I was lucky. Our grade school music teacher was talented, and she selected anthologies with good music.

I think some of the dreary songs listed here were inflicted on kids by teachers who could hardly play piano and by school systems which didn't want to buy music books.

My husband, for example, still shudders at "This Land Is Your Land" and "If I had a Hammer."

Does "If I Had a Hammer" even HAVE chords?