What the Children Sing - online songbook

Sheet Music & Lyrics for 100+ Of The Most Popular Nursery Songs, Rhymes & Games. With The Traditional Tunes.

Harmonised By Alfred Moffat, Published By Augener Ltd, London, Circa 1915

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About This Book

ALL the most popular Nursery Rhymes are here collected together in one book, and the traditional or best known tunes have been chosen and harmonised in a maimer easily playable and within the voice compass of the little singers. A great many of the tunes make excel­lent dance music, while many of the songs can also be performed in costume with the greatest effect. The principal object of this book, however, is to pro­vide a collection—not from an academical point of view, but one which contains nothing but the really best known rhymes and songs. It is hoped they will help to revive the beautiful old practice of mothers singing with their children, thereby inculcating at an early age the sense of music, and instilling a love for the beautiful old British Folk-Songs.

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What the Children Sing, Index Page
Deduct 100 from the numbers show to get the original page numbers from the book.
Front Cover
Title Page
CONTENTS
INDEX
PREFACE
Jack and Jill, Sing a song of sixpence - 0101
Hey diddle diddle, Ding dong bell - 0102
A fox went out in a hungry plight - 0103
Three children sliding on the ice, Oh where, is my little dog gone - 0104
London Bridge is broken down, Dr. Faustus was a good man - 0105
There was a little man - 0106
A frog he would a wooing go - 0107
0 dear sixpence, Little Jack Horner - 0108
Lavender's blue, Pat-a-cake - 0109
Oranges and lemons - 0110
Hark ! Hark ! the dogs do bark, The King of France - 0111
Pussy cat, pussy cat, Dame get up and bake your pies - 0112
Sing Ivy, See saw, Marjorie Daw - 0113
The craw's killed the poussie, 0! - 0114
The babes in the wood - 0115
Goosey, goosey, gander, Bye, Baby Bunting - 0116
Polly put the kettle on, A was an archer - 0117
Oh ! dear, what can the matter be - 0118
Mary had a little lamb...... - 0119
When the snow is on the ground - 0120
Old King Cole - 0121
Little Bo-peep, The spider and the fly - 0122
Page - 0123
Robinson Crusoe - 0124
Little Boy Blue, There came to my window - 0125
Mistress Bond, The mulberry bush - 0126
There was an old woman tossed up in a basket - 0127
The Carrion Crow - 0128
My daddy and mammy are Irish, I saw three ships come sailing by - 0129
Georgy-Porgy, Curly locks - 0130
To-morrow the fox will come to town - 0131
The man in the moon, If all the world were paper - 0132
Mary, Mary, quite contrary, A ring o' roses - 0133
Lady bird, lady bird, Baa! Baa! Black sheep - 0134
Little jumping Joan, I have a little pony - 0135
Cock-a-doodle-doo!, The North wind does blow - 0136
Come lasses and lads - 0137
Three blind mice, There was an old woman as I've heard tell - 0138
Dance a Baby Diddy, Ride a cock-horse - 0139
This pig went to market, Doctor Foster went to Gloster - 0140
Four & twenty tailors, Hey diddle dumpling, my son John - 0141
Twinkle, twinkle, little star, Good King Arthur - 0142
Girls and boys come out to play, Young lambs to sell - 0143
The lion and the unicorn, 0 all you little blacky-tops - 0144
Page - 0145
Over the hills and far away, What are little boys made of - 0146
Wee Willie Winkie, Lucy Locket - 0147
Little Polly Flinders, Jack Spratt - 0148
The old woman who lived in a shoe, Dickory, dickory, dock - 0149
Nuts in May, Three wise men of Gotham - 0150
I love little pussy, I had a little nut tree - 0151
There was a man of Thessaly, Cock-robin - 0152
Little Miss Muffet, Old Mother Hubbard - 0153
Lazy sheep, pray tell me why'? - 0154
Little Tom Tucker, Rub-a-dub-dub, three men in a tub - 0155
Humpty Duinptv, There was a crooked man - 0156
The three little kittens - 0157
Hot cross buns, A little cock sparrow - 0158
Dance to your daddy, Simple Simon - 0159
Buy a broom - 0160
Where are you going to, my pretty maid, The jolly miller - 0161
Yankee doodle - 0162
Three mice went into a hole to spin - 0163
Hush-a-by baby, Sleep, baby, sleep - 0164