Category: folk song / traditional
Banks of Sacramento
Lyrics (Melody by Stephen Foster, Lyrics from the 1849 Gold Rush) 1. Sing and heave and heave and sing, Hoo-dah, Hoo-dah,Heave and make the hand-spikes spring, Hoo-dah, hoo-dah day. RefrainHo, boys, ho! For Californio!There’s plenty of gold, so I’ve been told ...
Ball Passing Game
Lyrics (Folk song) Pass and pass the ball andPass and pass the ball andPass and pass and it stops right here! Recorder Notes D, E, F#, G, A Recorder Notes G, A, B, C, D’ See also Activity: passing games ...
The Baker
Lyrics (Folk song) The baker is baking sweet biscuits so smallHis oven will take seven hundred in all.Buy some for tea, buy some for tea,The biggest for me! See also Subject: baking Harmony: I, IV, V / Orff Melody: high ...
Backwoodsman
Info Omemee is a town in Ontario, Canada. Downeyville is 9 km north. Lyrics (Canadian folk song) 1. Oh, it’s well do I remember the year of ‘forty five,I think my self quite happy to find myself alive.I harnessed up my ...
Backwater Blues
Lyrics (American folk song) 1. When it rains five days and the sky turns dark as night, (repeat)There’s trouble takin’ place in the lowlands at night. 2. I woke up this mornin’, can’t even get out my door. (repeat)There’s enough trouble ...
Away to Wisconsin
Lyrics (American folk song) 1. Since times are so hard I must tell you, sweetheart,I’ve a good mind to sell both my plow and my cart,And away to Wisconsin on a journey to goFor to double our fortune as other folks do. ...
Atadwe
Lyrics (Folk song from Ghana) Atadwe, Enne yea te de une! Atadwe = tiger nuts See also Country: Ghana Subject: food Form: call & response Harmony: I, IV / ostinati Melody: improvisation / F#,G,A,B / G,A,B Meter: 6/8 Rhythm: Scale: tetrachord Tones: ...
Autumn Comes
Lyrics (English folk song) Autumn comes, the summer is past,Winter will come too soon.Stars will shine clearer, skies seem nearer,Under the Harvest Moon. See also Country: England Subjects: fall (autumn) Type: choral Dynamics: loud & soft Harmony: i, iv, V Meter: ...
Australia’s on the Wallaby
Lyrics (Australian folk song) 1. Our fathers came to search for gold, the mine has proved a duffer.From bankers, boss and syndicate we always had to suffer.They fought for freedom for themselves, themselves and mates to toil.But Australia’s sons are weary ...
Ash Grove
Lyrics (Welch folk song, Lyrics by Thomas Oliphant, 1862) 1. Down yonder green valley where streamlets meanderWhen twilight is fading I pensively roam.Or at the bright noontide in solitude wander,Amidst the dark shades of the lonely ash grove.‘Twas there where the blackbirds were ...