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13 Dec, 2009

LORDY LOR

Posted by andrea tomkins in: Misc. life

Sarah and I were walking to school. I was whistling Christmas carols. We do this a lot, that is, I whistle, and she tries to guess the song. I picked some of my old favourites, the ones I remember from my childhood: Oh Come All Ye Faithful, Oh Little Town of Bethlehem, Silent Night.

I have great memories of singing all these songs in elementary school. The week before Christmas break the music teacher would wheel the piano to the front foyer and the entire student body would sit on the floor and sing our hearts out.

I whistled my Christmas songs and Sarah couldn’t guess the titles of any of them.

“Stop doing the LORDY SONGS mum,” she said. “Pick one I know.”

I don’t know whether to laugh or to cry.

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3 Responses to "LORDY LOR"

1 | Judy

December 14th, 2009 at 10:14 am

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I don’t know if I would laugh or cry either. What Christmas songs do they know?

2 | andrea

December 14th, 2009 at 10:33 am

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Oh, the usual suspects: Jingle Bells, Winter Wonderland, Rockin’ around the Christmas tree … etc

I’m debating whether to print out the lyrics to those musty old LORDY songs today and MAKE ‘EM LEARN. :)

I don’t want to start a huge dicussion here (although I might have already done that) but I suspect that the schools are trying to focus less on these songs in order to foster a more inclusive environment etc etc. And I’m ok with that. I really am.

We’re not religious people but these sonds figured prominently in my youth, and my culture. Shouldn’t my kids know them too?

3 | Valerie

December 14th, 2009 at 2:02 pm

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we have bought a number of kids Christmas CD’s which are a nice mixture of sacred and secular. Don’t depend on the schools.

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