Sing-along Café 2024-10-17

Our theme was Songs with Food, but we talked about everything: families, religion, war, mental health, motherhood, dancing, the 80s, the 50s, strict conformity and fear and/or rejection of anything/anyone different, thrift shopping, … I guess that both food and singing are things that bring people together and inspire conversation, so it makes sense. There's a lot of music on this playlist, so we'll do the Food Theme again.

I didn’t bake but I brought some store-bought cookies, but, I forgot to put them out and didn’t make tea. We were too busy and content with our lovely chatting and songs so it didn’t matter. It was a lovely evening in lovely company.

With all that talking, we did manage to sing quite a bit too. Here’s a sample of some of the songs we listened to and sang:

Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) by Harry Belafonte
Sandwiches by Fred Penner
On Top of Spaghetti by Walk off the Earth and by Tom Glazer
Sugar by Maroon 5
Sugar Sugar by The Archies
Strawberry Fields Forever by The Beatles
Watermelon Sugar by Harry Styles
American Pie by Don McLean
Rock Lobster by the B-52's
I Want Candy by the Strangeloves
Red Red Wine by Neil Diamond and by UB40 (we liked this better)
A Bar Song (Tipsy) by Shaboozey
Christmas Dinner by Peter, Paul & Mary
If I Had $1,000,000 by Barenaked Ladies (Dijon Ketchups)

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