For coach and car journeys, scouting, campfire, assemblies, family and other get-togethers and gatherings, after school clubs etc.

!MAGIC NUMBER 21! or more this section has been rewarded with its own dedicated homepage! A new collection fresh from its Lavender Lane home.
A patchwork of songs collected from many corners of my ‘Singing games for children’ site, more to come.
Find more songs for this section spread throughout this website, in particular: Songs from many lands | River of song and at Folkways.
Need some fun and laughter, you’ll find it here:
Funny songs and poems | River of song
Will pull them together as time permits.
Love this song: 💖

YouTube playlist: Community sing-alongs – YouTube

A place in the choir
YouTube PDF
A ram sam sam
YouTube PDF Morocco / action rhyme / round
A smile is quite a funny thing 💖
YouTube PDF for a better world
A starry night
YouTube PDF Nativity / community / peace
Ain’t it great to be crazy
YouTube PDF action play / circle game
Albuquerque turkey
YouTube PDF Thanksgiving /action / comic
All things bright and beautiful new 💖
YouTube PDF creatures / community / better world
Alouette
YouTube PDF French/Canadian circle game / round / bird
As one under the sun **** new
YouTube PDF song for a better world /
As one we can fly new ****
YouTube PDF better world / working together
Autumn gives glory / Sing hallelu
YouTube PDF community / BBC radio / call and response / autumn
Baby bumblebee
YouTube PDF action game / comic / community / insects
Banyan tree / Moonshine tonight
YouTube PDF Jamaican folk song / circle game
Be kind to one another **** 💖
YouTube PDF creatures great and small
Bella bimba
YouTube PDF Italian / singalong
Big Mistake *****
YouTube PDF creatures / comic song
Blow away the morning dew (2) new
YouTube PDF folk / comic / community / weather
Bread and fishes / Wind in the willows 💖
YouTube PDF caring for others / food
Bright morning star
YouTube PDF Christmas / community
Calypso carol new
YouTube PDF Christmas / community
Can you wiggle like a worm? 💖
YouTube PDF action play / community / minibeasts
Charlie is my darling
YouTube PDF lavender lane / Schools radio
Cielito Lindo new
YouTube PDF folk song / Mexican
Come all you fair and tender ladies /
Little sparrow new
YouTube PDF bird / love / folk song / community
Crab is better than man
YouTube PDF Bahamas / summer / community
Come and join us new
YouTube PDF
Coorie Doon
YouTube PDF Scottish lullaby / folk song
Crow on the cradle
YouTube PDF 💖
Down by the bay
YouTube PDF Hawaii echo / hand play / comic song
Every night when the sun goes in
YouTube PDF spiritual / vespers / Appalachian
Father Abraham
YouTube PDF action play / number
Fire child dance 💖
YouTube PDF Autumn / wassail / circle
Flowers of peace new 🕊️
YouTube PDF community / folk
Free as a bird **** 💖
YouTube PDF community / better world / birds
Friends/ Flicker / Looking up through a tree
YouTube PDF new songs for a better world / a poem
Frog went walking on a summer’s day
YouTube PDF summer / folk song  
Glad to see you and welcome ****
YouTube PDF transition / community song
Go to sleep you little baby
YouTube PDF folk / lullaby / community /
Go to sleepy little baby
YouTube PDF whistling / lullaby / community
Goodbye, everyone ****
YouTube PDF transition / summer / campfire song
Goodnight, beloved mine
YouTube PDF folk / lullaby / community
Goodnight, Irene
YouTube PDF community / folk
(The) Gypsy Rover
YouTube PDF Irish folk song / Schools radio
Had a little rooster 💖
YouTube PDF community / cumulative / farmyard
Hail! Hail! the First of May
YouTube PDF folk / steady beat / spring / community
Happiness comes ****
YouTube PDF songs for a better world
Happy birthday
YouTube PDF Tom Chapin version / community
Harmony in the garden / Robin sweetly sings ****
YouTube PDF better world / community / birds / assembly /
Have you ever been a-fishing?
YouTube PDF summer
Hop-a-long Peter
YouTube PDF Appalachian / community / comic
Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry / There’s work to be done
YouTube PDF transition / summer / campfire song
Hymn for the Russian earth 🕊️
YouTube PDF round / circle dance / Russian folk song
I am the music man
YouTube PDF community / music
I had a little chicken
YouTube PDF Spring comic campfire song
I love to sit in silence ♪♫
YouTube PDF poem / for a better world / community
I’m a nut
YouTube PDF Autumn / action rhyme
I’m on my way
YouTube PDF spiritual / call and response / community
In all kinds of weather
YouTube PDF weather / action game / community / cumulative
In the quartermaster store
YouTube PDF Lavender Lane / comic songs
In Derry Vale / Londonderry air new
YouTube PDF Spring / Irish / colour
Island in the sun
YouTube PDF summer / Jamaica / community /
It could be a wonderful world
YouTube PDF songs for a better world
It’s awesome outside ****
YouTube PDF community / summer / natural world
Jamaica Farewell new
YouTube PDF Caribbean / Schools radio / transition
Keemo kimo
YouTube PDF folk / story / community
Kumbaya ya
YouTube PDF Liberian lullaby / campfire
Last night I had the strangest dream
YouTube PDF peace / lullaby / folk / community
Linden Lee
YouTube PDF poem / folk song / BBC schools / late summer
Little brown jug
YouTube PDF Lavender lane / comic / community
Llortl song new
YouTube PDF Schools radio / comic song
Loch Lomond
YouTube PDF Scottish folk song / schools radio
Love grows one by one song by Carol Johnson 💖
YouTube PDF Community / numbers / better world
Love grows under the wild oak tree
YouTube PDF community
Love is teasin’ new
YouTube PDF Irish / folk💖
Mairzy doats 💖
YouTube PDF Lavender lane / comic
Messing about on the river new
YouTube PDF summer / nostalgia / boats
Missa Ram goat new
YouTube PDF call and response / community / Jamaica
Mockingbird Hill
YouTube PDF community / Lavender Lane
My bonny lies over the ocean
YouTube PDF Scottish / community fun
My father had a horse
YouTube PDF Cornish folk song
My ship sailed from China
YouTube PDF action song / community
Now the day is over
YouTube PDF hymn / community / lullaby
Oh, watch the stars
YouTube PDF community / spiritual / lullaby
Oh what a beautiful morning
YouTube PDF Summer / Lavender Lane / whistling
Old MacDonald has a farm
YouTube PDF nursery / animals/ cumulative
Old MacDonald had a veggie farm ****
YouTube PDF Autumn / very young / action / harvest
Old songs
YouTube PDF folk / seasonal /community / transition
On Ilkley Moor baht ‘at
YouTube PDF Yorkshire folk
One bottle pop! 💖
YouTube PDF numbers to ten / better world / hand play / round
One more step Sydney Carter
YouTube PDF better world / school assembly / transition
Over the Western Ocean
YouTube PDF Irish shanty / steady beat
Pace-egging song
YouTube PDF Easter wassail / Spring
Paintbox or Cauliflower fluffy 💖
YouTube PDF school assembly / Autumn harvest / colour
Peace in the family
YouTube PDF Ukraine / better world
I’ve got peace like a river new
YouTube PDF peace / songs for a better world
Peace in the valley
YouTube PDF better world / peace
Peace round / The scarlet rose
YouTube PDF better world / round
Peace round / What a wondrous thing
YouTube PDF better world / round
Pleasant and delightful
YouTube PDF folk / birds / community / summer
Raindrops keep fallin’ on my head
YouTube PDF weather / lavender lane / community
Red apple juice
YouTube PDF folk song / USA
Rise up shepherd
YouTube PDF carol / spiritual
River Bill Staines 💖
YouTube PDF transition /better world / campfire song
River of song ****
YouTube PDF better world / community / campfire song
Rose in June
YouTube PDF folk / summer
Round the corner, Sally new
YouTube PDF Summer / shanty / folk / call and response
Saint George and the dragon ****
YouTube PDF community / songs for a better world / story
She sat ‘neath the lilacs
YouTube PDF campfire / comic song / story
She waded in the water
YouTube PDF action / comic / campfire
She’ll be coming round the mountain
YouTube PDF action / summer / community
Side by side
YouTube PDF songs for a better world / lavender lane
Since I laid my burden down
YouTube PDF Community/ folk / spiritual
Sing Hallelu new
YouTube PDF community / call and response / Christmas
Skin and bone new
YouTube PDF Halloween classic
SMILE
YouTube PDF
Something in my pocket
YouTube PDF hand play
Somewhere there’s a forest
YouTube PDF better world / camping / Schools TV
Somos el barco / We are the boat
YouTube PDF new community songs for a better world
Song of the Delhi Tongawallah
YouTube PDF India
Souling song (2)
YouTube PDF Halloween
Spread happiness around ****
YouTube PDF better world / empathy / circle
Star of the evening campfire song
YouTube PDF
Sun don’t set in the morning’
YouTube PDF better world
Sun, sun, ba ba e
YouTube PDF Latin American / call and response / bird
The angel band
YouTube PDF Christmas / number / spiritual
The bird with a leaf new
YouTube PDF songs for a better world / bird
The bundle of sticks ****
YouTube PDF better world / community
The candlelight fisherman
YouTube PDF folk song / community / BBC Schools radio sea
The centipede song
YouTube PDF 100+ / line game / bugs
The cobbler and the crow new
YouTube PDF folk song / Birds / Schools radio
The cuckoo / Peter’s flowing stream 💖
YouTube PDF Spring / German / School’s radio
The Eddystone Light new
YouTube PDF comic seafaring folk song
The first of May new
YouTube PDF Spring / French / steady beat
The frog and the mouse (2)
YouTube PDF folk / story / community
The hayride road 💖
YouTube PDF Autumn / community / farm animals
The Hairy Scary castle
YouTube PDF Halloween / comic
The jolly waggoner
YouTube PDF Autumn / community / folk / harvest
The keeper
YouTube PDF community / call and response / BBC Schools radio
The May Day carol
YouTube PDF Wassailing / late Spring / calendar
The old grey mare
YouTube PDF community / comic song
The poor king
YouTube PDF community / schools TV / comic song
The quartermaster’s store campfire
YouTube PDF
Thousand legged worm / The centipede song
YouTube PDF community / comic / hand play / number / call and response action follow my leader
The sloop John B.
YouTube PDF Caribbean / fplk / BBC radio
The vine and fig tree new
YouTube PDF Israeli / better world / round / peace
The Wassail song new
YouTube PDF Devon UK / winter
There ain’t no bugs on me
YouTube PDF community / insects etc. / comic songs
There I was just a-swimming in the sea
YouTube PDF a community sing-along
There was a bee-i-ee-i-ee
YouTube PDF summer / insects / comic song
There were three little owls
YouTube PDF Autumn / harvest / folk
There’s a little wheel a-turnin’ in my heart
YouTube PDF better world / Alabama / hand play
There’s no-one exactly like me ****
YouTube PDF community / better world
Three jolly fishermen
YouTube PDF call and response / folk
Three mockin’ birds
YouTube PDF community / circle game
Three little fishes 💖
YouTube PDF number / Lavender Lane / BBC Children’s radio
Vive la compagnie
YouTube PDF community / folk / better world / call and response
Wake me! Shake me!
YouTube PDF spiritual / singing game
Way up in the sky
YouTube PDF birds / Spring / action play / lullaby / community
We went hunting for a lion new
YouTube PDF Italian / scouting / creatures / action
Weave a web of sunshine new****
YouTube PDF better world / lullaby / action play / weather
Wee cooper o’ Fife
YouTube PDF folk / Scottish / community / BBC schools /
Wellerman
YouTube PDF folk / community / New Zealand
Westering home
YouTube PDF folk / Scotland / Schools radio /
We’ve come a-cob-coaling 💖
YouTube PDF Wassailing / late Autumn
When I needed a neighbour
YouTube PDF community / better world
When I’m on my journey / / Don’t you weep after me new
YouTube PDF folk / Bahamas / better earth
When the stars begin to fall
YouTube PDF community / folk / peace
When the sun shines bright new ****
YouTube PDF Summer call and response
When friends have to say goodbye
YouTube PDF transition / community / friendship
When we go rolling home
YouTube PDF community / folk / better world
Where have all the flowers gone
YouTube PDF folk song / community / circular song
Where the waters meet new ****
YouTube PDF better world
Where there’s music new ****
YouTube PDF better world / seasons / community
Who did, who did?
YouTube PDF spiritual / call and response
Wiggly Woo
YouTube PDF Lavender Lane / comic songs
Wildwood flower
YouTube PDF folk song / community
You gotta sing
YouTube PDF action / spiritual / African-American
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah
YouTube PDF Summer / community / birds
Zumba, Zumba / Zumbale al pandero 💖
YouTube PDF Spanish / instruments / Christmas