This book is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time
, and was probably influential for many of us baby boomers.
I guess any song with “baby” in it is fair game, but You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby seems appropriate, or maybe Rockabye Your Baby (songs where “baby” is used to refer to an infant rather than a girlfriend).
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Called the father of American folk music (also the father of folk singer Arlo Guthrie), Woody wrote more than 1000 songs.
I have This Land is Your Land. Also
, if you have a copy of Redwing, you also have Union Maid
, a Guthrie song written to to the tune of Redwing. “Oh you can’t scare me, I’m sticking to the union”.
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Nobody seems to know what this means or how it started
, but it’s listed on lots of sites.
Maybe your dancers could come up with a theory or an idea for this “holiday”.
I’ve called a very nice contra dance called “The Emptied Crack” by Al Olson.
Here are two big reasons to be proud of your middle name:
First, there are plenty of John Smiths and and Mary Jones. It’s the middle name your parents gave you that makes your name unique.
Second
, your parents chose your middle name with great care. It often was selected to honor a friend or relative. That person may have possessed certain characteristics that they want you to inherit.
You could ask people for middle names that might be used in songs; there are lots of songs that use names…one of them must be someone’s middle name!
Songs at the top of the charts on March 10:
Alexander Graham Bell sent the first clear telephone message — into a nearby room — to his assistant
, Mr. Watson.
Hmmm…maybe songs about green? (Green Acres (part of Theme Time)), Green, Green,Green, Green Grass of Home
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, Green Grass of Home (Hi Hat 5008)
Folk singer, songwriter: groups: New Christy Minstrels: Green
, Green, Saturday Night, Today; The Back Porch Majority, Randy Sparks and the Patch Family
I know there’s a Green, Green singing call, ’cause I have it. One might also take advantage of this week being National Salad Week when introducing the song….
Here’s an article about the benefits of smiling: Smile Power – Increase your Face Value
A good day for nice cheerful songs. There’s an old square dance record called Smile Medley. Then there’s “Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella” and “Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag” (“and smile, smile, smile”).
I’ll occasionally do things like “Spin Chain Thru and the girls smile (or smile twice, or smile once and a half)”.
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Arkansas was admitted to the Union on June 15, 1836.
Here’s a site with facts about Arkansas: Arkansas. Of course, square dancing is Arkansas’ state dance.
There’s a traditional square dance called the Arkansas Traveller. And the state instrument is the fiddle
, so I suppose you could do fiddle songs all night.