Songs they don't teach any more

I was amazed to learn this month that my kids (10.5 and
almost 8) have not learned the words to 'Erie Canal'.
I thought that was required learning for elementary schoolers
everywhere, but it seems I was mistaken.

Scott DD 10.5 and DS 7.9

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I was amazed to learn this month that my kids (10.5 and
almost 8) have not learned the words to 'Erie Canal'.
I thought that was required learning for elementary schoolers
everywhere, but it seems I was mistaken.

Scott DD 10.5 and DS 7.9


I never heard it until I lived in Rochester, New York. I thought it was local
(Rochester is close to the canal, called the "barge canal" there), until I heard
it on a Wee Sings tape.

Banty

Banty

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:59:55 EST, Scott
wrote:


I was amazed to learn this month that my kids (10.5 and
almost 8) have not learned the words to 'Erie Canal'.
I thought that was required learning for elementary schoolers
everywhere, but it seems I was mistaken.

Scott DD 10.5 and DS 7.9



It might be a generational thing. I learned it in elementary school as
well, but my kids (ages 9, 9, and 6) don't seem to have been taught it
(and we live in Rochester, NY!)

Nick

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Nick Theodorakis

nicholas_theodorakis [at] urmc [dot] rochester [dot] edu

In article ,
Nick Theodorakis wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:59:55 EST, Scott
wrote:

I was amazed to learn this month that my kids (10.5 and
almost 8) have not learned the words to 'Erie Canal'.
I thought that was required learning for elementary schoolers
everywhere, but it seems I was mistaken.

It might be a generational thing. I learned it in elementary school as
well, but my kids (ages 9, 9, and 6) don't seem to have been taught it
(and we live in Rochester, NY!)

I've never heard it. I went to elementary in MA and my kids are in VT.

Robyn (mommy to Ryan 9/93 and Matthew 6/96 and Evan 3/01)
--
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On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:59:55 EST, Scott
wrote:


I was amazed to learn this month that my kids (10.5 and
almost 8) have not learned the words to 'Erie Canal'.
I thought that was required learning for elementary schoolers
everywhere, but it seems I was mistaken.

I certainly didn't learn Erie Canal in school. I learned it from the Fireside
Book of Folk Songs, and frequently belted it out, as I recall, but I'd never
thought of it as being the sort of song everyone would learn in school. I'm
trying to think of songs (other than My country, 'tis of thee, and stuff like
that) that most American schoolchildren are, or were, taught. For some reason
Kookaburra (not exactly American!) is the only one that sticks in my head!

Oh, I *do* remember being taught We Shall Overcome, which enraptured me. I sang
it all the way home from school one day.

--Helen

I grew up in WI and didn't learn "Erie Canal," but I vividly remember that it
seemed like the whole curriculum for 4th grade music consisted of us singing
"Red River Valley."

-Dawn
Mom to Henry, 11

Scott wrote in message . ..
I was amazed to learn this month that my kids (10.5 and
almost 8) have not learned the words to 'Erie Canal'.
I thought that was required learning for elementary schoolers
everywhere, but it seems I was mistaken.

Scott DD 10.5 and DS 7.9


DD learned it in her chorus class (required, and with the world's most
perkily annoying woman teaching it!) in 4th grade, and they all
performed it, along with several other American dittys, at a concert.
Not one of the most shining moments in parenting, if I recall
correctly!

Marjorie

(Robyn Kozierok) wrote in message ...
In article ,
Nick Theodorakis wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 17:59:55 EST, Scott
wrote:

I was amazed to learn this month that my kids (10.5 and
almost 8) have not learned the words to 'Erie Canal'.
I thought that was required learning for elementary schoolers
everywhere, but it seems I was mistaken.

It might be a generational thing. I learned it in elementary school as
well, but my kids (ages 9, 9, and 6) don't seem to have been taught it
(and we live in Rochester, NY!)

I've never heard it. I went to elementary in MA and my kids are in VT.

YOu've never heard the song, or heard kids learning the song? I find
it almost impossible to believe anyone hasn't heard the song (Chorus
is "Low Bridge, Everybody Down, Low Bridge, Cause we're Coming to a
Town, Well you'll always know your neighbor, You'll always know your
pal, if you've ever navigated on the Erie Canal." It's on about a
million PBS/History channel specials. :-)

Marjorie

In ,
chiam margalit wrote:

*YOu've never heard the song, or heard kids learning the song? I find
*it almost impossible to believe anyone hasn't heard the song (Chorus
*is "Low Bridge, Everybody Down, Low Bridge, Cause we're Coming to a
*Town, Well you'll always know your neighbor, You'll always know your
*pal, if you've ever navigated on the Erie Canal." It's on about a
*million PBS/History channel specials. :-)

I've never heard of the song at all. I grew up in Philadelphia's suburbs.

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Hillary Israeli wrote:
In ,
chiam margalit wrote:

*YOu've never heard the song, or heard kids learning the song? I find
*it almost impossible to believe anyone hasn't heard the song (Chorus
*is "Low Bridge, Everybody Down, Low Bridge, Cause we're Coming to a
*Town, Well you'll always know your neighbor, You'll always know your
*pal, if you've ever navigated on the Erie Canal." It's on about a
*million PBS/History channel specials. :-)

I've never heard of the song at all. I grew up in Philadelphia's suburbs.

I also grew up in PA (central) and we sang it a lot in school.
That and Waltzing Matilda. I just figured it was part of the
cultural fabric and was surprised the kids didn't know it.
OTOH, it took me 40 years before I learned 'Just before the
battle mother' -- even tho' I remember seeing Linus sing
it. Maybe that song will resurface around 2010-2015 for the
sesquicentennial.

Scott DD 10.5 and DS 7.9