To Be A Slave
Kindergarten and 1st Grade

  3. SING, SING, SING  

Objective: Students will learn several songs that would have been sung during Booker´s slave boyhood.

SOL Objectives:

• English
• History
• Science

Materials: Strong voices, Slave Songs by Jerry Silverman, Popular Songs of Nineteenth Century America by Richard Jackson.

Procedure:

1. Select several of the following songs and learn them.

2. Discuss the differences between this music and today´s music.

3. Give a recital for another class or have a sing along.

Songs:
"Blue Tailed Fly" or "Jimmy Crack Corn"
"Michael Row the Boat Ashore"
"Follow the Drinking Gourd"
"Wade in the Water"
"Nobody Knows the Trouble I See"
"All the Pretty Little Horses"
"Raise a Ruckus Tonight"
"Aura Lea" (same tune as "Love Me Tender")
"Camptown Races"
"Listen to the Mockingbird"
"Oh My Darling Clementine"
"Pop Goes the Weasel"
"Shew Fly Don't Bother Me"
"There is a Tavern in the Town"
"Wait for the Wagon"

Suggested Activity:

1. Read the story Follow The Drinking Gourd by Marie Bradby and then sing the song.