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THANKSGIVING

Posted by: cathyin Endorsed Music, General News, Uncategorized
23
Nov

ENJOY THIS SONG for the holiday of THANKS! From “Pocket Full of Stardust” available at www.cathymarcy.com. Peace & Happy Holidays.

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THANK YOU

THANK YOU
© Cathy Fink, 2 Spoons Music, ASCAP

I’m so busy all day long sometimes I do not take the time to stop and think about the things that I am grateful for
So when I climb in bed at night and mama’s turning out the light I think the day is finished but I know there’s one thing more

Thank you for flowers
Thank you for trees
Thank you for Mama and
Thank you for me
And my little brother who drives me insane
I guess I should thank you for him just the same

Thank you for colors in my crayon box
Thanks for my pockets that I fill with rocks
Thanks for my table and my reading nook
Thank you for someone to read me a book

Thank you for promises kept in the wind
Thank you for bicycles and for my friends
Thank you for ice cream and for chocolate cake
I can not believe how many pieces I ate

Thank you for birds that are chased by my cat
Mom says I shouldn’t be thankful for that]
Thank you for snowballs and sledding and ice
The world looks so beautiful all dressed in white

Thank you for Papa and Grandma and Gramps
Then there’s our puppy that we all call Champ
Thanks for the baby they brought home last week
Dad says she’ll grow up and be just like me

Mom thinks this song might go on all night long
Thank you for having her teach me this song
I forgot some but she turned out the light
I think that my thank you’s are over, good night.

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SEEGER FAMILY CHILDREN’S SONGS

Posted by: adminin Endorsed Music
19
Mar

Pete Seeger

We spent a wonderful weekend at the Library of Congress symposium on the musical Seeger Family. Needless to say, Pete, Mike and Peggy have been large influences on our music through the years as collectors, interpreters of traditional music and songwriters. We are lucky that they have also become friends and sometimes collaborators on concerts and recording projects. Their parents were musicians and folklorists. Peggy and Mike’s mother, Ruth Crawford Seeger, put together excellent book collections of “American Folk Songs for Children”, “Animal Folk Songs for Children” and “American Folk Songs for Children”. The Seeger family recorded all of these songs on CD’s released by Rounder Records and they represent a wonderful repertoire for families to sing together.

It is truly amazing what this family has created and shared with all of us through the years. If you have trouble finding the recordings, you can mail order them from 1-800-443-4727. Also check out Pete’s children’s recordings on Smithsonian Folkways Records and his live children’s concert at Carnegie Hall. Next January and February, we’ll be teaching a class for families at Strathmore Hall with Betty Scott on this wonderful family repertoire.

The Library of Congress will make material from the symposium and from the donated collections by the Seegers available. Just make a trip down there and check it out at the Archive of Folk Music.

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