Songs in 6/8 Meter

Songs

• A B C Tumble Down D
• A Dillar a Dollar
• A la lata al latero
• A Life on the Ocean Wave
• A Sailing Song
• A Song for Sailors and Soldiers
• Abiyoyo
• Andy Pandy
• Animal Fair
• Animals Went in Two By Two
• Ants Go Marching
• As I Sat on a Sunny Bank
• As I Walked Out One Holiday
• Atadwe
• Away Idaho
• Babe of Bethlehem
• Baby’s Night
• Backwoodsman
• Báidín Fheilimí
• Bear Away, Yankee, Bear Away, Boy
• Bear Went Over the Mountain
• Beautiful Dreamer (9/8)
• Beautiful Isle of Somewhere
• Bed Time
• Bee-Ba-Babity
• Blue Mountain Lake
• Bonnie Blue Flag
• Brown-Eyed Mary
• Cajemé
• Captain Jinks
• Castle of Dromore
• Cat’s Got the Measles
• Charlie Over the Ocean
• Charlie’s Neat
• Chickamy Chickamy Craney Crow
• Christ Child Lullaby
• Columbus Sailed with Three Ships
• Come Little Leaves
• Dame Get Up and Bake Your Pies
• De bezem
• De Herdertjes Lagen Bij Nachte
• Derby Ram
• Donkey Donkey Old and Gray
• Down in Yon Forest
• Down the River / Down the Ohio
• E Papa Waiari
• Ee-Lee-Ay-Lee-Oh
• El chiriguare
• El sapo chiminique
• Elephant (chant)
• Elsie Marley
• Fairy Ship
• Farmer in the Dell
• Father Grumble
• Fiddle-De-Dee
• For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow
• Frog Pond
• Funiculi Funicula
• Gabriel’s Message (9/8)
• Gallop
• Geography Song
• Georgie Porgie
• Gesú Bambino
• Girls and Boys Come Out to Play
• Git Along Little Dogies
• Going Over the Sea
• Going to Kentucky
• Golden Boat Song
• Golden Slumbers
• Goober Peas
• Good Night (Christmas)
• Good Night (Going Home)
• Grafted Into the Army
• Grand Old Duke of York
• Greensleeves
• Hail, Hail! The Gang’s All Here!
• Here We Go Looby Loo
• Hey Diddle Diddle
• Hickety Pickety Bumblebee
• Hickety Pickety My Black Hen
• Hickory Dickory Dock
• Highland Fairy Lullaby
• Homespun Dress
• Hop Marjanneke
• How Do You Do?
• Hullabaloo Belay
• Humpty Dumpty
• Hush-a-Ba Birdie
• I Had a Little Sailboat
• I Had a Rooster
• I Love Little Kitty
• I Love the Mountains
• I Saw Three Ships Come Sailing In
• I’m a Little Teapot
• I’s the B’y
• If All the World Were Paper
• Il était une bergère
• Irish Washerwoman
• Itsy Bitsy Spider
• Jack and Jill
• Jongens heb je ‘t al vernomen
• Koon yeghir palas
• La Mar
• La rama
• La rana
• La raspa
• Lazy Cat
• Let Everyone Clap Hands Like Me
• List to the Bells
• Little Bo-Peep
• Little Boy Blue
• Little Drops of Water
• Little Jack Horner
• The Little Lamb
• Little Miss Muffet
• Little Snowflakes
• Little Tom Tinker
• Lullaby (Rossetti)
• Masters in this Hall
• Mayo Nafta (4/8 & 6/8)
• Merrily Merrily
• Mill-Wheel
• Miss Jenny Jones
• Moj Maro Moj Marine
• Mulberry Bush
• My Big Bass Drum
• Naranja dulce
• New Year’s Day
• Ninna Nanna
• Noble Duke of York
• North Wind Doth Blow
• O Holy Night
• Oats Peas Beans
• Oh Dear What Can the Matter Be
• Oh Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?
• Old Gray Cat
• Old Jeremiah
• Old Old Shack
• Oliver Twist
• On a Summer Day
• One More River
• Over the River and Through the Woods
• Paddy Works on the Railway
• Pájara pinta
• Pat-a-Cake
• Patsy Ory Ory Aye
• Peter Hammers
• Plains of Illinois
• Pop! Goes the Weasel
• Push the Business On
• Qué linda manita
• Raining Again Today
• Raisins and Almonds
• Raisins and Almonds
• Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross
• Rig-a-Jig-Jig
• Ring Around the Rosie
• Rio Grande
• Risseldy Rosseldy
• The Robin
• Robin-a-Thrush
• Rowing
• Row, Row, Row Your Boat
• Ruach
• Rub-a-Dub-Dub
• Sally on the Seesaw
• Sampung Mga Daliri
• Santy Maloney
• Seal Woman’s Sea Joy
• See-Saw Margery Daw
• See-Saw Sacradown
• See The Morning Fair And Bright
• Shanty Boys
• Shepherds, Rejoice
• Silent Night
• Silently Falling Snow
• Silver and Gold Have I None
• Sing a Song at Twilight
• Sing Together
• Skye Boat Song
• Sorida
• St. Valentine’s Day
• Starving to Death on a Government Claim
• Stone Passing Game (5/8)
• Sumer Is I-Cumen In (12/8)
• Sussex Carol (On Christmas Night)
• Sweet and Low
• Texas Rangers
• Thanksgiving Day – version 2
• There Was a Pig
• This is the Way
• Three Little Pigs
• Thread Follows the Needle
• Three Blind Mice
• Three Crows
• Three Little Kittens
• Threw it Out the Window
• Tip Toe Song
• To Babyland
• To Market
• Toyland
• Vamos Todos a Belén
• Vive la Compagnie
• Wassail Bough
• Wassail Song
• Wee Falorie Man
• Wee Melodie Man
• We’ll All Go A-Singing
• What Child is This?
• When Father Papered the Parlour
• When Johnny Comes Marching Home
• Wolf in the Hen House

Visuals

Available on this page

Visuals, Worksheet & Assessment download & lesson ideas available on this page: When Father Papered the Parlour

Worksheet / Assessment – Writing Rhythms in 6/8

See also

• Meter / Time Signature resources