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If you attended Haude Elementary School please post any lyrics you can remember from any of the songs from the 5th grade program in the comments section.

I received an email this morning pointing to an entry I wrote a few years ago trying to determine the lyrics to the song "A New Deal". I think I remember the refrain, but of the verses I can only remember that WPA was rhymed with banking holiday and "we have no fear but fear itself til this depression ends".

There were several songs in the program, like this one about Manifest Destiny:

Going West
In a covered wagon
Get along mule
Giddyap Giddyap
Spite all the danger
Going through the Indian Country
We're Gonna Cross the Cumberland Gap
(Giddyap Giddyap, across the Cumberland Gap)

If there were verses to this song I don't remember. But during the "Indian Country" part there were drums, and kids would "walk" big signs that looked like Native Americans behind all the singing kids.

There was another song that included the phrase "Turkey in the Straw" and "That's the way that ma met pa".

Oh! And a twenties song!

Jazz baby
What do you know?
Skiddly dee di dee
and a yode-oh oh (????)
Charleston
Charleston
No kind of coat like a raccoon coat
Stocks are going up going up going up

and so on...

I wonder what valuable information has been pushed out of my brain to make room for these songs.

posted by Maxwell at 11:37 AM