I’ll never forget about sweet Molly Malone who wheeled her wheel barrow on the streets broad and narrow crying cockles and mussels alive alive-o. It may be something political or it could be about a person that is worth remembering. This is a simple way to teach rich and beautiful history to our children. Most folk songs have an unknown author and the music is transmitted orally from generation to generation. “I could listen for hours to the daffodils, and have a conversation with a rose” – Okee Dokee Brothersįolk music is a style of music, but it is often written to record a significant event in history. What are in common with all of these songs? Why do we continue to learn and sing these songs? Songs like Home on the Range, This Land is your Land, I’ve been working on the Railroad, or Big Rock Candy Mountain. You remember that song well, like an old friend, even though you haven’t sang it in a while.
I can also bet these songs were sung by your grandparents and great grandparents. Most people learn folk songs from their parents, because their parents sang it to them when they were young children. I bet you know the words to at least one folk song.
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