Book Description
Thomas Balinger 150 Children's Songs for Guitar The big collection of children's songs, nursery rhymes and lullabies for guitar. If you like to make music for and with children and you're looking for some songs to play, this is the book for you - and with a 150 songs to choose from, it'll take some time before you run out of songs to play. All songs have been arranged for easy guitar with the beginning to intermediate player in mind. Chord diagrams are included next to each song, so you don't have to look up any chord - you can risk a quick glance even while playing. And if you don't know the melody of a particular song, don't worry: there's a melody TAB for each song to let you play the melody even if you don't read music. In the guitar player's appendix you'll find tips on tuning your guitar plus a selection of strumming and picking patterns for song accompaniment and a handy compendium of basic guitar chords. Songs: 1. 99 Bottles 2. A-Hunting we will go 3. Alice the camel 4. All night, all day 5. All the pretty little horses 6. All through the night 7. Alouette 8. Amazing grace 9. Animal fair 10. A-tisket, a-tasket 11. Aura Lee 12. Away in a manger 13. Baa, baa, black sheep 14. Bill Grogan's goat 15. Bingo 16. Bluebird, Bluebird 17. Bobby Shafto 18. Boys and girls, come out to play 19. Brahms' Lullaby 20. Brother John 21. Bye, baby bunting 22. Camptown races 23. Christmas is coming 24. Clementine 25. Cock a doodle do 26. Crawdad song 27. Down by the station 28. Do your ears hang low? 29. Five fat turkeys 30. Five little ducks 31. Five little speckled frogs 32. Georgie Porgie ... 43. He's got the whole world in his hands 44. Hey, diddle, diddle 45. Hickety, pickety, my black hen 46. Hickory dickory dock 47. Hot cross buns 48. Humpty Dumpty 49. Hush, little baby 50. If all the world were paper 51. If you're happy 52. I had a little nut tree 53. I love little kitty 54. It's raining, it's pouring 55. Itsy-bitsy spider 56. Jack and Jill 57. Jack be nimble 58. Jack Sprat 59. Jingle Bells 60. J. J. J. Schmidt 61. Joshua fit the battle of Jericho 62. Kum ba yah 63. Lavender's blue ... 82. My Bonnie lies over the ocean 83. Nobody likes me 84. O holy night 85. Oh, Susanna 86. Oh were, oh where has my little dog gone? 87. Old King Cole 88. Old MacDonald had a farm 89. Old mother Hubbard 90. One elephant went out 91. One, two, buckle my shoe 92. One, two, three, four, five 93. Over in the meadow 94. Over the river 95. Pat-a-cake 96. Pease porridge hot 97. Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater 98. Polly put the kettle on 99. Polly wolly doodle 100. Pop goes the weasel 101. Punchinello 102. Pussy-cat, Pussy-cat 103. Rain, rain go away 104. Ride a cock-horse 105. Ring around the rosy 106. Rock-a-bye, baby 107. Row, row, row 108. Rub-a-dub-dub 109. Scarborough Fair 110. See-saw, Margery Daw 111. She'll be coming round the mountain 112. Silent night 113. Simple Simon 114. Sing a song of sixpence 115. Six little ducks 116. Skip to my Lou 117. Sleep, baby, sleep 118. Star light, star bright 119. Sweetly sings the donkey 120. Teddy bear 121. Ten green bottles 122. Ten in a bed 123. Ten little Indians 124. The alphabet song 125. The ants go marching ... 140. Three little kittens 141. To market, to market 142. Tom Dooley 143. Toyland 144. Twinkle, twinkle little Star 145. Wee Willi Winkie 146. We wish you a merry Christmas 147. What shall we do with the drunken sailor 148. When the saints go marchin' in 149. Winkum, winkum 150. Yankee Doodle
