Mi Caballo Blanco
Lyrics Es mi caballo blanco, como un amanecer Siempre juntitos vamos, es mi amigo mas fiel. Mi caballo, mi caballo, galopando va, Mi caballo, mi caballo, se va y se va. En alas de una dicha mi caballo...
View ArticleSee-Saw Margery Daw
The rhyme first appeared in its modern form in Mother Goose’s Melody, published in London in around 1765. (source) Lyrics See Saw Margery Daw, Jacky shall have a new master; Jacky shall earn but a...
View ArticleSolas Market
Lyrics Come, we go down, Come, we go down, Come, we go down to Solas Market, Come, we go down, Come, we go down, We go buy banana. more info about the song 4th & 5th grade version with recorders...
View ArticleMatarile
Lyrics 1. ¿Que quiere usted? Matarile, rile, rile, ron. 2. Quiero saltar, 3. Quiero marchar, 4. Quiero bailar, Translation 1. What do you want? Material, rile, rile, ron. 2. I want to jump… 3. I want...
View ArticleSing a Song of Sixpence
Lyrics 1. Sing a song of sixpence, a pocket full of rye. Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie. When the pie was opened the birds began to sing; Wasn’t that a dainty dish to set before the king?...
View ArticleTingalayo
Lyrics Refrain Tingalayo, Come, little donkey, come. (repeat) 1. M’ donkey walk, m’ donkey talk, m’ donkey eat with a knife and fork. (repeat) 2. M’ donkey eat, m’ donkey sleep, m’ donkey kick with...
View ArticleOh Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
Lyrics 1. Oh bury me not on the lone prairie. These words came low and mournfully. From the pallid lips of the youth who lay on his dying bed at the close of day. 2. He had wasted and pined ’til o’er...
View ArticlePoi Waka
An early World War One sitting canoe poi song, sung by an East Coast concert party who were fund-raising for Maori soldiers fighting and dying in the swamps of Passchendaele. The original song was...
View ArticleI’d Like to Be in Texas
1. In the lobby of a big hotel in New York town one day, Sat a bunch of fellers tellin’ yarns to pass the time away. They told of places they had been and different things they’d seen. And some of...
View ArticleHine e Hine
A lullaby that an international singing star consoled herself with when her health, career and family life was collapsing all about her. (source) Lyrics E tangi ana koe Hine e hine E ngenge ana koe...
View ArticleWoke Up This Mornin’
Lyrics 1. Woke up this morning with my mind stayed on freedom (repeat twice) Hallelu, hallelu, hallelu, hallelu, hallelujah! 2. Walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, walk with my mind on freedom. (repeat) Ah,...
View ArticleOld Chisholm Trail
Lyrics 1. Oh come a-long, boys, and listen to my tale, I’ll tell you of my troubles on the old Chisholm Trail. Refrain Come a ti-yi yip-py yip-py yea, yip-py yea, Come a ti-yi yip-py yip-py yea. 2. I...
View ArticleLullaby
Lyrics Lullaby, lullaby Do not wake and weep. Softly in the cradle lie, Sleep, o sleep. Softly in the cradle lie. Sleep my darling sleep. So-mi version & Orff Arrangement below...
View ArticleRock a Bye Baby
Lyrics Rock a bye baby on the tree top When the wind blows the cradle will rock When the bough breaks the cradle will fall And down will come baby cradle and all more lullabies The post Rock a Bye...
View ArticleTexas Cowboy
Lyrics Oh I’m a Texas cowboy so far away from home. If I get back to Texas I never more shall roam. Montana is too cold for me, the winters are too long. Before the round ups do begin our money is all...
View ArticleTexas Rangers
Lyrics 1. Come, all you Texas rangers, wherever you may be, I’ll tell you of some troubles that happened unto me. My name is nothing extra, so it I will not tell, And here’s to all you rangers, I’m...
View ArticleInuit Lullaby
Lyrics 1. Still now and hear my singing, sleep through the night my darling. 2. We have a tiny daughter, thanks be to God who sent her. 3. Though she as yet knows nothing, she is so sweet, I’m...
View ArticleTrail to Mexico
Lyrics 1. I made up my mind in the early morn To leave the home where I was born To leave my native home for awhile And travel west for many a mile. 2. ‘Twas in the year of eighty three That A.J....
View ArticleThe Power of Spirituals
I love African American spirituals! I have long been a proponent of singing spirituals in music class because of their educational value. But I am starting to realize that there could be more value in...
View ArticleLullaby – Thailand
Lyrics Hear the song of the wind in the trees, Singing softly through the leaves. Blowing from far, so far away. Bringing to a wee one luck, they say. Listen to the breeze Ooooh, hmmmmm Orff...
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