Children's songs Children's songs "ABC-DEF-GHI" is a song sung by Big Bird of Sesame Street. It is also erroneously known as "Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz." ...more on Wikipedia about "ABC-DEF-GHI"
All Through the Night was the fourth commercially released solo single by singer Cyndi Lauper. Although it did not chart as highly as previous singles, it is still considered by many to be a classic of the era and continues to be covered by a variety of artists as recently as a June 2005 version by singer Tori Amos. It charted in the top 100 in 10 countries including: #1 in Sweden and in Colombia; #5 in Austria, Chile and the United States; #10 in Canada; #16 in Switzerland; #17 in Austrailia; #19 in New Zealand; #35 in Germany; and #64 in the United Kingdom. It peaked at #5 on Billboard Hot 100, and is one of Lauper's most recognized ballads. In Brazil, the song hit #1, as did Girls and Time After Time. ...more on Wikipedia about "All Through the Night (Cyndi Lauper song)"
Alouette is a popular children's song about plucking a bird. Although it is in French, it is well known among speakers of other languages; in this way it is similar to Frère Jacques. It usually involves audience participation, with the audience echoing every line of each verse after the verse's second line. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alouette (song)"
"And the cat came back" (also known as "The cat came back") is a popular children's song, written by Harry S. Miller, in 1893. The story is a comedy, telling a silly tale about a man who had a cat that he didn't want, and when he tried to get rid of the cat the cat kept coming back. It was also used as the basis for the 1988 short animated film The Cat Came Back by Cordell Barker. ...more on Wikipedia about "And the Cat Came Back"
The song circle circle, dot dot is a playground song that supposedly serves to immunize a child from the affliction of cooties. The words are as follows: ...more on Wikipedia about "Circle Circle, Dot Dot"
:This article is about the street in London; Drury Lane is also the name of a well-known theatre on that street and of a fictional detective created by Ellery Queen writing as Barnaby Ross. ...more on Wikipedia about "Drury Lane"
Five Green and Speckled Frogs (also recorded as "Five Speckled Frogs" and "Five Little Speckled Frogs") is a popular children's song and nursery rhyme sung in many daycare centers. It is also often sung to babies when they are learning how to swim, in "parent and tot" swim classes. In this context it is usually sung as the children first enter the pool, and the number "five" is adjusted to match the number of children in the swim class. ...more on Wikipedia about "Five Green and Speckled Frogs"
Forever Young is a song from 1986, written by Dean and Carol Parks, and performed by the latter. It is heard in the final six minutes of the 1986 animated film The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation, whose soundtrack it was written for. ...more on Wikipedia about "Forever Young (Care Bears song)"
"Found a Peanut" is a children's song, popularly sung on road trips. ...more on Wikipedia about "Found a Peanut"
"If You're Happy and You Know It" is a popular children's song, or nursery rhyme, credited to songwriter Alfred B. Smith c. 1916. It has, like many familiar childhood cantations, been altered in various ways over the years for various uses, particularly as political rags. ...more on Wikipedia about "If You're Happy and You Know It"
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt is a traditional children's song of obscure origin. Its lyrics are: ...more on Wikipedia about "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt"
K-I-S-S-I-N-G is the (assumed) name of a playground song. It really only achieves its desired effect, embarrassment, when sung among children. The embarrassment is derived from the prospect of contact between a boy and a girl, thereby infecting both with cooties. It goes something like this: ...more on Wikipedia about "K-I-S-S-I-N-G"
*"Good Morning Starshine" from the musical Hair ...more on Wikipedia about "List of songs on the Kidz Bop albums"
"Old McDonald Had a Farm" is a children's song about a farmer named McDonald and the various animals he keeps on his farm. Each verse of the song is the same, with only the name of an animal and its respective animal noise being changed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Old McDonald Had a Farm" Fast shortopedia shortopedia
Skip to My Lou is a popular children's song ...more on Wikipedia about "Skip To My Lou"
The Farmer in the Dell, is a song that children sing. It tells the story of a farmer in a dell who takes a wife, who takes a child, who takes a nurse, etc, until finally a rat takes a cheese, and the cheese "stands alone". ...more on Wikipedia about "The Farmer in the Dell"
"The Song That Never Ends" (variantly known as "The Song That Doesn't End") is a self-referential and infinitely recursive children's song of uncertain origin, possibly written in the United States in the early 20th century. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Song That Never Ends"
"The Titanic" (also known as "It Was Sad When That Great Ship Went Down" and "Titanic (Husbands and Wives)") is a folk song and children's song most known for being sung in the United States at summer camp. "The Titanic" is based on the sinking of the RMS Titanic which sank on April 15, 1912 after striking an iceberg. There are several regional variations on the song. According to Newman I. White's 1928 book American Negro Folk-Songs, "The Titanic" has been traced back to 1915 or 1916 in Hackleburg, Alabama. Other versions from around 1920 are documented in the Frank C. Brown Collection at Duke University in North Carolina. The earliest known recording, titled "When That Great Ship Went Down", is from August 1927 and recorded by William and Versey Smith in Chicago, Illinois. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Titanic (song)"
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