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We don't really do door songs, per se.... Panhel ushers the girls to the sidewalk in front of the house. Then we all file out while singing or chanting, form a semi-circle on the front walk, and go "pair up" with a PNM. We do this outside. In January. And it takes fifteen minutes. No coats allowed! Thus, when the songs involve clapping, your hands reeeeally start to hurt!
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This is like the way we do it, sort of. A few minutes before the party is supposed to start, we all line up on both sides of the sidewalk that goes up to our front door. When the Rho Gammas bring the girls up, we pair off and walk up the middle of the two lines. The lines move down towards street as girls walk up the middle, if that makes sense. Then when we walk out we sort of do the same thing in reverse. We aren't allowed to walk the girls past the end of the sidewalk.
Some days we sing, but not every day. There is a lot of emphasis at my school on not wearing matching clothing or singing or chanting *too* much because we have a lot of pnms who don't expect or want the traditional, big, frilly recruitment. On the days we don't sing, we are suposed to talk to each other in the lines, so it's not like we're just staring down the pnms, but we aren't supposed to talk too loud or about anything inappropriate...it's really awkward. On pref night, we're all wearing mainly sleeveless black dresses, and it's freezing (we have deferred recruitment)! We have to be out there really early because you can see the house from waaay down the street. We sing:
There's a kite called a Theta kite,
Made of gold and light and shadow,
Spun by the stars in my room last night.
It's a kite made to catch a dream,
Hold it tight until I wake,
As if to tell me that dreaming's alright.
...over and over and over and over and over, both when the come,and when they leave until we can't see them anymore (which takes about ten minutes). While holding candles that drip hot wax on our hands. Good times, good times.