A Few Suggested Hymns and Songs

The "Boy Scout" Hymn (Tune : 'Tell out my soul, the greatness of the Lord')
Now as I start upon my chosen way
In all I do, my thoughts, my work, my play
Grant, as I promise, courage new for me
To be the best, the best that I can be.

Help me to keep my honour shining bright
May I be loyal in the hardest fight.
Let me able for my task and then
To earn a place among my fellow men.

Open my eyes to see things as I should
That I may do my daily turn of good.
Let me be ready, waiting for each need
To keep me clean in thought and word and deed.

So as I journey on my chosen way
In all I do, my thoughts, my work, my play
Grant, as I promise, courage new for me
To be the best, the best that I can be.

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Guides' Enrolment Hymn (Tune: O Jesus I have promised)
O Jesus I have promised
My loyalty to thee
My life to give in service
In love and purity
Thy strength shall guard my weakness
While walking by my side
O help me keep my promise
To be a faithful Guide.

O Jesus I have promised
My vows I here renew
To be a trusty comrade
In friendship sweet and true.
For wisdom in my choosing
I will in thee confide.
O help me keep my promise
To be a faithful Guide.

O Jesus I have promised
To cheerfully obey
My tasks to offer gladly
Through this and every day
Then grant I may be loyal
Whatever may betide
And help me keep my promise
To be a faithful Guide.

O Jesus I have promised
A faithful Guide to be
And though some days be dreary
Thy love will comfort me.
O help me to remember
That thou for me hast died
And through my days to follow
The footsteps of my Guide.

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One more step along the world I go

One more step along the world I go,
One more step along the world I go.
From the old things to the new
Keep me travelling along with you.
(Chorus) And it's from the old I travel to the new;
Keep me travelling along with you.

Round the corner of the world I turn,
More and more about the world I learn.
All the new things that I see
You'll be looking at along with me.
Chorus

As I travel through the bad and good,
Keep me travelling the way I should.
Where I see no way to go
You'll be telling me the way, I know.
Chorus

Give me courage when the world is rough,
Keep me loving though the world is tough.
Leap and sing in all I do,
Keep me travelling along with you.
Chorus

You are older than the world can be,
You are younger than the life in me.
Ever old and ever new,
Keep me travelling along with you.
Chorus

(Words and Music by Sydney Carter)

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Go Well And Safely

Go well and safely,
Go well and safely,
Go well and safely,
The Lord be ever with thee.

Stay well and safely,
Stay well and safely,
Stay well and safely,
The Lord be ever with thee.

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