Can you admit that you know a lot of certain songs by heart and HOW did you learn them?

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010 at 10:45 am

The songs I am referring to are Patriotic, Christmas, any Holiday, Camp/fireside/folk songs, your place of worship? I was curious because, to make a long story short, we had a lot of company over for the holiday last weekend. There were several teens and young adults (20ish) over too. Everyone got into a conversation about those type of songs and the young ones said they hardly knew any Patriotic, only a few Christmas and no camp songs. Some of the parents/grandparents started naming songs and most of the youngsters said that they had never heard of "that" song or only sang the beginning of "this" song but didn’t know the rest. Why do you think we knew these songs when we were their age and they don’t know them today? Maybe because music is not in schools much anymore? Parents or Grandparents didn’t teach them many as they were growing up? Do you believe they will learn these type of songs as they age due to experience? Time will tell maybe? Maybe not expanding their minds to learn beyond……? I know between school, parents and after school activities is how I learned them and just KNOWING these songs were important and would follow me throughout life. lol….I’m sorry, maybe I answered my own question, but what other reasons might it be? What could you all add to this?

**This is nothing against the youngsters, in fact I wish there was more available to them so they could be exposed to it.