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
  • Barnacle Bill
  • 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
  • Bonhomme! Bonhomme!
  • Bonnie Blue Flag
  • Brown-Eyed Mary
  • Cajemé
  • Canaday-I-O
  • 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
  • Cowboy, The
  • Daar was laatst een meisje loos
  • Dame Get Up and Bake Your Pies
  • Days of Summer Glory
  • 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!
  • Hal an Tow
  • Here We Go Looby Loo
  • Hey Diddle Diddle
  • Hickety Pickety Bumblebee
  • Hickety Pickety My Black Hen
  • Hickory Dickory Dock
  • Highland Fairy Lullaby
  • Hippity Hop
  • Homespun Dress
  • Hop Marjanneke
  • How Do You Do?
  • How Many Miles to Bethlehem
  • 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 Took a Walk to Town One Day
  • I Went to Visit a Farm One Day
  • I’s the B’y
  • If All the World Were Paper
  • Ik zou zo graag een koeike kopen
  • Il était une bergère
  • Irish Washerwoman
  • Itsy Bitsy Spider
  • Jack and Jill
  • Jack Be Nimble
  • Jing-Ga-Ring
  • Jongens heb je ‘t al vernomen
  • Katie Bairdie
  • Koon yeghir palas
  • La Mar
  • La rama
  • La rana
  • La raspa
  • Lazy Cat
  • Leprechaun
  • 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
  • Miss Maggie
  • Moj Maro Moj Marine
  • Moses Supposes His Toes-es are Roses
  • Mulberry Bush
  • My Big Bass Drum
  • Naranja dulce
  • New Year’s Day
  • Nicky Nacky Nocky Noo
  • Ninna Nanna
  • Noble Duke of York
  • North Wind Doth Blow
  • Nuts in May
  • 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 Mother Hubbard
  • Old Oaken Bucket
  • Old Old Shack
  • Oliver Twist
  • On a Summer Day
  • One Finger One Thumb
  • One More River
  • Over the River and Through the Woods
  • Paddy Works on the Railway
  • Pájara pinta
  • Pat-a-Cake
  • Patsy Ory Ory Aye
  • Pescador da barca bela
  • 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
  • Ranz des vaches (Kuhreihen)
  • Red Iron Ore
  • Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross
  • Rig-a-Jig-Jig
  • Ring Around the Rosie
  • Rio Grande
  • Risseldy Rosseldy
  • The Robin
  • Robin-a-Thrush
  • Rosy My Posy
  • Rowing
  • Row, Row, Row Your Boat
  • Ruach
  • Rub-a-Dub-Dub
  • Sailors Sailing on the Sea (12/8)
  • Sally on the Seesaw
  • Sampung Mga Daliri
  • Santy Maloney
  • Sapateia
  • Se me ha perdido una niña
  • 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
  • Spring Has Come
  • St. Valentine’s Day
  • Starving to Death on a Government Claim
  • 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
  • Toutouig
  • Toyland
  • Tu scendi dalle stelle
  • 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
  • White Wings
  • Wolf in the Hen House

Worksheet / Assessment

• Writing Rhythms in 6/8 – available on this page: When Father Papered the Parlour

See also

• 6/8 rhythm visuals
• Meter / Time Signature resources
• Rhythm resources