Happy New Year Everyone!

Everyone's here, all together now!
 "Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind.."
 

So, it might seem a little corny, but sometimes, when you get together with your friends and family, sing a song together... it's a great way to share. Most of these are old folky songs, they're still fun, but maybe you have your own.
 

And the other theme of this calendar is circles (you noticed, huh?).  Circles of friends, song circles, conversation circles, circles of meaning, dance circles, drum circles, peace signs are circles, circling back to the simple things that mean the most.  Hope everyone has a happy and peaceful 2012.

the songs

1-You Are My Sunshine - Rice, Davis + Mitchell

2- Michael Row the Boat Ashore -traditional

3- Ship in the Sky - Woody Guthrie

4- Oh Mary don't you weep  -traditional

5- Zip a Dee doo Dah, Wrubel + Gilbert

6- So long, It's been Good to Know You - Woody Guthrie

7- Red River Valley -traditional

8- Wayfaring Stranger-traditional

9- Polly Wooly Doodle -traditional

10-This Land - Woody Guthrie

11-Yellow Rose of Texas- traditional.

12- Oh Susannah -Foster

13- Amelia Earhart- McEnery

14- Did you ever see a Lassie--traditional

15- Blowin' in the wind -Dylan

16- Here we go round the mulberry bush -traditional

17- She'll be Comin' Round the Mountain -traditional

18- This little light of mine -Loes

19-The Golden Vanity--traditional

20-The Dreidel Song - Grossman, Gelbert + Goldfarb

21- It's a grand old flag - Cohan
22- Winter Wonderland - Smith + Bernard
23- Bound for Glory - Woody Guthrie

24-Home Sweet Home - Bishop + Payne

25- We wish you a Merry Christmas -traditional

26- Old MacDonald -traditional

27- Sweet Betsy from Pike -traditional

28-Stars fell on Alabama Last night - Perkins + Parish

29- Twelve Days of Christmas -traditional

30- Down in the Valley -traditional

            Let's All Go Down to the River - Montgomery + Richards

31- Auld Lang Syne -traditional

Thirty

And, before we head into the last big celebration of the year, let's go with Harry down to the valley..
 "Down in the Valley, valley so low...."
 or maybe....
"Let's all go down to the river..."

twenty-nine

Sissie, like her old friend Miss Piggy, would like to remind you that it's the 5th day of Christmas..and
"on the fifth day of Christmas my true love gave to me 
Five Golden Rings.....

ba dum dum dum "

28

Ole Blue Eyes, crooning through the night.
 " And stars fell on Alabama last night..."

Siebenundzwanzig

Copper has gone off to foreign lands (what is that language anyway?)...

and I think I hear him singing:
 "Did you ever hear tell of sweet Betsy from Pike?"

Boxing Day

Shoefler says this piggy makes her want to sing "with an oink oink here, and an oink oink there.."  Maybe that's just the way a lot of us feel after all the holiday chocolates...