A Year of Carl Singing

These are the songs I have heard Carl sing this year:

WINTER

* I Will Follow God's Plan

* This is the Way ...

* I Am a Child of God

* ABCs

* Jesus Wants Me for a Sunbeam

* I Am Like a Star

* Follow the Prophet

* Home on the Range

* Stand for the Right

* Pokemon Theme Song

SPRING

* Dearest Names

* Book of Mormon Stories

* Praise to the Man

* Hot Brown Loaf

* I Love to See the Temple

* Ring Around the Rosy

* Apples and Bananas

* Rise and Shine

SUMMER

* Old McDonald

* Wheels on the Bus

* Hosanna!

* Waltzing Matilda

* Latter-day Prophets

* Scripture Power

* Smiles

* Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

* Choose the Right

* Spiderman

* Where is Thumbkin

* Day-O

* Son of Man

* Jack-ass Song

* Popcorn Popping

* Down by the Bay

FALL

* Clean Up Song
* Alphabet of Nations

* In the Leafy Treetops

* Bingo

* Do as I'm Doing

* Five Green and Speckled Frogs

* Have I Done any Good?

* Onward Christian Soldiers

* Holding Hands Around the World

* Bread of Angels

* Baa, Baa, Black Sheep

* La Vie an Rose

* Silent Night

* Go Tell it on the Mountain

* Angels we Have Heard on High

* Away in a Manger

* I Heard the Bells

* Cliff Hanger

* O Come All Ye Faithful

* The Farmer in the Dell

* Frances's Alphabet Song
* I'm a Little Teapot

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