Category:Humorous Songs
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Humorous songs enjoy a long history of popularity with choirs and audiences. Humor might be in lyrics, in musical elements, or in combination. Humorous texts can include: parodies, nursery rhymes, fables, jokes, riddles, word-play, witty rhymes, charming verse, nonsense, etc. Lyrics might be original by the composer, or by other authors. Many texts are traditional, such as nursery rhymes. These traditional texts are often appear as variant versions, depending on year and locale.
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Pages in this category
The following 120 pages are in this category, out of 120 total.
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B
- The Banks of the I. O. U. (Lawrence Hanray)
- Barney Buntline (Anonymous)
- Ben Bowlegs (William Webster Pearson)
- Bill of fare (Karl Merz)
- Bless You (Henry Walford Davies)
- The Blue-bottle’s fate (Abraham Hargreaves Ashworth)
- The boy (Herbert Brewer)
- The Boy and the Bee (Alfred James Caldicott)
- The boy and the bee (William H Pontius)
C
- “Call John” (William Batchelder Bradbury)
- The Carrion Crow (William Webster Pearson)
- A catastrophe (Nathan Brown Sprague)
- The Cat’s predicament (George Noyes Rockwell)
- The Centipede (Eric Fogg)
- Cobwebs (Alfred James Caldicott)
- The contest (George Frederick Root)
- The country lassie and her lover (George J. Webb)
- Cousin Jedediah (Henry S. Thompson)
D
F
G
H
- He met her in the meadow (Harry T. Burleigh)
- He was a rat (Havergal Brian)
- Hey diddle, diddle! (William Skinner Vinning)
- The History of a Lobster (Herbert Augustus Burney)
- The house that Jack built (Alfred James Caldicott)
- Humptie Dumptie (Clara Angela Macirone)
- Humpty Dumpty (Alfred James Caldicott)
- Hunting of the Snail (Henry Walford Davies)
J
L
- The landsman’s song (George J. Webb)
- Laugh and get fat (Theodore F. Seward)
- Laughing song (George Frederick Root)
- Little Bo-Peep (Charles King Hall)
- Little Bo-Peep (Henry Dancey)
- The Little Girl and her Dolly (Arthur F. M. Custance)
- Little Jack Horner (Albert Ham)
- Little Jack Horner (Alfred James Caldicott)
- Little Jack Horner (Charles King Hall)
- Little Miss Muffet (Arthur E. Fisher)
- Little Miss Muffet (John Winans Shryock)
- A little old man (Henry Walford Davies)
- The low back’d car (William Rhys-Herbert)
- Lullaby Up to Date (Adam Geibel)
M
O
- O my little sixpence (Henry Walford Davies)
- Oh! the noble Duke of York (Norman Frederic Byng Johnson)
- Old Daddy Longlegs (Clara Angela Macirone)
- Old King Cole (Avalon Collard)
- Old King Cole (Cecil Forsyth)
- Old King Cole (John B. Shirley)
- The Old Woman (Henry Walford Davies)
- The Owl and the Dove (Philip Phillips)
P
- The party at the zoo (Septimus Winner)
- Peter, Pumpkin Eater (John Bunyan Herbert)
- Pie-ous Johnny Horner (Fred Coope)
- The Pigtail (Frederic Field Bullard)
- Polly wants a cracker (Chester G. Allen)
- Poor Little Tom-ee! (Alfred James Caldicott)
- The pop-corn man (James Gerald Dailey)
- Popping Corn (Flora Ellis Wells)
- “Pretty is as pretty does” (Milton Z. Tinker)
- Pro Phundo Basso (Philip P. Bliss)
- The prying bee (Alfred Ben Allen)
S
- Simon the Cellarer (John Liptrot Hatton)
- Sing a song of sixpence (Bertram Luard-Selby)
- Sing a song of sixpence (Channon Cornwall)
- Sing a song of sixpence (Charles Edward Horsley)
- Sing a song of sixpence (George Alexander Macfarren)
- The sobbing quartett (Alfred James Caldicott)
- A song of dynamics (Theodore F. Seward)
- The Spider and the Fly (Alfred James Caldicott)
- The spider and the fly (George Frederick Root)
T
- There was a man of Edmonton (George Alexander Macfarren)
- Thomas and Annis (Henry Walford Davies)
- Three Doughtie Men (William Webster Pearson)
- Three little kittens (George Rayleigh Vicars)
- Tom, Tom, the piper’s son (Alfred Ben Allen)
- Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son (Frederic Scholes)
- Too late for the train (William C. Filby)
- The Traction Engine (Stanley Marchant)
- A Tragedy (Henry Walford Davies)
- The Turkey Gobbler (Flora Ellis Wells)
- T’other little tune (Henry Walford Davies)