Copies of English Folksongs for Schools by Sharp & Baring-Gould is always available on secondhand websites even though it's a century old. Probably get a copy for less than a quid. If we gave you a list of suitable songs here you could easily Google and download or get some of them from the DT here. I'll start the ball rolling. One Man went to Mow Henry My Son Wraggle Taggle Gypsies Mermaid Golden Vanity High Germany Three Jolly Huntsmen Sweet Nightingale John Barleycorn White Cockade Lark in the Morning The Fox Saucy sailor Cuckoo Jolly Waggoner Dark-eyed Sailor Frog and the Mouse Old Woman and the Pedlar Carrion Crow Foolish Boy Having got most of these from the above-mentioned book, about half of them are really unsuitable for children, being about sexual encounters or too violent or unPC.
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