Category: folk song / traditional

Lyrics (Traditional chant) Queen, Queen CarolineWashed her hair with turpentine,Turpentine to make it shine,Queen, Queen Caroline See also Meter: 2 Rhythm: Timbre: chants YouTube https://youtu.be/Sx7oM_UIg-Ihttps://youtu.be/kxai0iAhmsM Chant with notation (PDF) Download PDF

Lyrics (American folk song) Lead through that sugar and tea,O, lead through that candy.You lead through that sugar and tea,And I’ll lead through that candy. You swing that sugar and tea,O, you swing that candy.We’ll all swing our sugar and ...

Lyrics – French (French Canadian folk song) Monter sur un éléphantC’est haut, c’est haut.Monter sur un éléphant,C’est, haut, c’est effrayant. Monter sur deux éléphantsC’est haut, c’est haut.Monter sur deux éléphants,C’est, haut, c’est effrayant. Monter sur trois éléphantsC’est haut, c’est haut.Monter ...

Lyrics (Traditional chant) Once I found a cherry stone,I put it in the groundAnd when I came to look at it,A tiny shoot I found. The shoot grew up and up each day,And soon became a tree.I picked the rosy ...

Lyrics (Canadian folk song) Now ’twas twenty-five or thirty years since Jack first saw the light,He came into this world of woe one dark and stormy night,He was born on board his father’s ship as she was lying to,‘Bout twenty-five ...

Lyrics (Folk song) 1. There was a great big moose (repeat)He liked to drink a lot of juice. (repeat)(Repeat) RefrainSinging oh way oh, (repeat)Way oh, way oh, way oh, way oh, (repeat)Way oh, way oh, (repeat)Way oh, way oh, way oh, ...

Lyrics – Turkish (Turkish folk song) //Tren gelir hoş gelirLey ley limi limi ley// (repeat)//Odaları boş gelirLimi limi güzel gel bize// (repeat) //Duydum yar bize gelmişLey ley limi limi ley// (repeat)//Sefa gelmiş hoş gelmişLimi limi güzel gel bize// (repeat) //Dar ...

Lyrics (American folk song) RefrainAway and away, we’re bound for the mountain,bound for the mountain, bound for the mountain,Over the mountain, the hills and the fountains,Away to the chase, away, away. 1. We heed not the tempest, the toil nor ...

Lyrics – Malay (Indonesian folk song) Geylang si paku GeylangGeylang si rama-ramaPulang marilah pulangmarilah pulang bersama-sama English Translation Geylang* full of ferns, Geylang full of butterflies,Come let’s go home, Let’s go home together *Geylang is a location in Singapore. (source) ...

Info In the Wehichit Tribe of Central California, the women would sing this work song while grinding the acorn meal. Lyrics (Wehichit folk song – Native American) Hay way nah wo lay yah chornhey pah rah no way man yen ...