Category: folk song / traditional
Song of the Watch
Lyrics (English folk songs, Lyrics Anonymous) RefrainPast three o’clock and a cold frosty morning,Past three o’clock, good morrow, masters all. 1. While in your beds you’re peacefully sleeping,Under the stars our watch we are keeping. Refrain 2. We go the ...
Sindi
Lyrics – Mooré (Folk song from Burkina Faso) Sindi, sindi biiga Fo ma tienga ragaFo baba tienga weogoBamb na wa ne bonbonfo sum nonga sindi sindi sindi biigasindi sindi sindi biiga. English Translation – Hush Hush, hush, babyYour mommy has ...
Alphabet Poem
Lyrics (Traditional chant / nursery rhyme) A was an angler went out in a fog,Who fished all the day and caught only a frog. B was cook Betty a-baking a pie,With ten or twelve apples all piled up on high. ...
Diarra loro lora
Lyrics – Dioula (Folk song from Burkina Faso) Diarra loro loraDiantissera diarralaDiarra loro loraDiantissera diarrala Hé sourougou loro loraDiantissera diarralaHé sourougou loro loraDiantissera diarrala English Translation – The Lions’ Market is There The lions’ market is there,But nobody will be ...
Mami Wata
Lyrics – Bambara Folk song from Burkina Faso) Mami lo lo loMamiwata loloMami lo lo loMamiwata loloKata sin frantaKata di frantaKata KomisériaMama béna OK English Translation – Mermaid The little mermaidwas bored underwaterShe went up to the surface to pick ...
Trade Song
Lyrics (Folk tune, Lyrics by Clara Belle Baker, 1921) 1. The farmer reaps the harvest,The farmer reaps the harvest,The farmer reaps the harvestWhile we go round about.While we go round about,While we go round about,The farmer reaps the harvestWhile we ...
Yism’chu Hashamayim
Lyrics – Transliteration (Hasidic folk tune, Traditional lyrics: Psalm 96:11) Yismechu Hashamayim,Yismechu Hashamayim,Yismechu HashamayimVetagel ha’aretz. Yiram hayam,Yiram hayam,Yiram hayam um’lo’o. Yismechu Hashamayim,Yismechu Hashamayim,Yismechu HashamayimVetagel ha’aretz. English Translation – Let the heavens be glad Let the heavens be glad,Let the heavens ...
Rock About My Saro Jane
Lyrics (American folk song) Oh rock about my Saro Jane,Oh rock about my Saro Jane,Oh there’s nothing to do but sit down and singAnd rock about my Saro Jane. See also Harmony: chords I, IV, V Meter: 2 Scale: hexachord ...
Amina Tolé
Lyrics (Folk song from Senegal) Amina,Amina tolé´EléssibaÉna ahoAminatou sé PascalinaSouma ouéSouma ouéAmizongo, GismèneEssissékéléEoula zouEoula zouEoula zou pin pinAminatou! Lyrics have no meaning (source) See also Country: Senegal Harmony: chords i & VII Melody: do re mi Meter: 4 Timbre: voices Scale: ...
Schpinn, schpinn, meine liewi Dochder
Lyrics – Pennsylvania German (Pennsylvania German folk song) 1. Schpinn, schpinn, mei liewi Dochter,Noh kaaf ich dir en Frack.Ya, ya, mei liewer Daadi,Un deen mit en Sack. RefrainIch kann nimmi schpinne,Mei Finger gschwellt immer,Un dutt mer weh, so weh! 2. ...