Every camper’s favorite princess is being honored with a new statue in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
Sculptor James McMahon is carving the image out of the trunk of a spruce tree.
While we know that the correct lyrics of the popular camp song are not “The Princess Pat lived in a tree.…” perhaps they can be updated to “…carved from a tree”?
I will be teaching older lyrics to this song at Songs and Games trainings this or next year. Because that’s the way I learned them. “The Princess Pat, light infantry…”