Sharon Murphy September 2015 Songs are memorable. We remember melodies and lyrics from long ago. Even though this power of harnessing the cadences of language as well as its pleasures underlies children’s nursery rhyme learning and the occasional literacy intervention, rarely has it been used in broad scale to make a difference in literacy learning. However, Brij Kothari in a recent Huffington Post article reports on an effort to do just that. In Maharashtra state (population