Comments on: Patriotic Car Songs

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:18:15 +0000

Leticia, I loved the alphabet game as a child, great memories!

Holly, I’m coming and seeing! Thanks!

By: Holly

Holly — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:38:12 +0000

Hey Mary,

Thanks for the good reminders for the songs. Our family needs to do more of this.

I gave you a little award….come and see!

By: Leticia

Leticia — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 19:00:19 +0000

We didn’t sing but we sure played a lot of the Alphabet game, and other games while driving.

By that time, though, we had walkmens and my sister and I went into our own little worlds.

By: Mary

Mary — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:04:35 +0000

Hi Mom, I remember Grandma humming a lot, I just love the heritage of music that you and she passed down to me and my girls love to sing as well. I would have loved singing those songs. You know, I didn’t tell you, but the whole row behind us during the Ranger Program was some University group and they wouldn’t hush the whole time…cracking jokes about the Ranger and his talk. Very hard to sit there and listen to.

Amy! So glad you stopped by, I have been meaning to email you. Been busy here as you can see. Love hearing that you guys do this too, just like you, I wonder how many people do this nowadays. I think most people might find it strange to attend the Rangers program that my mom described in her comment…singing those old songs would seem corny to so many of this generation and the college age crowd. I wonder if they are in danger of being buried in history if we don’t start singing them with our children…

Thanks for stopping in…my keyboard is weirding out on me…not letting me type certain letters…so my posting might be sporadic till we try hooking up our old keyboard. The blog’s spell-check feature helps me fix the letters that are being left out for the most part, but…

By: mom

mom — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 23:35:09 +0000

Tell us more about your camping trip, please! And while you’re at it, explain the South Dakota painting on your header. “The Prairie is My Garden” is by a S D artist and one of my favorites.

By: Amy Wallace

Amy Wallace — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:56:52 +0000

Hey, Mary!

I’m sooo glad we’re not the only family singing the songs of our country’s heritage with gusto. I knew we weren’t, but it’s funny how few of us talk about this beautiful tradition of passing on history in such a fun way. Thanks for the great reminder!

By: mom

mom — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:39:40 +0000

I love the patriotic songs. My memories of the ranger program at Mount Rushmore include about an hour or an hour and a half of patriotic music and ’state’ songs until it got dark and they could start the program. You know, state songs like ‘Carolina Moon’, ‘Country Road (West Virginia)’, ‘I Was born on a farm down in Ioway’, ‘O K L A H O M A’, ‘Why oh Why did I ever leave Wyoming’, ‘Deep in the heart of Texas’….it was great. I grew up with a Mom who was humming or singing all the time and there are a lot of tunes that were familiar to me because of that. Thanks for celebrating that memory.