VEGANGELICA

Hi SATCHMO, thank you for sharing those lovely songs and the precious memory of the hours you spent with your daughter. I remember similar hours with my child and treasure them, too. The song "Sudan" made my hair stand on end because of its resonant beauty. You gave your child an eclectic mix of music...a wonderful welcome to the world, an auditory embrace to mirror a parent's physical embrace of a child.

Pippi Longstocking! I didn't realize Astrid Lindgren was not just an author but also a songwriter! Thanks for the information, Liljagare. I used to love the Pippi Longstocking stories when I was a child.

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VEGANGELICA

Hello Folks,

Now here's an old country/folk song I loved singing during my childhood..."You are my Sunshine"...which was made famous by Jimmie Davis in the 1940s. I thought of adding it to this thread because the other day while volunteering at my child's 1st grade class, the teacher asked kids to play a music game in which a child volunteers to stand up, start singing a song, and the rest join in if they know it. Well, a little 6-year-old stood up and started singing beautifully the lyrics to "You are my Sunshine," and many of the kids knew this song and were able to join in! I thought this especially interesting because there are kids from a variety of ethnicities in the class. I was touched (and surprised!) that their families are introducing them to this old song more than 60 years after the song was first sung.

Here's a YouTube video of "You are my Sunshine" that I think is cute because it shows so clearly how this song is passed on from one generation to the next:

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