Category: folk song / traditional
Little Boy Blue
Lyrics (Folk song) Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn,The sheep’s in the meadow, the cow’s in the corn.Where is the boy who looks after the sheep?He’s under the haystack fast asleep. See also Type: nursery rhyme Harmony: I IV ...
Erie Canal
Info Before the railroads were built, the Erie Canal served as an important waterway for moving merchandise and products between the Great Lakes (U.S.) and the Atlantic Ocean. (source: Sandburg) Lyrics (American folk song) I’ve got an old mule and ...
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Recorder Notes: D, E, F#, A Lyrics (Folk tune, Lyrics by Sarah Josepha Hale, 1830) Mary had a little lamb,Little lamb, little lamb,Mary had a little lambIts fleece was white as snow And everywhere that Mary wentMary went, Mary wentEverywhere ...
Ding Dong Diggidiggidong
Lyrics (Folk song) Ding dong diggi-diggi-dong,Diggi-diggi-dong, my cat, he’s goneDing dong diggi-diggi-dong,Diggi-diggi-diggi-diggi-dong. See also Subject: cats Harmony: rounds / chords I, IV, V Melody: repeated tones / C,D,E,G,A,C’ Meter: 4 Rhythm: Scale: pentatonic Tones: drmsld’ YouTube https://youtu.be/uZYI1YMif38https://youtu.be/BCN4d8fiOHs or purchase here (printables only) ...
Haida
Lyrics – Transliteration (Hebrew folk song) Haida, haida, hai-didi-dai-daHaida, haida, haida, haida The word “haida” does not have a meaning in Hebrew (similar to “la” in English). See also Language: Hebrew Harmony: Orff arrangements / chords i & V Meter: ...
Doctor Foster
Lyrics (Folk song) Doctor Foster went to Glo’ster (also spelled Gloucester)In a shower of rainStepped in a puddle right up to his middleAnd he never went there again. Recorder Songs D, E, F,#, A, B, D’ Motions See motion ideas ...
Simple Gifts
Lyrics (Joseph Brackett, 1848, a Shaker from Maine, U.S.) ‘Tis the gift to be simple, ’tis the gift to be free,‘Tis the gift to come down where you ought to be.And when you find yourself in the place just right,‘Twill ...
The Bear Went Over the Mountain
Lyrics (American folk song) The bear went over the mountain,The bear went over the mountain,The bear went over the mountain, To see what he could see. To see what he could see,To see what he could see. The other side ...
The Fox
Lyrics (Folk song) 1. Oh the fox went out for a chase one night,prayed to he moon to give him light.He had many miles to go that nightbefore he reached the town O, town O, town O,many miles to go that night before ...
Cumberland Gap
Lyrics (American folk song) 1. Me and my wife and my wife’s pap,Goin’ to Kentucky through the Cumberland Gap.Our two little kids named Holly and Hap,And an old hound dog barkin’ yap yap yap. RefrainCumberland Gap, Cumberland Gap,Everything I own is ...