The new songs for today were Oscar the Octopus and Deep Sea Diving. After Old Mac and Mary's Little Lamb, these were easily recognizable as simply Studies in Steps and Skips -- and even the first graders recognized it. It might have been better if they had a fancy French name like études dans les étapes et les sauts but they didn't.
And being studies in steps and skips, it only took once or twice through the "songs" and everyone was playing them "by heart". By heart, but not by reading, not with the correct fingers . . . but perfectly by heart.
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