Yesterday I read a question from an Elementary Music Teacher who was asking for the top 10 essential songs to teach her students before they moved onto Middle School. "America" (My country ‘tis of thee); "Grand Old Flag," "This Land is Your Land," "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," "Yankee Doodle," "Red River Valley," "Fifty Nifty United States," and "Home on the Range" are some that were suggested. The teacher was specifically looking for songs in the same vein as "The Star-Spangled Banner."
Those songs are all important American songs, all recognizable, and all fun to sing. I was curious that they mentioned "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" though. The others are more patriotic. I guess "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" was included because BASEBALL has sometimes been called our national pastime or sport. (Though some people definitely do NOT think of it as such.)
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In my household, FOOTBALL was the number 1 national sport.
Years ago, my aunt Janie Thompson wrote an alternate chorus to "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" for Football Fans. It goes:
Take me out to the Ballgame
Take me out with the crowd.
There on the green is the football team.
There's the kick-off, the crowd gives a scream.
Let me root, root, root for the home team.
If they don't win it's a shame.
For it's 1,2,3,4 downs and 10 yards to go
At the Football game!
Then for a specialty number, once, I wrote two alternate verses. The song became a "Baseball vs. Football friendly Fan Rivalry" song. It was a hit with the boys in our show. They said that they could sing it now practically year-round! Maybe I need to come up with verses about BASKETBALL and SOCCER now!
Years ago, my aunt Janie Thompson wrote an alternate chorus to "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" for Football Fans. It goes:
Take me out to the Ballgame
Take me out with the crowd.
There on the green is the football team.
There's the kick-off, the crowd gives a scream.
Let me root, root, root for the home team.
If they don't win it's a shame.
For it's 1,2,3,4 downs and 10 yards to go
At the Football game!
Then for a specialty number, once, I wrote two alternate verses. The song became a "Baseball vs. Football friendly Fan Rivalry" song. It was a hit with the boys in our show. They said that they could sing it now practically year-round! Maybe I need to come up with verses about BASKETBALL and SOCCER now!
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