music, therapy, and me

The problem with randomly selecting a songbook early on Sunday morning is that I do not always choose a book that is easily found in other places or even published anymore. When I looked at Amazon to see if the book was still in print, I found that you can buy this book starting at $0.18 cents. I guess most people don't have it around. Well, I do! I randomly grabbed a book from one of my music shelves, and this book is the one that stuck to my fingers. I opened it up to page 27 and there was "Pumpkin Parade," a fingerplay by Mabelle B. McGuire. While this is technically not a song, I think that poems share so much in common with music that you can turn any poem into a song pretty easily. All you have to do is add melody and harmony to the pre-existing meter, rhythm, tempo, and style, and voila! A song!! Here are the words: Five timid pumpkins are marching in a row. They have left the cornfield where they used to grow. And now they're on the highway, fallin...