Thia posting rang an old man's bell. In the 1930s fourth grade kids learned these and many more from a special teacher of Montclair School in the hills of Oakland CA. A Dustbowl refugee, on the farm our media was the wind-up VictrolaRaised in poverty the Dustbowl w/o running water, flush toilet, telephone, radio nor electricity, we loved any and all songs, and loved them; whether from hymnals, school, or the canon of songs our parents learned in the 19th C.

..." "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"...

Thanks be for Free Textbooks and Music Education in American schools.