Not Cripple Creek, no, not where I came from (Washington, DC). But we learned lots of Stephen Foster and stuff like the Quilting Party, Polly Wolly Doodle, Buffalo Gals, dozens and dozens more. I'll try to think of some others. Also, in what was then called Junior High, I learned The Vacant Chair and The Holy City, among others.

Other favorites of mine: The Vesper Hymn, Tulip (a round), White Coral Bells (ditto). I guess these last are more or less art songs, except for The Vacant Chair.

Last night, in fact, at an Open Sing whose theme was "Marching Along," I sang a set of words we learned in school, set to the tune of the Overture to the operetta "Light Cavalry." I always loved it. Never had an excuse to sing it in public before (since I got out of 8th grade, that is.)