First Songs

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Do you recall the first song you learned to sing? I can remember my mother teaching me "Down in the Valley" I was around two years old, we were traveling across country in the blue station wagon. I did not learn all the verses at that time, just the refrain. "Down in the Valley, the Valley so low - hang your head over, hear the wind blow. Hear the wind blow dear, hear the wind blow. Hang your head over, hear the wind blow" There were a couple of songs in grade school music class that stuck with me through the years: Goober Peas and Orion is arising. of course there were the kindergarten songs of "the farmer in the dell etc" hah! when I first started typing this discussion I was only thinking of Down in the Valley, now so many are popping in my head. But definitely down in the Valley was the first I learned (I think, hehe).