We call this series “I don’t read music” since we are targeting beginners of all ages: children, teens, parents, grandparents.

Folk music traditionally is not learned from sheet music or notes. Instead, it is learned by repetition and from being passed from generation to generation. We believe in this method of teaching, which is easier and more enjoyable.

This songbook includes 65 familiar and easy-to-play songs and melodies.

Most songs have been simplified and transposed for one octave.

So the songbook is suitable even for a diatonic 8-note kalimba in C-scale, and 10- or 17-note as well.

Since this book is aimed at the absolute beginner without any knowledge of

reading music, we do not use here the classical music staff and do not

show the note duration. You can experiment with the duration on your own.

We recommend finding each of these songs on YouTube and listening

to the rhythm before beginning to play. Our sheet music is only a guide.

The most important thing is to listen and repeat the recordings.

If you are a beginner, playing by note can be difficult.

It is easier to follow number-coded circles in this songbook. By simply following

the numbers, you will sound like an experienced musician.

Contents:

Alphabet Song

A Hunting We Will Go

A Sailor Went to Sea

Acka Backa

Are You Sleeping

Baa Baa Black Sheep

Baby Bumble Bee

Bell Horses

Bim Bum Biddy

Bobby Shafto

Brahms Lullaby

Chumbara

Cobbler, Mend My Shoe

Cock-a-Doodle Doo

Cotton Eyed Joe

Ding Dong DiggiDiggiDong

Do You Know the Muffin Man?

Doggie Doggie

Doctor Foster

Fiddle-De-Dee

Five Little Ducks

Five Little Monkeys

Frog in the Meadow

Good Night, Ladies

Happy Birthday

Hot Cross Buns

Humpty Dumpty

I Like to Eat Apples and Bananas

I Love Little Kitty

It's Raining

Itsy Bitsy Spider

Jack and Jill

Jingle Bells

Jolly Old Saint Nicholas

Kookaburra

La Cucaracha

Little Jack Horner

London Bridge

Mary Had a Little Lamb

Miss Mary Mack

My Hat

Ninety-Nine Bottles

Ode to Joy

Oh Susannah

Oh We Can Play on the Big Bass Drum

Old Bald Eagle

Old Blue

Old McDonald

Old Mother Hubbard

One, Two, Three, Four

Rain, Rain, Go Away

Ring Around the Rosie

Row Row Your Boat

Rub-a-Dub-Dub

See-Saw Margery Daw

Ten in the Bed

The Beep and the Pup

The Big Sheep

The Mulberry Bush

The Wheels on the Bus

This Old Man

Tinga Layo

To Market, to Market

Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

We Wish You a Merry Christmas