The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #5218   Message #1436337
Posted By: Azizi
16-Mar-05 - 04:20 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Today Is Monday
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Today Is Monday
I have a vague remembrance of this song from my childhood. However, I can recall no further than "today is Monday, today is Monday; Monday ????..and then down through the days of the week..

I provide presentations in schools & after school groups usually for elementary school age children and my daughter is . A standard part of some of my presentations is to ask children what songs they are familar with. They've never mentioned this song.
However, I'll check with my daughter who is a a 2nd grade teacher in the Pittsburgh Public schools to see if she is familiar with it being taught in her school system or if she remembers it from her childhood.

IMO, this sounds like the kind of song that music teachers might teach. Because a number of children in inner city these schools are too often hungry, I would think that it would be inappropriate to sing "All you hungry children/Come and eat it up."