Category: folk song / traditional

Lyrics – Haitian Creole (Folk song from Haiti) Tonton Bouki,Tonton Bouki,Ou ap dòmi?Ou ap dòmi?Lévé pou bat tanbou-a,Lévé pou bat tanbou-a!Ding ding dong!Ding ding dong! English Translation – Uncle Bouki Uncle Bouki,Uncle Bouki,Are you sleeping?Are you sleeping?Get up to play ...

Info This is used as a counting song to decide who’s going to be “It”. Lyrics – Croatian & Serbian (Folk song from Croatia & Serbia) Eci peci pecTi si mali zecA ja mala vjeverica¹Eci peci pec,A ja mala vjeverica¹Eci ...

Lyrics – Samoan (Folk song from Samoa) Pusi nofoNofo i luga o le falaE po atu,e ia le imoaPusi nofoNofo i luga o le falaPusi mata tio petinofo i luga o le fala English Translation – Cat sitting Cat sittingSitting ...

Info The Flora Dance (also called Furry Dance) sung and danced on or around Flora Day (May 8) in the UK. (source) Lyrics (Folk song from England) First of May’s the Flora Day,Can you dance the Flora?Yes I can with ...

Lyrics – Polish (Folk song from Poland) Krakowiaczek jeden, miał koników siedemPojechał na wojnę, został mu się jedenSiedem lat wojował, szabli nie wyjmowałSzabla zardzewiała, wojny nie widziała. Krakowianka jedna, miała chłopca z drewna,A dziewczynkę z wosku, wszystko po krakowsku.Gra mi ...

Lyrics – Spanish (Folk song from Cuba) Sung:Hormiguita retozona no hacía más que jugary su mami le decía: ven y ayúdame a limpiar. Spoken by Hormiguita:!A limpiar mami! !A mí me duele mucho las piernas! Sung:Hormiguita retozona no hacía más ...

Lyrics – Polish (Folk song from Poland) Na Wojtusia z popielnikaIskiereczka mrugaChodź opowiem ci bajeczkę,Bajka będzie długa. Była sobie raz królewna,Pokochała grajka,Król wyprawił im wesele,I skończona bajka. Była sobie Baba Jaga,Miała chatkę z masła,A w tej chatce same dziwy,Cyt! iskierka ...

Lyrics (American folk song) 1. Roxie Anne’s a-fooling me,I’ll fool her after awhile,She’s been a long time fooling, fooling,She’s been a long time fooling me. 2. Never mind Roxie Anne,Never mind awhileShe’s been a long time fooling, fooling,She’s been a ...

Lyrics (Folk song) 1. That old, old clock of the household stock,Was the brightest thing and neatest,The hands, though old, had a touch of gold,And its chimes sang still the sweetest,’Twas a monitor too, though words were few,Yet they lived ...

Lyrics (Folk song) 1. There was a man who had a horse-alum,had a horse-alum, had a horse-alum,Was a man who had a horse-alum, down in Demerara. RefrainAnd here we sits like birds in the wilderness,birds in the wilderness, birds in ...