A round is music that is sung by two or more groups of people. One group begins and the next group starts a bit later. Timed like this the song is taken to another level. Once each group finishes the song they start again.
Singing together in this way lifts hearts and minds and makes it enjoyable for the singers and their audience.
Partner songs are songs that work in concert with each other and sound great when performed as two or more melodic voices together in harmony.
This collection has a small dedicated section in my previous ‘Singing games for children’ website but many are embedded in other categories.
Good news! It does however have its own YouTube playlist.
YouTube playlist: Songs suitable as rounds or partner songs – YouTube
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 /rhyme.
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 ones you would appreciate.
Contents
Rounds and partner songs A-N
A
A ram sam sam
YouTube PDF Morocco / campfire action rhyme
Ah my little Augustine
YouTube PDF
Ah, poor bird
YouTube PDF
Alouette
YouTube PDF French/Canadian circle game / call and response / bird
B
Black socks new
YouTube PDF clothing / colour / hygiene
Bonjour mes amis
YouTube PDF Cajun circle game / transition
Brother Martin
YouTube PDF South American round
C
Call John the boatman
YouTube PDF
Canoe song
YouTube PDF
Catch a falling star 💖
YouTube PDF hand play / Lavender lane / canon
Chain, chain, daisy chain
YouTube PDF
Christmas bells
YouTube PDF a round
Clouds of rain
YouTube PDF
Come follow
YouTube PDF rounds / follow the leader / Summer
Crimson and red
YouTube PDF
D
Dona nobis pacem
YouTube PDF songs for a better world
Donkeys and carrots
YouTube PDF
E
Early in the morning / Kum bachur atzeil
YouTube PDF
El gallo pinto new
YouTube PDF Uruguay /farmyard / colour
Every night when the sun goes in
YouTube PDF spiritual / vespers / community
F
Fare thee well
YouTube PDF
Frogs in yonder pond
YouTube PDF action play / creatures great and small
G
Give me holly Christina Rossetti
YouTube PDF Christmas / poem
Goodnight to you all new
YouTube PDF lullaby / transition
Grasshoppers three
YouTube PDF
H
Have you seen the ghost of Tom?
YouTube PDF Halloween round
Hey, ho, nobody home
YouTube PDF Christmas
Hot cross buns
YouTube PDF Spring hand play / round
Hymn for the Russian earth 🕊️
YouTube PDF circle dance / Russian folk song
I
I love the flowers 💖
YouTube PDF Spring / round
Ifca’s castle
YouTube PDF
J
Japanese frog song
YouTube PDF
K
Knock no more!
YouTube PDF a winter round
Kookaburra
YouTube PDF
L
London’s burning
YouTube PDF
M
Mr. Moon, Mr. Moon / Cuckoo! 💖
YouTube PDF birds / summer
Morning song
YouTube PDF
N
Jolly red nose
YouTube PDF winter / nursery rhyme
Now all the woods are waking
YouTube PDF
Now I walk in beauty
YouTube PDF songs for a better world / Navajo prayer
Rounds and partner songs O-Z
O
Oh, how lovely is the evening
YouTube PDF 💖
Oh, my hen
YouTube PDF Easter
One bottle pop! 💖
YouTube PDF numbers to ten / better world / hand play
Our beautiful Earth
YouTube PDF better world
P
Peace round / The scarlet rose
YouTube PDF better world / community
Peace round / What a wondrous thing
YouTube PDF better world / community
R
Round and round the Earth is turning
YouTube PDF
Row, row, row your boat
YouTube PDF partner action / lap play / for the very young
S
Seagull, seagull sit on the shore
YouTube PDF a partner song 💖
Sing, sing together
YouTube PDF
Sweetly sings the donkey
YouTube PDF
T
The frog in the bog
YouTube PDF
The vine and fig tree new
YouTube PDF Israeli / better world / round / peace
There was an old man with a beard
YouTube PDF
Thirty days hath September
YouTube PDF
Trees grow tall
YouTube PDF
Two ducks on a pond
YouTube PDF
W
Where is John?
YouTube PDF
Whippoorwill
YouTube PDF
White coral bells
YouTube PDF Spring / colour / fairies
Whose pigs are these?
YouTube PDF
Why doesn’t my goose?
YouTube PDF
More rounds and partner songs
Ride a cock horse
YouTube PDF
Row your boat
YouTube PDF
Sur le pont
YouTube PDF
The more we get together
YouTube PDF
The sun it rises
YouTube PDF
Three blind mice
YouTube PDF