PARTNER SONGS

Partner songs are two different songs that have a similar harmonic structure and length, so they may be sung together. A quodlibet (or quodlibot) is a four-section song (or four songs) that can be sung together. Sometimes the partner songs work only if one of the songs is sung twice, or slowed. Some are simple tunes that could be played on recorder or barred instruments instead of sung. Orff accompaniments usually work well. Some combinations of these songs work better than others. An effective lesson can also be taught analyzing where 2 songs don’t seem to “go together”.

Row, Row, Row, Your Boat Bow Belinda Good Night Ladies Here Comes a Bluebird Sandy Land Pickalittle, Talkalittle (Music Man) Frere Jacques/Are you Sleeping? This Old Man When the Saints Go Marching In Three Blind Mice 10 Little Indians Swing Low Sweet Chariot London Bridge Skip to My Lou This Train The Old Grey Mare Paw Paw Patch Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Mary Had a Little Lamb Mulberry Bush Seen Merrily We Roll Along Oh, Dear, What Can the Matter Gospel Train Boola, Boola Be? She'll be Comin' Round the The Farmer in the Dell Irish Washerwoman Mountain Here We Go Looby Loo Liza Jane All Night, All Day Go Tell Aunt Rhody Old Brass Wagon Rock-a My Soul Hot Cross Buns Michael Finnegan Where is Thumbkin? He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands Rock-a My Soul Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho Juanita Arkansas Traveler Hey Ho, Nobody Home Santa Lucia Oh, Susanna When Johnny Comes Marching Home Bicycle Built for Two Turkey in the Straw Wondrous Love Sidewalks of New York Camptown Races (verse) Kookaburra In the Good Old Summertime Wade in the Water Humoresque Child of God One Bottle of Pop Old Folks at Home Mary Had a Baby Don't put your Dust Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet Sing Hallelu Fish and Chips and Vinegar My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean (refrain) Home on the Range Old Texas Cielito Lindo (refrain) My Home’s in Montana Old Chisholm Trail Man on the Flying Trapeze Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay All Night, All Day I Love the Mountains Long, Long Ago Swing Low Sweet Chariot Heart and Soul Bluetail Fly (refrain) Dixie Zum Gali Gali Shoo Fly (refrain) Yankee Doodle Shalom Chavarim I am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger Land of the Silver Birch Be Bow Wow Wow Scarborough Fair My Paddle Hot Cross Buns Sally Go Round the Sun We Wish You a Merry Christmas Mango Walk See Saw, Margery Daw O Christmas Tree Sweet Potatoes Lida Rose (Music Man) Go Tell It on the Mountain Mr. Frog Went A-Courtin’ Will I Ever Tell You? Some Folks Do Goin’ Down to Cairo Jubilate (Hark! The Vesper Bells are Ringing Haul Away Joe Hush-a-bye Chumbara Early in the Morning Lullaby What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor Sing a Song of Peace Little Red Caboose Sinner Man This is My Country Sourwood Mountain