Chairs to Mend

In "Chairs to Mend", a young girl brings the  title folk song to life after listening to street cries in her 1880's Boston neighborhood.

Chairs to Mend is a street vendor song, the type of song market vendors would sing to potential buyers to highlight their wares. It's a catchy, easy to learn song that is fun to sing, while it also can be used as a cultural example of how we communicated prior to modern day devices like television, computers, and cell phones.

Word-for-word narration is on the accompanying CD, using a variety of singing voices which provides a good vocal model for healthy singing. The song is notated in the book.