In the early 80's at an mcps, we had a Christmas performance. There were definitely religious songs, including Silent Night.

This thread is making me realize that my kids did very little singing in elementary school. They sang mostly during the PK-K years, but not much afterward.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone else sing that Lollipop, lollipop (oh lolly lollipop) song? The one where you made a popping sound with your thumb by sticking it in your mouth and pooping it out before pushing out against the inside of your cheek?

I remember being bad at the popping thing and feeling frustrated by it.

Also This Land is Your Land.

We did that lollipop song as part of a dowop choir concert in elementary. It was all fun songs like that.

Anonymous wrote:All the patriotic songs
- This land is our land
- My country tis of thee
- America the beautiful
- you’re a grand old flag
- Battle Hymn of the Republic

Folk/western
- Yippee Ki Yi Yo (Git along little dogies)
- Oh Susannah
- Clementine
- I’ve been working on the railroad
- skip to my Lou
- you are my sunshine
- the water is wide
- home on the range
- Yankee Doodle
- She’ll be coming around the mountain
- On top of ol Smokey
- camp town races
- zipee Dee do dah
- BINGO ad nauseum
- old McDonald
- row row row your boat
- shortning Bread

We also sang a song with a chorus that went “jump down turn around, pick a bale of cotton”

Grew up the south.

I remember singing all these songs at summer camp, but not at school. School had more modern songs, surprisingly.

Public elementary—I think our music teachers were actually volunteers. I remember signing

Country road
Grandmas feather bed
Beat it (when we were glood)
Greatest American hero theme song
My girls a corker
Waltzing Matilda
La bamba
The alphabetical state song (50 nifty United States from the 13 original colonies…)
Jeremiah was a bull frog (part about drinking wine edited out)
I feel like maybe a Beatles song but I can’t remember which

I feel like my kids chorus doesn’t sing enough fun songs. They sing all these weird difficult songs, many in different languages … I’m not opposed to different languages, I just feel like the music should be more upbeat (like La bamba was a good choice).

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Anonymous wrote:Went to school in MoCo and we sang a lot of slave songs but didn't say that: Jimmy crack corn, swing low sweet chariot, nobody knows the trouble I've seen, my old Kentucky home

I went to school in MoCo starting in the 70s and am calling bulllsh!t on this.

You didn't sing African American spirituals, minstral songs, and other racial Americana without context in public school the 1970-80s? Imma call BS on that. We were not woke back then

Previous MoCo poster who sang Jewish sings and We Shall Overcome stopping by to say we 100% sang those songs in my Kensington elementary school.

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Anonymous wrote:I was early 90s but I remember a Beetles concert, a Doo Wop concert and a Jackson 5 one. This was a mostly white, Christian school.

I was mid-80s and I remember singing songs by Elvis, the Beatles, 60s/70s folk/protest anthems, and Motown/Michael Jackson.

+1! I still remember the hand movements we had to make for “Man in the Mirror.”

Anonymous wrote:I was early 90s but I remember a Beetles concert, a Doo Wop concert and a Jackson 5 one. This was a mostly white, Christian school.

I was mid-80s and I remember singing songs by Elvis, the Beatles, 60s/70s folk/protest anthems, and Motown/Michael Jackson.

Anonymous wrote:You’re a Grand Old Flag

Yes to this. We also did a rendition of Wing Beneath my Wings by Better Middler. A classic song for 10 year olds haha

No "music class" but 3rd grade teacher played guitar and led sing-alongs. we were all allowed to get up and dance and move around the room if we wanted. So fun
Songs i remember singing:
Jeremiah was a bullfrog
The night chicago died
Where have all the flowers gone

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Anonymous wrote:Went to school in MoCo and we sang a lot of slave songs but didn't say that: Jimmy crack corn, swing low sweet chariot, nobody knows the trouble I've seen, my old Kentucky home

I went to school in MoCo starting in the 70s and am calling bulllsh!t on this.

You didn't sing African American spirituals, minstral songs, and other racial Americana without context in public school the 1970-80s? Imma call BS on that. We were not woke back then

Same as everyone. But in 3rd grade, we sang a Whitney Houston song. Shoot, I forgot the name. “The greatest gift of all is happening to me..” or something like that…

Anyone else sing "The Cat Came Back"? That is one f'ed up song.

Yes, I also sang all of the Americana songs, including Dixie.

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Anonymous wrote:Went to school in MoCo and we sang a lot of slave songs but didn't say that: Jimmy crack corn, swing low sweet chariot, nobody knows the trouble I've seen, my old Kentucky home

I went to school in MoCo starting in the 70s and am calling bulllsh!t on this.

I don't know. We sang Swing Low Sweet Chariot in Fairfax County in the 80s.

I remember Halloween/"scary" songs we sang better than anything else because I loved them: Old Woman All Skin and Bones, Hill and Gully Rider...

Same, suburban NY

But also hippie songs like "where have all the flowers gone" and "imagine."

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Anonymous wrote:Went to school in MoCo and we sang a lot of slave songs but didn't say that: Jimmy crack corn, swing low sweet chariot, nobody knows the trouble I've seen, my old Kentucky home

I went to school in MoCo starting in the 70s and am calling bulllsh!t on this.

Sorry, different poster here from MoCo in early 80s and we sang all of the above too.