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QUOTE 2006

 

You no longer
hear kids say:

"I know that song"

 

Now all you

hear kids say is:

"I've got that song"

NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FOLKSONG REPOSITORY archive


The Historic Electronic Online Archive of Children's Folksongs,
and indigenous playground poetry.

A Public Folklore Project built by the children of the United States.
Integrate Literacy, Music, and Technology into the classroom.

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2007

  1. Jack Knife - David Labowitz Philadelphia
  2. K-I-S-S-I-N-G (followed by) Amalama Cumalama Connecticut
  3. We're Gonna Go Go Go - Anna Stange
  4. Inky Dinky Parlez Vous - WWI "The War to End All Wars" song remembered - anon * Bawdy Song Policy
  5. Ms. Shirley Temple sings Polly Wolly Doodle.
  6. China Man - collected from 1976 Buffalo, NY - hand clapping
  7. Two Lips - collected from 1976 Buffalo, NY - hand clapping
  8. Happy Birthday Song - Philly, PA known in my family since the 40's.

2006

  1. Hey Diddle Diddle
  2. Rub-a-dub-dub
  3. Old King Cole
  4. Georgie Porgie
  5. Little Jack Horner
  6. Diddle Diddle Dumpling
  7. Jack Sprat
  8. Also see and read the previous 7 songs
  9. Deedle Deedle Dumpling - Philly, PA
  10. The More We Get Together - Hilda, Betty, & Gloria in
    Philly, PA
  11. Child of God - Ashley and Della in Twin Falls, Idaho
  12. Fudge Fudge - Anon, Philly, PA
  13. Honey Bunch - Anon, Philly, PA
  14. My Boyfriend's name is Fatty - Annon, Philly, PA remembered from Baltimore 1950's
  15. Fuzzy Wuzzy - Ed, Philly, Pennsylvania
  16. If You're Happy & You Know It - Lea,Philadelphia, PA
  17. Tell Me What Do I See - Anon, N.J.
  18. Worms Crawl In the Worms Crawl out - Anon, ?

2005

  1. Paddy Works On The Railway Dan Cassidy San Francisco CA
  2. Whoopie Ti Yi Yo, Git Along Little Doggies Dan Cassidy San Francisco CA
  3. Eenie Meenie - Adam Benson, Camden NJ
  4. One Two - Adam Benson Camden NJ
  5. My Little PlayMate - Kathy, Harrisburg, PA
  6. Mary Mack - Sylvia, Philly, PA
  7. Taffy Was a Welshman - Jacquie, Harrisburg, PA
  8. White Cliffs of Dover - Anon, Philly, PA
  9. Happy Birthday - Sarah, Philly, PA sung in Hebrew
  10. Happy Birthday - Beth, Philly, PA

2003

  1. Going to Kentucky - Brimm Medical Arts High School Camden, NJ 11/13/03

1978

  1. Ding Dong - Ricardo Richards School St. Croix, USVI [Word ]
  2. Down In The River - Ricardo Richards School St. Croix, USVI [Words]

1970 Collected by Bernie DeKoven Philly, PA

  1. Zoodio
  2. I've been told
  3. All the boys
  4. Dumpty
  5. Girl Scout
  6. I woke up saturday morning
  7. Jack Be Nimble
  8. Mary
  9. Pizza

1954

  1. Here We Go Zoodio - all the kids  from a record (33 1/3 rpm LP) entitled "The Florida Folk Festival:  The First 25 Years."
  2. Sissy in the Barn -  all the kids

    Carver Elementary School White Springs, Florida
    Thanks to Gregory Hansen and Tina Bucuvalas from CD called "Music from the Florida Folklife Collection" some songs made available at no charge.

1939 Collected by Allan Lomax on a road trip

  1. Little Sally Walker
  2. Here Comes Uncle Jesse
  3. Shove It Over - Zora Neale Hurston sings a lining out rhyme "Music from the Florida Folklife Collection"

Recorded early 1900's know when recorded.

  1. Grandma's advice by Mrs. Price who learned this from her mother who used to ride horseback around Iowa County to give music lessons back in

1878 The first recording of a human voice in history on a phongraph.
Frank Lambert was a French - American inventor. Lambert was born in Lyon, France and then moved to the United States in 1876 and became a citizen in 1893. Lambert is currently in the Guinness World Book of Records for the oldest playable recording on a machine called the Phonograph. Lambert was also famous for inventing the modern typewriter.

 

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