Did you have any songs you sang?

When I was in school we had what was called "Chapel" about 9:00. School started about 8:00, but around 9:00 we all gathered in the big room. There was a lot of singing. We had songbooks. I have a copy of my mother's song book. Its called "The Everybody Sing Book". It cost 25 cents. It was copyrighted in 1930, but the books we used at school were similar. I probably had a more original form of this book. The forward of Mother's book says, "Nevertheless, although EVERYBODY SING, even in its original form, would logically be expected to reach increasingly greater heights of public acceptance, its publishers are not content to see it remain a static, inflexible collection of songs. They wish it to be entirely elastic in the adjustment of its contents to the shifting trends in public taste."

The songs in the songbook are divided into what are called "Classified Groupings." Mixed Voice Songs, Interchangeable Songs, Hymns and Carols, Unison Songs, and Song Texts.

The book starts with the patriotic songs and I liked those the most probably because everyone sang the loudest on those songs. My favorite song was Battle Hymn of the Republic.

Here are some of the songs (there are 128 pages) to give you a flavor of what we grew up singing.

The usual patriotic songs

The Christmas carols

Yankee Doodle

Dixie

Old Folks at Home

Old Black Joe

My Old Kentucky Home

Oh! Susanna

Home Sweet Home

For He's a Jolly Good Fellow

When You and I were Young, Maggie

Good -Bye My Lover Good -Bye

Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Some Folks Do

Billy Boy

Little Brown Church in the Vale

Scotland's Burning (round)

Nobody Knows the Trouble I See

Three Blind Mice

O My Darling Clementine

Man's Life's a Vapor

Go Down, Moses

Santa Lucia

Row Your Boat

Carry Me Back to Old Virginny

I've Been Working on the Railroad

Bring the Wagon Home, John

Oh, Eveline

There's Music in the Air

You Tell me Your Dream, I'll Tell You Mine

Aura Lee

On a Chinese Honeymoon

Dinah, Won't you Blow

De Camptown Races

The Old Gray Mare

Home on the Range

Down in the Valley

Red River Valley

My Bonnie

The Quilting Party

Goodnight Ladies

Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here

Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow

Holy, Holy, Holy

Now the Day is Over

Faith of our Fathers

Cielito Lindo

Beautiful Dreamer

Didn't my Lord Deliver Daniel?

Ezekiel Saw De Wheel

All God's Chillun Got Wings

Are You Sleeping"

Little Annie Rooney

Daisy Bell

Oh, Dem Golden Slippers

Loch Lomond

La Cucaracha

She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain

Funiculli, Funicula

Blow The Man Down

I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen

The More We Get Together

When the Bees are in the Hive

The Rose of Tralee

The Merry Widow Waltz

Vilia

Of course there are more, but you get the idea.