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The complete book of rhymes, songs, poems, fingerplays, and chants
Publisher
Gryphon House
Publication Date
[2002]
Language
English
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Introduction -- 1,2,3, -- 2,4,6,8 -- A: -- After my bath -- Aiken drum -- Air -- Alack, alack -- All about me -- All by myself -- All through the night -- Alouette -- Alphabet forward and backwards -- Alphabet song -- America the beautiful -- Anchors aweigh -- Animal fair -- Annie Mae -- Ants go marching -- Apples and bananas -- April clouds -- Are you sleeping? -- Arroro mi nino (hush now, my little one) -- Arroz con leche (rice with milk) -- As I was going to Banbury -- As I was going to sell my butter -- As I was going to St Ives -- As I was walking (in a field of wheat) -- As I was walking (near the lake) -- As I went to Bonner -- As I went up the apple tree -- As light as a feather -- Au Clair de la lune (by the light of the moon) -- Aunt Maria -- Auntie, will your dog bite? -- Autumn leaves -- B: -- Baby bear's chicken pox -- Baby bumblebee -- Baby mice -- Baby seeds -- Baker -- Barber, barber -- Bat, bat, come under my hat -- B-B-B-baby -- Be kind to your web-footed friends -- Be very quiet -- Bears eat honey -- Bear -- Bear went over the mountain -- Bed is too small -- Bees -- Betty bought a bit of butter -- Bicycle built for two -- Big and small -- Big bass drum -- Big rock candy mountain -- Big ship sailing -- Big turkey -- Billy boy -- Bingo -- Birds -- Birthday candles -- Blackberries -- Blow, wind, blow -- Bobby shaftoe -- Boom, boom, ain't it great to be crazy? -- Bounce the ball -- Bouncing ball -- Bow wow, says the dog -- Boys and girls -- Brahm's lullaby -- Bryan O'Lynn -- Buenos Dias -- Buffalo gals -- Bumblebee -- Bus -- Buttercups and daisies -- Buying a horse -- Bye baby bunting -- C: -- Cackle, cackle, Mother Goose -- Calliope song -- Can you wash your father's shirt? -- Cap, mittens, shoes, and socks -- Cat -- Catalina Magnalina -- Catch him, crow -- Caterpillar crawled -- Caterpillar -- Charlie over the ocean -- Chickery, chickery, cranny crow -- Chocolate rhyme -- Choosing a kitten -- Christmas is coming -- Clap your hands -- Clementine -- Clock -- Cloud -- Clouds -- Cobbler, cobbler -- Cock-a-doodle-doo -- Cockles and mussels -- Cock's on the housetop -- Color song -- Come and listen -- Come, butter, come -- Counting -- Cow -- Crocodile song -- Crocodile -- Cross patch -- Cuantos cuentos?/how many tales -- Curly locks -- Cushy cow Bonnie --
D: -- Daffy down dilly -- Dance a merry jig -- Dance, thumbkin, dance -- Dancing rainbows -- Deedle, deedle, dumpling -- Devonshire rhyme -- Dickery, dickery, dare -- Did you ever see a lassie? -- Did you feed my cow? -- Diller, a dollar -- Ding, dong, bell -- Dinosaurs -- Dirty old Bill -- Do your ears hang low? -- Donkey, donkey -- Donut song -- Doodlebug -- Doodle-li-do -- Dormy, dormy dormouse -- Down by the bay -- Down by the riverside -- Down by the station -- Downy duck -- Dr Foster went to Gloucester -- Dusty -- E: -- Eeny, meeny, miney, mo -- El barquito (the little boat) -- Elephant goes -- Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsey, and Bess -- Elsie Marley -- Engine, engine -- Erie Canal -- Every morning at eight o'clock -- Eye rhymes -- Eye winkler -- F: -- Family -- Family fun -- Farmer in the dell -- Father, mother, and Uncle John -- Fiddle-i-fee -- Fido -- Firefighters -- Fire, fire -- Five currant buns -- Five fingers on each hand -- Five little ducks -- Five little fingers -- Five little froggies -- Five little mice -- Five little monkeys (jumping on the bed) -- Five little monkeys (swinging from a tree) -- Five little pumpkins -- Five little sausages -- Five little snowmen -- Five little speckled frogs -- Five waiting pumpkins -- Floppy rag doll -- Flour of England, fruit of Spain -- Fly hath married the bumblebee -- Fooba wooba John -- Food song -- Found a peanut -- Four seeds -- Fox went out on a chilly night -- Frog went a-courtin' -- Froggie sat on a log -- From Wibbleton -- Frosty weather -- Fuzzy wuzzy was a bear -- G: -- Ghost of John -- Giddy up -- Go in and out the window -- Go tell Aunt Rhody -- Go to bed early -- Gobble, gobble, gobble -- Going on a bear hunt -- Gold ships -- Good morning -- Good morning, merry sunshine -- Good morning, Mrs Hen -- Good night, sleep tight -- Goosey, goosey, gander -- Grand Old Duke of York -- Grandpa's (or grandma's) glasses -- Granfa' Grig -- Gray goose and gander -- Gray squirrel -- Green cheese -- Green grass grew all around -- Green grow the rushes O -- Gregory Griggs -- H: -- Had a little rooster -- Handy pandy -- Hanky panky -- He's got the whole world in his hands -- Head, shoulders, baby -- Head and shoulders -- Hear the lively song -- Here are my ears -- Here are my eyes -- Here is a beehive -- Here is a bunny -- Here is a house -- Here is the sea -- Here sits the lord mayor -- Here we come gathering knots of may -- Here we go -- Hey, diddle, diddle, dout -- Hey, diddle diddle -- Hey, diddle dinkety poppety pet -- Hey, my name is Joe! -- Hickety, pickety, my black hen -- Hickory, dickory, dock -- Higglrty, pigglety, pop! -- High and low -- High there in the deep blue sky -- Hinx, minx -- Hipplety hop to the grocery shop -- Hokey pokey -- Home on the range -- Home, sweet home -- Horsie, horsie -- Hot cross buns! -- House that Jack built -- How go the ladies -- How many miles to Babylon? -- How much wood -- Humpty Dumpty -- Hunting we will go -- Hush, little baby -- Hush-a-bye --
I: -- I can do it myself -- I clap my hands -- I clap my hands (to make a sound) -- I eat my peas -- I had a dog -- I had a little brother -- I had a little cow -- I had a little dog -- I had a little pig -- I had a little pony (his name was dapple gray) -- I had a little pony (that trotted up and down) -- I had a loose tooth -- I have a little sister -- I have a little wagon -- I have so many parts to me -- I have something in my pocket -- I have two eyes -- I know a little puppy -- I know a little pussy -- I know something -- I like silver -- I love little pussy -- I love the mountains -- I measure myself -- I never had a dog -- I never saw a purple cow -- I saw a ship a-sailing -- I saw eight magpies -- I stand on tiptoe -- I use my brain -- I went upstairs (just like me) -- I went upstairs (to make my bed) -- I wiggle -- I wish I were -- If all the seas -- If all the world were paper -- If I had a donkey -- If I were an apple -- If wishes were horses -- If you're happy and you know it -- I'll buy you a tartan bonnet -- I'm a choo-choo train -- I'm a frozen icicle -- I'm a jack-o-lantern -- I'm a little acorn brown -- I'm a little Dutch girl -- In a cabin in the woods -- In a cottage in fife -- In marble walls -- Inside out -- It rains, it blows -- It's raining -- Itsy bitsy spider -- I've been working on the railroad -- I've got sixpence -- J: -- Jack and Jill -- Jack-a-nory -- Jack be nimble -- Jack Frost -- Jack-in-the-box -- Jack-in-the-box (oh, so still) -- Jack, Jack -- Jack-o-lantern -- Jack Sprat -- Jaybird, jaybird -- Jelly on the plate -- Jennie Jenkins -- Jim along Josie -- Jingle bells / Casca beles -- John Brown's baby -- John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt -- Johnny Appleseed -- Johnny works with one hammer -- Juba this and juba that -- Jumping Joan -- K: -- Knock at the door -- Kookaburra -- Kumbaya -- L: -- Ladybug! ladybug! -- Last night, the night before -- Lavender's blue -- Lazy Mary -- Leg over leg -- Let's be friends by Jackie Silberg -- Let's go to the wood -- Little Arabella Miller -- Little ball -- Little Betty blue -- Little Bo peep -- Little boy blue -- Little fishes in a brook -- Little green frog -- Little hunk of tin -- Little Jack Horner -- Little King Pippin -- Little maid, little maid -- Little Miss Muffet -- Little Miss Tucket -- Little mouse -- Little mousie -- Little Nancy Etticoat -- Little poll parrot -- Little red apple -- Little red caboose -- Little red wagon -- Little robin red breast -- Little sir echo -- Little skunk's hole -- Little squirrel -- Little Tommy Tinker -- Little Tommy Tittlemouse -- Little Tommy Tucker -- Little white rabbit -- London bridge -- Looby loo -- Los pollitos -- Lucy locket -- M: -- Make a pancake -- Make new friends /amigos -- Man in the moon (came down too soon) -- Man in the moon (looked out of the moon) -- Man in the wilderness -- Mary Ann, Mary Ann -- Mary had a little lamb -- Mary, Mary -- Matthew, Mark, Luke and John -- Me and you -- Merry are the bells -- Merry ma Tanzie -- Merry sunshine -- Michael Finnegan -- Michael, row the boat ashore -- Milkman, milkman -- Miss Mary Mack -- Miss Polly had a dolly -- Mister sun -- Monday's child -- Moon shines bright -- More me get together -- Moses supposes -- Mother, may I -- Mr Noboby -- Mr Turkey -- Muffin man -- Mulberry bush -- My apple -- My big balloon -- My bike -- My Bonnie lies over the ocean -- My dog rags -- My eyes can see -- My father is extremely tall -- My father owns a butcher shop -- My favorite toys -- My grandfather's clock -- My hand on myself -- My hat, it had three corners -- My head -- My little sister -- My mama told me -- My old hen's a good old hen -- My shadow -- N: -- North wind doth blow -- Nose, nose, jolly red nose -- Now we are gathering nuts in may -- Nut tree -- O: -- Oats, peas, beans, and barley grow -- Oh, dear, what can the matter be? -- Oh, how lovely is the evening -- Oh, the mighty King of France -- Oh, rare Harry Parry -- Oh, you can't get to heaven -- Old Dan Tucker -- Old gray cat -- Old gray mare -- Old King Cole -- Old MacDonald had a farm -- Old Mother Goose -- Old Mother Hubbard -- Old woman -- Old woman's pie -- Oliver Twist (can you do this?) -- Oliver Twist (couldn't do this) -- On a dark, dark night -- On Saturday night -- Once I saw a little bird -- One dark and stormy night -- One elephant -- One finger, one thumb, keep moving -- One for the money -- One for the mouse -- One misty, moisty, morning -- One old oxford ox -- One potato, two potato -- One to make ready -- One, two -- One, two, three, four -- One, two, three, four, five -- One's none -- Open, shut them -- Over in the meadow -- O, Susanna -- Over the river and through the wood -- Owl and the pussycat --
P:
Pat-a-cake
Pawpaw patch
Peanut butter
Peanut sitting on a railroad track
Peas porridge hot
Peter Piper
Pettitoes
Pie sat on a pear tree
Pinkety, pinkety
Pipe, cat
Point to the right
Polly put the kettle on
Polly wolly doodle
Pop! Goes the weasel
Porridge is bubbling
Pretty butterfly
Pretty maid, pretty maid
Puddin' n' tame
Punchinello
Puppet clown
Puppies and kittens
Pussy at the fireside
Pussy cat
Pussy cat ate the dumplings
Pussy cat mew
Pussycat, pussycat
Q:
Queen of Hearts
R:
Rain
Rain (on the green grass)
Rain (splish, splash)
Rain, rain, go away
Raindrop song
Rat-a-tat-tat
Red dress
Red River Valley
Red, white, and blue
Ride a cockhorse to Banbury cross
Rig-a-jig-jig
Rindle, randle
Ring around the Rosie
River
Robert Rowley rolled a round
Robin and Richard
Rockabye, baby
Rock-a-bye, they cradle is green
Rock-a-my-soul
Rose is red, the violet's blue
Roses are red
Round and round
Round and round the garden
Round the maypole
Row, row, row your boat
S:
Sailing, sailing
Sailor went to sea
Sally go round the sun
Sam, Sam
Say and touch
Say, say, my playmate
Scarborough fair
Seasons
Secret
See a pin
See-saw, Margery Daw
See-saw, Millie McGraw
See saw, sacradown
September blow soft
She is handsome
She sells seashells
She waded in the water
She'll be comin' round the mountain
Shoo fly
Short'nin'bread
Simple gifts
Simple Simon
Sing a song of sixpence
Sing, sing
Sippin' cider through a straw
Sippity sup, sippity sup
Six little snowmen
Six white ducks
Skidamarink
Skip to my Lou
Sleep, baby, sleep
Slip on your raincoat
Slippery soap
Slowly, slowly
Smiling girls
Snail
Snail, snail
Snow, snow, fly away
Snowman
Snowman (as round as a ball)
Soda bread
Solomon Grundy
Sometimes
Spring is coming
Spring is showery
Squirrel
Star light, star bright
Star spangled banner
Stop, look, and listen
Stretching chant
Stretching fun
Sur le pont d'avignon
Susie Moriar
Swim little fishie
Swing
T:
Take me out to the ball game
Taps
Teacher, teacher
Teddy bear, teddy bear
Teeter totter
Ten in the bed
Ten little fingers
Terrific toes
Thank you
There once was a queen
There once was a sow
There once was a turtle
There was a bee-eye-ee-eye-ee
There was a crooked man
There was a little boy
There was a little girl
There was a maid on Scrabble Hill
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly
There was an old woman, and what do you think?
There was an old woman (lived under some stairs)
There was an old woman (tossed up in a basket)
There was an old woman (who lived under a hill)
There were three cooks of Colebrook
There were three jovial huntsmen
There's a hole in the middle of the sea
There's a hole in the bucket
These are mother's knives and forks
They that wash on Monday
Thirty days hath September
This is the church
This is the way we wash our face
This little doggie
This little finger
This little hand
This little light of mine
This little pig
This little piggy
This little snail
This old man
Three jolly gentlemen
Three little kittens
Three little witches
Three men in a tub
Three wise men of Gotham
Thumbkin, pointer
Thunderstorm
Tidy up
Time to pick up
Tiny seeds
Tiny Tim
Tippety tin
Tisket, a tasket
To market, to market
Today is a birthday!
Tom, Tom
Tommy thumbs
Tooty ta
Toys away
Turtle
Twenty white horses
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
Twister of twists
Two crows
Two in the middle
Two little blackbirds
Two little dogs
Two little houses
Two sticks and an apple
U:
Un, deux, trois
Under the spreading chestnut tree
Uno, dos, y tres
Unwind the thread
Up in the green orchard
Up the wooden hill
Up to the ceiling
Upstairs, downstairs
V:
Vintery, mintery, cutery, corn
W:
Wake up, Jack-in-the-box
Wake up, Jacob
Walk one day
Warm hands
Wash the dishes
Way down south
Way down yonder
We can
We wish you a Merry Christmas
Wee Willie Winkie
What do you see?
What the animals say
What'll I do with my baby-o?
Wheels on the bus
When ducks get up in the morning
When I was one
When I was young
When Jack's a very good boy
When that I was but a little tiny boy
Where do you wear your ears?
Where is thumbkin?
Where, oh, where has my little dog gone?
Whether the weather
White coral bells
Who is that singing?
Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar?
Whoops, Johnny
Whose little pigs
Willoby wallaby woo
Willy boy, Willy boy, where are you going?
Wind
Wind (blows high)
Wind (swoosh, swirl)
Wind the bobbin
Window watching
Windshield wiper
Wine and cakes for gentlemen
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod
X:
X,Y, and tumbledown Z
Y:
Yankee Doodle
Yellow rose of Texas
Yorkshire lullabye
You're a grand old flag
Z:
Zoom, zoom, zoom
Zum gali gali
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