I went to visit another volunteer in a village not too far (1 hour walk if I cannot catch public transportation or hitchhike) to see the grand opening of playground equipment for an orphanage/elderly home. The ceremony was great, the funders came to the opening, there was singing and dancing.
After all of the festivities were completed, the after party started. All of the staff and those involved in putting on the production ate some foot and drank a little wine. Whenever there is an event like this, there is also usually singing. So the group was singing different traditional songs and then they asked the three American volunteers who were at the party to sing a traditional song.
We sat there and thought, what songs do many/most Americans know? We tried to tell them, that generally Americans do not sing together at a party (unless it is a fraternity, choir, or Christmas gathering). But they kept asking us to sing an American song, so we sung the one song that the three of us knew: Take me out to the ball game!
Everyone thought it was great, even the guy playing the accordion understood out rhythm and made something up while we were singing.
2 comments:
You mean you didn't sing Hang on sloopy?
Dad
Well, I am sure the volunteer in this village would know it because she is from Hamilton, Ohio, but the other one was from California, so she would not know.
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