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  2. The ABC Song - Wikipedia

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    It is commonly used to teach the alphabet to children in English-speaking countries. "The ABC Song" was first copyrighted in 1835 by Boston music publisher Charles Bradlee. The melody is from a 1761 French music book and is also used in other nursery rhymes like "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star", while the author of the lyrics is unknown. Songs ...

  3. Children's song - Wikipedia

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    A children's song may be a nursery rhyme set to music, a song that children invent and share among themselves or a modern creation intended for entertainment, use in the home or education. Although children's songs have been recorded and studied in some cultures more than others, they appear to be universal in human society.

  4. List of nursery rhymes - Wikipedia

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    The terms "nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names such as Tommy Thumb Songs and Mother Goose Songs. [1] The first known book containing a collection of these texts was Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, which was published by Mary Cooper in 1744 ...

  5. Children's music - Wikipedia

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    Children's music is often designed to provide an entertaining means of teaching children about their culture, other cultures, good behavior, facts and skills. Many are folk songs , but there is a whole genre of educational music that has become increasingly popular.

  6. This Old Man - Wikipedia

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    The public domain melody of the song was borrowed for "I Love You", a song used as the theme for the children's television program Barney and Friends.New lyrics were written for the melody in 1982 by Indiana homemaker Lee Bernstein for a children's book titled "Piggyback Songs" (1983), and these lyrics were adapted by the television series in the early 1990s, without knowing they had been ...

  7. Mary Had a Little Lamb - Wikipedia

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    It made the children laugh and play, Laugh and play, laugh and play. It made the children laugh and play To see a lamb at school. "Why does the lamb love Mary so? Mary so, Mary so? Why does the lamb love Mary so?" The eager children cry. "Why, Mary loves the lamb, you know, Lamb, you know, lamb, you know, Mary loves the lamb, you know," The ...

  8. I Can Sing a Rainbow - Wikipedia

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    The song has been used to teach children names of colours. [1] [2] Despite the name of the song, two of the seven colours mentioned ("red and yellow and pink and green, purple and orange and blue") – pink and purple – are not actually a colour of the rainbow (i.e. they are not spectral colors; pink is a variation of shade, and purple is the human brain's interpretation of mixed red/blue ...

  9. List of songs from Sesame Street - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of songs from Sesame Street. It includes the songs are written for used on the TV series. The songs have a variety of styles, including R&B, opera, show tunes, folk, and world music. [1] Especially in the earlier decades, parodies and spoofs of popular songs were common, although that has reduced in more recent years. [1]