What are some Folk songs for children that were written in the 1700-1800′s?
February 122010
I need to find some songs, or a song that was often played or written in colonial America. Circa 1750-1850. The song preferably needs to be a kids song. I was thinking Yankee doodle, but I can’t find what year that song was written. Some one help please!
Row, row, row your boat is English from the early 1500s.
Lavender blue is another really old one.
This Website has compiled hundreds of songs by time period and country this link is to America, scan down to the patriotic songs for yankee doodle – the notes next to the lyrics include the information about when and who wrote the song (1750): http://www.contemplator.com/america/index.html
Good luck
February 13th, 2010 at 2:24 am
It was actually a song sung by the British, just so you know. Created around the 1770s. It was an old traditional English tune, and the words were parodying the unsophisicated Americans that they were not too keen on.
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February 13th, 2010 at 3:11 am
Row, row, row your boat is English from the early 1500s.
Lavender blue is another really old one.
This Website has compiled hundreds of songs by time period and country this link is to America, scan down to the patriotic songs for yankee doodle – the notes next to the lyrics include the information about when and who wrote the song (1750): http://www.contemplator.com/america/index.html
Good luck
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BA in History
February 13th, 2010 at 3:33 am
Ring around the Rosie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_around_the_rosie
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February 13th, 2010 at 4:05 am
When we were little back in the 1960′s we would sing nursery rhymes and this was what we learn as young children" Georgie porgie pudding and pie ,kissed the girls and made them cry " "Three blind mice, Jack and Jill went up the hill , Ring a ring of Rosie’s a pocket full of poises . All the rhymes were like chinese whispers apparently three blind mice dates back to the cruel Queen Bloody Mary who had her enemies or protestants burned at the stake , back in that time in history many people could not read let alone write so the rhymes were made up to communicate the news of what was happening in the cities to tell in a simple form in rhyme the latest bit of headlines. Ring a ring of rosie’s was about the plague they are sometime various different versions but that is basically where the rhymes originated.
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