Singing Games

Traditional Folk Dances & songs, mainly for children with sheet music.

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	INTRODUCTION The singing games in this collection were previously pub­lished in a small booklet called "Singing Games, Old and New". All of these singing games are of Scandinavian source, principally Danish, and many were recorded by Georg Bidstrup, who as a child growing up in Denmark, started to play them at the age of six. He brought them with him when he came to the John C. Campbell Folk School in 1926 to take charge of the School farm. Here they proved so popular that they have become a permanent part of the recreation program which has spread throughout our Southern Highlands. Twenty Danish folk dances comprise Part II. Some of these dances Georg Bidstrup brought with him in 1926; others were collected in Denmark in the summers of 1936 and 1939. It is hoped that they will meet the need for more advanced material. Marguerite Butler Bidstrup.