
And it's so very nice of you,
To make some of it sweet.
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Time To Eat
Tune: 'Ain't She Sweet
Time to eat, thankful Girl Scouts in each seat!
We thank You for your generosity- Time to eat!
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Today
Today, God our father, We thank you in prayer,
And ask you to bless all the food that we share.
We ask you to keep us in your precious sight.
Guide us this day and keep us this day
And keep us from harm through the night.
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Wayfarer's Grace
By M Elizabeth Worsfold & GCE Ryley
For all the glory of Thy way
For Thy protection night and day
For roof tree fire and bread and board
For friends and home
We thank Thee Lord
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We Gather
Tune: My Bonnie
We gather to ask for your blessing
We gather to thank you in prayer
Please bless all this food we are sharing
And keep us in your tender care.
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We Give Thee Thanks
Tune: White Coral Bells
We give Thee thanks for all that we're to share
Grant us peace and harmony Lord hear our prayer
We give Thee thanks for all we've learned today
Help us now to spread your word along the way.
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We Know, We Know
Tune: Hi Ho Hi Ho
We know, we know,
From whom all blessing flow
We thank him then
We say Amen
We know, we know!
We know, We know - repeat 'til tired!
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When'er You Make a Promise Grace
Tune: When'er You Make a Promise
O dearest God above us,
You've me-et all our needs,
We thank thee,
As we bow our heads to pray
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World Hunger Grace
By Reverend R J Crocker. Used by Hunger Task Force Anglican Church Diocese of Huron
For food in a world where many walk in hunger
For faith in a world where many walk in fear
For friends in a world where many walk alone
We give You humble thanks oh Lord.
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Yankee Doodle Grace
Tune Yankee Doodle, words by Sarah Wishert
We thank You Lord for daily bread
For rainy and sunny weather
We thank You Lord for this our food
And that we are together
Thank You thank You thank You Lord
Thank You thank You Father
Thank You Lord for this our food
And thanks for those who made it.
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Zip A Dee Do Dah
Zip a dee do dah,
Zip a dee ay,
I am grateful for God's blessings today.
I've plenty to eat, to drink and to share,
I sit at God's table and see love everywhere.
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