Songs Games And Rhymes
For The Nursery, Kindergarten & Primary School

More than 200 songs with lyrics & Sheet music By Eudora Lucas Hailmann
Includes Christian Hymns & Inspirational Songs.

Published By Milton Bradley Company Copyright 1887

About This Book
To parents, kindergarteners, and primary teachers, these songs and games are presented with the hope that they will in some measure satisfy the demand for a wholesome, elevating kind of music, and for words suited to the thoughts and feelings of very young children. The cultivation of the music sense should begin in earliest childhood, but like all begin­nings the task is both difficult and delicate. If 'it be neglected during the first few years, it is scarcely possible to re-arouse it. To meet this need in earliest infancy is the justification for the hand and finger games contained in this book. The infant's cry for suitable physical en­vironment adapted to his delicate organization, is no more imperative than his restless, ner­vous appeal for simple, intellectual and emotional means of self-activity. It is at this period that the bent of the musical nature is determined, a nature in which all the phases of being are in active efficient harmony, attuned to sympathetic responsiveness. The cultivation of the feelings at an early age, is therefore of the greatest importance, and no one agent is so eifective as appropriate music and suitable words.

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Frontispiece Title Page Copyright Notice Preface Preface Up to us sweet child-hood looketh - 0103 Father, help each little child, Father, we thank Thee - 0104 Gentle Jesus, meek and mild - 0105 Merry, happy little children - 0106 Good morning, pleasant Sunshiue, When the morning sun so bright - 0107 How we love our kindergarten - 0108 Another day has now begun, Good morning, play-mate's - 0109 We are merry children - 0110 God made the sun, Now come, let us play - 0111 All things bright and beautiful, God is always near me - 0112 Our play-time now is over - 0113 -lis twelve o'clock - 0114 Farewell, work, and farewell, play. - 0115 Forward, homeward, Our work is done, The season's work is over - 0116 A fair little girl sat under a tree, All good-night - 0117 Wearily at day-light's close. - 0118 A little child to us has sped, - 0119 Jolly old St. Nicholas, Now welcome to the new-born year, - 0120 The spring is come - 0121 Ring, kling, ling, ling - 0122 Spring the early blossoms bringeth - 0123 Sing we all merrily - 0124 I'm very glad the spring is come. - 0125 Holy Christmas time. - 0126 On the green and swelling moss-bank, - 0127 Come, little leaves, said the wind - 0128 When the frosty fall approaches - 0129 Good bye to old winter, The north wind doth blow - 0130 Little Jack Frost - 0131 Old winter is a sturdy one. - 0132 Sprinkle, gentle rain, This is the way sunshine comes down - 0133 Listen, listen! It seems to me - 0134 Page - 0135 Oh, see the snow, the falling snow - 0136 The thirsty earth one summer day - 0137 Oh, how hot! no cooling breeze - 0138 Page - 0139 Page - 0140 Page - 0141 Merry, little snowflakes. - 0142 Smiling in the valley. - 0143 I am the wind, - 0144 Ev'ry little flow'ret, In the tall boughs on the tree top - 0145 Little birdie, Bird built a nest, Who taught the bird to build - 0146 Birdies in the greenwood. - 0147 Good bye, good bye to summer. - 0148 Little bird, you are welcome - 0149 We open now our pigeon-house - 0150 See our pretty birdie fly - 0151 Two robin redbreasts in their nests - 0152 See the chickens round tne gate - 0153 Little bird, little bird, come to me, Oh say, busy bee - 0154 Come, come, my pretty Fido - 0155 I love little Kitty,Pussy, where have you been - 0156 Run,run! Oh, what jolly fun, The merry mice stay in their holes - 0157 Lazy sheep, pray tell us why - 0158 Page - 0159 Taddy Pole and Polly wog,Thank you, pretty cow - 0160 See, how the lively fishes swim, Merry frogs are blithe and gay - 0161 The snail he lives. - 0162 Baby bye, here's a fly - 0163 The fragrant flowers are bright and gay - 0164 We are little busy bees - 0165 Among the green leaves, V-v-v-v-v-v - 0166 The spring has callebTus - 0167 I'm a pretty little thing - 0168 Good bye, daisy, pink and rose - 0169 Timid, blue-eyed flower - 0170 Cherries ripe, cherries ripe. - 0171 I am a sturdy farmer, Let me learn a busy trade, - 0172 Sparks the charcoal throws - 0173 I am a cooper, Let us now begin our sawing - 0174 Page - 0175 Zish, zish, zish - 0176 Page - 0177 Wand'ring up and down - 0178 Page - 0179 See the blacksmith so active and brawny - 0180 Old coats to mend - 0181 Johnny is now old enough. - 0182 Johnny is a merry boy - 0183 Miller, have you naught for grinding,See our cards all in a row - 0184 I am a builder. - 0185 End to end the bricks we lay, I'm trying my papers to sell - 0186 Weave, children weave. - 0187 See the cheerful postman coming - 0188

Now we've had our merry play,We have put our work away - 0189 I'd like to have a partner - 0190 One by one we march along - 0191 Children go to and fro - 0192 Millers, near this babbling rill, Merrily, let us form a ring - 0193 Rippling, purling little river - 0194 One by one, one by one - 0195 Round and round we're slowly winding - 0196 Hand in hand you see us - 0197 March like gallant soldiers - 0198 Page - 0199 Page - 0200 Page - 0201 Page - 0202 Page - 0203 Page - 0204 Our stately ship moves on,We lightly skip on tip toe. - 0205 We're playing at railway - 0206 Page - 0207 Children, quick, make speed, Let's stand on the corner - 0208 Look at our teacher, Rhythmic measure gives us pleasure. - 0209 Let the feet go tramp - 0210 The mill by the rivulet evermore sounds - 0211 See the wind-mill how it goes, We all have found - 0212 The wind must blow to turn - 0213 See the neat little clock - 0214 Page - 0215 Run, little rivulet run - 0216 Great big steeple clocks say, Tick tock, tick tock - 0217 Come, dance and be gay, My ball, Willie, Willie come to me. - 0218 Ding dong, come along, Go thither,Little bird hops in the nest. - 0219 The little frogs hop in the pond. - 0220 Let's have a game with little ball,Our balls move round - 0221 The bell does toll, Up, up, in the Sky - 0222 Baby is a sailor boy.. - 0223 Hands shall heavy millstones be, I am a little gardener. - 0224 The little ball lies in my hand (2) - 0225 Darling little fingers, Good morning, good morning, dear etc, - 0226 Dance, little Thumbkin, Mama, kind and dear,Two hands I have. - 0227 Chickie, Five little white mice,This little piggy went to town - 0228 Little fishes in the brook, The little cat climbs up the tree. - 0229 Five little children climb a tree, Rock-a-by, baby - 0230 The pigeon house, See saw, up and down, Shoe the old horse - 0231 Fingers tripping up and down - 0232 As the vane upon the tower, Right, left, together - 0233 I've made a basket neat and round, Two little hands I have - 0234 Baa, baa, black sheep, Busy hands are never still - 0235 Sleep, Thumbkin, sleep, Weary little fingers,Rosy my Posy - 0236 Awake! Ye little sle'epers - 0237 Twinkle, twinkle, little star - 0238 Page - 0239 Flowers, wild-wood flowers, - 0240 When little birdie - 0241 Who has the whitest lambkins. - 0242 A merry little maiden, The showers fall as softly - 0243 I saw a ship a sailing - 0244 Oh, see the shining skating pond - 0245 Lightly row, lightly row - 0246 See the trees all in a row - 0247 Oh! come now our vessel is ready - 0248 I am. a little farmer boy, I sell butter, I sell cheese - 0249 Thro' the streets and o'er the snow - 0250 Sippity sup - 0251 Wheel-barrow, wheel barrow, where etc - 0252 Over the river, and through the wood., - 0253 Dance little baby, We all go round the mulberry - 0254 I have something in my hand, Up down, Up down - 0255 Oh, how great is our pleasure - 0256 Round and round we're lightly pacing. - 0257 Round and round the mill wheels turn, Turn the wheel - 0258 Be active, Little acts of kindness, Tis a lesson you should heed - 0259 Hark! it echoes down the street - 0260 Page - 0261 Page - 0262 Page - 0263 Table Of Contents - 0264 Page - 0265 Page - 0266 Index - 0267 Page - 0268 Page - 0269