Songs Children Love to Sing

Nursery rhymes, folk tunes, show tunes - it's all here! 

Here is a super collection of 172 songs for children, Nursery rhymes, folk tunes, spirituals, show tunes, traditional melodies - all the favourites! They are all in child-friendly keys, the accompaniments are easy to play and there are historical notes about the origins of songs and some of the peculiar words.

For the teacher who wishes to keep singing at the heart of their school, as recommended by the Music Manifesto, this book is a essential.

Contents:

• A Windmill in Old Amsterdam 
• Aiken Drum 
• Alison’s Camel 
• All Night, All Day 
• Alphabet Song 
• Any Way You Like It 
• Auld Lang Syne 
• Baa, Baa, Black Sheep 
• Bananas in Pyjamas 
• Bob the Builder 
• Bobby Shafto 
• Charley Marley 
• Chick, Chick, Chicken 
• Clap-happy 
• Cockles and Mussels 
• Daisy, Daisy 
• Dance to Your Daddy 
• Danny Boy 
• Did You Ever See a Lassie? 
• Ding Dong Bell! 
• Do Your Ears Hang Low? 
• Doctor Foster Went to Gloucester 
• Don’t Dilly Dally on the Way 
• Down by the Riverside 
• Down by the Station 
• Each Day Different 
• Edelweiss 
• Everybody Do This 
• Five Currant Buns 
• Five Little Ducks 
• Five Little Monkeys 
• Five Little Speckled Frogs 
• Food, Glorious Food 
• Frère Jacques 
• Froggy Went A-courtin’ 
• Frosty the Snowman 
• Girls and Boys Come Out to Play 
• Going to the Zoo 
• Golden Slumbers 
• Happy Birthday to You 
• Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes 
• Here We Go Gathering Nuts in May 
• Here We Go Looby Lou 
• Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush 
• He’s Got the Whole World in His Hand 
• Hey, Diddle, Diddle 
• Hickory, Dickory, Dock! 
• Home on the Range 
• Hot Cross Buns 
• How Much Is That Doggie in the Window? 
• Humpty Dumpty 
• I Do Like To Be Beside the Seaside 
• I Hear Thunder 
• I Jump Out of Bed in the Morning 
• I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly 
• I Love Little Pussy, Her Coat is So Warm 
• I Think I’ve Caught a Cold 
• I Whistle a Happy Tune 
• If I Had a Hammer 
• If You’re Happy and You Know It 
• I’m a Little Teapot 
• I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles 
• I’m H-A-P-P-Y 
• Incy Wincy Spider 
• It’s a Long Way to Tipperary 
• It’s Raining, It’s Pouring 
• Jack and Jill 
• Jack Spratt 
• Jimmy Crack Corn 
• Jingle Bells 
• Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree 
• Kum Ba Yah 
• Ladybird, Ladybird 
• Lavender’s Blue 
• Let’s Go Fly a Kite 
• Lily the Pink 
• Little Bo-Peep 
• Little Jack Horner 
• Little Miss Muffet 
• Loch Lomond 
• London Bridge 
• London’s Burning 
• Mary Had a Little Lamb 
• Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary 
• Michael Finnigan 
• Michael Row the Boat Ashore 
• Miss Polly Had a Dolly 
• Mix a Pancake 
• Morning Has Broken 
• My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean 
• My Favourite Things 
• My Grandfather’s Clock 
• Nellie the Elephant 
• Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be? 
• Oh, My Darling Clementine 
• Oh! Susanna 
• Oh, We Can Play the Big Bass Drum 
• Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’ 
• Old King Cole 
• Old MacDonald 
• Old Mother Hubbard 
• On Ilkley Moor Baht ‘at 
• On Top of Old Smoky 
• One Finger, One Thumb, Keep Moving 
• One Man Went to Mow 
• One Musician in the Band 
• One, Two, Three, Four, Five 
• Oranges and Lemons 
• Over the Rainbow 
• Pat-a-cake 
• Pease Pudding Hot 
• Pick a Bale of Cotton 
• Playalong 
• Polly Put the Kettle on 
• Polly Wolly Doodle 
• Postman Pat 
• Puff the Magic Dragon 
• Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat 
• Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head 
• Ride a Cock-horse 
• Ring a Ring of Roses 
• Rock-a-bye Baby 
• Row, Row, Row Your Boat 
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 
• Scarborough Fair 
• See-saw Margery Daw 
• She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain 
• Simple Simon 
• Sing a Rainbow 
• Sing a Song of Sixpence 
• Skip to My Lou 
• Steal Away 
• Summer Holiday 
• Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 
• Swing Low Sweet Chariot 
• Take Me to the Seaside 
• Ten Fat Sausages 
• Ten Green Bottles 
• That Would Make Me Smile 
• The Animal Fair 
• The Animals Went in Two by Two 
• The Ants Go Marching 
• The Bear Went Over the Mountain 
• The Big Ship Sails on the Ali-Ali-O 
• The Farmer’s in His Den 
• The Grand Old Duke of York 
• The Happy Wanderer 
• The Hippopotamus Song 
• The Hokey Cokey 
• The Leaving of Liverpool 
• The Locomotion 
• The Music Man 
• The North Wind Doth Blow 
• The Owl and the Pussy Cat 
• The Prehistoric Animal Brigade 
• The Quartermaster’s Store 
• The Runaway Train 
• The Sun Has Got His Hat On 
• The Teddy Bears’ Picnic 
• The Ugly Duckling 
• The Wheels on the Bus 
• The Wise Man and the Foolish Man 
• There Was a Crooked Man 
• There Was a Little Girl 
• There Was a Princess 
• There Was an Old Woman 
• Who Lived in a Shoe 
• There Were Ten in the Bed 
• There’s a Hole in My Bucket 
• This Little Light of Mine 
• This Old Man 
• Three Blind Mice 
• Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport 
• Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star 
• Walking in the Air 
• Waltzing Matilda 
• What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor? 
• When Father Papered the Parlour 
• When Santa Got Stuck up the Chimney 
• When the Saints Go Marching In 
• When You’re Smiling 
• White Christmas 
• Yankee Doodle 
• You’ll Never Get To Heaven 
• Zip-a-dee-doo-dah