We are fortunate to have a rich heritage of folk music to use in our teaching. Here are but a few of the folk songs that children (and teachers and parents) love.
A Peanut Sat On A Railroad Track
– Folk Song Sheet Music/Piano Solo
A Sailor Went to Sea
– Folk Song Sheet Music/Piano Solo
Aiken Drum
– Traditional Folk Song Lyrics
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around
– Traditional Song
Alice the Camel
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo
Alphabet Song
– Traditional Song
Amazing Grace
– Traditional Song
Anchors Aweigh
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo
Angels Watching Over Me
– Traditional Song
Animal Fair
– Traditional Song
The Ants Go Marching
– Traditional Folk Song
Apples and Bananas
– Traditional Song
Arabella Miller
– Traditional Folk Song
Auld Lang Syne
– Traditonal Folk Song
Baby Bumblebee
– Traditional Song
The Bear Went Over the Mountain
– Traditional Folk Song
B-I-N-G-O
– Traditional Folk Song
Boom Boom, Ain't It Great to Be Crazy
– Traditional Folk Song
Buffalo Gals
– Traditional Folk Song
The Caissons Go Rolling Along
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo
Camptown Races
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo
Clap Your Hands!
– Traditional Song
Cockles and Mussels (Molly Malone)
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo
The Crocodile Song
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo
Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built For Two)
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo
Dem Bones
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo
Did You Ever See A Lassie?
– Traditional Folk Song
Did You Feed My Cow?
– Lyrics with Extension Activities from Stephanie Burton
Do Your Ears Hang Low?
– Traditional Folk Song
Down By the Bay
– Traditional Folk Song
Down by the Riverside
– Traditional Folk Song
Down by the River Side
– Lyrics Adapted by Mary Miché
Down in the Valley
– Traditional Folk Song
The Erie Canal and The E-ri-e Canal
– Traditional Folk Songs
The Erie Canal
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Evening Prayer
– Traditional Folk Song
Everybody Loves a Saturday Night
– Traditional Folk Song
Father Abraham
– Traditional Folk Song
Five Green and Speckled Frogs
– Traditional Folk Song
Follow the Drinking Gourd
– Traditional Song
For He's a Jolly Good Fellow
– Traditional Folk Song
The Fox
– Traditional Folk Song
Frère Jacques (Brother John)
– Traditional Folk Song
Funiculì, Funiculà
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo
Funga A La Feeya
– Traditional West African Folk Song
German Cradle Song
– Traditional German Lullaby
Get Along Home, Cindy
– Traditional Folk Song
Go In and Out the Window
– Traditional Folk Song Lyrics
Going On A Bear Hunt
– Traditional Folk Song Lyrics
Grandpa's Farm
– Traditional Song Lyrics
Green Grass Grew All Around
– Traditional Song
The Green Grass Grew All Around
– Traditional Folk Song
Head and Shoulders Baby
– Traditional Folk Song
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush
– Traditional Folk Song
Hey, Hey, Watenay
– Ojibwa Native American Lullaby Song
Home on the Range
– Traditional Folk Song
Hop High Ladies (Uncle Joe)
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Hush Little Baby
– Traditional Folk Song
I Had a Little Nut Tree
- Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
I Had a Rooster
– Traditional Folk Song Lyrics
I Love the Mountains
– Traditional Folk Song Lyrics
If You're Happy and You Know It
– Traditional Folk Song
If You're Happy and You Know It
– Lyrics with Extension Activities
I'm a Nut
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
I've Been Working On the Railroad
– Traditional Folk Song
Jenny Jenkins
– Ben and Elizabeth Stiefel
Jenny Jenkins
– Two of a Kind
John Henry
– Traditional Folk Song
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
– Traditional Folk Song
Johnny Appleseed
- Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Johnny Works With One Hammer
- Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Knees Up Mother Brown
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Kumbaya
– Traditional African-American Folk Song
Land of the Silver Birch
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Little Bunny Foo Foo
– Lyrics Adapted by Songs For Teaching™
Little Cabin in the Woods
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Looby Loo
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Make New Friends (But Keep the Old)
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Mamma Don't Allow
– Traditional Folk Song/Gemini
Michael Finnegan
– Traditional Song
Miss Lucy Had a Baby
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Miss Mary Mack
– Traditional Folk Song
Miss Molly Had a Dolly
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Miss Polly Had a Dolly
– Traditional Song
The More We Get Together
– Traditional Song
My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
– Traditional Folk Song
My Dog Rags
– Traditional Folk Song
My Hand On My Head
– Traditional Folk Song
My Hat It Has Three Corners
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Muffin Man
– Traditional Song
New River Train
– Traditional Folk Song
The Noble Duke of York
– Traditional Folk Song
Oats, Peas, Beans and Barley Grow
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo
Oh Dear! What Can The Matter Be?
– Traditional Folk Song
Oh, Mr. Sun
– Traditional Folk Song
Oh, My Darling Clementine
– Traditional Folk Song
Oh, Shenandoah
– Traditional Folk Song
Oh Susannah
– Traditional Folk Song
Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?
– Traditional Folk Song
Old Dan Tucker
– Traditional Folk Song
Old Gray Mare
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Old Joe Clark
– Traditional Folk Song
Old MacDonald Had a Farm
– Traditional Folk Song
Old MacDonald Had a Farm
– With Extension Activities from Stephanie Burton
One Bottle of Pop
– Traditional Folk Song
Over in the Meadow
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Over the River and Through the Woods
– Traditional Song Lyrics
The Paw-Paw Patch
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Playmate, Come Out and Play With Me
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Polly Put the Kettle On
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Polly Wolly Doodle
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Punchinella
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Quaherey
– Traditional Song/Gemini
Rattlin' Bog
– Traditional Folk Song
Reuben and Rachel
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
The Riddle Song
– Appalachian Traditional/Phil Rosenthal
The Riddle Song
– Traditional Folk Song
Rig-a-Jig-Jig
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Rise and Shine
– Traditional Folk Song
Rock-a-Bye, Baby
– Traditional Folk Song
Sailing, Sailing
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain
– Traditional Folk Song
Shortnin' Bread
– Traditional Folk Song
Shoo Fly, Don't Bother Me
– Traditional Folk Song
Sippin' Cider
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Six Little Ducks
– Traditional Folk Song
Skinnamarink
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
– Traditional Folk Song
Taps (Day is Done)
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Ten in the Bed
– Traditional Folk Song
That's What They Taught Me In School
– Traditional/Stephanie Burton
There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
There's a Hole in the Bucket
– Traditional Folk Song
This Little Light of Mine
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
This Old Man
– Traditional Folk Song
Three Nice Mice
– Lyrics Adapted by Songs For Teaching™
Tingalayo
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Today Is Monday
– Traditional Folk Song
Tommy Thumb
– Traditional Folk Song
Tony Chestnut
– Traditional Folk Song with new lyrics
Tony Chestnut
– Traditional Folk Song
Train Is A-Comin'
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Turkey In the Straw
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Wade In the Water
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Wabash Cannonball
– Traditional Folk Song
Waltzing Matilda
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
We Circle Around
– Traditional Arapaho Folk Song
Wee Hee Nah
– Traditional Native American Song
We've Got the Whole World in Our Hands
– Traditional Folk Song
The Wheels On the Bus
– Traditional Folk Song
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
– Traditional Song, Patrick S. Gilmore
When the Saints Go Marching In
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Where Is Thumbkin?
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Who Did Swallow Jonah?
– Sheet Music/Piano Solo Instrumental
Ya Ha Haway
– Traditional Native American Song
Yankee Doodle
– Traditional Folk Song
You Gotta Sing
– Traditional Song/Gemini
See also: Campfire Folk Song Lyrics and Fingerplays for Children.