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Subject: Fun folk songs for all the family From: GUEST,Woody Date: 28 Dec 09 - 03:44 AM As per the thread title I'm looking for some suggestions of fun folk songs suitable for singing by all the family. To refine the criteria somewhat here's a few desirable characteristics that I'd like them to have: Traditional (i.e. been sung by a few generations) British (i.e. preferably with some link to England or other UK countries or Ireland - or those that left for other lands - e.g. Aussie convict songs.) Family (i.e. Suitable for both a 7 year old and grown ups. If there's "adult" humour in it, it should be disguised in some form) Fun The above characteristics are not set in stone, just a guide. Any help much appreciated cheers, W |
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Subject: RE: Fun folk songs for all the family From: Old Roger Date: 28 Dec 09 - 04:38 AM Hi Woody, I like All I want is a proper cuppa coffee Made in a proper copper coffee pot. I may be off my dot But I want a cuppa coffee from a proper coffee pot. Iron coffee pots and tin coffee pots. Well, they're no use to me. If I can't have a proper cuppa coffee From a proper copper coffee pot I'll have a cuppa tea. Everybody enjoys struggling with this tongue twister. That's just the chorus, there are verses too |
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Subject: RE: Fun folk songs for all the family From: Little Robyn Date: 28 Dec 09 - 05:12 AM Find the words here. Robyn |
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Subject: RE: Fun folk songs for all the family From: MGM·Lion Date: 28 Dec 09 - 05:17 AM A few suggestions which might meet criteria — 'Daddy Fox' in its various versions - sung by YT, Burl Ives, et al 'Go Tell Aunt Rhody/Nancy' &c aka 'The Old Grey Goose' - Anglo-American, like so many; presumably acceptable by your stated criteria? [The Burl Ives Song Book still a fertile source for the sort of 'family-friendly' songs of British origin which you appear to seek.] Some more adult, but from which children may learn much, songs - e.g. some Oz convict songs like the various versions of 'Van Dieman's Land'/'Henry Abbot the Poacher', &c Robin Hood ballads - & other, later, songs about men without the law sympathetically treated — 'Jesse James', 'Streets of Forbes [aka Death of Ben Hall', &c Cowboy songs reflecting work of the cowboys as well as gunfights - tho those too — so 'Wyatt Earp'& 'Streets of Laredo' along with 'I'm bound to follow the longhorn cows' sung by Alan Lomax. & other songs of men-at-work — 'Working on the Railroad', 'Drill Ye Tarriers' - ['Champion At Keeping Them Rolling', 'Schooldays Over', & other such, by E MacColl - not traditional but highly regarded by tradiyionally-oriented singers - as well as traditional ones?]. I could go on — but I think above suggestions might provide a start to get the family singing. Enjoy! Michael |
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Subject: RE: Fun folk songs for all the family From: Bettynh Date: 28 Dec 09 - 12:58 PM Donkey Riding is fun. You can just skip the suggestive verses and making up new verses is part of the game. |
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Subject: RE: Fun folk songs for all the family From: GUEST,Woody Date: 29 Dec 09 - 08:17 AM Thanks everybody for the suggestions so far. I was hoping for songs of a more comic nature if that's possible. Ones that we sing so far are Ilkely Moor, Widecombe Fair, and My Old Man (said follow the van). My seven year old likes the gruesome elements of Ilkley Moor and Widecombe Fair but I'd like to get some laugh out loud silly ones for her if possible. |
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Subject: RE: Fun folk songs for all the family From: lefthanded guitar Date: 29 Dec 09 - 11:00 AM Not English, but one kids love here starts : Down by the bay where the watermelons grow. |
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Subject: RE: Fun folk songs for all the family From: GUEST,norhernfolk Date: 29 Dec 09 - 03:28 PM How about Lady All Skin and Bones - kids tend to love the gruesomeness of it and you can add a scream at the end. |
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Subject: RE: Fun folk songs for all the family From: GUEST,Woody Date: 31 Dec 09 - 01:33 PM > How about Lady All Skin and Bones He he he! It might traumatize her though! |
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Subject: RE: Fun folk songs for all the family From: Young Buchan Date: 31 Dec 09 - 06:00 PM This was collected from the wonderfully named Suffolk singer Alien Stollery by, probably, John Howson - though I'm open to correction. I once sang it, and a friend of mine who is a Primary School teacher immediately wanted it for her class who apparently loved it - so it's probably suitable. My thoughts today are far away beneath the deep blue sea Where people swing on scaffold poles as happy as can be, Where elephants skate on silver ponds and work at Retford Fair. So if you'd like to please me you can sing this chorus here: CHO. Hy me rinkum cokum candy rip tay Johnny with a rum tum day Hoker flip flap jump Jim Dandy rang hi Shanghi shum tum alay. I have a pair of trouser sleeves they are bright navy red. I button my eyebrows under my feet, pull my boots on over my head. And if you look at the whites of my eyes, they're speckled green and brown - But that's because I always put my teeth in upside down. For my tea I often like to dine on sawdust pies Followed up with guinea pigs' eggs and periwinkles' eyes. And when I've done I always clean my teeth with charcoal jam - Which only goes to show you all what king of bloke I am. I'm suffering from a gumboil that's half way up my shin. To make myself look tall I curl my teeth with a rolling pin. I sleep on our best feather bed that's made of sandstone board; But I only sleep when I'm awake to mahe sure I've not snored. She left me in the river at the corner of the street. I sang hello in different keys and yodelled through my feet. How often I forget to think of her across the main And wonder if she's taught the cat to whistle this refrain: As with all nonsense songs the object is to sing it as fast as possible! |
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Subject: RE: Fun folk songs for all the family From: Jack Campin Date: 31 Dec 09 - 07:46 PM Tom Lehrer's Irish Ballad. |
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Subject: RE: Fun folk songs for all the family From: Geoff the Duck Date: 01 Jan 10 - 11:09 AM There are plenty of songs and discussions of them in the forum. It's just a question of what you want to look for. Does something such as this suit? - You canna throw your granny off a bus. Depending on age of kids, The singing kettle is worth checking out. A Scottish telly programme produced by folk singers Cilla Fisher and Artie Trezise. There is also the Digital Tradition, which lives at the Mudcat. You might be able to get some ideas by searching key words - http://www.mudcat.org/DTKeywords.cfm - tick the box named "kids". Quack! Geoff the Duck. |
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Subject: RE: Fun folk songs for all the family From: GUEST,Woody Date: 02 Jan 10 - 03:51 AM Thanks guys |
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Subject: RE: Fun folk songs for all the family From: jugmws Date: 08 Jan 10 - 11:13 AM You need skin......... Take good care of it. Kids love it. |
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Subject: RE: Fun folk songs for all the family From: Steve Gardham Date: 08 Jan 10 - 03:15 PM Worms, the eaten ones. Yeuch! Kids love it. Almost any clean accumulative song. Old Macdonald's Farm has lots of variations to different tunes. When I sing the Barley Mow to kids they love it and want to learn it. 'Coming round the mountain' is very popular. What shall we do with a drunken sailor, with made up verses added. 'The Keeper' is very bawdy but kids don't know that and it has a hell of a good chorus. We all learnt it in primary school thanks to Cecil Sharp! |
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Subject: RE: Fun folk songs for all the family From: Mo the caller Date: 08 Jan 10 - 03:15 PM The Keeper has a nice question and answer chorus |
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Subject: RE: Fun folk songs for all the family From: GUEST,NBxl Date: 09 Apr 12 - 01:22 PM Re the suggestion from Young Buchan. I found your post when googling a rhyme which had passed down through my family over the generations. Where the version you quote goes: Hy me rinkum cokum candy rip tay Johnny with a rum tum day Hoker flip flap jump Jim Dandy rang hi Shanghi shum tum alay. The version I learnt from my grandfather is: Oh my rinkum cokum candy up comes Johnny with a rum tee flo Hop skip flip flap jum gin jandy twanguy tawnguy chum chum baloo. The rhythm and the many of the words are the same so one obviously derives from the other. Do you know anything else about its history? |
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Subject: RE: Fun folk songs for all the family From: Bert Date: 09 Apr 12 - 08:14 PM Not all folk, not all English and not all fun but OK for the family. A New Jerusalem A Roving Adam in the Garden Alabama Bound Ash Grove - The Ballad of Bethnal Green Banana Boat Song Banks of Newfoundland Banks of the Ohio Barbara Allen Battle of New Orleans Beer Glorious Beer Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms Bestest Friend Bheir Me O Bless 'em All Blow the Candle Out Blow the Man Down Blow Ye Winds in the Morning Blue Christmas Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain British Workman's Grave Botany Bay Both Sides Now Butterfingers Careless Love Chivalrous Shark Click Go The Shears Columbus Landed Here Columbus Stockade Come Inside Coming 'Round the Mountain Congo River Copper Kettle Cornish Nightingale Crawdad Dahn the Plug'Ole Danny Boy Dark As the Dungeon Daydream Believer Dead or Alive Dear Ol' Dutch Dear Old Shannon Shore Ding Dang Dong go the Wedding Bells Dirty Old Town Donkey Riding Don't Laugh at Me 'cos I'm a Fool Don't Put Your Finger Up Your Nose Don't You Hate it When... A Down in the Valley Drunken Sailor Early One Morning Ebeneezer - The Fields of Athenry - The Fireship Foggy Mountain Top Fox - The Frankie and Johnny Free From the Chaingang Now Froggy Went A Courting D Frozen Logger Gold Rush is Over - The Golden Vanity Good Luck to the Barley Mow Goodnight Irene Goodnight-Loving Trail Half as Much Hallelujah I'm a Bum Hippopotamus Song Hot Buttered Rum I Can't Help but Wonder Where I'm Bound I was born under a wandering star I'll Take the Legs I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen I'm not Saying that I Love You In Eleven More Months and Ten More Days In Me Liverpool Home Island Woman Jamaica Farewell Jambalaya Kawliga Last Thing on My Mind Leave Her Johnny Leaving of Liverpool Little Boxes Lively Love is a Teasing Mama Don't 'Low Manchester Rambler Manura Manyah Maybe it's Because I'm a Londoner Mermaid -The - Traditional Michael Finnegan Michael Row The Boat Ashore Midnight Special My Old Man's a Dustman Nobody Loves Like an Irishman D Noreen Bawn Old 97 Old Sow Song On a Monday Morning Oh Paddy Lay Back Paper of Pins Old 97 Old Sow Song On a Monday Morning Oh Paddy Lay Back Paper of Pins Pig and the Inebriate Precious Lord Pub with no Beer Putting on the Style Rambles of Spring Ramblin Boy Ramblin Rover Robert Emmett Roddy McCorley D Roll Alabama Roll Roll in My Sweet Baby's Arms Scarborough Fair Scarlet Ribbons Singing The Blues Sixteen Tons Snowbird Some Days Are Diamonds Song for a Winter's Night Song of the Thrush Sourwood Mountain Spanish Ladies Still I Love Him Streets of London Summer Wages Swansea Town Once More There is a Tavern in the Town There was a Little Sparrow There's a Hole in my Bucket Thing - The This Land is Your Land Tie Me Kangaroo Down Tom Dooley Tom Pierce Unchained Melody Unicorns Vicar of Bray -The Waltzing Matilda Waters of Tyne A Wayward Wind Where Have All the Flowers Gone Whiffenpoof Song While London Sleeps Whiskey Johnny Why Oh Why Wild Mountain Thyme A Woad You Are My Sunshine |
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