It feels very strange to be recommending them, but Tony Newley's Strawberry Fair and Rolf Harris's English Country Gardens should make excellent antidotes for anyone suffering from "serious" versions of those songs. Sadly, Kumbaya is untreatable AFAIK.

Liz, as a lass of merely thirty-odd summers (as I have it on good authority), you may not know that we who grew up in the fifties (a) had regular musc lessons and (b) sang a good many of Sharp's collected songs. (Ironically, some of them would be most un-pc today: I wouldn't dream of calling anyone a "mulatta", for instance.) That, along with the folk-revivalists on the wireless, sparked off my life-long love of the tradition and singing generally.

It's worth adding that during a brief (two terms) spell at another school when I was seven or eight, we did English country dancing, and it put me off for life!

Steve