Smithsonian Folkways Children's Music Collection (CD)

26 songs, play-party games, and poems, selected from the vast Smithsonian Folkways collections, present a panorama of music performed for and by young children. The included booklet provides notes, song texts, and an essential list of recordings for children.

Contents:

• Riding In My Car (Woody Guthrie)
• Mary Mack (Ella Jenkins)
• All Around the Kitchen (Pete Seeger)
• Ha-ha This-a-way (Lead Belly)
• Merrily We Roll Along (Lord Invader with the Calypso Orchestra)
• Miwoe Nenyo (W.K. Amoaku)
• Pole Pole (Ella Jenkins)
• Dreams and Youth (Langston Hughes)
• Why Oh Why (Woody Guthrie)
• I Had a Rooster (Pete Seeger)
• Oksn (Ruth Rubin)
• Sur le Pont D'Avignon (Alan Mills)
• Benjamin Franklin (jump rope rhyme - Illinois School Children)
• Los Pollitos/The Chicks (Suni Paz)
• Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (Ella Jenkins)
• ABC's ( Ella Jenkins)
• Animal Alphabet Song (Alan Mills)
• Whoopie Ti Yi Yo (Cisco Houston)
• A La Vibora de la Mar/Serpent of the Sea (Mexican Children)
• Wolf Song and Turtle Song (Irene Poolaw)
• Bedbug (Arna Bontemps)
• Skip to My Lou and 4 Pence a Day (Pete Seeger)
• Hey Coal Miner (Larry Long and Mrs. Side's 6th grade class)
• Among the Little White Daisies (Jean Ritchie)
• Old Bell Cow (New Lost City Ramblers)
• One Grain of Sand (excerpt - Pete Seeger)