In response to the Music Manifesto’s recent report that highlighted the importance of singing in schools, here is a super new collection of songs for children. Nursery rhymes, folk tunes, spirituals, show tunes, traditional melodies – all the favourites are here!

Before most songs there is information about the story behind it and the origins of some of the peculiar words – perfect for inquisitive children! Songs Children Love to Sing is a must for any teacher who wishes to keep singing at the heart of their school.

Contents:
A Windmill in Old Amsterdam
Aiken Drum
Alison’s Camel
All Night, All Day
Alphabet Song
Any Way You Like It
Auld Lang Syne

Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
Bananas in Pyjamas
Bob the Builder
Bobby Shafto

Charley Marley
Chick, Chick, Chicken
Clap-happy
Cockles and Mussels

Daisy, Daisy
Dance to Your Daddy
Danny Boy
Did You Ever See a Lassie?
Ding Dong Bell!
Do Your Ears Hang Low?
Doctor Foster Went to Gloucester
Don’t Dilly Dally on the Way
Down by the Riverside
Down by the Station

Each Day Different
Edelweiss
Everybody Do This

Five Currant Buns
Five Little Ducks
Five Little Monkeys
Five Little Speckled Frogs
Food, Glorious Food
Fr`ere Jacques
Froggy Went A-courtin’
Frosty the Snowman

Girls and Boys Come Out To Play
Going to the Zoo
Golden Slumbers

Happy Birthday to You
Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
Here We Go Gathering Nuts in May
Here We Go Looby Lou
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands
Hey, Diddle, Diddle
Hickory, Dickory, Dock!
Home on the Range
Hot Cross Buns
How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?
Humpty Dumpty

I Do Like To Be Beside the Seaside
I Hear Thunder
I Jump Out of Bed in the Morning
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
I Love Little Pussy, Her Coat Is So Warm
I Think I’ve Caught a Cold
I Whistle a Happy Tune
If I Had a Hammer
If You’re Happy and You Know it
I’m a Little Teapot
I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles
I’m H-A-P-P-Y
Incy Wincy Spider
It’s a Long Way to Tipperary
It’s Raining, It’s Pouring

Jack and Jill
Jack Spratt
Jimmy Crack Corn
Jingle Bells

Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree
Kum Ba Yah

Ladybird, Ladybird
Lavender’s Blue
Let’s Go Fly a Kite
Lily the Pink
Little Bo-Peep
Little Jack Horner
Little Miss Muffet
Loch Lomond
London Bridge
London’s Burning

Mary Had a Little Lamb
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
Michael Finnigan
Michael Row the Boat Ashore
Miss Polly Had a Dolly
Mix a Pancake
Morning Has Broken
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
My Favourite Things
My Grandfather’s Clock

Nellie the Elephant

Oh Dear, What Can the Matter Be?
Oh, My Darling Clementine
Oh! Susanna
Oh, We Can Play the Big Bass Drum
Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’
Old King Cole
Old MacDonald
Old Mother Hubbard
On Ilkley Moor Baht ‘At
On Top of Old Smoky
One Finger, One Thumb, Keep Moving
One Man Went to Mow
One Musician in the Band
One, Two, Three, Four, Five
Oranges and Lemons
Over the Rainbow

Pat-a-cake
Pease Pudding Hot
Pick a Bale of Cotton
Playalong
Polly Put the Kettle on
Polly Wolly Doodle
Postman Pat
Puff the Magic Dragon
Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat

Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head
Ride a Cock-horse
Ring a Ring of Roses
Rock-a-bye Baby
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Scarborough Fair
See-saw Margery Daw
She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain
Simple Simon
Sing a Rainbow
Sing a Song of Sixpence
Skip to My Lou
Steal Away
Summer Holiday
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Swing Low Sweet Chariot

Take Me to the Seaside
Ten Fat Sausages
Ten Green Bottles
That Would Make Me Smile
The Animal Fair
The Animals Went in Two by Two
The Ants Go Marching
The Bear Went Over the Mountain
The Big Ship Sails on the Ali-Ali-O
The Farmer’s in His Den
The Grand Old Duke of York
The Happy Wanderer
The Hippopotamus Song
The Hokey Cokey
The Leaving of Liverpool
The Locomotion
The Music Man
The North Wind Doth Blow
The Owl and the Pussy Cat
The Prehistoric Animal Brigade
The Quartermaster’s Store
The Runaway Train
The Sun Has Got His Hat On
The Teddy Bears’ Picnic
The Ugly Duckling
The Wheels on the Bus
The Wise Man and the Foolish Man
There Was a Crooked Man
There Was a Little Girl
There Was a Princess
There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
There Were Ten in the Bed
There’s a Hole in My Bucket
This Little Light of Mine
This Old Man
Three Blind Mice
Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

Walking, Walking in the Air
Waltzing Matilda
What Shall We Do
With the Drunken Sailor?
When Father Papered the Parlour
When Santa Got Stuck up the Chimney
When the Saints Go Marching In
When You’re Smiling
White Christmas

Yankee Doodle
You’ll Never Get To Heaven

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