Category: folk song / traditional
Kanzenzenze
Lyrics – Kimbundu (Folk song from the Democratic Republic of the Congo) Kanzenzenze kalegilePipikalengileKapaka samboKatula kareleMasna bitotoMuana bitotoKapikila kapo English Translation – Ten fingers You have ten fingersTen fingers for playingFive fingers on each hand. (source) See also Country: Democratic ...
Amawole
Lyrics – Lingala (Folk song from the Democratic Republic of the Congo) Amawole…Amawole eh eh eh eh…Kintela a ngai nalela soso kintela a ngaNalela kakooioko kintela a ngainatela soso kintela a nga nalea kakooioko English Translation – Amawole AmawoleI am ...
Uélé molibá mákási
Info When fishing in the Kasaï River, people might have to row hard in the strong currents. They sing to Béngúélà, the water spirit to help them be successful. (source: Songs from the Baobab) This song is also sung as a ...
Cock-a-Doodle-Doo
Lyrics (Folk song) 1. Cock-a-doo-dle doo, my dame has lost her shoe,and master’s lost his fiddling stick and doesn’t know what to do.And doesn’t know what to do, and doesn’t know what to do.The master’s lost his fid-dling stick and doesn’t know ...
Au clair de la lune
Lyrics – French (French folk song) Au clair de la lune mon ami Pierrotprète moi ta plume pour écrire un mot,ma chan-delle est morte jen’ai plus de feu,ouvre moi ta porte pour l’amour de dieu. English Lyrics – In the ...
Git Along Little Dogies
Info Dogies = motherless calves in a cattle herd (source) Lyrics (Folk song) 1. As I was walking one morning for pleasure,I spied a cowpuncher a-riding alone;His hat was throwed back and his spurs was a-jingling,And as he approached he ...
Waltzing Matilda
Lyrics (Folk tune, Lyrics by A.B. Patterson, 1895) 1. Once a jolly swagman sat beside a billabongUnder the shade of a coolibah tree,And he sang as he watched and waited by the billabong:“Who’ll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me?” RefrainWaltzing Matilda, waltzing ...
Boll Weevil
Info The quickly-multiplying boll weevils are insects who have caused billions of dollars in damage to cotton crops. (source: Sandburg) Lyrics (Folk song) 1. Oh the boll weevil is a little black bug, come from Mexico they say,Come all the ...
Sailing Sailing
Lyrics (Godfrey Marks, 1880) Sailing, sailingOver the bounding main,For many a stormy wind shall blow,Ere Jack comes home again. (repeat) See also Subject: sailing Harmony: I IV V chords Rhythm: Source: The Child’s Own Music Book, The Largest Collection ...
Goober Peas
Lyrics (Folk song) 1. Sitting by the roadside on a summer’s day,Chatting with my messmates, passing time away,Lying in the shadow underneath the trees,Goodness, how delicious, eating goober peas. RefrainPeas, peas, peas, peas, eating goober peas*,Goodness how delicious, eating goober ...