Young learners love song and dance! Every lesson should include a few songs to get the children relaxed and moving around. Use songs to transition between activities, boost energy, review vocabulary, or simply as background music to other activities.
There are over 40 popular children's songs and nursery rhymes in this section, many of which can be found on YouTube if you don't know the melody of need ideas for gestures.
To get started, choose a song from the list on the right.
This is the songs section of ESL-Kids.
Choosing a song from the list below will bring up its lyrics in the box on the left.
- Animal fair
- Baa baa black sheep
- Baby bumblebee
- Bingo
- Brother John
- Did you ever see a lassie?
- Farmer in the dell
- Five little monkeys
- Good-bye song
- Here we go 'round the mulberry bush
- Head, shoulders, knees and toes
- Hey diddle diddle
- Hickory dickory dock
- Hokey pokey
- Hot cross buns
- Humpty Dumpty
- If you're happy and you know it
- I know a song (everyone's nerves)
- I'm a little teapot
- I'm being swallowed by a boa constrictor
- Itsy bitsy spider
- Little Boy Blue
- Little Bo Peep
- Little white duck
- London Bridge is falling down
- Mary had a little lamb
- Muffin man
- Old MacDonald had a farm
- On top of spaghetti
- Peanut butter
- Pease porridge hot
- Pop! goes the weasel
- Six little ducks
- Take me out to the ball game
- Ten little indians
- The ants go marching
- The banana boat song (Day-o)
- The more we get together
- This little piggie
- This old man
- Three blind mice
- Twinkle, twinkle, little star
- Row, row, row your boat
- We'll all join in the circle
- Where is Thumbkin?
- Wheels on the bus