folk songs

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folk songs

She'll be coming around the mountain

2003
Provides a history and words to six verses of the folk song, "She'll be Coming Around the Mountain, " as well as simple instructions for making a musical instrument and adding traditional actions and sounds.

Folk music

a regional exploration
2005
Presents a comprehensive study of folk music in America examining cowboy and Midwestern ballads, railroad songs, slave spirituals, Appalachian music, and discusses the different genres and regions throughout the nation.

There was an odd princess who swallowed a pea

2011
Set in a castle, this variation on the traditional, cumulative rhyme looks at the consequences of a princess's strange diet.

Old Macdonald had a farm

1967
An illustrated version of a favorite childhood song.

The twelve days of Christmas

1997
A young woman's true love sends her extravagant gifts on each of the twelve days of Christmas.

The fox went out on a chilly night

an old song
1993
An old folk song describing the activities of a fox on a chilly fall night. Includes music and lyrics.

Hush, little baby

1987
A baby is promised a strange assortment of things, from a mockingbird to a horse and cart--all for not crying.

The farmer in the dell

1988
An illustrated version of the nursery rhyme is accompanied by music.

Campfire songs

1998
A collection of more than 110 campfire songs, with words, scores, and guitar chords.

Sing-along stories

2004
Presents four stories, each with a sing-along song, including "All the Colors of the Earth," "The Foolish Frog," "Over in The Meadow," and "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.".

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