Author: Beth Thompson
Sukkot Songs
Info Sukkot is an 8-day harvest celebration where people live in wooden huts to remember the journey the Jews made after leaving Egypt. The Festival of Sukkot begins the fifth day after Yom Kippur. (source) Song Ha’Sukkah Mah Yafah See ...
Tanabata Songs
Info Tanabata, “Star Festival” occurs every year on July 7. Children write their wishes on strips of paper, and the paper strips are hung on the branches of bamboo trees. Song Tanabata-sama See also holidays
Hop-tu-naa
Info Hop-tu-naa is a Celtic festival celebrated on the Isle of Man on October 31. It marks the beginning of Samhain, a Gaelic holiday celebrating the end of harvest and beginning of winter. (source) Lyrics (Folk song from the Isle ...
St. Lucia’s Day Songs
Info St. Lucia’s Day is celebrated in Scandinavian countries on December 13 to honor St. Lucia (Lucy). It includes a procession with girls wearing wreaths with candles on their heads and boys wearing white. (source) Songs Goder morgon i denna ...
Come Butter Come
Info This was probably chanted / sung as butter was being churned. (source) Lyrics (Folk song) Churn butter churn,*Come butter come,Peter standing at the gateWaiting for a butter cake,Come butter come. *Many versions say “come butter come” in the first ...
Song of the Wren
Lyrics (Native American folk song, Pawnee) Ke-chi ra-ku-wa-ku whe ke re re we chi,Ke-chi ra-ku-wa-ku whe ke re re we chi,Ke-chi ra-ku-wa-ku whe ke re re we chi,Ke-chi ra-ku-wa-ku whe ke re re we chi,Ke-chi ra-ku-wa-ku whe ke re re ...
Folk Songs from the Isle of Man
Songs Hop-tu-Naa Hop-tu-naa My Mother’s Gone Away Hop-tu-naa Song Hush Thee My Dove (Manx Lullaby) Ushag veg ruy See also songs from the British Isles
Hush Thee My Dove (Manx Lullaby)
Lyrics (Folk song from the Isle of Man) Oh hush thee my dove, oh hush thee my rowan,Oh hush thee my lapwing, my little brown bird. (repeat) Oh fold thy wings and seek thy nest now,Oh shine the berry on ...
Ravi Shankar
Quick Facts World’s most well-known expert of classical Indian music in the late 20th century As a child/teenager, studied music and dance; toured Europe and the U.S. with a dancing group At the age of 18, started to study the ...
Jack-o’-Lantern Pumpkin Head
Lyrics (Traditional chant) Jack-o’-Lantern Pumpkin Head,He is a fearful sight,I am sure you’d be afraidTo meet him in the night.By day is he a pumpkin,But just you wait ‘til night,For out of eyes and nose and mouthThere shines a yellow ...