Where can I find my elementary school music songbook?
May 26, 2009 12:23 PM   Subscribe

Oooooh once there was a goat / a very clever goat / spoke French and German fluently as you will note / ooooooooooooooo/ fa la la la la / tra la la la la la / spoke French and German fluently as you will note ... I remember this song from my elementary school songbook. As well as fragments, snippets and scraps of song both traditional folk and (possibly) written just for this book. What is the book? Where could I find it?

I went to a public elementary in SE Massachusetts between 1984 and 1990. I went to music class twice a week, with Mr. Davis (who, incidentally, fell off his porch and broke both his wrists and was no longer able to play piano for us except with his elbows). The book we sang from was possibly published by Houghton Mifflin or McGraw Hill, and featured color illustrations in the margins of lyrics (and music? maybe?) to popular and not-so-popular songs.

I remember: I Love the Mountains, Molly Malone, Kookaburra, Linstead Market, Battle Hymn of the Republic, and a flag song that went:

There are many flags in many lands,
There are flags of many hue,
But there is no flag however grand,
Like our own red, white and blue.

Say HURRAH! for our flag,
Our country's flag,
It's stripes and bright stars too.
For there is no flag however grand,
Like our own red, white and blue.
posted by mr. remy to Media & Arts (3 answers total)
 
I remember that song - and that book! Fourth grade, Sheehy school, Merced CA 1964 with Miss Oliveras!

Ah, but I don't remember the name of the book - sorry. But thanks for the memories.
posted by DandyRandy at 12:46 PM on May 26, 2009


Call the school: given arts funding cuts it's probably still being used. Heck, they may have cancelled music instruction entirely and so have many extra copies.
*weeps for the arts*
posted by wenestvedt at 12:46 PM on May 26, 2009


Best answer: Could it be Making Music Your Own? It's a school songbook, published in 1968, and has every song you mentioned by name, plus a song called "The Goat", among many others.
posted by iconomy at 1:32 PM on May 26, 2009


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