Sing-Along Folk Songs

Sing along versions of selected folk songs for the Primary School Curriculum

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This course features specially recorded version of our favourite folk songs for Primary Schools with lyrics, song history and extra listening material.

  • Skip to my Lou
  • Sweepy Sweepy Sweepy
  • Who Fed The Chickens?
  • The Illy Ally O
  • Lil' Liza Jane
  • The Green Grass Grows all Around
  • Tingolayo
  • Hill and Gully Rider
  • Fugley Isle
  • Lord Franklyn
  • Dilín O Deamhas
  • Trasna Na dTonnta


About The Author


Shane Mc Kenna
Shane Mc Kenna

Shane Mc Kenna is a musician and music teacher from Monaghan, based in Dublin. He studied Music Education and Music Technology in Trinity College Dublin where he became a leading researcher and developer in the area of new musical notation for education and collaborative music making. He has guest lectured in Ireland and abroad based on his work developing new systems of teaching and learning about music, inside and outside the classroom.

Shane is an experienced musician having performed in orchestras, choirs and bands on a range of instruments and is currently attempting to master the fiddle!

Shane hosts CPD courses across Ireland each a year and leads the development of the DabbledooMusic curriculum content.

If you have any questions or feedback about the curriculum content please get in touch!


Susan Hurley is a singer and music therapist from Dublin. She has sung on stages big and small all over Ireland and abroad solo and with groups such as Attention Bébé, Shiftwork and The Gardiner Street Gospel Choir. She directs choirs, teaches singing workshops for health professionals and lectures in music in the community and inclusion in Griffith College Dublin. In her work as a music therapist, Susan helps children and adults develop skills and achieve many physical and mental health benefits through singing.

Content Overview


  INFANTS
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  Bingo - Scotland
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  Sweepy Sweepy Sweepy - USA
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  Jambo - Kenya
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  Who Stole My Chicken and My Hen - USA
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  Bounce High Bounce Low - Hungary
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  Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - England
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  The Illy Ally O - Ireland
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  Che Che Koolay - Ghana
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  Mwana - The Democratic Republic of Congo
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  Who Fed the Chickens? - USA
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  Old MacDonald - USA
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  1st AND 2nd CLASS
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  Tingolayo - Jamaica
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  Hill and Gully Rider - Jamaica
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  Oisín agus Bó - Ireland
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  Land of the Silver Birch - Canada
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  Skip to My Lou - USA
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  Toom-Ba-Ee-Lero - USA
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  Frère Jacques - France
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  3rd AND 4th CLASS
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  Mo Li Hua - China
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  Trup Trup a Capaillín - Ireland
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  Iko Iko - USA
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  Lil Liza Jane - USA
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  Che Che Koolay - Ghana
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  An Maidín Rua - Ireland
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  Hill and Gully Rider - Jamaica
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  Trasna na dTonnta - Ireland
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  Yellow Bird - Haiti
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  Funga Alafia - Nigeria
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  Baidin Phelimi - Ireland
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  5th AND 6th CLASS
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  Cad É Sin Don Te Sin - Ireland
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  The Wellerman - New Zealand
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  The Green Grass Grows All Around - USA
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  Dulamán - Ireland
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  Dilín O Deamhas - Ireland
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  Kanzenzenze - The Democratic Republic of Congo
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  Cape Cod Girls - USA
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  Sakura - Japan
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  Beidh Aonach Amárách - Ireland
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  The Cliffs of Dooneen - Ireland
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  Fugloy Isle - Scotland
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  Lord Franklin - England
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  Skye Boat Song - Scotland
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