Folk Songs

The Itsy Bitsy Spider

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Beloved children's song "The Itsy Bitsy Spider" gets the TumbleBooks treatment! Sing along and have some fun!

The Itsy Bitsy Spider

Old MacDonald Had Her Farm

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Old MacDonald had a farm like you’ve never seen before!


With a nod to the familiar refrain E-I-E-I-O, a day on this farm is framed by the vowels A-E-I-O-U—and sometimes Y.


Old MacDonald appears in an explosion of color and, starting with the letter A, proceeds to “saw barn planks, stack sacks, crank cranks, and whack gnats.” The day progresses as every vowel is featured in action-packed bursts of lively text. Old MacDonald has devised a myriad of tools to make her job if not easier, then a lot more fun.


Old MacDonald Had Her Farm

A Jug of This: An Introduction to English Folk Music

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Folk songs have served as an illustration and illumination of social history. Here, these songs explore love, marriage, and affairs. Hosted by Roy Palmer, co-editor of Folk Music in Schools. He has compiled numerous anthologies of folk songs and street ballads.

Go With the Flow

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Josh Greenberg Presents The Mother Goose Jazz Band

Get Kids Singing Old Favorites

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Songs That Kids Love to Sing
Uniquely arranged by Paul Jennings

Full performance, then accompaniment tracks only for each song (except "Ants...")

1.2. I've Been Working on the Railroad
3.4. Old Dan Tucker
5.6. A Frog Went A-Courtin'
7.8. I Met a Bear
9.10. This Old MAn
11.12.13. The Ants Go Marching
14.15. If You're Happy and You Know It
16.17. Turkey in the Straw

The Erie Canal

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The Erie Canal comes to life in this classic children's book, illustrated by award winning artist Peter Spier, to the words of the familiar folk song, "Low Bridge, Everybody down." Enjoy reading and singing this song with your children. Teachers use this book to introduce curriculum subjects and to tell stories about what is happening in the paintings of canal town life. Every child, library and school should have this book.

The Erie Canal