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The Child(ish) Ballads
Children's Songs as written and sung by the kids themselves
- versions contributed by all and sundry...
(last updated August 3, 2016)

Warning!!
the songs kids sing and the songs adults write for them are two entirely different phenomena...
These are camp, hiking and schoolyard songs. As the original authors are usually unknown, "attributions" are actually listings of whoever contributed the song to the discussion. Some of the comments are those of the contributors, some are mine, but I don't always recall which is which myself. Anyway, additions welcomed - just click here to email me 'em. Be it noted that while I have included a few folksongs more likely started by adults though later modified by the kids (The Titanic, The Carnival (Cannibal?) King and the Quartermaster's Stores), what I really want are the ones the kids come up with on their own.

I do however occasionally have people ask me about things definitely in the written by adults for kids department, so if anybody out there knows who wrote "Mother Tabby Skins" and where lyrics or recordings of it may be found please let me know so I can pass it along to the requester.

There are currently five files in this collection - the index page which you're currently looking at, and four pages of songs. If you want to download the lot, the song files are child1.htm, child2.htm, child3.htm and child4.htm.

Contents

A B C D E F G H I J L M N O P R S T U W Y
A
Ach Du Lieber Augustine
It Ain't A Gonna Rain No Mo
Anti-Barney Songs
The Ants Go Marching
The Attack on Eggman's Base
B
Ball Game
Be Kind...
Beans, Beans
The Bear
The Big Fat Ladies...
Big Dan
Bill Grogan's Goat
Blow, Blow, Blow your Nose
Boarding House Song
Bo-Boes
Bottles Of Beer
By the Sewer I Lived
C
The Carnival King
The Closing Of The School
Comet
The Coming Of..
D
The Deacon Went Down
Deck The Halls With Gasoline
The Dentyne Song
The Dirty Water Company
Do Your Ears Hang Low
Doo-wa-doo
Down By The Bank
Dunderbeck
E
End Of The Year
F
Fight Song
The Five Constipated Men
Found A Peanut
Froggie
From The Halls
G
Gallo
Generic Camp Song
Ginger Ale
A Girl Scout Went To Camp
God Bless My Underwear
Great Green Gobs
H
Hangman
Hanna The Delta Gamma
Harry Cemetary
Have A Tequila
The Hearse Song
Here We Sit
Hey Dude
Hi Ho, Hi Ho
Hickory Dickery
Hooray! Hooray!
How Dry I Am
Howdy Doody Time
I
I Am An Anglican
I Fled A Legion...
I Know A Song
I Use Rhythm
I Woke Up Sunday Morning
If All The Raindrops
If You Didn't Have Rain
In the Quartermaster's Stores
It's Raining, It's Pouring
I've Been Working On My Homework
J
James Brown
Jimmy Carter
Jingle Bells Varients
Jose, Can You See?
Joy To The World
Jump-Rope Rhymes
L
Last Night As I Lay On My Pillow
Leprosy
Little Green Frog
Little Miss
The Littlest Worm
M
Marijuana Song
Mary Had A Little Lamb
McDonald's
Michael Finnigan
Miss Lucy
Miss Mary Mac Mac Mac
Miss Suzy/Hello Operator
Mister Postman
My Country's Tired Of Me
My Doggie
My Grandpa
N
National Embalming School
O
Oh, Dear What Can The Matter Be?
Ol' Lady Leerie
The Old Grey Mare
On Top Of Spaghetti
Out Of My Tent Flap
Over Hill, Over Dale
Over There
P
Pepsi Jingle
Poor Little Fly on the Wall
Popeye
R
Ralph The Magic Seagull
Rover
Row Row Row Your Boat
S
Scab Sandwiches
School's Out
See, See Oh Playmate
She Lost Her Honor At Miami
She Sat On A Hillside
Sipping Cider Through A Straw
Snap
Snot and Pooey Pie
Soldier in the Grass
Stranded
Suffocation
Sweet Violets
T
Ta Ra Ra Boom De Ay
Take Me Out To The Graveyard
Teacher, Teacher...
The Burning Of The School
There Goes...
There Once Was A Farmer
There's A Man In My Suitcase
There's a Place in France
This Land Is My Land
Three Little Angels
Three Little Girls
The Titanic
Tom The Toad
Twelve Days of Christmas variant
Twinkle, Twinkle
U
Up A Hill
W
We Must
We Three Kings
The Weenie Man
When You're Hot
While Shepherds Washed
Whistle
Winston
Worms
Y
Yellow Submarine