The place for nostalgia:

• songs from times gone by
• the ‘good’ old days
• favourites from my childhood
• folk songs
• Schools radio and T.V.
• School assembly
• Story songs

YouTube playlist: Lavender Lane – YouTube

YouTube playlist: School’s radio and TV – YouTube

YouTube playlist: Story songs – YouTube

YouTube playlist: Community sing-alongs – YouTube

‘Singing games for children’ website pages: 

In the lists below you will soon find links to:
‘River of song’ website pages for each song including lyrics, sheet music and chords plus a YouTube link to each song.
More links will be added as time permits especially where they are absent from my old website. Let me know if I need to give priority to music that you would appreciate. In the meantime use the links taking you to Singing Games for Children.

Vintage favourites

A frog he would a wooing go
YouTube PDF
A windmill in old Amsterdam
YouTube PDF
Aiken Drum
YouTube PDF
Babes in the wood
YouTube PDF
By the light of the silvery moon
YouTube PDF
Catch a falling star
YouTube PDF
Chick, chick, chick, chick, chicken
YouTube PDF
Daisy, Daisy/She was one of the early birds
YouTube PDF
Dashing away with a smoothing iron
YouTube PDF
Donkey riding
YouTube PDF
Donkey riding (alternative version)
YouTube PDF
Down in Demerara
YouTube PDF
Edelweiss
YouTube PDF
English country garden
YouTube PDF
Gobbolino the witches cat
YouTube PDF
Hey! Little hen!
YouTube PDF
How much is that doggie in the window?
YouTube PDF

Lavender Lane I-R
I know a little cupboard
YouTube PDF
I know an old lady who swallowed a fly
YouTube PDF
I know where I’m going
YouTube PDF
I’m only a poor little sparrow
YouTube PDF
Inchworm
YouTube PDF
Let me call you sweetheart
YouTube PDF
Let’s all sing like the birdies sing
YouTube PDF
Little boy fishing
YouTube PDF
Little white duck
YouTube PDF
Mairzy doats
YouTube PDF
Molly Malone / Cockles and mussels new
YouTube PDF
My grandfather’s clock
YouTube PDF
My old man said follow the van
YouTube PDF
Oh, Susannah
YouTube PDF
One potato, two potato
YouTube PDF Summer garden song
Que sera, sera
YouTube PDF
Run rabbit, run rabbit
YouTube PDF

Lavender Lane S-Z
S
She sat ‘neath the lilacs campfire
YouTube PDF
She’ll be coming round the mountain
YouTube PDF
Strawberry Fair
YouTube PDF
T
That’s an Irish lullaby
YouTube PDF
The Golden Vanity School’s radio
YouTube PDF
The mermaid
YouTube PDF
The oak and the ash
YouTube PDF new folk song
The quartermaster’s store campfire
YouTube PDF
The runaway train
YouTube PDF
The smoke goes up the chimney
YouTube PDF
The teddy bears picnic
YouTube PDF Summer
There was an old lady
YouTube PDF
Three little fishes
YouTube PDF
W
We’ve come a-cob-coaling
YouTube PDF
What shall we do with the drunken sailor?
YouTube PDF
Wiggley Woo
YouTube PDF
Y
You are my sunshine
YouTube PDF

Folk songs

Castle of Dromore Irish lullaby
YouTube PDF
Crow on the cradle
YouTube PDF
Donna Donna Yiddish
YouTube PDF
Highland fairy lullaby Scotland
YouTube PDF
Jig along home USA
YouTube PDF
Oh, had I a golden thread new
YouTube PDF
Old Molly Metcalfe new Swaledale UK
YouTube PDF
Plaisir d’amour new French
YouTube PDF
The grey goose and the gander
YouTube PDF Lavender Lane folk
The little turtle dove
YouTube PDF
The nightingale / One May morning
YouTube PDF new Spring
The oak and the ash
YouTube PDF English
The water of Tyne new ST Northumbrian
YouTube PDF
Turn, turn, turn
YouTube PDF
Waterbound new USA N. Carolina
YouTube PDF
Widdicombe fair new Devon UK
YouTube PDF
Wild mountain thyme Summer Irish/Scots
YouTube PDF

Find Irish folk songs here: Irish songs and rhymes | River of song

Schools radio and T.V.

YouTube playlist: School’s radio and TV – YouTube

‘Singing Together’- BBC Radio for Schools ST
‘Music Time’ BBC Radio for Schools MT

(The) Huron carol Christmas
YouTube PDF ST Autumn 1984
Li’l Liza Jane
YouTube PDF ST Spring 1961
My Bonny Cuckoo new 
YouTube PDF ST Summer 1967
Seagull, seagull sit on the shore
YouTube PDF a partner song
Seagull, seagull sit on the shore (2)
YouTube PDF hand play MT late 1980s
Sweet potato
YouTube PDF Creole MT Sum? 1970
The Pearly Adriatic
YouTube PDF Yugoslav ST Sum 1967
We have planted in our garden
YouTube PDF Czech MT Sum 1973

School assembly

Many will remember these community songs with affection and smiles.
CB Carey Bonner’s ‘Child Songs’ published in 1908

“Good morning!” said the shining sun CB
YouTube PDF
Little drops of water
YouTube PDF poem / better world
Morning has broken Eleanor Farjeon
YouTube PDF
One more step Sydney Carter
YouTube PDF
The family of man songs for a better world
YouTube PDF
This little light of mine
YouTube PDF
Wade in the water
YouTube PDF
When I needed a neighbour new
YouTube PDF

Community sing-alongs

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

YouTube playlist: Community sing-alongs – YouTube

A place in the choir
YouTube PDF
Friends / Looking up through a tree
YouTube PDF a poem
She sat ‘neath the lilacs campfire
YouTube PDF
Somos el barco / We are the boat
YouTube PDF new community songs for a better world
Star of the evening campfire song
YouTube PDF
The quartermaster’s store campfire
YouTube PDF

Story songs

YouTube playlist: Story songs – YouTube

Babes in the woods
YouTube PDF
Bread and fishes / Wind in the willows
YouTube PDF
Gobbolino the witches cat
YouTube PDF
Keyman keyman
YouTube PDF
Long time ago / Kitty and mousie
YouTube PDF
Lulabelle a comic hand play
YouTube PDF
The teddy bears’ picnic 
YouTube PDF summer
Tortoise and the Hare / Usagi to Kame
YouTube PDF Japan
When Goldilocks went to the house of the bears
YouTube PDF

Find Wassails and traditional door to door songs here: Seasonal | River of song

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