150+ Popular Kids Songs in the Public Domain

If you are looking for kids songs that have no or limited copyright then you are in the right place. Discover more popular kids songs and nursery rhymes that are in the public domain. These songs will either be fully in the public domain with music and lyrics included or will have only the lyrics but each one will be stated. 

  • ABC's Alphabet Song (with lyrics)

  • Alice the Camel (or Sally the Camel) (with lyrics)

  • All the Little Raindrops (with lyrics)

  • Alouette (with lyrics)

  • Animal Fair (with lyrics)

  • Ants Go Marching (with lyrics and "ant" links)

  • A-Tisket A-Tasket (with lyrics)

  • Baa, Baa, Black Sheep (with lyrics)

  • The Bear in Tennis Shoes (lyrics only)

  • The Bear Went Over the Mountain (with lyrics)

  • Be Kind to Your Web-Footed Friends (with lyrics)

  • Bicycle Built for Two (Daisy Bell)

  • Big Bass Drum

  • Big Rock Candy Mountain (with lyrics)

  • Billy Boy (with lyrics)

  • B - I - N - G - O (with lyrics)

  • Blow the Man Down (with lyrics)

  • Boom Boom, Ain't It Great to Be Crazy (lyrics and short wav clip)

  • Brahm's Lullaby (with lyrics)

  • Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight (with lyrics)

  • Catalina Madalina (lyrics only)

  • Christofo Columbo (Christopher Columbus) (with lyrics)

  • Clementine (Oh My Darlin' Clementine) (with lyrics)

  • Did You Ever See a Lassie? (with lyrics)

  • Don't Disturb the Ladybug (lyrics only)

  • Down by the Station (with lyrics)

  • Down in the Valley (with lyrics)

  • Do Your Ears Hang Low? (with lyrics)

  • Eentsy Weentsy Spider

  • The Farmer in the Dell (with lyrics)

  • Five Little Ducks (lyrics only)

  • Frère Jacques (with lyrics)

  • Frog Went A-Courtin' (with lyrics)

  • Funiculi Funicula (with lyrics)

  • Good Morning to You (lyrics only)

  • Going on a Lion Hunt (lyrics only)

  • My Grandfather's Clock (with lyrics)

  • The Green Grass Grew All Around (with lyrics)

  • Hammer Song, The

  • Hand on My Head (What Have I Here?) (lyrics only)

  • Happy & You Know It, Clap Your Hands (with lyrics)

  • Have You Seen the Muffin Man? (with lyrics)

  • Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes (with lyrics)

  • Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush (with lyrics)

  • Hey Diddle Diddle (with lyrics)

  • Hickory Dickory Dock (with lyrics)

  • Hokey Pokey (with lyrics)

  • Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight (or Old Mother Leary, with lyrics)

  • Humpty Dumpty (with lyrics)

  • Hush Little Baby, Don't You Cry (with lyrics)

  • If You’re Happy and You Know It (with lyrics)

  • I Hear Thunder (with lyrics and special links)

  • I Love You, You Love Me (with lyrics)

  • If All the Raindrops (lyrics only)

  • If You're Wearing [red, yellow, etc.] (with lyrics)

  • I'm a Little Teapot (with lyrics)

  • I'm A Nut (with lyrics)

  • In a Cabin in the Woods (lyrics only)

  • Inchworm (with lyrics)

  • Irish Lullaby (Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral) (with lyrics)

  • It's Raining, It's Pouring (with lyrics)

  • Itsy Bitsy (or Eensy Weensy) Spider (with lyrics)

  • I've Been Working on the Railroad (with lyrics)

  • Jack and Jill (with lyrics)

  • John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt (with lyrics)

  • Listen to the Mockingbird

  • Little Brown Jug (with lyrics and important links)

  • Little Tin Soldier (with lyrics and .ram file)

  • The Littlest Worm (Echo Song) (with lyrics)

  • London Bridge (with lyrics)

  • Loop de Loop (or Looby Loo) (with lyrics)

  • Make New Friends (but Keep the Old) (lyrics only)

  • Mary Had a Little Lamb (with lyrics)

  • Making Mud Pies

  • Michael Finnegan (with lyrics)

  • Miss Molly (lyrics only)

  • The More We Get Together (with lyrics)

  • Mother Goose

  • Muffin Man, The (with lyrics)

  • Mulberry Bush (Here we go round the....with lyrics)

  • My Grandfather’s Clock (with lyrics)

  • My Pony Boy (lyrics only)

  • Oh Suzanna (with lyrics)

  • Oh Where Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone (with lyrics)

  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm (with lyrics)

  • Old Mother Leary (or "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow", with lyrics)

  • On Top of Old Smokey (or “On Top of Spaghetti”, with lyrics)

  • Over in the Meadow (with lyrics)

  • Over the River (Thanksgiving Day) (with lyrics)

  • Paw Paw Patch (with lyrics)

  • Playmate, Come Out and Play with Me (with lyrics)

  • Polly Put the Kettle On (with lyrics)

  • Polly Wolly Doodle (with lyrics)

  • Pony Boy (with lyrics)

  • Pop Goes the Weasel (with lyrics)

  • Pretty Colors (with lyrics)

  • Pussycat, Pussycat (with lyrics)

  • Queen of the Mountain (lyrics only)

  • Ragtime Cowboy Joe (with lyrics)

  • Red River Valley (with lyrics)

  • Rig a Jig Jig

  • Ring Around the Rosies (with lyrics)

  • Robert Baden-Powell Had Many Scouts --? or Father Abraham had many sons (with lyrics)

  • Rock-A-Bye Baby (with lyrics)

  • Row, Row, Row Your Boat (with lyrics)

  • Sailing, Sailing (lyrics only)

  • Sailor’s Hornpipe

  • Sally (or Alice) the Camel (with lyrics)

  • School Days, School Days (with lyrics)

  • See-Saw, Margery Daw (with lyrics)

  • Senor Don Gato (with lyrics)

  • She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain (with lyrics)

  • Shoo Fly (with lyrics)

  • Short'nin' Bread (with lyrics)

  • Sidewalks of New York (with lyrics)

  • Sing a Rainbow (with lyrics)

  • Sing a Song of Sixpence (with lyrics)

  • Sing Your Way Home (with lyrics)

  • Sippin' Cider Through a Straw (Echo Song) (with lyrics)

  • Six Little Dogs (with lyrics)

  • Six Little Ducks (with lyrics)

  • Skidamarink (with lyrics)

  • Skip to My Lou (with lyrics)

  • The Smile Song (lyrics only)

  • Smokey the Bear (with lyrics)

  • Soup Song (with lyrics)

  • Take Me Out to the Ballgame (with lyrics)

  • Ten Little Monkeys Jumping on a Bed (lyrics only)

  • There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly (with lyrics)

  • There's a Hole in the Middle of the Sea (with lyrics)

  • This Old Man (with lyrics)

  • Three Blind Mice (with lyrics)

  • Three Little Fishies (with lyrics)

  • Thumbelina (lyrics only)

  • Tisket A-Tasket (with lyrics)

  • Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (Irish Lullaby) (with lyrics)

  • Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star (with lyrics)

  • Vowel Song (also “B-I-N-G-O”, with lyrics)

  • Walking Song (with moves and lyrics)

  • Waltzing Matilda (with lyrics)

  • Way Out West in Kansas (with lyrics)

  • What's the Weather? (with special links and lyrics)

  • Wheels on the Bus (with lyrics)

  • Where is Thumbkin (with lyrics)

  • Who is Wearing [Red..or other color] (or “The Farmer in the Dell”, with lyrics)

  • Whole World in His Hands (with lyrics)

  • Why Does The Sun Shine? (The Sun is a Mass of Incandescent Gas) (with lyrics)

  • Wiggly Worm (with lyrics)

  • Worms (or "Nobody Likes Me", with lyrics)

  • Yankee Doodle (with lyrics)

  • You Are My Sunshine (with lyrics and special links)

  • Always Ready (Semper Paratus, the Coast Guard Song) (with lyrics)

  • America the Beautiful (with lyrics)

  • Anchors Aweigh (with lyrics)

  • Army Song (with lyrics)

  • The Ballad of the Green Beret (with lyrics)

  • Battle of New Orleans (with lyrics and "ant" links)

  • The Caissons Go Rolling Along (with lyrics)

  • Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean (with lyrics)

  • Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor [the Statue of Liberty Song] (with lyrics)

  • Hail Columbia (with lyrics)

  • I Have a Dream/This is Our Moment (with lyrics)

  • I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy (with lyrics)

  • Liberty Bell March (instrumental)

  • Marine Hymn (with lyrics)

  • My Country 'Tis of Thee ("America", with lyrics)

  • Navy Hymn (with lyrics)

  • O Canada (with lyrics)

  • Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder (with lyrics)

  • Song of Freedom (with lyrics)

  • Star Spangled Banner (with lyrics)

  • Stars and Stripes Forever (with lyrics)

  • Taps (with lyrics)

  • There's a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere (lyrics only)

  • This Land is Your Land (with lyrics)

  • United States Merchant Marine Anthem

  • When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again (with lyrics)

  • Yankee Doodle (with lyrics)

  • You're A Grand 'Ole Flag (with lyrics)

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