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15 Men on a Dead Man's Chest (Sea Shanty) 
A-tisket A-tasket (Circle Game)
A, B, C Song 
MP3 Midi
MP3 Midi A Bicycle Built for Two (Traditional Song)
A Canner Can Can (Limerick)
All the Pretty Little Horses (Lullaby) Midi
Midi Amazing Grace (Spiritual) MP3
"A" My Name is Arlene (Ball Bouncing Rhyme)
Animal Fair MP3
A Peanut Sat MP3 Midi
Apple on a Stick (Hand Clapping Rhyme)
Arizona Star (Traditional Song)
Away in a Manger (A Carol) Midi
Midi Bill Grogan's Goat (Echo Song)
Billy Boy (Folk Song)
Bim Bum (Hand Clapping Song )
BINGO MP3 Midi
Blow the Man Down (Sea Shanty)
Blue Bird, Blue Bird (Circle Game)
Blue Bird, Blue Bird (Circle Game) MP3
Bo Bo Ski Waton Taton (Hand Clapping Rhyme) MP3
Boom Chicka Boom (Kids Song)
Bread and Cheese Game (Call & Response Game)
Bubblegum, Bubblegum in a Dish (Counting-out Rhyme)
Buffalo Gals (Traditional Song)
Buttermilk (Traditional Song)
Camptown Races (Traditional Song)
Candy Apple on a Stick (Handclapping Rhyme)
Can You Guess Who Has The Ring? (String Circle Game Song)
Charlie Chaplin Went to France (Jump Rope Rhyme)
Cinderella Dressed in Yellow (Jump Rope Song) MP3
Circle Circle, Dot Dot (Cootie Shot Rhyme)
Clap Hands, Clap Hands (Nursery Rhyme)
Coca-Cola Went to Town (Rhyme)
Concentration 64 (Hand Clapping Rhyme )
Cotton Eyed Joe Midi
Creep Mouse (Here Comes the Mousie) (Nursery Rhyme Game)
Criss-Cross Applesauce (Nursery Rhyme)
Daisy, Daisy (Traditional Song)
Days of the Week MP3
Dem Dry Bones (Spiritual)
Did You Ever See a Lassie? (Circle Game)
Did You Feed My Cow? (Call and Response Song)
Double Double This This (Hand Clapping Rhyme)
Down by the Banks of the Hankity-Panky (Circle Game) MP3
Down by the Bay MP3
Down Down Baby, Down by the Rollercoaster (Hand Clapping Song)
Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe (Counting Rhyme) MP3
Eenie Meenie Sicileeny (Counting-out Rhyme)
Eenie Meenie Sicileeny (Long Version) (Hand-clapping Rhyme) MP3
Everywhere We Go (Camp Song)
Faces, Faces, Funny Faces (Halloween Song)
Fa, Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum! (Nursery Rhyme) MP3
Fee, Fa, Fie, Fo, Fum (Nursery Rhyme) MP3
Five Little Monkeys (Finger Play) MP3
Five Little Pumpkins (Halloween Song) MP3
Flee Fly Flo (Hand-clapping Chant)
Follow the Drinking Gourd (Folk Song)
Fortune-Telling by Daisy Petals (U.S.) (Nursery Rhyme) MP3
Fried Ham (Camp & Scout Song)
Frog Went a' Courtin' (Folk Song) MP3
Fudge, Fudge, Call the Judge (Jump Rope Rhyme)
Good Night, Sleep Tight (Nursery Rhyme) MP3
Go Tell Aunt Rhody (Folk Song)
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Spiritual) MP3
Hambone (A Rhymed Chant & Rhythmic Dance)
Head Thinker (Nursery Rhyme)
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not! (Nursery Rhyme) MP3
Here I Brew and Here I Bake (Children's Rhyme and Game)
He's Got the Whole World in His Hands (Spiritual)
Home On The Range (Folk Song) MP3
Hush-a-bye (All the Pretty Little Horses) (Lullaby) MP3
Hush-a-bye, Baby, On the Tree Top (Nursery Rhyme) MP3
Ice Cream Soda (Jump Rope Song)
Ice Cream, You Scream (Chant) MP3
If the Groundhog Sees His Shadow (Rhyme) MP3
I Gave My Love a Cherry (Traditional Song)
I Had a Little Sister (Hand Clapping Song)
I'm Bringing Home a Baby Bumble Bee (Kids Song)
I'm Rubber, You're Glue (Children's Chant) MP3
In a Cabin in a Wood MP3 Midi
Inka Binka (Counting Rhyme) MP3
Inky Binky Bonkie (Counting-out Rhyme)
I Scream, You Scream (Chant) MP3
I See the Moon and the Moon Sees Me (Lullaby)
I've Been Working on the Railroad (Folk Song) MP3 Midi
I Was Born in a Frying Pan (Jump Rope Rhyme)
I Went to a Chinese Restaurant (Hand-clapping Rhyme)
I Went to a Chinese Restaurant (Whoopsie Version) (Hand-clapping Rhyme)
Jack-o'-lantern (Halloween Song)
Jimmy Brown (Camp Song)
Jimmy Crack Corn (Folk Song)
Jingle Bells (A Carol) MP3
Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier (Traditional Song)
Kitty White (Circle Game)
Knock, Knock, Peep In (Rhyme)
Kumbaya (Traditional Song) MP3 Midi
Lemonade, Crunchy Ice (Handclapping Song) MP3
Let Us Chase the Squirrel (Game Song)
Little Arabella Miller (Nursery Rhyme)
Little Bird, Little Bird (Circle Game) MP3
Little Brown Jug (Traditional Song)
Little Fishes in a Brook (Nursery Rhyme) MP3
Little One (Finger Naming Rhyme)
Little Red Wagon (Echo Song)
Little Red Wagon (Kids Song)
Little Sally Walker (Circle Game)
Little Sally Walker (or Water) (Circle Game)
Lolly Too Dum (Traditional Song) Midi
Midi London Bridge (US Version) MP3 Midi
MP3 Midi M-I Crooked Letter (Jump Rope Rhyme)
Mairzy Doats (Nursery Rhyme)
Mares Eat Oats (Nursery Rhyme)
Michael Row the Boat Ashore (Spiritual)
Miss Lucy Had a Baby (Hand Clapping Song)
Miss Lucy Had a Steam Boat (Hand Clapping Song) MP3
Miss Mary Mack (Clapping Song) MP3
Missouri Waltz (Missouri State Song and Lullaby)
Moonlight Bay (Traditional Song)
Mr. Rabbit (Negro Spiritual) MP3
My Big Silk Hat (Boy Scout & Camp Song)
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean (Folk Song)
My Boy Scout Hat (Boy Scout & Camp Song)
My Grandfather's Clock (Traditional Song)
My Hat, It Has Three Corners (Action Song) Midi
Midi My Name is K I Piccolo (Hand Clapping Song)
My Name Is L I L I (Hand Clapping Song)
My Pigeon House (Lullaby)
Nelly Bly (Traditional Song) MP3
New Moon, True Moon (Divination Rhyme)
Ninety-Nine Bottles of Beer on the Wall (Kids Song)
Not Last Night But the Night Before (Jump Rope Song)
O Christmas Tree (A Carol)
O Christmas Tree (Version 2) (A Carol) MP3
Oh, How Lovely is The Evening (Round)
Oh, John The Rabbit (Traditional Song) MP3
Oh Little Playmate (Hand Clapping Song) MP3
O Holy Night (A Carol) MP3
Oh, Susanna (Folk Song) MP3
Old Miss Mouse MP3
One - Two -Three - A Nation (Ball Bouncing Rhyme)
One Potato, Two Potato (Counting-out Rhyme) MP3
On Top of Old Smokey (Folk Song)
Open, Shut Them MP3
Over the River and Through the Woods (Thanksgiving Song)
Pepsi-Cola Dance Song (Dance Song)
Piggy on the Railway (Nursery Rhyme)
Pinky, Pinky Bow-bell (Nursery Rhyme)
Pizza, Pizza Daddy-O (Circle Dance)
Polly Wolly Doodle (Folk Song) Midi
Pop! Goes the Weasel (Nursery Rhyme) MP3
Pretty Little Dutch Girl (Handclapping and Jump Rope Rhyme)
Quack Diddley Oso (Hand Clapping Rhyme) MP3
Rattlesnake (Traditional Song)
Red River Valley (Traditional Song)
Ring-a-Round the Rosie (Circle Game) MP3
Rock-a-bye Baby MP3 Midi
MP3 Midi Round Ball-y (Rhyme)
Row, Row, Row Your Boat MP3 Midi
MP3 Midi Rubin, Rubin, I've Been Thinking (Jump Rope Song) Midi
Santa Claus, You are Much Too Fat (A Carol)
Sarasponda (Traditional Song)
Saw a Crow a-flying Low (Kentucky Mountain Song) Midi
Midi See-Saw, Margery Daw (U.S. Version) (Nursery Rhyme) MP3
Senor Don Gato MP3
She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain (Folk Song) MP3 Midi
MP3 Midi Silent Night (A Carol) MP3 Midi
MP3 Midi Sippin Cider (Camp Song)
Six Little Dogs Midi
Midi Six Little Ducks MP3
Skidamarink MP3
Skinny Malinky (Kids Song)
Skip to My Lou (Circle Game)
Squish Squash Applesauce (Nursery Rhyme)
Swing Low Sweet Chariot (Spiritual) MP3
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (Traditional Song)
Tarantula MP3 Midi
MP3 Midi Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear (Jump Rope Song)
That's Life (Rhyme)
The Bear Went Over the Mountain MP3 Midi
MP3 Midi The Bed-time Song (Kentucky Mountain Song) Midi
Midi The Bees' Party MP3
The Bumblebee Was Under The Barn (Nursery Rhyme Game)
The Cat Came Back (Traditional Song)
The Donut Shop MP3
The Girl Scout Promise (Scout Oath) MP3
The Green Grass Grew All Around (Cumulative Song)
The Halloween Song (Halloween Song)
The Hearse Song (Traditional Song) MP3
The Itsy Bitsy Spider (Finger Play) MP3 Midi
The More We Get Together MP3 Midi
MP3 Midi The Old Gray Mare (Kids Song)
The Old Hen She Cackled (Appalachian Folk Song) Midi
There Was an Old Witch (Halloween Song)
The Wheels on the Bus MP3 Midi
MP3 Midi The Worms Crawl In, The Worms Crawl Out (Traditional Song) MP3
This Little Light of Mine (Spiritual)
This Little Piggy (Fingerplay) MP3
Three, Six, Nine, The Goose Drank Wine (Hand-clapping Rhyme)
Tic Tac Toe (Handclapping Rhyme) MP3
Train is A Comin' Midi
Midi Trick or Treat (Halloween Song) MP3
Turkey in the Straw (Folk Song)
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star MP3 Midi
MP3 Midi Two Little Skunks (Joke) MP3
Wabash Cannonball (Traditional Song)
What You Got There? (Call & Response Game)
Where is Santa? (Christmas Song)
Where is Thumbkin? (Finger Play)
X Marks the Spot MP3
Yankee Doodle MP3 Midi
You Gotta Sing When Your Spirit Says Sing (Traditional Song)
You're a Grand Ole Flag (Patriotic Song) MP3
French
English
Brother John MP3
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Here are some of Mama Lisa's recent posts about the music, culture and traditions of the USA:
Here’s a lovely poem about The Wind by Robert Louis Stevenson with a couple of mp3 renditions. MP3 of The Wind 2nd MP3 of The Wind The Wind I saw you toss the kites on high And blow the birds about the sky; And all around I heard you pass, Like ladies’ skirts across the grass– O wind, a-blowing all day long, O wind,... Read more »- Debra wrote asking for help with a Yiddish rhyme: The following has been passed down through the ages (at least 150 years) by my mothers family, though we can only guess what the words mean now or the correct spelling of the words. I am hoping you may recognize it or be able to decipher it... Read more »
- Jeff wrote asking for help with a Yiddish song. Here’s his email: Hi, I grew up reciting a Yiddish rhyme or song where we pinched the skin on the back of each others hands and bobbed them up and down while saying something like (and I’m just writing what it sounded like): "Sipicle sipicle amadal, kimsimir and kamadal,... Read more »
Reduplications are words or phrases that contain a duplicated element. An example is the phrase "riffraff". The two parts of the word are almost the same (i.e. "riff" and "raff"), but they have a small change (the vowels). When you have a rhyming reduplication, the duplicated element rhymes with the original element in the phrase. ... Read more »- Rachel wrote looking for help with an Italian song: My Italian grandmother used to sing to me a song that went something like. Peter peter pastela. canavane canela canela cususi felule mascule di... Read more »
Jeff Gilpin sent this lullaby with the following note, "Here is a song I wrote after visiting my wife’s sister in Ayase which is outside of Tokyo, Japan. I think it is very kid friendly and I hope you like it add it to your list of children songs. It is called Ayase Lullaby. Here... Read more »- Peter wrote asking for help with a song his grandmother sang him. Here’s his email: Hello, I was hoping you’d be able to help with a song my grandmother sang to us when we were kids. It seems nobody can remember the whole thing but it starts like this: "There was a young man who lived on... Read more »
MP3 of Hope is the thing with feathers "Hope" is the thing with feathers By Emily Dickinson "Hope" is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tune without the words- And never stops-at all- And sweetest-in the Gale-is heard-... Read more »
Booktrust did a survey of over 2,500 people in the UK to determine the top nursery rhymes. Here they are with links to their lyrics (most of the links have mp3’s or videos too): 1. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star 2. Incey Wincey Spider 3. Round And Round The Garden 4. Baa Baa Black Sheep 5. The... Read more »
My family and I took a trip to Washington DC last weekend. It’s the first time we’d been there in many years and there have been a lot of changes. Several new major monuments have opened. One of the most impressive is the FDR Monument. It’s a particularly great destination if anyone in your party... Read more »
RELATED LINKS
Folk Music of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and America
Mama Lisa's House of Nursery Rhymes
(In English)
Featuring Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes
Some rhymes are illustrated and some are narrated
Mama Lisa's Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes with French Translations
(In English & French)
Knock Knock English's Super Simple Songs
(In English)
A small school in Tokyo, Japan that specializes in children's ESL. They create cd's of simple English songs for young children and for children learning English as a second language. You can visit their site with your children or students to watch their fun online videos and for activities that go along with the songs.
