Jeri, I agree with you; at school we were never taught how to sing. I do now appreciate the fact that the book we sang our way through again and again included many songs that I now know are "folk songs", though I find it difficult to define just what that means. It's only in recent years that I've started to learn a little about how to sing - it has given me great pleasure. I ddo now belong to a choir, and agree with many of the comments above. We have a varied repertoire, and though each of us has our favourites, we do enjoy what we do.