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Here you will find a growing list of children's songs and nursery rhymes. If there's a song you are looking for but it's not here, contact me about it.

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Choosing a song from the list below will bring up the lyrics in the box on the right.

• - Animal fair
• - Baa baa black sheep
• - Baby bumblebee
• - Bingo
• - Brother John
• - Did you ever see a lassie?
• - Farmer in the dell
• - Five little monkeys
• - Good-bye song
• - Here we go 'round the mulberry bush
• - Head, shoulders, knees and toes
• - Hey diddle diddle
• - Hickory dickory dock
• - Hokey pokey
• - Hot cross buns
• - Humpty Dumpty
• - If you're happy and you know it
• - I know a song (everyone's nerves)
• - I'm a little teapot
• - I'm being swallowed by a boa constrictor
• - Itsy bitsy spider
• - Little Boy Blue
• - Little Bo Peep
• - Little white duck
• - London Bridge is falling down
• - Mary had a little lamb
• - Muffin man
• - Old MacDonald had a farm
• - On top of spaghetti
• - Peanut butter
• - Pease porridge hot
• - Pop! goes the weasel
• - Six little ducks
• - Take me out to the ball game
• - Ten little indians
• - The ants go marching
• - The banana boat song (Day-o)
• - The more we get together
• - This little piggie
• - This old man
• - Three blind mice
• - Twinkle, twinkle, little star
• - Row, row, row your boat
• - We'll all join in the circle
• - Where is Thumbkin?
• - Wheels on the bus

Songs

The banana boat song (Day-o)

All: Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
All: Daylight come and he wanna go home
All: Day, he say day, he say day, he say day,
All: He say day, he say day-ay-ay-o
All: Daylight come and he wanna go home

Boys: Work all night on a drink a'rum
Girls: Daylight come and he wanna go home
Boys: Stack banana till thee morning come
Girls: Daylight come and he wanna go home

Boys: Come, Mr. Tally Mon, tally me banana
Girls: Daylight come and he wanna go home
Boys: Come, Mr. Tally Mon, tally me banana
Girls: Daylight come and he wanna go home

Boys: It's six foot, seven foot, eight foot, Bunch!
Girls: Daylight come and he wanna go home
Boys: Six foot, seven foot, eight foot, Bunch!
Girls: Daylight come and he wanna go home

Boys: Day, he say day-ay-ay-o
Girls: Daylight come and he wanna go home
Boys: Day, he say day, he say day, he say day,
Boys: He say day, he say day
Girls: Daylight come and he wanna go home

Boys: A beautiful bunch a'ripe banana
Girls: Daylight come and he wanna go home
Boys: Hide thee deadly black tarantula
Girls: Daylight come and he wanna go home

Boys: It's six foot, seven foot, eight foot, Bunch!
Girls: Daylight come and he wanna go home
Boys: Six foot, seven foot, eight foot, Bunch!
Girls: Daylight come and he wanna go home

Boys: Day, he say day-ay-ay-o
Girls: Daylight come and he wanna go home
Boys: Day, he say day, he say day, he say day,
Boys: He say day, he say day
Girls: Daylight come and he wanna go home

Boys: Come, Mr. Tally Mon, tally me banana
Girls: Daylight come and he wanna go home
Boys: Come, Mr. Tally Mon, tally me banana
Girls: Daylight come and he wanna go home

All: Day-o, day-ay-ay-o
All: Daylight come and he wanna go home
All: Day, he say day, he say day, he say day,
All: He say day, he say day-ay-ay-o
All: Daylight come and he wanna go hoooome

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