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2016 Postmortem

LAS14

(13,783 posts) Sun Nov 20, 2016, 02:36 PM Nov 2016

Does everyone still know "We shall overcome?"

I've been thinking about a rallying song. What got me started was the thought that I might witness booing or other harassment of a Muslim. What would I do? If I started singing We Shall Overcome would others recognize it?

I read somewhere that these days the only songs you can count on all members of a mixed group to be able to sing are Happy Birthday and Auld Lang Syne...