folk songs

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folk songs

Tweedle dee dee

2008
Illustrations of a forest in spring and simple text provide a variation on the traditional folk song, "The green leaves grew around." Includes musical score.

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly

1997
Ever-expanding die-cut holes show exactly what is happening in the old lady's stomach as she swallows an assortment of creatures, beginning with a small fly, and ending with a fatal horse.

She'll be comin' 'round the mountain

1973
An illustrated interpretation of the familiar song done in the form of a Wild West show which could be performed.

The twelve days of Christmas

1992
On each of the twelve days of Christmas, more and more gifts arrive from the recipient's true love.

Woodland Christmas

twelve days of Christmas in the North Woods
1995
Illustrations depicting the courtship of two black bears in a woodland setting accompany the words to the traditional Christmas song.

The Erie Canal

1970
The folk song describing the journey from Albany to Buffalo on the Erie Canal in the 1850's. Includes musical notation.

I know an old lady

1994
Retells the cumulative tale in which an old lady pays the supreme penalty for her peculiar eating habits.

Drummer Hoff

1967
A cumulative folk song in which seven soldiers build a magnificent cannon, but Drummer Hoff fires it off.

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