Category: folk song / traditional

Info This song is from the island of Malaita, Solomon Islands. A recording by a woman named Afunakwa was collected by an ethnomusicologist in 1970. In 1992, Deep Forest, a French musical group sampled the recording and turned it into ...

Info The Quechua language, an ancient language from the Andes mountains in South America, is spoken by Incas. Because it started as a spoken language, words are often spelled differently. Lyrics – Quechua (Folk song from Peru) Yaw, yaw puka ...

Lyrics – Spanish (Folk song from Spain) Un poquito cantas, un poquito bailas,Un poquito lelola como un canario.RefrainLelola, lelola, lelo, lelo, lelola,Lelola, lelola, lelo, lelo, la. Un poquito vientos, un poquito sombras,Un poquito lelola como un canario. Refrain Un poquito ...

Pinyin – Sān lún chē (Folk song from Taiwan) Sān lún chē pǎo dé kuàishàng miàn zuò gè lǎo tài tàiyào wǔ máo gěi yī kuàinǐ shuō qí guài bù qí guài xiǎo hóu zǐ zhī zhī jiàodù zǐ è ...

Lyrics (French folk tune) Life is but aLife is but aMelancholy flower,Melancholy flower,Life is but a melon,Life but a melon,Cauliflower,Cauliflower See also Subject: food Harmony: rounds / one chord Meter: 4 Scale: hexachord Tones: s,drmfsl Same tune: Frère Jacques YouTube https://youtu.be/w78WbFLLlVM?si=fwlwhfX1YD9rf_MN ...

Info The Lovara people are a subgroup of the Romani people who originally lived in Hungary and Slovakia and now mostly live in Austria. (source) (source) Lyrics – Vlax Romani (Lovara folk song) Šukar jakha la ca hin av ca ...

Lyrics (Folk song) Oh you push the damper in and you pull the damper out,And the smoke goes up the chimney just the same.Oh you push the damper in and you pull the damper out,And the smoke goes up the ...

Info This song and dance is common in Rwanda. It is usually sung by a group of 6 to 10 girls (aged from young girls to teenagers) with each girl taking turns improvising dance steps. Another girl sings the “call” ...

Lyrics – Finnish (Folk song from Finland) Tuu tuu tupakkarullamistäs tiesit tänne tulla?Tulin pitkin turun tietä,hämäläisten härkätietä. Mistäs tunsit meidän portin?Näen teidän uuden portin:haka alla, pyörä päälläkarhun talja portin päällä English Translation – Come on, come on, tobacco roll Come ...

Lyrics (German folk tune, Nursery rhyme arr. by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey) 1. Willie Boy, Willie Boy, where are you going?May we go with you this sunshiny day?“I go to the meadows to help with the mowing.You may go with me ...