Let Me See YOU Boogaloo!

Pastor Doug, the pastor of congregational life at church, has the job of filling time at the end of music and drama camp. Doug worked at a kids camp when he was younger, so he has some funny camp games and stories. His rendition of the “Herman the Worm” story was excellent.

The hands down favorite of everyone in camp, though, is “the Boogaloo”. We had never heard of it before. It starts with everyone getting in a circle and holding hands. The leader leads a chant that goes like this:

Leader: left . . . left . . . left, right, left
Let me see you Boogaloo!

Everyone else: What’s that you said?

Leader: I said let me see you Boogaloo!

Everyone else: What’s that you said?

Leader: I said let me see you Boogaloo!

Everyone else: What’s that you said?

Then the leader does a silly dance saying “oh, ah ah ah, oh, ah ah ah” and everyone else mimicks him. Doug led us through more and more rounds of the game where the thing he asked us to do changed, and the noise we made while we did what he told us changed. We did “let me see you play dead”, “let me see you shoot the moon” and “let me see you do the Schwarzenegger”.

Our favorite, though was “let me see you do the preacher”. The dance for that one was accompanied by “bla, bla, bla, bla . . . bla, bla, bla, bla”.

The guy who was hired to preach at the church said it, not me.