Songs with Syncopation
- Alabama Gal
- All ‘Round the Brickyard
- All Around the Green Apple Tree
- All Around the Racetrack
- All Night All Day
- Ally Bally
- Artza Alinu
- Ay-Zuzuma
- Ballin’ the Jack
- Bee and the Pup
- Black Snake
- Bo Bo Ski Watten Tatten
- Bonse aba
- Buckeye Jim
- Bump Up Tomato
- Caney mi macaro
- Canoe Song
- Captain Go Sidetrack Your Train
- Children Go Where I Send Thee
- Circle Dance
- Crocodile Song (drum part)
- Dance Like a Butterfly
- Dancing and Whirling
- Day-O (Banana Boat Song)
- Dedja Mariama
- Deep River Blues
- Did You Feed My Cow
- Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel
- Ding ding kende e’haku
- Do as I’m Doing
- Do Lord
- Doggie Doggie
- Down By the Riverside
- Down in the Valley (Two by Two)
- Ducks in the Millpond
- Eh Soom Boo Kawaya
- Emma Lou My Darling
- Free at Last
- Fukien Boat Song
- Funga Alafia
- Garden Wall
- Going to the Lumberyard
- Griz-ze-ly Bear
- Go Down Emmanuel Road
- Hallelujah Chorus – listening example
- He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
- Head and Shoulders Baby
- Hello Ma Baby
- Hello Somebody
- Hey Concentration
- Hey Diddle Diddle
- Hey Lidee
- Hey Lolly Lolly
- Hi-Dee-Roon
- Hill and Gully Rider
- Hoist Your Window Way Yonder
- Hóng cǎi mèi mèi
- Hosanna
- I Caught a Rabbit
- I Pick Up My Hoe
- I Want to Rise in the Early Morn
- I’m Goin’ Home on a Cloud
- John B. Sails
- Johnny’s My Boy
- Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho
- Just From the Kitchen
- Kokoleoko
- Let Me Fly
- Li’l Liza Jane
- Linstead Market
- Little Lap-Dog Lullaby
- Lolo mi boto
- Lost My Gold Ring
- Mango Walk
- Mister Rabbit
- My Paddle’s Keen and Bright
- Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen
- Oh Mary Where is Your Baby
- Oh Won’t You Sit Down
- Old Ark’s a-Moverin’
- Old House
- Old Jumpety-Bumpety-Hop-and-Go-One
- Old Lady Goose
- Old Man Daisy
- Old Man Moses
- Old Zion’s Children
- Open the Window Noah
- Panama’m Tombe
- Pay Me My Money Down
- Pizza Pizza Daddy-O
- Purple Stew
- Riding in the Buggy
- Rock Island Line
- Roogooroogoo
- Rosie Darling Rosie
- Sad daane yaaghut
- Sambalele
- Scraping Up Sand in the Bottom of the Sea
- Shake the Papaya Down
- Si me dan pasteles
- Singabahambayo
- Sing Hallelu
- Skip To My Lou
- Solas Market
- Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
- Take Time in Life
- Tamboulay / C.C. Moriah
- Thief
- This Little Light of Mine
- This Train
- Tingalayo
- To Stop the Train
- Toi si bonne
- Tongo
- Un poquito cantas
- Wade in the Water
- Wake Me
- Wake Snake
- Watah Come a Me Eye
- We Born Dey
- Weevily Wheat
- When the Saints Go Marching In (drum part)
- Who Built the Ark
- Woke Up This Mornin’
- You’re at a Luau Now
Visuals + Assessment
(See downloads at bottom of page.)
Other Visuals
(Available on song pages. Click each image to access.)
Handouts / Worksheets / Assessments
(Available on song pages. Click each image to access.)
See also
- Digital & Printable Visuals + Assessment
I’m a public librarian who is doing a series of short videos this summer for a summer camp. I haven’t played violin, piano, or sang regularly since I was in college, so this page has been a great help in helping me review the basics of music theory. Thank you!
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