playground songs
Schoolyard rhyming games
Playground songs are the rhymes, chants, and simple melodies children sing during recess and outdoor play—jump rope rhymes, clapping games, counting-out verses, and taunting chants.
These songs pass from child to child across generations, often with regional variations and surprisingly dark or subversive lyrics beneath their innocent surfaces: Miss Mary Mack, Ring Around the Rosie, Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
- jump ropeCord swung underfoot
- jump rope rhymesVerses for timed hopping
- clappingRhythmic palm strikes
- hopscotchTossing and jumping game
- rhymesMatching word endings
recess · skipping · hand games · chanting · ring around · tag · duck duck goose · counting · monkey bars · Miss Mary Mack · London Bridge · teasing · singsong · double dutch · patty cake · schoolyard · circle games · singing games
- children's versenursery rhymes, children's verse, rhyming verse, bedtime rhymes, silly rhymes
- school songsalma mater, school anthem, Rocky Top, Anchors Aweigh, graduation march
- group songssing-along, sing-alongs, singalong, communal singing, call and response
- kids' songsnursery rhymes, sing-alongs, fingerplays, This Old Man, Ring Around Rosie
- nursery rhymeslullabies, Little Jack Horner, Old Mother Hubbard, nursery rhymes, Rock-a-Bye Baby
playground songsfuneral dirges
Mournful music for the deceased
ceremonial music · church hymns · hymns · church music · national anthems
playground songswork songs
Music accompanying manual labor
sea shanties · protest songs · drinking songs · blues · torch songs
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