Folk Music 101, Part VI: 101 Children's Songs

date: 06/20/00

Here is the sketchiest start to a list of classic folksongs for children.

Traditional Songs

  1. There Was An OldWoman Who Swallowed A Fly
  2. The Cat Came Back (Miller)
  3. Old MacDonald Had A Farm
  4. High Town Fair (HaGadyah)
  5. Rise and Shine/Children of the Lord
  6. I've Been Working on the Railroad
  7. Froggie Went a'Courting
  8. Erie Canal
  9. Polly Wolly Doodle
  10. You are my Sunshine
  11. Whoopie Tie-Yi Yo
  12. Mole in the Ground

Lullabies

  1. All The Pretty Little Horses
  2. Rock-a-bye Baby
  3. Mockingbird
  4. Over the Rainbow (Yip Harburg)
  5. Edelweiss (Rogers & Hammerstein?)
  6. Summertime (Gershwin)
  7. Someone to Watch Over Me (?)
  8. I Don't Know Why (Shawn Colvin)

Game/Activity Songs

  1. 100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall
  2. B-I-N-G-O
  3. Eensy-Weensy Spider
  4. Rattlin' Bog
  5. Allouette
  6. Hokey Pokey
  7. Ring Around the Rosie


Newer Songs

  1. Take You Ridin in the Car (Guthrie)
  2. This Land Is Your Land
  3. Baby Beluga (Raffi)
  4. Wheels on the Bus
  5. Marvellous Toy (Tom Paxton)
  6. Rooty Toot Toot for the Moon (Greg Brown)
  7. Freight Train (Libba Cotten)
  8. Branching Out (I'm Gonna Reach) (John Gorka)
  9. When I First Came To This Land (Oscar Brand)
  10. A Place in the Choir (Bill Staines)
  11. Garden Song (Dave Mallett)
  12. House at Pooh Corner (Kenny Loggins)

 

Next article: what makes Children's Music good - and very, very bad....

 

Hugh Blumenfeld, Editor
hugh@balladtree.com

 

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