Category: folk song / traditional

Version Lyrics (Folk song) Hey hey look at meI am clapping you can see Substitute different motions for steady beat:patting, tapping, marching, walking… Hey hey look at me,Make yourself look just like me. Lyrics (Folk song) Hey hey look at ...

Lyrics (Traditional chant) Bubblegum bubblegum in a dishHow many pieces do you wish? [Student answers] Five![Count that number] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Game Each student puts out 2 fists. The one who’s counting (“It”) goes around tapping each fist with ...

Lyrics – Spanish (Mexican folk song) Un elefante se balanceabaSobre la tela de una araña,Como veía que resistíaFue a llamar a otro elefante. Dos elefantes se balanceaban,sobre la tela de una araña,como veían que resistíafueron a llamar a otro elefante. ...

Lyrics – Welsh (Melody by Daniel James, 1890s, Lyrics by John Hughes) Nid wy’n gofyn bywyd moethus,Aur y byd na’i berlau mân:Gofyn wyf am galon hapus,Calon onest, calon lân. RefrainCalon lân yn llawn daioni,Tecach yw na’r lili dlos:Dim ond calon lân ...

Info Other spellings: M’Sieu Bainjo, Michie Banjo Lyrics – French Creole (Folk song from Louisiana, United States) Voyez ce mulet la, Michie Bainjo,Comme il est insolent!Chapeau sur la cote, Michie Bainjo,La canne al la main, Michie Bainjo,Bottes qui fait crin crin, ...

Lyrics (Folk song) Little Sally Walker sitting on a saucerCrying and a-weeping over all she’s done.Rise Sally ride, wipe the tears from your eyesPut your hands on your hips,Let your backbone slipShake it to the eastShake it to the eastShake ...

Lyrics (Folk song) Little Sally Walker, walkin’ down the street,She / He didn’t know what to do, so she / he stopped in front of me,She / He said, “Hey girl / boy, do your thing, do your thing and ...

Lyrics (Scottish folk song) O the summer time has comeAnd the trees are sweetly bloomingAnd wild mountain thymeGrows around the purple heather.Will you go, lassie, go? Refrain RefrainAnd we’ll all go together,To pull wild mountain thyme,All around the purple heather.Will ...

Lyrics (English folk song) Old Abram Brown is dead and goneYou’ll never see him more!He used to wear an old gray coatAll buttoned down before. See also Country: England Harmony: rounds / chords i, iv, V Melody: repeated tones Meter: 2 ...