World Around Songs
Pocket Songbooks For All Occasions ~ For almost 100 years!
American & International Folk songs ~ Contemporary Songs ~ Humorous Songs ~Work Songs
Carols ~ Rounds ~ Spirituals ~ Hymns ~ Canons
Welcome to World Around Songs!
We began as the Cooperative Recreation Service in the 1930's, collecting folk songs, dances, and games from all over the world into our handy little pocket-sized books. We have been pioneers in the development of the folk revival and the popularization of the recreation movement world wide. Our booklets have been used extensively by folk societies, camps, music educators, and anyone who loves to sing. We invite you to explore our fascinationg collection of pocket-sized booklets - a perfect fit in your back pocket or instrument case.
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Handy Play Party Book
W-HPP..... $20.00
128 Pages, 93 Play Parties
A deluxe edition of a bona fide classic. Play parties are simple dances accompanied only by the singing of the dancers. They were an important part of North American pioneer culture, and they can still be enjoyed by all ages today. The Handy Play Party Book contains music and directions for 93 play parties and has long been the definitive source for these charming song-games. This edition groups the dances by formation as well as ordering them by degree of difficulty. It also includes some historical background, teaching suggestions, and musical notes by Orff music educator Cecilia Riddell. Printed on heavy paper with a durable wire-o binding and a laminated cover.
Across the Hall
Alabama Girl
All Join Hands
Arkansas Cake Walk
Balance Four
Bear, Over the Mountain
Bingo
Bingo, the Dog
Bluebird
Bow Belinda
Brown-eyed Mary
Candy Gal
Captain Jinks
Cedar Swamp
Charley
Cissy in the Bond
Come, My Love
Comin’ Round the Mountain
Cross Snap
Doughboy
Down to London
Duke of York
Dusty Miller
Early Month of May
First Old Gent
Five Tinkers
Four in a Boat
Gents to the Center
Girl I Left Behind Me
Girl’s A-Fooling
Goin’ to Boston
Going Down to Cairo
Great Big House
Green Gravel
Happy is the Miller
I Want to Be a Farmer
In and Out the Window
Jingle Bells
Johnny O’Brown
Jolly Miller
Jubilee
Ladies to Center
Little White Daisies
Looby Loo
Miller
Miss Maggie
Needle’s Eye
Nobody’s Business
O Charley
Oh, She’s Gone
Oh! Susanna
Ohio Needle’s Eye
Ol’ Bald Eagle
Old Betty Larkin
Old Brass Wagon
Old Dan Tucker
Old Doc Jones
Old Quebec
Old Tom Puncheon
Paw Paw Patch
Pig in the Parlor
Pop Goes the Weasel
Promenade the Hall
Push the Business On
Right Hand Bow
Roll That Brown Jug
Round Town Girls
Sally Down the Alley
Sandy Land
Shoo Fly
Simmons
Skating Away
Skip to My Lou
Somebody’s Waiting
Sweetheart A-Roving
Swing on the Corner
Susan Brown
Tea Rye Riley
Tuli-Lule
Turn the Glasses Over
Two Dukes A-Roving
West Virginia Cakewalk
Willis Ballroom
Workin’ On Railroad
Yankee Doodle
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