►Happy Birthday, published in 1903, with unclear authorship, now in the public domain (4 words)
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday, happy birthday
Happy birthday to you.
Note: Usually the name of the person having a birthday is said in the third line, which becomes, for example,
Happy birthday, dear Paul
►Are You Sleeping? Brother John Traditional in French as Frère Jacques (11 words)
Note: Sung as a round: When the 1st person reaches "Brother John", the 2nd person starts "Are you..."
Are you sleeping? Are you sleeping?
Brother John, Brother John,
Morning bells are ringing! Morning bells are ringing!
Ding, dang, dong. Ding, dang, dong.
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday to you
Happy birthday, happy birthday
Happy birthday to you.
Note: Usually the name of the person having a birthday is said in the third line, which becomes, for example,
Happy birthday, dear Paul
►Are You Sleeping? Brother John Traditional in French as Frère Jacques (11 words)
Note: Sung as a round: When the 1st person reaches "Brother John", the 2nd person starts "Are you..."
Are you sleeping? Are you sleeping?
Brother John, Brother John,
Morning bells are ringing! Morning bells are ringing!
Ding, dang, dong. Ding, dang, dong.
Alphabet, traditional (13 words)
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y and Z
Now I know my ABCs. Next time won't you sing with me?
►0-2016, (30 words)
Note: This and the next 3 songs are not well-known, but they are easy for beginners
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►Listen to the Drum (10 words)
Listen to the drum, everybody come.
Come to the circle, everybody come (repeat)
Listen to the drum, can you echo the drum (repeat)
Listen to the drum, everybody come
Come to the circle, everybody come (repeat)
►Diversify and Balance Your Life (12 words)
Take a little bit of this / Take a little bit of that
Take a little bit of this / Take a little bit of that
Diversify and balance your life
►Talk a Lot (14 words)
I love us playing
I love us singing songs
I love us interacting when we talk a lot
We talk a lot / we learn a lot
We talk a lot / we laugh a lot
We talk a lot / we learn a lot when we talk a lot
►Give Peace a Chance 1969 by Lennon, unknown singer (12 words)
(Everybody out there on YouTube, can you hear me?)
All we are sayin', give peace a chance
All we are sayin', give peace a chance
Yeah yeah
All we are sayin', give peace a chance
All we are sayin', give peace, give peace a chance
Baby
All we are sayin', give peace a chance
Hey yeah yeah
All we are sayin', all we are sayin',baby yeah, give peace a chance
All we are sayin', is give peace a chance
►We Shall Overcome 1900, by Tindley, sung by Morehouse College (21 words)
We shall overcome, We shall overcome, We shall overcome some day
Oh deep in my heart I do believe that we shall overcome some day
We'll walk hand in hand, We'll walk hand in hand, We'll walk hand in hand today
Oh deep in my heart I do believe that we shall overcome some day
We are not afraid, we are not afraid, we are not afraid today
Oh deep in my heart I do believe that we shall overcome some day
►Edelweiss 1959, from The Sound of Music by Rogers and Hammerstein, sung by Douglas Wright, who has many other easy songs (25 words)
Note: Edelweiss is a white flower
Edelweiss, Edelweiss
Every morning you greet me
Small and white, clean and bright
You look happy to meet me
Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow
Bloom and grow forever
Edelweiss, Edelweiss
Bless my homeland forever.
►4 Songs: Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here (1917), The More We Get Together (1926?), For He's a Jolly Good Fellow (1800s?), The Bear Went over the Mountain (57 words)
(11 words)
Hail, hail, the gang's all here
What the heck do we care? What the heck do we care?
Hail, hail, the gang's all here
What the heck do we care now? (2x)
(30 words)
The more we get together, together, together,
The more we get together the happier we'll be
For your friends are my friends and my friends are your friends
The more we get together the happier we'll be
Oh how's for getting friendly? Quite friendly, real friendly
Oh how's for getting friendly? Both your friends and mine.
If your friends like my friends and my friends like your friends
We'll all be friends together, now won't that be fine?
(10 words)
For he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a jolly good fellow
Which nobody can deny, which nobody can deny, which nobody can deny
For he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a jolly good fellow
Which nobody can deny.
(18 words)
The bear went over the mountain The bear went over the mountain
The bear went over the mountain to see what he could see
Oh What could he see? What could he see?
The other side of the mountain, the other side of the mountain,
The other side of the mountain was all that he could see
Hail, hail, the gang's all here
What the heck do we care? What the heck do we care?
Hail, hail, the gang's all here
What the heck do we care now?
►Old MacDonald Had a Farm, traditional (25 words)
Note: E-I-E-I-O is not a word, and has no meaning. It shows excitement.
Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O.
And on that farm he had a cow, E-I-E-I-O.
With a moo-moo here, and a moo-moo there.
Here a moo, there a moo, everywhere a moo-moo.
Old Macdonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O.
Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O.
And on that farm he had a pig, E-I-E-I-O.
With an oink-oink here, and an oink-oink there.
Here an oink, there an oink everywhere an oink-oink.
Old Macdonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O.
Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O.
And on that farm he had a duck, E-I-E-I-O.
With a quack-quack here, and a quack-quack there.
Here a quack there a quack, everywhere a quack-quack.
Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O.
Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O.
And on that farm he had a dog, E-I-E-I-O.
With a woof-woof here, and a woof-woof there.
Here a woof there a woof, everywhere a woof-woof.
Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O.
Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O.
And on that farm he had a cat, E-I-E-I-O.
With a meow-meow here, and a meow-meow there.
Here a meow there a meow, everywhere a meow-meow.
Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y and Z
Now I know my ABCs. Next time won't you sing with me?
►0-2016, (30 words)
Note: This and the next 3 songs are not well-known, but they are easy for beginners
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►Listen to the Drum (10 words)
Listen to the drum, everybody come.
Come to the circle, everybody come (repeat)
Listen to the drum, can you echo the drum (repeat)
Listen to the drum, everybody come
Come to the circle, everybody come (repeat)
►Diversify and Balance Your Life (12 words)
Take a little bit of this / Take a little bit of that
Take a little bit of this / Take a little bit of that
Diversify and balance your life
►Talk a Lot (14 words)
I love us playing
I love us singing songs
I love us interacting when we talk a lot
We talk a lot / we learn a lot
We talk a lot / we laugh a lot
We talk a lot / we learn a lot when we talk a lot
►Give Peace a Chance 1969 by Lennon, unknown singer (12 words)
(Everybody out there on YouTube, can you hear me?)
All we are sayin', give peace a chance
All we are sayin', give peace a chance
Yeah yeah
All we are sayin', give peace a chance
All we are sayin', give peace, give peace a chance
Baby
All we are sayin', give peace a chance
Hey yeah yeah
All we are sayin', all we are sayin',baby yeah, give peace a chance
All we are sayin', is give peace a chance
►We Shall Overcome 1900, by Tindley, sung by Morehouse College (21 words)
We shall overcome, We shall overcome, We shall overcome some day
Oh deep in my heart I do believe that we shall overcome some day
We'll walk hand in hand, We'll walk hand in hand, We'll walk hand in hand today
Oh deep in my heart I do believe that we shall overcome some day
We are not afraid, we are not afraid, we are not afraid today
Oh deep in my heart I do believe that we shall overcome some day
►Edelweiss 1959, from The Sound of Music by Rogers and Hammerstein, sung by Douglas Wright, who has many other easy songs (25 words)
Note: Edelweiss is a white flower
Edelweiss, Edelweiss
Every morning you greet me
Small and white, clean and bright
You look happy to meet me
Blossom of snow may you bloom and grow
Bloom and grow forever
Edelweiss, Edelweiss
Bless my homeland forever.
►4 Songs: Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here (1917), The More We Get Together (1926?), For He's a Jolly Good Fellow (1800s?), The Bear Went over the Mountain (57 words)
(11 words)
Hail, hail, the gang's all here
What the heck do we care? What the heck do we care?
Hail, hail, the gang's all here
What the heck do we care now? (2x)
(30 words)
The more we get together, together, together,
The more we get together the happier we'll be
For your friends are my friends and my friends are your friends
The more we get together the happier we'll be
Oh how's for getting friendly? Quite friendly, real friendly
Oh how's for getting friendly? Both your friends and mine.
If your friends like my friends and my friends like your friends
We'll all be friends together, now won't that be fine?
(10 words)
For he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a jolly good fellow
Which nobody can deny, which nobody can deny, which nobody can deny
For he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a jolly good fellow, for he's a jolly good fellow
Which nobody can deny.
(18 words)
The bear went over the mountain The bear went over the mountain
The bear went over the mountain to see what he could see
Oh What could he see? What could he see?
The other side of the mountain, the other side of the mountain,
The other side of the mountain was all that he could see
Hail, hail, the gang's all here
What the heck do we care? What the heck do we care?
Hail, hail, the gang's all here
What the heck do we care now?
►Old MacDonald Had a Farm, traditional (25 words)
Note: E-I-E-I-O is not a word, and has no meaning. It shows excitement.
Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O.
And on that farm he had a cow, E-I-E-I-O.
With a moo-moo here, and a moo-moo there.
Here a moo, there a moo, everywhere a moo-moo.
Old Macdonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O.
Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O.
And on that farm he had a pig, E-I-E-I-O.
With an oink-oink here, and an oink-oink there.
Here an oink, there an oink everywhere an oink-oink.
Old Macdonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O.
Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O.
And on that farm he had a duck, E-I-E-I-O.
With a quack-quack here, and a quack-quack there.
Here a quack there a quack, everywhere a quack-quack.
Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O.
Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O.
And on that farm he had a dog, E-I-E-I-O.
With a woof-woof here, and a woof-woof there.
Here a woof there a woof, everywhere a woof-woof.
Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O.
Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O.
And on that farm he had a cat, E-I-E-I-O.
With a meow-meow here, and a meow-meow there.
Here a meow there a meow, everywhere a meow-meow.
Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O.
►Swear Thou the Jury (37 words)
Other songs by Gilbert and Sullivan are better known, but they have more words.
'Twixt is an archaic word for "Between"
Swear thou the Jury
Kneel, Jury men, oh, kneel
O, will you swear by yonder skies,
Whatever question may arise,
'Twixt rich and poor - 'twixt low and high,
That you will well and truly try.
To all of this we make reply,
To all of this we make reply,
By the dull slate of yonder sky:
That we will well and truly try.
They will well and truly try
Other songs by Gilbert and Sullivan are better known, but they have more words.
'Twixt is an archaic word for "Between"
Swear thou the Jury
Kneel, Jury men, oh, kneel
O, will you swear by yonder skies,
Whatever question may arise,
'Twixt rich and poor - 'twixt low and high,
That you will well and truly try.
To all of this we make reply,
To all of this we make reply,
By the dull slate of yonder sky:
That we will well and truly try.
They will well and truly try
►Opposites, (60 words)
Note: This song is not well-known, but it helps beginners learn important words.
CHORUS:
Let’s sing a song about opposites,
Two things as different as they can be
Let’s sing a song about opposites
You can sing along with me
The opposite of good is bad
The opposite of happy is sad
The opposite of hot is cold
The opposite of young is old (CHORUS)
The opposite of short is tall
The opposite of none is all
The opposite of old is new
The opposite of many is few (CHORUS)
The opposite of heavy is light
The opposite of day is night
The opposite of open is close
The opposite of yes is no (CHORUS)
The opposite of black is white
The opposite of wrong is right
The opposite of water is ice
The opposite of mean is nice (CHORUS)
The opposite of fast is slow
The opposite of stop is go
The opposite of near is far
The opposite of easy is hard (CHORUS)
Alphabet, Listen to the Drum and Opposites are from NancyMusic.com
Diversify and Balance, and Talk a Lot are from Tim Murphey
Note: This song is not well-known, but it helps beginners learn important words.
CHORUS:
Let’s sing a song about opposites,
Two things as different as they can be
Let’s sing a song about opposites
You can sing along with me
The opposite of good is bad
The opposite of happy is sad
The opposite of hot is cold
The opposite of young is old (CHORUS)
The opposite of short is tall
The opposite of none is all
The opposite of old is new
The opposite of many is few (CHORUS)
The opposite of heavy is light
The opposite of day is night
The opposite of open is close
The opposite of yes is no (CHORUS)
The opposite of black is white
The opposite of wrong is right
The opposite of water is ice
The opposite of mean is nice (CHORUS)
The opposite of fast is slow
The opposite of stop is go
The opposite of near is far
The opposite of easy is hard (CHORUS)
Alphabet, Listen to the Drum and Opposites are from NancyMusic.com
Diversify and Balance, and Talk a Lot are from Tim Murphey
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