And the Green Grass Grows All Around is a traditional American song that is still enjoyed by children today as one of the classics. It’s a great example of a cumulative song which means that each verse relies on the […]
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There’s a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea is a folk song that is very popular with children. Just like another well known cumulative tale There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, this is an excellent tool
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“She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain” was written after a spiritual song of African-American origin, “When the Chariot Comes” and also after and old folk song called “The Old Ship of Zion”. When the Chariot Comes is about the second
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“12 Days of Christmas” is an old Christmas carol associated with Twelvetide season, most likely with lyrics of French origin. In England it was first published in a book called Mirth without Mischief in 1780 as a game for kids,
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There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly is a cumulative song that tells the story as funny as it is absurd of a woman who after swallowing a fly, and then a spider that has to catch the
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To story of “This Is the House That Jack Build” uses the cumulative tale technique, in which the events are progressively narrated leading to an end where the interlinking becomes obvious. This is not the story of building a house
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