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Teach Your Children Americana-type Songs

 

There are many wonderful songs that reflect our heritage - wonderful not only in their music but wonderful in their words and meaning.  These songs, and the circumstances under which they were written, tell stories of our country's struggle for freedom, of our citizens' struggles for equality and, simply of day-to-day living. There are also wonderful renditions of many of these songs which reflect our diversity and the musical culture of our times. Teach Your Children Americana-type Songs

Teaching your children some of these songs does a few things. It:

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keeps the songs part of our heritage,

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passes on the messages in these songs to a new generation, and

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gives each of us a chance to remember some of these songs or to learn new ones - and in the process to be reminded of important pieces of our country's history.

The Star Spangled Banner, America the Beautiful, I've Been Workin' on the Railroad, and Swing Low Sweet Chariot are a few I remember growing up - but there are many more. What are your favorites?