Children's Song Favorites is a collection of 75 songs for children of all ages, most of them from the folk tradition. They have been collected over more than fifty years by a professional folk singer, who is also a mother and grandmother. Each song has the melody line, complete lyrics and suggested accompaniment chords for guitar or other instrument. Many of them are unusual— for example, all 13 verses of "The Three Blind Mice," "Hail to Britannia" (a British nursery rhyme song), and for older children, "Chopo, My Pony" (a cowboy song), "Old Thompson's Mule" (of minstrel origin) and "The Housewife's Lament." Audience requests have persuaded the author to include two pieces she has written—"The Doll Song" and "The Solution to Pollution." More than three-quarters of the songs involve audience participation, making this an ideal repertory resource for teachers and youth leaders. A few descriptive sentences, sometimes with suggestions for creative activity, precede each song. The songs are arranged alphabetically, and an extra table of contents lists the songs by categories: animals, cowboys and the West, creative activity, dance tunes, history, holidays, quiet time, and teaching. Although this book was designed primarily for children, the author regularly uses many of these songs with grown-up audiences.

Aikin Drum  

Johnny Sands

The Alphabet Song

The Kicking Mule

Away Idaho

Limerick Song

The Babes in the Woods

Little Pigs

Barnyard Song

Mister Fox

Betty Brady

Nickety Nackety

Bib-A-Lolly-Boo

Nick Nack Paddy Whack

Big-Eye Br’er Rabbit

Oats and Beans

Billy Grimes

Oh, Mother, How Pretty the Moon Is Tonight

The Bold Fisherman  

The Carrion Crow

Old Dan Tucker

Chopo, My Pony

Old Dumpty Moore

The Circus Song

Old Joe Clark

Cluck Old Hen

The Old Man Came Over the Lea

Cock Robin

Old Thompson’s Mule

Coulter’s Candy

Old Woman All Skin and Bones

The Crocodile Song

The Old Yellow Slicker I Wore on the Range

The Darby Ram  

The Deaf Woman’s Courtship

On Ilkla Moor Baht Hat

Down by the Bay

The Opossum

The Doll Song

Perrie Merrie Dixi Domini

Father Grumble

Polly Wolly Doodle

Five Times Five

Revolutionary Tea

The Fly

Robin-A-Thrush

Fod!

The Snow Bird

The Frog and the Crow

Soldier, Soldier

Frog He Would A-Wooing Go

The Solution to Pollution

Grandma’s Advice

The Swapping Song

The Greenland Whale Fishery

Three Blind Mice

Ground Hog

Three Craws

Hail to Britannia

Three Flies

Hi! Ho! The Rattlin’ Bog

Three Funny Maidens

Hole in the Bucket

Three Jovial Huntsmen

Honduran Lullaby

The Washing Day

The Housewife’s Lament

What Are Little Boys Made Of?

Hush, Little Baby

When I Was a Little Boy

In Good Old Colony Times

The Whizz Fish

Jennie Jenkins

Willie’s Lullaby

Jesus, Tender Shepherd