Repertoire
Nursery Rhymes and Finger Plays
- B-I-N-G-O
- Baby’s Ball
- Brush Your Teeth
- Dancing Hands
- Do Your Ears Hang Low?
- Five Little Monkeys
- Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
- I’m a Little Teapot
- Johnny Hammers
- Open, Shut Them
- The Grand Old Duke of York
- The Hokey-Pokey
- The Itsy, Bitsy Spider
- Milkshake
- Two Little Blackbirds
- Where is Thumbkin?
- Who’s Got a Nose?
Songs
- All Around the Kitchen
- Banana Boat Song
- Boo-boo Blues*
- Brian the Lazy Lion*
- Do Re Mi (from “The Sound of Music”)
- Down by the Bay
- Down on the Corner
- Erie Canal
- Five Little Pumpkins
- Fly to the Moon*
- Frère Jacques
- Frog Went A-Courtin’
- Going for a Ride in the Car
- Good Morning (from “Singin’ in the Rain”)
- Here Comes the Sun
- If I Were a Builder*
- I’ve Been Working on the Railroad
- It’s a Shame to Get a Haircut on a Sunday
- I Wanna Be a Garbage Man*
- Kalinka
- La Bamba/Twist & Shout
- La Cucarracha
- Mary Had a Little Lamb
- Medley: Baa Baa Black Sheep/ABC Song/Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
- Metro Train*
- Mr. Spaceman
- Mr. Sun
- My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
- Octopus’s Garden
- Oh Susanna
- Old McDonald
- On Top of Spaghetti
- Pirates*
- Rock Island Line
- Sambalele
- She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain
- Skip to My Lou
- Take Me Out to the Ballgame
- Take this Hammer
- There’s a Hole in My Bucket
- This Land is Your Land
- This Old Man
- Tingalayo
- We All Like Trucks*
- We Are the Dinosaurs
- What a Wonderful World
- The Wheels on the Bus
- Wimoweh (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)
- Yellow Submarine
- You Are My Sunshine
- You’ve Gotta Sing (When the Spirit Says Sing)
*Original song
Senior Audiences
The following is a partial list of songs I might include in a performance at a senior living facility or private party for an audience of older adults.
- Ain’t Misbehavin’
- All My Loving
- All of Me (not the John Legend song)
- Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
- Bye, Bye, Blackbird
- The City of New Orleans
- Don't Get Around Much Anymore
- Dream a Little Dream of Me
- Erie Canal
- The Glory of Love
- Here Comes the Sun
- If You Could Read My Mind
- I’m an Old Cowhand
- It's Only a Paper Moon
- Morning Has Broken
- Take Me Out to the Ball Game
- They Can’t Take That Away From Me
- This Land is Your Land
- Till There Was You (from "The Music Man")
- When You’re Smiling
- Whiskey in the Jar
- You Are My Sunshine
Holiday Songs
- Deck the Halls
- Dreidel
- Feliz Navidad
- Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah
- I’ll Be Home for Christmas
- Jingle Bells
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
- Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town
- We Wish You A Merry Christmas
- Winter Wonderland