Benvenuto! Hoş geldin! Huānyíng! Khush Amadeed خوش آمدید Ласкаво просимо! Salut! Welkom! Witamy! Yōkoso! いらっしゃいませ and in so many more ways!
‘River of song’ is a treasury of singing games, songs, poems and rhymes from around the world for everyone to sing, play and discover and for teachers, child care providers, librarians, parents, grandparents, ESL, EFL or just nostalgia enthusiasts to use and cherish.
What is going on here???!
This ‘River of Song’ collection will include all my most recent YouTube uploads and also compilations taken from my original site: http://www.singinggamesforchildren.com/.
Visit this archive where you can still enjoy a
library of more than 3000 songs, games and rhymes.
I will focus on transferring seasonal collections, pages that have become flawed and any favourites that take my fancy.
Do let me know which sections you would like me to prioritize.
Contact the author at: riverofsong1@aol.com
Get in touch. I always love to hear from you!
Something to ask? Or something to tell? Send a message now.
River of song Calendar 2026
Keep up to date with Celebrations and holidays in song
A year of music, now refreshed for 2026. If any date is incorrect, especially those that change each year, a heads-up would be appreciated so it can be fixed. Likewise, if your favorite celebration is missing, feel free to let me know via the contact page. A song suggestion for that special day is always welcome too.
Latest calendar dates include:
February 14th Valentine’s Day
Love is in the air as Valentine’s Day draws near. Visit the link above to find each song / PDF complete with lyrics, sheet music, and instructions on how to play where appropriate.
Find more songs of love on my: Love, Kindness and Sharing playlist
January 28th Big garden birdwatch RSPB UK
Newsworthy 2025
‘River of song’ continues to be a work in progress and here you can see how it is shaping up.
!MAGIC NUMBER 21!
Keep your eyes open for new pages every time a collection reaches 21 songs.
Sing!
Love this quote: “The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is not to open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be!” Pete Seeger
Ain’t it great to be crazy!
A new title for my comic collection as ‘Funny songs and poems’ didn’t sound so hilarious! I’m still adding tunes from my ‘Singing games for children’ website complete with its own PDF of lyrics, sheet music and chords. It is always great seeing them being downloaded to support parents, teachers, librarians and others who value such a resource.
Fairies and other little folk
!MAGIC NUMBER 21! Here is the first new page of the year, a collection full of enchantment and wonder. This one comes from my Song Cupboard treasury and will grow over time as more magical fairy songs find their way into its pages.
Let’s get moving
Movement and action songs have been somewhat overlooked on this ‘River of Song’ site since its launch three years ago, despite being such a key part of ‘Singing Games for Children’. The New Year feels like the perfect time to change that, as it’s a great season for a rethink and to get moving. I’ll start by adding those with seasonal relevance first when possible.
Action games and rhymes | River of song
Heading helter-skelter towards 2026
Thoughts of a New Year bring new ideas, clearing out the old, a fresh start, and the perfect time to begin again.
‘River of Song’ continues its journey, with its tributary ‘Singing Games for Children’ gently flowing in to join it. Designed to be a home for all my new songs, collections, and resources, and with the mission of transferring over 3,000 songs from my original website, progress is well underway. There’s still a few years to go, but links are now in place to make all my music accessible from here.
A big thank you to all the visitors to this site and viewers of my YouTube channel from around the world who have supported and encouraged my mission to promote a range of music for those of all ages. This includes those who fondly remember music enjoyed down the years, giving me the wonderful opportunity to do the same!
Wishing everyone a Happy New Year!
Find Winter, Autumn, Summer and Spring term updates here: Newsworthy 2023-6
A potpourri – pick and choose from this weekly medley
Each week or so I will select a medley of seven songs from my treasury collection gathered over the last decade and a half plus.
Many will be seasonal, others topical and some just lovely to revisit!
Requests and comments appreciated.
Each song will be linked to YouTube and a PDF with sheet music, chords and if needed how to play.
These will form an archive that can accessed above or on the menu:
2025 Songfest seven
Songfest seven archive 2023 to July 2024
Words and music by Dany Rosevear ****
Music by Dany Rosevear ♪♫ – only recently begun to add
You will notice a few hearts 💖 appearing here and elsewhere on this website, they indicate a song that is a big favourite of mine. There will be many equally enjoyed but not yet labelled as such!
February 2026
Dear friends ****
YouTube PDF Spring / songs for a better world / circle game
Down in the earth ♪♫
YouTube PDF Spring / colour / poem
Early one morning
YouTube PDF Spring / birds / weather
Far in the wood 💖
YouTube PDF enchanted lullaby
The fairy mouse
YouTube PDF fairies / hand play / weather
January 2026
A spade for a gardener
YouTube PDF Spring / Germany
Mousie, mousie Rose Fyleman 💖
YouTube PDF poem / hand play
My Lady Spring 💖 ♪♫
YouTube PDF Spring / poem
She waded in the water
YouTube PDF action / comic / community
Frosty weather, snowy weather
YouTube PDF Irish circle / action game
Bend and stretch / Reach for the stars 💖
YouTube PDF action / for the very young / schools TV / (updated)
Baby seed song
YouTube PDF Spring / lullaby / poem
The garden
YouTube PDF School’s TV / hand play / Spring
I found a tiny snowdrop Christina T. Owen ♪♫
YouTube PDF Winter / Spring / poem
Ah, poor bird
YouTube PDF round
I know a little cupboard Walter de la Mare 💖
YouTube PDF poem / Lavender Lane / food
Seal lullaby Rudyard Kipling ♪♫
YouTube PDF poem / lullaby
Down in the jungle (Boogie woogie woogie)
YouTube PDF action game / comic songs / wild creatures
Oh, how lovely is the evening
YouTube PDF German call and response
Ain’t it great to be crazy
YouTube PDF action play / circle game / community
Be a rainbow **** caring for others
YouTube PDF song for a better world / hand play
Fly, little birdie, fly
YouTube PDF action play / animals
Little sparrow ****
YouTube PDF birds /seasonal
Little bird, little bird, flap your wings *****
YouTube PDF Seasonal / hand play
Two hoots *****
YouTube PDF action song / better world
Birthday months
YouTube PDF circle / action rhyme
I met a little Elf man once John Kendrick Bangs
YouTube PDF poem / hand play / size
Which is the way to Fairyland? Eunice Close ♪♫
YouTube PDF poem
Look at the terrible crocodile 💖
YouTube PDF comic song / hand play
Winter whispers****
YouTube PDF hand play / movement / winter
Mark your steps ♪♫
YouTube PDF winter /follow my leader /action
Tohora nui / The big whale
YouTube PDF action song /New Zealand
She sailed away on a lovely summer’s day 💖
YouTube PDF community / comic / summer
December 2025
Dragon of a thousand lanterns
YouTube PDF BBCTV Schools / New Year
Alligator one, alligator two
YouTube PDF counting / creatures / rhythmic hand play
Bend your body
YouTube PDF number / action rhyme
Little bunny hopping new *ER *****
YouTube PDF spring / finger play / the very young
Sleep, little seedling sleep **** 💖
YouTube PDF hand play
Blow a kiss ****
YouTube PDF better world / action rhyme
All by myself ****
YouTube PDF action play / dressing
A-dancing we will go
YouTube PDF action song
With my little broom
YouTube PDF movement / spring cleaning
Birthday months
YouTube PDF circle / action rhyme
My ship sailed from China
YouTube PDF action song / community
Jolly red nose
YouTube PDF winter / nursery rhyme / round
Bear in a cave
YouTube PDF winter hand play
The adventures of Isabel Ogden Nash
YouTube PDF poem
Bright morning star
YouTube PDF Christmas / community
We are little icicles ♪♫
YouTube PDF a winter hand play
(The) Huron carol
YouTube PDF Schools radio / Christmas
Hurrah for old Santa ♪♫
YouTube PDF Christmas / hand play
Dress up warmly
YouTube PDF winter weather / clothing
Dance like snowflakes
YouTube PDF movement
Santa is his name-o
YouTube PDF Christmas
The pine tree
YouTubePDF
Round and round and round we go
YouTube PDF circle game
Five snow angels ****
YouTube PDF winter weather / Count away / one less
Knock no more! / Old Man Winter 💖
YouTube PDF a winter round
Holly berries ♪♫
YouTube PDF Christmas colour
Jack Frost rapped on the window pane
YouTube PDF weather / winter
Catch a falling star 💖
YouTube PDF hand play / Lavender lane
November 2025
The robin Lawrence Alma-Tadema
YouTube PDF poem
The snow fell softly ♪♫
YouTube PDF winter / weather / hand play
Who is coming on Christmas night?
YouTube PDF 💖
A cradle hymn / Hush my babe 💖
YouTube PDF Nativity / Kentucky
Rocky, rocky road
YouTube PDF West Indies spiritual / Christmas
Great big dinosaurs ****
YouTube PDF movement
Owl’s lullaby 💖
YouTube PDF Hawaii / birds
Way up high in the winter sky
YouTube PDF a winter hand play
It’s almost day
YouTube PDF Christmas
Suliram 💖
YouTube PDF Indonesian lullaby
Little birds in winter time
YouTube PDF
Let’s put on our mittens ♪♫
YouTube PDF weather / clothing
Kings came riding ♪♫
YouTube PDF poem / Nativity
Tell me, tell me, tell me why
YouTube PDF ****
Across the river of dreams **** 💖
YouTube PDF
The star carol / Canzone D’I Zampognari new
YouTube PDF Italian
A happy song for a Spring day
YouTube PDF action song / Israel
Winkum, winkum 💖
YouTube PDF a lullaby
Mice 💖 ♪♫
YouTube PDF poem / hand play / Rose Fyleman
Every night when the sun goes in
YouTube PDF round / spiritual / vespers / community
One candle, one light ****
YouTube PDF festivals / number / hand play
October 2025
Every way and witch way ****
YouTube PDF Halloween
Halloween fun ****
YouTube PDF Halloween hand play
Moans, groans and skeleton bones
YouTube PDF Halloween / percussion
Alms for Autumn /
Spindlewood, spindlewood Rose Fyleman
YouTube PDF an Autumn poem
Paul’s little hen
YouTube PDF Norwegian / Farmyard / story / Schools radio
Albuquerque turkey
YouTube PDF Thanksgiving / community / action / comic
Castle of Dromore / October winds 💖
YouTube PDF Irish folk song / lullaby / Autumn
Lift up lightly the stable bar 💖
YouTube PDF lullaby / Nativity
The angel band
YouTube PDF Christmas / number / spiritual
Christmas bells
YouTube PDF a round
Please and thank you ♪♫
YouTube PDF better world / hand play / very young
Zumba, Zumba / Zumbale al pandero 💖
YouTube PDF Spanish / instruments / Christmas
The shiny little house Nancy M Hayes
YouTube PDF house cleaning / poem
Chop, chop, choppity chop ♪♫
YouTube PDF food / Halloween / baby play
Bats in the belfry
YouTube PDF a post Halloween hand play
The hayride road 💖
YouTube PDF Autumn / community / farm animals
Let’s tidy up ♪♫
YouTube PDF Spring / transition / spick and span
Hansel and Gretel
YouTube PDF Halloween / story
Six little mice 💖
YouTube PDF number / hand play / poem
There’s a little wheel a-turnin’ in my heart
YouTube PDF better world / Alabama / hand play
Someone came knocking Walter de la Mare 💖
YouTube PDF poem / Halloween
Knock no more!
YouTube PDF a winter round
In a dark, dark wood
YouTube PDF a Halloween story
Nature carol
YouTube PDF Phillipines / Summer / harvest / Xmas /Schools radio TV
Who are you?
YouTube PDF transition / call and response / colour / name game
Tiptoeing in the dark ♪♫
YouTube PDF a Halloween hand play
There were three little owls
YouTube PDF Autumn / harvest / folk
Pumpkin patch new
YouTube PDF action game / hand play / Halloween
Songfest seven archive 2023 to August 2025
Latest weekly uploads
Want to find my most recent videos?
Here is where to go: Dany Rosevear – YouTube
Each week, Monday mostly, I usually upload three new songs.
Many are seasonal, many are gathered from a wonderful library of songbooks in my office, some originating from my college days and there are a few home grown ones written by myself over the years.
Songs written by Dany Rosevear ****
Music by Dany Rosevear ♪♫
Details of new recordings found below can only be found on this ‘River of song’ website.
Below you can find a link to each of the most recent uploads on this ‘River of song’ front page complete with a PDF containing lyrics, sheet music and info.
Later they will be archived here as each month passes.
Weekly uploads archive 2023 to July 2025
Coming up
Looking for something new – you’ve come to the right place.
February 2026
Scheduled
The candlelight fisherman
YouTube PDF folk song / community / sea
Beginning to grow
YouTube PDF Spring / fairies / hand play
Mockingbird Hill
YouTube PDF song for a better world / Lavender Lane
One kind word
YouTube PDF song for a better world / peace
February 2026
The trout / Die Forelle Schubert
YouTube PDF Germany / folk song / BBC Schools radio
Early Spring / When winter snows…
YouTube PDF Spring poem / seasonal / children’s TV
Most recent 2026
January 2026
A baby’s way
YouTube PDF lap play / for the very young
She’s like the swallow
YouTube PDF Canada / Nfld. folk song / BBC Schools radio
The bluebird song ♪♫
YouTube PDF Spring poem / seasonal
Little lambs Eleanor Farjeon
YouTube PDF a poem / seasonal
Fly little bird
YouTube PDF a simple circle game / seasonal
Annie Laurie
YouTube PDF Scottish / folk song
A happy place to be ****
YouTube PDF song for a better world / a circle / action game
Playing with baby
YouTube PDF baby play
Coorie Doon
YouTube PDF Scottish lullaby / folk song
Cielito Lindo
YouTube PDF folk song / Mexican / community
Jack Frost ♪♫
YouTube PDF winter / poem
The garden year Sara Coleridge
YouTube PDF seasonal / poem
December 2025
If you should ever need a hole
YouTube PDF song for a better world / hand play
Tell me little spider / A lesson ♪♫
YouTube PDF better world / hand play
Vive la compagnie
YouTube PDF community / folk / better world / call and response
The little Christmas mouse ****
YouTube PDF hand play / seasonal / New Year
Goodnight, Irene
YouTube PDF community / folk
On Christmas Eve
YouTube PDF Christmas
Santa’s reindeer (new verses)
YouTube PDF Christmas
When the stars begin to fall
YouTube PDF community / folk / peace
Calypso carol
YouTube PDF Christmas / community
Put a spot over here
YouTube PDF colour / hand / baby play
Winter walk
YouTube PDF colour / winter
Five lovely snowflakes ****
YouTube PDF winter / number hand play / weather
Rise up shepherd
YouTube PDF carol / spiritual / community
Winter morning
YouTube PDF winter poem / weather
November 2025
One little candle
YouTube PDF Hannukah / winter / number
Peace in the valley
YouTube PDF better world / community / peace
Little red nose
YouTube PDF winter hand play
Icy toes
YouTube PDF winter / movement / weather
A starry night
YouTube PDF Nativity / community / peace
Wake up little pilgrims
YouTube PDF food / Thanksgiving
A million little snowflakes ♪♫
YouTube PDF poem / winter /
Sing Hallelu
YouTube PDF community / call and response / Christmas
First I find a foot ♪♫
YouTube PDF action play / number / transition
Spread happiness around ****
YouTube PDF better world / empathy / circle
The mist and all Mary Tolbert
YouTube PDF November poem
The birdies’ breakfast
YouTube PDF winter / poem / birds
October 2025
Two little hands
YouTube PDF hand play / number / very young
A little bird’s song Margaret Rose
YouTube PDF poem / hand play
Autumn gives glory / Sing hallelu
YouTube PDF community / BBC radio / call and response / autumn
The vine and fig tree
YouTube PDF Israeli / better world / round / peace
Three mice Charlotte Druitt Cole
YouTube PDF food / number / poem
The Halloweeny spider
YouTube PDF Halloween hand play
Sing a song of washing up
YouTube PDF poem / cleaning / helping out
Wind ♪♫
YouTube PDF poem / Autumn / movement / weather
I’m on my way
YouTube PDF spiritual / call and response / community
October’s party ♪♫
YouTube PDF poem / colour / Autumn / weather
Getting up
YouTube PDF poem / action play / hygiene
Here is the witches tall black hat ♪♫
YouTube PDF hand play / Halloween / Autumn
September 2025
The sloop John B.
YouTube PDF community / Caribbean / folk / BBC radio
Diwali is here
YouTube PDF food / celebration / autumn
Busy, busy, busy, busy ****
YouTube PDF action / hand play / autumn
Loch Lomond
YouTube PDF Scottish folk song / community / schools radio
Autumn morning ♪♫
YouTube PDF poem / autumn
Sleep-o little owlet
YouTube PDF Kwakuitl / cradle song / Canada / bird
Over the Western Ocean
YouTube PDF community / Irish shanty / steady beat
The crow
YouTube PDF food / harvest / action play / autumn
Five little kittens
YouTube PDF one less / creatures / finger play
Peace like a river
YouTube PDF community / peace / songs for a better world
The farmer’s tractor
YouTube PDF food / harvest / hand play / autumn
There’s a kangaroo jumping
YouTube PDF action / transition /very young
Heltery – skeltery ♪♫ new
YouTube PDF poem / harvest / rabbits
Red apple juice
YouTube PDF folk song / USA
A circle of friends ****
YouTube PDF circle game / empathy / songs for a better world
Weekly uploads archive 2023 to June 20
Your patience will be needed as there are so many songs to transfer to this site and new ones to add!
Let me know if there are specific songs / themes that you would like to see jump the queue; I will do my best to see that they take preference.
Contact the author at: riverofsong1@aol.com
Get in touch. I always love to hear from you!
Something to ask? Or something to tell? Send a message now.
It is only necessary to insert an email address below, though of course you are welcome to add your website too, I would love to see it!