UNCLE PEN'S
ESSAY CONTEST
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MY FAVOURITE SONGS
 
 
    Prize-Winning Essay:
 
MY FAVOURITE SONGS
 
    My favourite songs are lively, jolly and  interesting, such as "John
Peel," "Robin Hood," "The Keel Row," and others of  the same nature. I dislike
songs that are dreary and have not to be sung loudly,  such as lullaby songs and
"Barbara Allen."
 
    When singing "John Peel" I feel I am  going off with the huntsmen, and
songs about Robin Hood make me think of the man  who fought so bravely against
his enemies, and gives me a desire to use a bow  and arrow as accurately as he
could. All the time I am singing "The Keel Row," I  think I am doing a
beautiful dance in front of a great audience.
 
    I do not like the song about "Barbara  Allen" because it makes me feel
very sorry and I am hardly able to sing any  other jolly songs for thinking
about Barbara Allen.
 
    At our school we have singing lessons  twice a week, and our teacher
tries to select all the jolly songs as far as  possible. Sometimes I like to sing
"rounds" because it is great fun when one  division gets mixed up with the
other division and starts singing the same. I  sometimes like to hear comic
songs, but I never learn any of them myself.
 
 
Mabel DAVIDSON
Beckermet C. E. School
 
 
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