English Folk songs
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Drummer Hoff
Frog went a-courtin'
Always room for one more
The farmer in the dell
The merry muses of Caledonia
Native American legends
The twelve days of Christmas
Oh, a-hunting we will go
Read 'em and weep
Hush little baby
There was an old monster
Jamaican song and story
Religion within the limits of reason alone
The twelve days of Christmas cats
Poetry of the People
The story of the Jubilee Singers
The songs of England and Scotland
Songs and Ballads of the Maine Lumberjacks with Other Songs from Maine
Palatine anthology
Classic Australian short stories & verse
Friendly Beasts
Folksongs from Southern New Brunswick
A Collection of Ballads
Sang Branch settlers
Folklore in the English & Scottish ballads
The Twelve Days of Christmas
The twelve days of a Muppet Christmas and a chicken in a pine tree
Songs the whalemen sang
We wish you a Merry Christmas
Afro-American folksongs
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