Banjo players: don't let kids keep all the songs for themselves!
Channel: Johnpaul Humphrey
Date: 22/01/2021

Here are a few songs that were part of my introduction to music.
And they are fun to play on banjo! The two songs are "Old MacDonald had a farm" and "The Farmer in the dell."
We call these kids songs, but I think that is only due to the lyrics, as the tune is compatible with bluegrass, rap, and classical.
Bluegrass Banjo is how I am interpereting it. Though "Old Macdonald" has rap-like elements (I don't like rap in case you were wondering.)
And Mozart, the classical composer arranged twinkle twinkle little star.

So I think they are called kids songs because the lyrics are for kids. But some "kids songs" have violent lyrics, like "Three blind mice" "Oranges and Lemons" and "Ring around a rosy" and if you speak Russian, "Жил-был у бабушки серенький козлик". 

isn't that about as bad as losing your truck, dog, and wife and going to jail for running a still in the Kentucky mountains? Okay, maybe not as bad as losing your wife, but the dog was getting old, and the truck was going to break down sooner or later.



I said these were my early introduction to music, and they were. I give most of the credit for my love of Music to the Church's worship, however. I love singing in church, and it is the most beautiful music ever (though chanting is even better). It doesn't fit with the banjo though because the banjo can't say the lyrics, and that is the important part.


Enjoy!