The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #11063   Message #2336930
Posted By: GUEST,Diane B
09-May-08 - 10:02 PM
Thread Name: ADD: Stodola Pumpa (trad. Czech)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Stodola Pumpa (trad. Czech)
We learned it in Lockwood Grade School (Webster Groves, Missouri, 1951-1957) from The Blue Book of Song, taught to us on rare Fridays by "the singing lady" while we were assembled in the gymnasium on folding chairs, the whole school together, kindergarten through 6th grade. That is the way I remember those song sessions, but maybe they included only the older grades. We also sang the Mendelsohn's "Welcome Sweet Springtime, Verdi's Anvil Chorus, Funiculi Funicula, The Ash Grove, La Paloma, Santa Lucia, A Capital Ship for an Ocean Trip Was the Walloping Windowblind (a favorite of mine still), Several Stephen Foster songs, and dozens of others, both silly and serious. In other singing classes we also learned Desert Silver Blue Beneath the Pale Starshine, Celito Lindo, Shuckin' of the Corn, Paper of Pins, Ach Ja!, Sweet and Low. Remember our ballroom, circle, and square dance lessons by our principal, Mr. Downs? Carol Metcalf, are you out there? I have lived in Tennessee all the time since leaving MO in 1964.