We didn't have a song time, though we did have music instruction in which we learned to play plastic recorders called Flutophones, which sounded terrible. But we did learn to read music a bit. That was back in the late '50s, long before schools got rid of music and art curricula.

When I was in fifth grade they held an alternative guitar mass in the meeting room in the school basement.
I/We never went, but the guitar player(s) were parishioners, not clergy or teachers.
I never even saw someone play the guitar in person until my friend got one for his birthday in 7th grade! And, he wasn't playing it, he was playing with it.
Our music classes were closer to theory & some singing but by the time I was in 2nd grade I could play piano & read music, so it wasn't even music instruction for me.
Full circle: now that I've retired I'm the substitute who plays guitar! (Or the piano)

Minka Minka I beseech you

Wait for me I hate to think

another man might come and tinker

with your faithful heart

B I N G O
B I N G O
AND BINGO WAS HIS NAME

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They did have autoharps. I remember us singing #s 2, 6, 8, 10, and also:

Row, Row, Row Your Boat
The Erie Canal - the version that starts with, "I got a mule, her name is Sal."
The Titanic - the version with, "It was sad when the great ship went down"
America the Beautiful
This Land is Your Land
The Boll Weevil
One Tin Soldier
We've only Just Begun - (I still hate this song as much as I did in sixth grade.)

Once a week in elementary school, back in 1976-81. We'd come back inside and wind down by singing.
"Puff the Magic Dragon"
The Titanic song . "It was sad when that great ship went down"
I remember both these songs made me weepy...

The hammer song, cant remember the name (John Henry's Hammer?)
At least one Beatles song

More than I can remember, all old folk songs.
We loved him and that special time 🥰

Mr Randy Gahm...he was legend, many of us remember him even now in our 50's!
We had the music in manilla folders, and they were decorated by the 5th/6th graders in the school. We all couldn't WAIT till we were in those grades to be the ones who got to do that part.

Thanks for the memory!

My 5th grade homeroom teacher, Ms.Liggon. I adored her. She was a paisley wearing, long haired hippie who played guitar and sang Joan Baez songs.