I sang "marching to Pretoria" over and over marching round and round a room triumphantly stamping the beat at Saturday School at The Hartford Theological Seminary in the early 1940s. I had no idea why we were marching or where Pretoria was, but it was a favorite of ours along with "picking up paw paws put them in a basket
" and "skip skip skip to ma Lou" - I did not know who Ma-lou was but I thought she must be very nice and maybe would give us a treat. mostly I just loved marching or skipping and singing with my neighbors on Saturday mornings. The missionaries who were sent home to Hartford from postings abroad during the war were our teachers and the school was a gift to all of us kids who grew up in the Seminary.