Do you know "Old MacDonald Had a Farm"? Or "The Frog Went A'Courting"? Or "Yankee Doodle"? These are folk songs. Foik songs are songs that are made up by common people. Many folk songs tell about...
Sea Shell, Sea Shell
Sing of the things you know so well. Sea Shell by Amy Lowell Sea Shell, Sea Shell, Sing me a song, 0 please! A song of ships, and sailormen, And parrots, and tropical trees, Of islands lost in...
A Kite
author unknown I often sit and wish that I Could be a kite up in the sky, And ride upon the breeze and go Whichever way I chanced to blow. by Christina Rossetti Who has seen the wind? Neither...
Sing a Song of Subways
by Eve Merriam Sing a song of subways, Never see the sun; Four-and-twenty people In room for one. When the doors are opened--- Everybody run. Rudolph Is Tired of the City by Gwendolyn Brooks ...
J’s the Jumping Jay-Walker
by Phyllis McGinley J's the jumping Jay-walker, A sort of human jeep. He crosses where the lights are red. Before he looks, he'll leap! Then many a wheel Begins to squeal, And many a brake to...
Thaw
> by Eunice Tietjens The snow is soft, and how it squashes! > "Galumph, galumph!" go my galoshes. "Thumbs in the thumb-place, Fingers all together!" This is the song We sing in mitten-weather....
Sing a Song of Sixpence
Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rye; Four and twenty blackbirds Baked in a pie. When the pie was opened, The birds began to sing; Was not that a dainty dish To set before the king? The...
