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Hey, does any American FSers have a list of the type of old fashioned "patriotic" songs you were supposed to learn in early education? I've got your national anthem, America the Beautiful, and, God Bless America. What others should I add to the playlist? I just need a half dozen for this story I'm writing, something 1950s-ish era Americana.

Uh, I'm not old enough to know what was popular to teach kids in the 50s, but in the 80s, let me think... "This Land is My Land"? In middle school, we regularly sang:

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
One Tin Soldier

I wouldn't consider either of those particularly "patriotic" songs.

"This Land is Your Land" maybe but they never sing the verses that make it clear that Woody Guthrie was a raging Socialist. :)

Man, it's wild how This Land is Your Land started out as a protest song.

And I love how Woody Guthrie had "This Machine Kills Fascists" right on the guitar.

Donald Trump's dad was his landlord for a while when he lived in Brooklyn and he wrote a song about how racist Old Man Trump was.

He never recorded it but some other artists have. Here's Ryan Harvey with Tom Morello and Ani DiFranco

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmZnlGBhwKg

I remember having to learn the US Armed Forces songs in music class in the fifth or sixth grade. Specifically The Army Song, Anchors Aweigh, Marines' Hymn and Wild Blue Yonder.

Edited 2024-04-26 21:46 (UTC)

I know in the early 70s one of my teachers liked to lead us in "You're a Grand Old Flag".

I had to learn that in sign language in elementary school for some reason. The only time we ever learned or used sign language.

this land is your land?

50s era would have been too old for us to learn in early education but here are a couple that fit the bill:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq6FWgp7nu8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U21dckjYbs

Those are:
"I'm No Communist" || American Anti-Communist Song (1952)
and
"Mr. Stalin, You're Eating Too High on the Hog" - American Anti-Communist Song

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watch your timeline, a lot of 'patriotic' pop was written after 1950. sometimes as late as 1980s. by grade school in 1980 we were not learning any of that in school, it was either in public (sporting events, parades) or not at all.

I was thinking the same thing.

I asked my parents (born in '50 and '51 so still maybe too young depending) and they said to learn the pledge of allegiance and the national anthem and that was it. But they also just may not be remembering since it was forever ago.

Battle Hymn of the Republic

(Courtesy of my uncle, who was a kid in the 1950s)

Upon further questioning, he has added “This Land is Your Land” and “My Country ‘Tis of Thee”

“This Land is Your Land” was probably sort of lefty/socialist and still quite fringe at the time.

I'm a bit younger than that but I remember

Yankee Doodle
My Country Tis of Thee
Battle Hymn of the Republic
You're a Grand Old Flag
The Stars and Stripes Forever
The Caissons Go Rolling Along
The Marines Hymn

(the latter two are specifically military and are very Imperialism Yay!)

My dad was born in the early 40s so I asked him. All he can remember is the national anthem and he thinks they sang a song about Paul Bunyan. What he remembers better was being taught the new pledge of allegiance when he was in 4th or 5th grade. His sisters are much younger and both had to sing songs about Alaska and Hawaii when they became states. The oldest of the sisters thinks it was part of a nationwide effort to come up with official songs for the new states. That would have been in 59.

There's the good old Cohan Triad -- Over There, Grand Old Flag, and Yankee Doodle Boy.

Less overt, but still "American songs that you'd learn in school" would be stuff like Oh Shenandoah or Home on the Range. And I'm not sure if they'd fall into "supposed to learn" territory, but The Ballad of Casey Jones and The Ballad of Davy Crocket were both popularized by Disney in the early/mid '50s and it wouldn't have been terribly strange for kids to learn/sing them for a school concert or what have you. They might work for your purposes.

I still get the Johnny Appleseed song stuck in my head sometimes, all this time after my 70s childhood.

Also this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hwqdQ0SkjQ

Daniel Boone Theme Song 1964

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I remember singing this in the 1980s:
Columbus Day
Original Author: Unknown
Sung to: “Mary Had a Little Lamb.”

Columbus sailed the ocean blue,
Ocean blue, ocean blue.
Columbus sailed the ocean blue,
In fourteen-ninety-two.
Columbus sailed the ocean blue,
Ocean blue, ocean blue.
I enjoy making discoveries, too.
How about you?

I have no idea how long it's been around. Through most of my K-12 education I had Native American classmates, so looking back on it, it's kind of weird.

I also learned Dixie, but you might want to be careful with that one.

seconding the National Anthem and the other one you have. I would also add "Home on the Range"

and "Get your Kicks on Route 66"

I learned them in a summer program when I was a kid. The were written pre 1950. Route 66 was 1946. the otherone was 184?

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