Trip to Hanging Rock (Prompt #6 - Moving In)

Description and Lyrics by Clovis Perez

The trip to Hanging Rock was indeed a great experience! So unforgettable that I wrote a song about it, right after the trip!

Attached is a picture of the lyrics, from the original notebook I've kept all these years. As for the melody, I will have to make an effort to retrieve it from my memory, since I didn't even write down the chords. But I kind of remember how it goes.

What's impressive is that I cover most of the aspects that Michelle mentioned in the article: the apple cider (of course it was non-alcoholic, but Karen started giggling a lot, so we joked that she was drunk from drinking the apple cider); Polly's cooking; the bonfire, the fact that we didn't climb and so forth. The bones in the woods, from what I remember, refers to the fact that we did find the bones of a dead animal in the woods, during the exercise proposed by Mr. Eilber.

Lyrics to "Trip to Hanging Rock":

It all started when Polly decided

To organize a trip

She announced it out loud  in front of a crowd

And some people decided to take a risk

No cold, no rain, nobody could have stopped the fun at hanging rock

We had a lot of fun but everybody also helped a lot

Karen got drunk with some hot apple cider

We sang many songs around the camp fire

Polly cooked food that was much better than good

We found a lot of bones in the woods

We slept outside pretty close to each other

We couldn't climb, but we'll do it some other time

Oh, members, let's not make this the last

Oh, members, we need a little rest

From school

Oh, members, let's not make this the last

Oh, members, We need a little rest

lets start planning the next

We'll do our very best