Apart from Nursery rhymes, a whole host of songs my Grandmother used to sing while doing the housework. My Grandparents had a collection of sea chanties on 78 which I used to play and I particularly remember hearing "Leave Her Johnnie" and "Rio Grande". There were others, but those two particularly stick in my mind.

Later, there was "Singing Together" at primary school. My next serious encounter with folk music was at University and that's where I really became hooked, though I did drift away for many years and it was not until I joined the Folkworks Caedmon Folk classes the year before I retired that I properly came back again, though I had bought some cassettes and CDs from time to time before that.