Forgotten Children’s Songs - Guitalele Songbook for Beginners with Tabs and Chords

Forgotten Children’s Songs - Guitalele Songbook for Beginners with Tabs and Chords
If in the book "50 Timeless Children Songs with Tabs and Chords," we presented the 50 most popular children's songs of today's era. But in this book, "Forgotten Children's Songs," we presented 40 children's songs that were popular around 1880.

We immediately notice that the repertoire of songs from those days is quite different from a set of modern children's folk songs. But this is not surprising. Most of these children's songs, such as "Mary Had a Little Lamb," "Humpty Dumpty," "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," and the like, most likely got their final shape right in the mid-1800s.

William Wells Newell (1839–1907), a folklorist, the founder of the American Folklore Society, collected the most popular children's songs on his travels in the United States. In the book "Games and Songs of American Children" from 1884, we notice songs that are hardly sung by today's children. At the time of publication of this book, "Forgotten Children's Songs," we do not find most of these songs even on almighty Youtube.

The other half of the songs in this book are songs that were once so popular that we find them in almost every old book. But nowadays they have almost disappeared from children's games. There are, of course, several reasons for the loss of popularity.

Former educational songs became almost banned in modern education. We avoid, for example, mentioning acts of violence, such as the once-daily hunt in the song "Hare and Hunter." For example, we avoid former worldviews, like "What care we for gold or silver?". Nowadays, we can hardly imagine a child singing "I'm glad I am a farmer." It is better not to talk at all about old archetypal ballads that do not correspond to our advertised notion of modern life. And so on.

In short, before us is a new book of slightly older but once most popular children's songs that portray the world in a slightly different way.

Book benefits
Collection of 40 once most popular, but nowadays forgotten old-time children's songs.
Suitable for parents and children.
With a melody in standard notation and tablature, chord diagrams, and lyrics.
Included free, online audio tracks for all songs, with solo and basic chord changes.
Suitable for playing solo melodies, accompaniment of singing with chords, and playing in a duet.
Suitable for use with other books for guitar, guitalele, mandolin, Cigar Box Guitar, baritone ukulele, and tenor banjo from the same book collection.
Songs from the Forgotten Children’s Songs
Aiken Drum
Beautiful Sea
Bobby Shafto's Gone to Sea
Ding, Dong, Bell
Dance, Thumbkin, Dance
Do, Do, Pity my Case
Frog Went a-Courting
Frog Pond
Go Round and Round the Valley
Green Gravel
Hare and Hunter
Here Comes a Lusty Wooer
King William was a King James's Son
I'll Give to You a Paper of Pins
If All The World Were Paper
Little Harry Huges and the Duke's Daughter
Lazy Mary
Natural History
My Pretty Maid
Oranges and Lemons
Paul's Steeple
Poor Dog Bright
Rosalind
The Farmer
Soldier, Soldier, Will You Marry Me
The Four Presents
The Jolly Tester
The Little Woman
The Little Bird
The Old Man Clothed in Leather
The Old Man in the Wood
The Old Woman of Norwich
The Plough Boy In Luck
There She Stands, a Lovely Creature
Three Children Sliding on the Ice
What Care We for Gold or Silver
When I Was a Shoemaker
Which Way Does the Wind Blow
Who'll Be the Binder
Ye Jolly Miller