American Folksongs For Children

This classic collection contains over 90 favorite folksongs for children, including ballads, chants, spirituals, blues, and singing games, illustrated with charm and humor by Barbara Cooney. Ruth Seeger’s thorough introduction includes sections on using songs at home or at school, providing accompaniment, and improvisation, in a collection perfect for children, parents and teachers.

Songs Include:

• Adam Had Seven Sons
• All Around the Kitchen
• As I Walked Out One Holiday
• Baby Dear
• Billy Barlow
• Blow, Boys, Blow!
• Bought Me a Cat
• Built My Lady a Fine Brick House
• By’m Bye
• Clap Your Hands
• Did You Go to the Barney
• Do, Do, Pity My Case
• Dog Tick
• Down By The Greenwood Sidey
• Down Came A Lady
• Ducks in the Millpond
• Early Monday Morning
• Eency Weency Spider
• Fire Down Below
• Free Little Bird
• Frog Went A-Courtin’
• Go To Sleepy
• Going Down To Town
• Goodbye Julie
• Goodbye Old Paint
• Hanging Out the Linen Clothes
• Have A Lttle Dog
• Here Sits a Monkey
• Hop, Old Squirrel
• How Old Are You
• Hush ‘n’ Bye
• Hush, Little Baby
• I Got a Letter This Morning
• I’m Going To Join The Army
• It Rained A Mist
• Jesus Borned in Bethlea
• Jim Along Josie
• Jim Crack Corn
• Jingle at the Windows
• John Henry
• Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
• Juba
• Little Bird, Little Bird
• Lula Gal
• Mary Had A Baby
• Mary Wore Her Red Dress
• Monday Morning Go to School
• My Horses Ain’t Hungry
• Oh Oh The Sunshine
• Oh, John the Rabbit
• Old Aunt Kate
• Old Joe Clark
• Old Mister Rabbit
• Old Molly Hare
• One Cold and Frosty Morning
• Pick a Bale of cotton
• Poor Old Crow
• Pretty Little Girl with the Red dress On
• Rain Or Shine
• Rain, Come Wet Me
• Riding in the Buggy, Miss Mary Jane
• Roll That Brown Jug Down To Town
• Rose, Rose, and Up She Rises
• Run, Chillen, Run
• Sally Go Around The Sunshine
• Scraping Up Sand in the Bottom Of The Sea
• She’ll Be Coming Round The Mountain
• Skip-a To My Lou
• Such a Getting Upstairs
• Sweet Water Rolling
• The Cherry Tree Carol
• The Closet Key
• The Juniper Tree
• The Little Black Train
• The Little Pig
• The Sailing in the Boat
• The Train Is A-Coming
• There Was A Man And He Was Mad
• This Lady She Wears a Dark Green Shawl
• This old Hammer
• This Old Man
• Toodala
• Turtle Dove
• Walk Along John
• What Did You Have for Your Supper
• What Shall We Do When We All Go Out
• What’ll We Do With the Baby ?
• When I Was a Young Maid
• When The Train Comes Along
• When The Train Comes Along
• Where Oh Where Is Pretty Little Susie ?
• Who Built The Ark? Noah Noah
• Who’s that Tapping at the Window
• Yonder She Comes