Children's Songs
The Directory of 2-Chord Songs is a huge collection of easy tunes - all of which came from studio recordings. And you need a capo or the correct chords to play along with the original versions.
But some songs don’t have an official key - like nursery rhymes, gospel songs, and folk tunes. Many of these use the I and V (or V7). In the key of C major, this means C and G (or G7).
If you're on lockdown with the kids, entertain them with these 80 children's songs. Depending on your instrument (guitar vs. ukulele vs. banjo vs. mandolin), it may be easier to play the I and V with:
- D + A (A7)
- F + C (C7)
- G + D (D7)
- A + E (E7)
- Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'
- Ain't No Bugs On Me
- Alouette
- Are You Sleeping (Brother John)
- Beans in My Ears
- Blow the Man Down
- Bringing In The Georgia Mail
- Buffalo Gals (Won't You Come Out Tonight?)
- Cedar Swamp
- Charles Guiteau
- Clementine
- Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)
- Deep In the Heart of Texas
- Did You Ever See a Lassie?
- Don't You Hear Jerusalem Moan
- Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes
- Down in the Valley
- Everybody Loves Saturday Night
- Fiddler on the Roof
- Fly Around My Pretty Little Miss
- Frere Jacques
- Get Along Little Doggie
- Go Tell Aunt Rhody
- Going Across The Sea
- Hail, Hail, the Gang’s All Here
- Handsome Molly
- He's Got the Whole World in His Hands
- Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
- Hey Liley, Liley Lo
- Hot Cross Buns
- How Much Is That Doggie in the Window
- Hush Little Baby
- I Ride An Old Paint
- I Saw Three Ships
- I’ll Fly Away
- Jambalaya
- Jimmie Brown the Newsboy
- Katy Daley
- La Cucuracha
- Little Birdie
- London Bridge Is Falling Down
- London's Burning
- Love Somebody, Yes I Do
- Marianne
- Mary Ann (Roaring Lion)
- Mary Had a Little Lamb
- Michael Finnegan
- My Dixie Darling
- My Home’s Across the Blue Ridge Mountains
- Oakie From Muskogee
- Old Milwaukee Runaround
- Pick a Bale of Cotton
- Pistol Packin’ Momma
- Polly Wolly Doodle
- Pretty Polly
- Pretty Saro
- Put Your Little Foot
- Rock Island Line
- Roving Gambler
- Row, Row, Row Your Boat
- Rye Whiskey
- Shoo Fly
- Shortnin’ Bread
- Single Girl, Married Girl
- Skip to My Lou
- Streets of Laredo (Cowboy's Lament)
- Sur le Pont D'Avignon
- Ta Ra Ra Boom De Ay
- Ten in the Bed
- The Boll Weevil Song
- The Dreidel Song
- The Farmer in the Dell
- The Hokey Pokey
- The Itsy Bitsy Spider
- The More We Get Together
- The Paw-Paw Patch
- The Sow Took The Measles
- The Thinnest Man
- The Wheels on the Bus
- This Old Man
- Three Blind Mice
- Tom Dooley
- Where The Soul of Man Never Dies
- Who Killed Cock Robin?
- Willie Moore
- Working on a Building