Knapp, RC

Below is a list of the songs sung  at the College El during weekly assemblies in the halls between 1940  
and 1946.  We all knew all the words by heart. You will notice a strange preponderance of British and/or World War  
I patriotic songs, which set in immediately after the US finally entered the War on 7 December 1941. The obvious 
reason for this  curious circumstance is that the US acquired its own current war-songs only much later and was therefore
 forced to borrow. The list of  Allied national  anthems is interesting in what it omits: no "God Save the King" or 
"Marseillaise" (though we learned "Frère  Jacques").  The songs regarded as American classics, which included "Dixie," 
are also interesting. I doubt many American children these days would know any of them.

Bob Knapp notes:  It is hard to believe that Long Live Mighty Russia (Russian National Anthem), not to mention 
The Long March (Chinese National Anthem), would have been sung in the early fifties.  I don't recall these at hall sing
in the years around 1958.  I guess they had fallen out of favor by then (!).

1941-1946

The White Cliffs of Dover
Over There
Tipperary
I've Cot Sixpence
Keep the Home Fires Burning
Beautiful Katie
Pack Up Your Troubles
Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree
When Johnnie Comes Marching Home Again
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
The Army Song (As the Caissons Go Rolling Along)
Navy Hymn (Anchors Away)
Marine Hymn (From the Halls of Montezuma)
Army Air Corps Hymn (Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder)
Comin' In on a Wing and a Prayer
Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
My Country 'Tis of Thee
America the Beautiful
The Star-Spangled Banner
O Canada
The Maple Leaf Forever
The Dambrovski Mazurka (Polish National Anthem)
Meadowlands (Red Army Song)
Long Live Mighty Russia (Russian National Anthem)
The Long March (Chinese National Anthem)
Waltzing Matilda

Rio, Rio (Please Return My Love to Me)
The Bad Wizard of Wood

Home on the Range
The Streets of Laredo
The Lone Star Trail
Old Black Joe
O Dem Golden Slippers
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Dixie
Camptown Races
My Old Kentucky Home
So Long, It's Been Good to Know You
O Suzannah
O My Darling Clementine/Found a Peanut (same tune)

Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho, It's Off to Work We Go
O Come All Ye Faithful
Silent Night
Faith of Our Fathers
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
White Christmas
Deck the Halls
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen

Zum gali gali gali (!)
Frère Jacques
Dona nobis pacem (Mozart)
Alleluia (Mozart)

College Elementary School Sixth Grade Class of ____