Kevin Mayhew Publishing

Editor: Kevin Mayhew
Format: Book
Instrumentation: Piano, Vocal, Guitar

Here 175 great songs for children. Nursery rhymes, folk tunes, show tunes, pop tunes, TV songs and traditional melodies -- all the favourites!

They are all in child-friendly keys, the accompaniments are easy to play and there are historical notes about the origins of the songs and some of the peculiar words!

For the teacher who wishes to keep singing at the heart of their school this book is a godsend.

For the parent who wants their child to enjoy the songs they themselves enjoyed, Songs We Always Sing is truly a treasure chest.

Song List:

• A fly and a flea
• A handful of songs
• A peanut sat on a railroad track
• A-tisket, a-tasket
• A wiggly, waggly worm
• Aeroplanes
• Agadoo
• All kinds of everything
• All things bright and beautiful
• Alouette
• Amazing grace
• And the green grass grows all around
• Announcements!
• Any dream will do
• Away in a manger
• Ballin' the jack
• Be kind to your web-footed friends
• Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo
• Bingo
• Bright eyes
• Brother, come and dance with me
• By the rivers of Babylon
• Bye, bye blackbird
• Camptown races
• Carol of the drum
• Caterpillar, caterpillar
• Chitty chitty bang bang
• Christmas alphabet
• Cobbler, Cobbler, mend my shoe
• Come and join the celebration
• Consider yourself
• Daddy wouldn't buy me a bow-wow
• Dancing Queen
• Dashing away with the smoothing iron
• Diddle, diddle dumpling
• Dingle-dangle scarecrow
• Donkey riding
• Don't worry, be happy
• Do-re-mi
• Down in the Jungle
• Down on Grandpa's farm
• Driving in our car
• Dry bones
• English country garden
• Father, I place into your hands
• Feelin' groovy
• Fingers, nose and toes song
• For he's a jolly good fellow
• Found a peanut
• From the tiny ant
• Georgie Porgie
• Give me joy in my heart
• Going over the sea
• Good King Wenceslas
• Good-bye-ee!
• Goosey, goosey, gander
• Grandma's feather bed
• Happy days are here again
• Happy Talk
• High Hopes
• Hush-a-bye, baby
• I am the music man
• I can see cherries
• I can see clearly now
• I danced in the morning
• I had a little engine
• I had a little nut tree
• I saw three ships
• I was born under a wandering star
• I went to school one morning
• I went to visit a farm one day
• I wish I was a mole
• I'd like to teach the world to sing
• I'm a nut!
• I'm late
• I'm Popeye the sailor man
• In a cottage in a wood
• In the hairy, scary castle
• It's a small world
• Jelly on the plate
• Jelly, jelly in my belly
• John Brown's baby
• King of the road
• Land of the silver birch
• Let everyone clap hands like me
• Let's twist again
• Little April shower
• Little Arabella Miller
• Little Boy Blue
• Little Donkey
• Little Jesus, sweetly sleep
• Little Peter Rabbit
• Little Rabbit Fou Fou
• Little Tommy Tucker
• Lots of worms
• Lucy Locket
• Make someone happy
• Mary's boy child
• Merrily we roll along
• Morningtown ride
• Never smile at a crocodile
• Oats, peas, beans and barley grow
• Octopus's garden
• Oh where, oh where has my little dog gone?
• Okki-tokki-unga
• Once in royal Davids city
• One elephant went out to play
• One grey elephant
• One more step along the world I go
• One of those songs
• One, two, buckle my shoe
• Open, shut them
• Pinocchio
• Pop goes the weasel
• Pull the cracker, bang!
• Que sera, sera
• Roly-poly pudding
• Round and round the garden
• Rub-a-dub-dub
• Sally go round the sun
• Santa Claus is coming to town
• Says the bee
• Seventy-six trombones
• Silent night
• Skye Boat song
• Sleigh ride
• Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah
• Strollin'
• Sur le pont d'Avignon
• Sweet gingerbread man
• Swinging on a star
• Ta-ra-ra boom-de-ay
• The animal fair
• The bare necessities
• The candy man
• The Lambeth Walk
• The Muffin Man
• The old grey mare
• The twelve days of Christmas
• The Ugly Bug Ball
• The umbrella man
• The unbirthday song
• The wonderful thing about Tiggers
• There's a worm at the bottom of my garden
• Thirty days hath September
• This is the way the farmer rides
• This little pig went to market
• Those magnificent men in their flying machines
• Three cheers for Paddington Bear
• Three little birds
• Three little kittens
• Three wheels on my wagon
• Tingalayo
• Tom, Tom, the Piper's son
• Tommy Thumb
• Tomorrow
• Underneath the spreading chestnut tree
• Wake up!
• Wash your dirty hands
• We all clap hands together
• We wish you a merry Christmas
• We're busy doing nothing
• What shall we do when we all go out?
• When I first came to this land
• When you come to the end of a lollipop
• When you wish upon a star
• Where are you going to, my pretty maid?
• Whistle while you work
• Who built the ark?
• Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?
• Will you come to my party?
• Wind the bobbin up
• Yellow Submarine
• You are my sunshine
• You can fly! You can fly! You can fly!